site: review — Cursor Camp (graduates from find)

Single-image review of Neal Agarwal's Cursor Camp browser toy, reusing
the find's existing 1200×630 share card. New `play` category — none of
the existing buckets fit a web-toy, and the 2026-05-14 six-browser-games
bundle has 5+ other candidates that will graduate cleanly into it.

daily-finds.log.md

@@ -1106,3 +1106,10 @@ Pattern notes this run:
 - **TidBITS continues 403**: 4 consecutive runs blocked to WebFetch. Try `curl` with Safari UA before next run; if also blocked, flag `fetch: skip`.
 - **OSXDaily mostly Apple-press-release territory this cycle**: very little actionable for the find brief — 11 of 12 most recent posts are iOS/macOS update news or deal announcements. Worth a `cadence: as-needed` flag — they still occasionally surface a real find (May 9 dial-up ISP was an example) but the signal-to-noise has degraded.
 - **Eclectic Light essay-vs-tutorial split**: half of Howard Oakley's recent output is art-history essays ("On Reflection," "Medium and Message: Pottery") that don't fit our brief. The macOS-internals posts continue to be productive. No action — just a reminder that the source has two modes and one is off-brief.
+
+## 2026-05-22 — review: cursor-camp-neal-fun
+
+Graduated from find captured 2026-05-04, source: Kottke.org.
+Hero: reused the find's existing hero.png — Neal Agarwal's canonical 1200×630 share card at `neal.fun/share-cards/cursor-camp.png`. Single-image review (no carousel) — the source page has the share card plus the campground itself, which is JS-rendered canvas, so static screenshots wouldn't add much.
+Category: **`play` — new category proposed**. None of the existing categories (interface, indie, writing, etc.) fit a browser web-toy. The 2026-05-14 `six-browser-games` bundle already shows there are 5+ unbundled finds that would graduate cleanly into this category. New category page auto-generates at `/categories/play/`.
+Bundle membership: cursor-camp-neal-fun is in `2026-05-14-six-browser-games` and remains so after promotion — the find lives, the review is the canonical long form.

src/content/find/2026/05/cursor-camp-neal-fun/index.mdx

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ topics:
   - general-delight
 tags: [neal-fun, browser, play, web-toy]
 description: "Another small browser-based delight from Neal Agarwal — a playground that turns the humble mouse cursor into the toy."
+promotedTo: cursor-camp-neal-fun
 ---
 
 Neal.fun keeps shipping the kind of single-page browser experiences the early web promised — small, weird, requires no account, and you smile within five seconds. Cursor Camp puts the mouse pointer at the centre of the experience: a spinning wheel of cursor variants you can summon and play with. It takes about two minutes and you'll forward it to a friend.

src/content/reviews/cursor-camp-neal-fun/index.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+name: Cursor Camp
+subtitle: Neal.fun's playground for browser cursors
+date: 2026-05-22
+category: play
+tags: [browser, web-toy, neal-fun, play]
+description: "A Neal Agarwal browser experiment in which the mouse cursor itself is the toy — open the page, summon a radial wheel of cursor variants, drag them around an animated camp. Five minutes, no signup."
+link: https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/
+linkText: neal.fun/cursor-camp
+source: "Kottke.org"
+fromFind: cursor-camp-neal-fun
+---
+
+![The Cursor Camp landing card by Neal Agarwal — a softly-illustrated campground with a radial wheel of cursor variants orbiting around the central tent.](./hero.png)
+
+*A campground for your cursor.*
+
+> A single Neal.fun page whose protagonist is the mouse pointer. Open the URL, summon a radial wheel of cursor variants, drag them around an animated camp — no account, no install, no monetisation, about five minutes from open to closed.
+
+Neal.fun has been quietly running the best single-page web-toy studio on the internet for ten years — Stimulation Clicker, Internet Roadtrip, Asteroid Launcher, Spend Bill Gates' Money. Cursor Camp is the latest in the lineage: a softly-illustrated campground, and a radial wheel of cursor variants that orbits your pointer on demand. Click to summon, drag to play.
+
+The trick is that the cursor is the protagonist, not the input device. Variants include a wand, a comet, a magnifying glass, a fishing rod, and about a dozen more, each with its own behaviour against the campground props — tents, fire pits, a lily-padded lake. Two minutes uncovers most; the variety is the whole point.
+
+The infrastructure for this kind of thing barely exists anymore. Every other vendor of micro-entertainment is trying to graduate you to a subscription, an account, or an email capture. Neal's whole catalog ships under the older rules: one URL, no signup, no ads, no app. Cursor Camp is proof that those rules still produce work worth forwarding to a friend.
+
+Desktop only — phones don't have cursors. Five minutes from open to closed; rewards re-visits less than some of Neal's earlier pieces (Internet Roadtrip, which you can lose hours to). But that's the brief: a small thing made well, free, and gone before you've started checking your phone.

src/lib/hero.ts

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import altTab from '../content/reviews/alt-tab/hero.jpg';
 import apex from '../content/reviews/apex-markdown-processor/hero.png';
 import bartender from '../content/reviews/bartender-6-dynamic-peninsula/peninsula.png';
 import blip from '../content/reviews/blip/hero.jpg';
+import cursorCamp from '../content/reviews/cursor-camp-neal-fun/hero.png';
 import esproP7 from '../content/reviews/espro-p7-french-press/hero.jpg';
 import finalist from '../content/reviews/finalist/hero.png';
 import folderPeek from '../content/reviews/folder-peek/screenshot.png';
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ export const heroes: Record<string, Hero | undefined> = {
   'apex-markdown-processor': { kind: 'image', src: apex },
   'bartender-6-dynamic-peninsula': { kind: 'image', src: bartender },
   blip: { kind: 'image', src: blip },
+  'cursor-camp-neal-fun': { kind: 'image', src: cursorCamp },
   'espro-p7-french-press': { kind: 'image', src: esproP7 },
   finalist: { kind: 'image', src: finalist },
   'folder-peek': { kind: 'image', src: folderPeek },