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src/content/bundles/2026-07-09-back-from-the-archive/index.mdx

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+---
+title: "Brought back from the archive"
+date: 2026-07-09
+tags: [daily-finds, general-delight]
+description: "Four artifacts pulled back out of the past — a resurrected chatbot, its rediscovered source, a medieval illustration, an ancient painter's palette."
+blurb: "Four things recovered from the past and set back in front of us — a 1966 chatbot, the book of its lost code, a medieval diagram, a pharaoh's palette."
+items:
+  - try-eliza-chatbot
+  - inventing-eliza-book
+  - wound-man
+  - ancient-egypt-painters-palette
+---
+
+> Four things dragged back out of the past for another look: a faithful, playable resurrection of ELIZA, the 1966 chatbot; the new book built around its rediscovered source code; the Wound Man, a medieval diagram of a body suffering every injury at once; and a 3,000-year-old scribe's palette at the Met still smudged with its owner's pigments.

src/content/bundles/2026-07-09-controls-in-the-furniture/index.mdx

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+---
+title: "Controls hidden in the Mac's furniture"
+date: 2026-07-09
+tags: [daily-finds, macos-apps]
+description: "Three Mac apps that turn overlooked pieces of the interface — screen edges, the Dock, the notch — into new controls."
+blurb: "Three apps that repurpose the parts of macOS you'd stopped noticing — the screen edges, the Dock, the notch."
+items:
+  - stash-tactile-control-layer
+  - iris-photos-dock-faces-icon
+  - droppy-all-in-one-notch-utility
+---
+
+> Three apps that colonize the bits of the Mac you'd stopped seeing: one turns the dead space at your screen's edges into tactile dials with real trackpad haptics, one pins a person's actual face into your Dock among the apps, and one drafts the camera notch into a drop-shelf for files.

src/content/bundles/2026-07-09-for-the-side-project/index.mdx

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+---
+title: "For the side project, not the inbox"
+date: 2026-07-09
+tags: [daily-finds, tools]
+description: "Four tools made for a specific creative pursuit rather than the working day."
+blurb: "Four tools aimed squarely at the hobby — generative plotting, a light-planned photograph, a language deck, a drawer of free clip art."
+items:
+  - gd-studio-pen-plotter
+  - lightwindow-golden-hour-planner
+  - subsmith-sentence-mining
+  - clipart-free
+---
+
+> Four tools that only make sense once you've got a project going: a studio that turns code into line art bound for a pen plotter, a planner that tells you where the golden-hour light will fall before you leave the house, a tool that mints Anki flashcards from any subtitled video, and a stash of genuinely CC0 clip art with no signup between you and the SVG.

src/content/bundles/2026-07-09-more-than-the-outside-admits/index.mdx

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+---
+title: "More than the outside admits"
+date: 2026-07-09
+tags: [daily-finds, travel]
+description: "Three destinations whose modest exteriors or unlikely locations hide something wildly maximal inside."
+blurb: "Three places where the setting gives no hint of the spectacle waiting inside — a fortress-plain church, a Tennessee park, a Nebraska museum."
+items:
+  - st-johns-co-cathedral-malta
+  - nashville-parthenon
+  - hastings-kool-aid-museum
+---
+
+> A wander for the traveler who reads the plaque and keeps walking: three places whose ordinary setting gives away nothing about the spectacle inside — a blank Valletta fortress that erupts into wall-to-wall baroque gold around a signed Caravaggio, a full-scale Parthenon with a gilded 42-foot Athena marooned in a Nashville park, and a small Nebraska museum running a fiber-optic river of Kool-Aid.

src/content/bundles/2026-07-09-nothing-to-sign-up-for/index.mdx

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+---
+title: "Nothing to sign up for"
+date: 2026-07-09
+tags: [daily-finds, macos-apps]
+description: "Five Mac utilities built to work entirely on your own machine — no account, no cloud, no sync server."
+blurb: "Five Mac apps that do the whole job without an account, a server, or a thing to phone home to."
+items:
+  - taskstxt-plain-text-task-manager
+  - coast-fire-tracker
+  - enviouswispr-free-mac-dictation
+  - orbit-for-mac-google-accounts
+  - command-keeper
+---
+
+> Five Mac apps that never ask you to make an account: a task manager that's really one plain-text file, a net-worth tracker that never phones home, offline dictation that cleans up its own transcript, a workspace that keeps your Google sign-ins local to the machine, and a menu-bar library for the commands you keep re-Googling.

src/content/bundles/2026-07-09-small-mercies-for-the-trip/index.mdx

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+---
+title: "Small mercies for the trip"
+date: 2026-07-09
+tags: [daily-finds, gifts, travel]
+description: "Four travel objects that each solve one concrete annoyance of a plane, a car, or a trip abroad."
+blurb: "Four bits of gear that each delete one specific misery of getting there — the language, the seat, the trackpad, the gap."
+items:
+  - vasco-v4-translator
+  - cushy-airplane-seat-cushion
+  - logitech-mobi-fold-travel-mouse
+  - drop-stop-car-seat-gap-filler
+---
+
+> Four things that earn their spot in the bag by each killing one specific travel misery: a pocket translator with free lifetime data for the language barrier, a packable cushion for the board-hard economy seat, a mouse that folds to coin-purse size for the tray table, and a neoprene wedge that finally closes the car-seat gap your keys keep falling into.