content: 2026-05-05 capture run — 28 finds, 2 reviews, set-pick tooling

Captured 27 finds from the daily sweep across 15 sources (Daring
Fireball, HN Show HN, Kottke, Wallpaper, Outbound, Uncommon Goods,
Kikkerland, BIFL, Quote Investigator, Marginalian, r/dadjokes,
icanhazdadjoke, r/shortcuts, Recomendo, Messy Nessy) plus one user-
suggested find (valchoose-barf-bags) and 11 additional reader-
suggestion finds (appcleaner, blip, cleanmykeyboard, clocker,
daisydisk, ia-writer, launchos, macfolio, mos, vivid, wallspace).

New reviews: monitorcontrol (graduated from today's reader
suggestion, category interface) and blip (graduated from today's
reader suggestion, category indie). Both registered in hero.ts.

Site tooling: new dev-only POST /api/set-pick middleware that
rewrites HERO_SLUG in src/pages/index.astro for the Make today's
pick action. EditConfirm reworked to support a non-copy "set-pick"
mode; EditAction takes action and slug props; the reviews template
switches the toolbar button over to the new wiring.

Log + candidate-sources updated. Two new candidates: Routinehub.co
and Moss & Fog.

astro.config.mjs

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ const EXCLUDED_PATHS = new Set([
 ]);
 
 const FIND_ROOT = path.resolve('src/content/find');
+const REVIEW_ROOT = path.resolve('src/content/reviews');
+const HOME_PAGE = path.resolve('src/pages/index.astro');
 const VALID_SLUG = /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$/;
 const VALID_TAG = /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,40}$/i;
 
@@ -101,11 +103,40 @@ const editFindTagApi = {
   },
 };
 
+const setPickApi = {
+  name: 'set-pick-dev-api',
+  apply: 'serve',
+  configureServer(server) {
+    server.middlewares.use('/api/set-pick', async (req, res, next) => {
+      if (req.method !== 'POST') return next();
+      try {
+        const raw = await readBody(req);
+        const { slug } = JSON.parse(raw || '{}');
+        if (typeof slug !== 'string' || !VALID_SLUG.test(slug)) return send(res, 400, { error: 'invalid slug' });
+
+        const reviewPath = path.join(REVIEW_ROOT, slug, 'index.mdx');
+        if (!reviewPath.startsWith(REVIEW_ROOT + path.sep)) return send(res, 400, { error: 'path escape' });
+        try { await stat(reviewPath); } catch { return send(res, 404, { error: 'review not found' }); }
+
+        const text = await readFile(HOME_PAGE, 'utf8');
+        const re = /^(const HERO_SLUG = ')([^']+)(';)/m;
+        if (!re.test(text)) return send(res, 422, { error: 'HERO_SLUG line not found in src/pages/index.astro' });
+        const out = text.replace(re, (_, a, _b, c) => `${a}${slug}${c}`);
+        await writeFile(HOME_PAGE, out, 'utf8');
+
+        return send(res, 200, { slug });
+      } catch (err) {
+        return send(res, 500, { error: String(err && err.message ? err.message : err) });
+      }
+    });
+  },
+};
+
 export default defineConfig({
   site: 'https://unique.rzen.dev',
   trailingSlash: 'always',
   build: { format: 'directory' },
-  vite: { plugins: [editFindTagApi] },
+  vite: { plugins: [editFindTagApi, setPickApi] },
   integrations: [
     mdx(),
     sitemap({