content: 2026-07-06 capture run — 28 finds across 14 productive sources

daily-finds.log.md

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 ## 2026-07-05 — pick of the day: cjrb-pyrite-light-thermochromic
 
 Chosen over macpulse for tile legibility and breadth: a bright, clean 2000px studio product shot reads instantly at grid size, and the virtue — a $40 pocket knife whose handle changes color with your body heat — lands in one line for any visitor. MacPulse's screenshot UI and Mac-power-user appeal are narrower; it stays a strong review, just not the homepage hero. (Previous pick, chompsaw, has had its day since 2026-07-04.)
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+## 2026-07-06 — capture run
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+Sources scanned: 59 total — 14 productive, 26 empty/all-dup, 7 blocked, 10 skipped (fetch:skip), 2 cadence-skipped (Wikiquote as-needed, Reader's Digest weekly).
+Productive sources: r/macapps, Brett Terpstra, The Eclectic Light Company, Hacker News — Show HN, Recomendo, Gear Patrol, The Awesomer, Kikkerland, Wallpaper* Travel, Messy Nessy Chic, Quote Investigator, The Marginalian, r/dadjokes, icanhazdadjoke.
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+Captured finds:
+- analogtv-full-simulation — Analog TV Simulator — source: r/macapps
+- powerhouz-starship-home-dashboard — PowerHouz — source: Brett Terpstra
+- enviouswispr-free-mac-dictation — EnviousWispr — source: r/macapps
+- purge-mac-cache-cleaner — Purge — source: r/macapps
+- droppy-all-in-one-notch-utility — Droppy — source: r/macapps
+- revisionist-document-version-inspector — Revisionist — source: The Eclectic Light Company
+- paste-switch-clipboard-cycler — Paste Switch — source: Brett Terpstra
+- tintd-automatic-folder-tinting — Tintd 2 — source: Brett Terpstra
+- lightwindow-golden-hour-planner — LightWindow — source: Hacker News — Show HN
+- worse-on-purpose-ledger — Worse on Purpose — source: Recomendo
+- czapek-antarctique-frozen-meteor — Czapek Antarctique Frozen Meteor — source: Gear Patrol
+- casio-a140-digital-watch — Casio A140 — source: Gear Patrol
+- casio-pro-trek-prj-01 — Casio Pro Trek PRJ-01 — source: Gear Patrol
+- cushy-airplane-seat-cushion — Cushy Airplane Seat — source: Recomendo
+- meatstick-v-duo — MeatStick V Duo — source: Recomendo
+- heytrip-folding-camping-table — Heytrip Folding Camping Table — source: The Awesomer
+- golf-wine-aerator — Golf Wine Aerator — source: Kikkerland
+- kiko-pounce-play-laser — Kiko Pounce & Play Laser — source: Kikkerland
+- kittys-cosmopolitan-club — Kitty's Cosmopolitan Club — source: Wallpaper* Travel
+- longaberger-basket-building — The Longaberger Basket Building — source: Messy Nessy Chic
+- quote-goldschmidt-worldview — Moritz Goldschmidt on seeing the world — source: Quote Investigator
+- quote-cummings-be-yourself — E. E. Cummings on being yourself — source: The Marginalian
+- quote-jung-suffering-creativity — Carl Jung on neurosis and creativity — source: The Marginalian
+- joke-yoghurt-culture — The 250-year-old yoghurt — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-horses-therapy-stable — Why horses skip therapy — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-wildlife-hotline — The wildlife hotline menu — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-orcastrated-whale — The orchestrated whale attack — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-colorblind-purple — The colorblind diagnosis — source: icanhazdadjoke
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+Shortlist (11, ranked):
+1. analogtv-full-simulation — broadcast-physics TV sim (NTSC/PAL/SECAM/Apollo), genuinely novel, clean App Store hero. [review candidate]
+2. powerhouz-starship-home-dashboard — sci-fi HomeKit HUD across iPhone/iPad/Watch/TV, strong visual delight, hero. [review candidate]
+3. worse-on-purpose-ledger — on-brand public ledger rating 215 BIFL brands, flags PE buyouts; high utility. [review candidate]
+4. kittys-cosmopolitan-club — Chicago speakeasy built around a -16°F walk-in-freezer bar; has hero.
+5. czapek-antarctique-frozen-meteor — unfakeable meteorite (Widmanstätten) dial; strong hero.
+6. enviouswispr-free-mac-dictation — free GPLv3 fully-offline dictation with self-cleanup; hero.
+7. lightwindow-golden-hour-planner — golden-hour planner that also gives the light's compass bearing; hero.
+8. longaberger-basket-building — seven-story office shaped as a giant picnic basket; novelty architecture (heroless).
+9. droppy-all-in-one-notch-utility — notch tray that survived the macOS drag-and-drop break; hero.
+10. cushy-airplane-seat-cushion — packable inflatable seat cushion; Amazon.
+11. casio-a140-digital-watch — F-91W silhouette in an elliptical steel case (hero bot-blocked).
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+Amazon links added: 2 (cushy-airplane-seat-cushion B0G2532ZJ7, meatstick-v-duo B0GVJWZFKJ — both linked directly by Recomendo, HTTP 200 verified). Casio A140 checked — no unambiguous Amazon match (search surfaced AE-1400/A158 etc., not the A140WE); omitted per when-in-doubt.
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+Image-fetch notes: 11 of 28 finds have heroes. Text-only by design: 8 (3 quotes, 5 jokes). Heroless misses: purge & tintd (site emits no og:image), worse-on-purpose (og-default.jpg 404s on Vercel), casio-a140 & casio-pro-trek (casio.com Akamai bot-block), heytrip (theawesomer.com Cloudflare JS challenge on the image fetch — feed itself works), longaberger (Wikipedia emits no og:image; Wikimedia infobox grab didn't resolve), cushy & meatstick (Amazon CDN 403). Same casio.com/theawesomer image-fetch blocks worth a screenshot-capture step later.
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+Dedup notes: dropped as dups before writing — claymore-3face-mini-area-light (existing), olight-arkpro Stars & Stripes (colorway of existing olight-arkpro-flashlight), and the MoMA/Kikkerland repeats kartell-componibili (Burgundy), joe-colombo-kd28, croissant-bath-rug, cat-watering-can, woodpecker-garden-shears, sombrero-citrus-squeezer, rockin-corkscrew, capybara-planter, dachshund-trinket-tray, light-up-pen. Dropped as self-promo/saturated/thin: na Rust rewrite (Brett's own tool), ScreenSnap Pro & Senqu (screenshot/converter categories already saturated on the site), fix-@unknown terminal tip (too niche), Fantastical Calendar Mirroring (feature-announcement news), S&P Lunch (weak link, article-about-a-place), Benchmade Adamas & Kansept Contra & WESN keychain bundle (EDC freshly covered 07-04/05). Quote/joke sources filtered to the best clean/fresh handful.
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+Source maintenance: none applied. Observations: (1) r/shortcuts returned a 429 for the 3rd consecutive run (07-04/05/06) — still a soft rate-limit, not a Cloudflare/DNS/empty-403 hard block, and other Reddit .rss feeds (r/macapps, r/dadjokes) worked this run, so no skip; the endpoint is intermittently IP-rate-limited, transient. (2) r/BuyItForLife also 429'd this run (same intermittent pattern). (3) Outlier has migrated off Shopify — both /collections/new-arrivals/products.json and /products.json now 404 (Sanity frontend); it has no configured fetch strategy and stays manual-review only. sources.json left untouched, `updated` stays 2026-07-03.
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+New source nominees: 4 (see candidate-sources.md).