diff --git a/candidate-sources.md b/candidate-sources.md index 9b5f5bc..c1d905d 100644 --- a/candidate-sources.md +++ b/candidate-sources.md @@ -105,3 +105,17 @@ Goal of this round: expand `gifts` coverage with sources that lean Amazon-purcha - **AmraAndElma — "25 Top Influencers with Amazon Storefronts" (2026)** — https://www.amraandelma.com/top-influencers-with-amazon-storefronts/ — yearly roundup; scan once to harvest more storefronts that match the brief, then drop. - **The Influence Agency — "Top Amazon Storefront Creators"** — https://theinfluenceagency.com/blog/amazon-storefront-top-creators-2025 — second curator-of-curators reference; harvest names, then drop. + +### 2026-06-21 capture round (first run since 2026-05-06) + +- **crossplay.news** — https://www.crossplay.news/ — surfaced via a MacStories link on iOS/iPadOS parental controls. Curated newsletter/publication at the intersection of gaming and family Apple tech. Probably WebFetch-friendly. +- **Thought Asylum** — https://www.thoughtasylum.com/ — Stephen Millard's automation/scripting blog (Drafts, Shortcuts, scripting workflows). Surfaced via Brett Terpstra's May 11 Web Excursions crediting his md-fixup Markdown cleanup fork. Good apple-tips / macos-apps overlap. +- **Klipy** — https://klipy.co/ — the GIF/sticker backend powering the Gnome menu-bar app. Worth watching as a standalone source for creative/communication tools. Surfaced via the Gnome app page on lexfriedman.com. +- **Bird History (Substack)** — https://birdhistory.substack.com/ — long-form ornithology writing with wit and depth; the "100 Greatest Bird Names" piece is natural-history-as-entertainment. Substack `/feed` should be curl-friendly. Surfaced via Recomendo #520. +- **Deepculture (newsletter)** — URL TBD — curated newsletter of unusual internet discoveries; credited by Recomendo #514 as where the Virtual Fish Doorbell was found ("Found via Deepculture newsletter"). Identify the canonical URL before adding. +- **nicoledonut.com** — https://nicoledonut.com/ — Nicole Donut's blog/newsletter on creative practice and writing productivity; the at-home writing-retreat post was specific and actionable. Surfaced via Recomendo #517. +- **Herb Lester Associates** — https://www.herblester.com/ — pocket-format city guides for overlooked/underground subjects (literary maps, subterranean guides) — purchasable designed print objects at the design/cartography/travel intersection. Shopify storefront, curl-friendly. Surfaced via Things Magazine (Underground Paris map), June 12 2026. +- **Neal.fun** — https://neal.fun/ — Neal Agarwal's single-page web toys (Cursor Camp, etc.); the most reliably-shared "delightful web thing" maker. Surfaced repeatedly via Kottke + Web Curios. Worth a dedicated source slot (general-delight). +- **Pippin Barr** — https://pippinbarr.com/ — conceptual browser-game designer (Play It By Trust, etc.); consistently makes shareable art-games. Surfaced via Web Curios June 5. +- **Soph Warnes** — http://www.sophiewarnes.com/ — independent developer/journalist who built Attenborough at 100; makes high-quality public-interest tools. Surfaced via Kottke (Attenborough at 100 footer). Maker, not a feed — track for future single-project finds. +- **Jack Weiss** — https://weisswideweb.com/ — data-art / generative-music developer (Metro Music LA). Surfaced via Web Curios June 19. Maker, not a feed. diff --git a/daily-finds.log.md b/daily-finds.log.md index 9d55ee5..41786d4 100644 --- a/daily-finds.log.md +++ b/daily-finds.log.md @@ -2,6 +2,187 @@ Running record of every candidate surfaced by `/daily-finds`. The chosen pick of the day is prepended with `[chosen]`. Source attribution per candidate lets us track which sources produce winners over time. +## 2026-06-21 — capture run (first run since 2026-05-06; ~6-week backlog) + +Sources scanned: ~50 active (9 skipped per sources.json `fetch: skip`). 138 finds written after dedup against the 468-find / 39-review baseline. Run executed as a fan-out: 8 scanner subagents (one per source cluster) → central dedup/bar pass → 9 writer subagents/inline writers for files + hero fetch. +Productive sources: Web Curios (22), Recomendo (12), Wallpaper* Travel (9), icanhazdadjoke (9), AFAR (9), Wikiquote (8), Brett Terpstra (7), A.Word.A.Day (7), MoMA Design Store (6), Outlier (5), The Eclectic Light Company (4), Standard & Strange Journal (4), Kottke.org (4), Kikkerland (4), The Marginalian (3), MacStories (3), A Continuous Lean (3), Product Hunt (2), OSXDaily (2), Open Culture (2), Messy Nessy Chic (2), Hacker News — Show HN (2), Cool Tools (2), Uses This (1), Things Magazine (1), Six Colors (1), Quote Investigator (1), Daring Fireball — Linked List (1), Carryology (1), Boutique Homes (1). + +**Major fetch regression — all Reddit endpoints blocked.** r/macapps, r/shortcuts, and r/dadjokes all returned an HTML login/rate-limit wall (and 403 to WebFetch) for the `top/.json` endpoints this run, even with the Safari UA — zero Reddit-sourced finds. Reddit appears to have tightened bot detection since 2026-05-06; the curl+JSON path that worked every prior run is now dead. Needs an authenticated token or a different ingestion path before r/* sources are usable again. Dad-jokes fell back entirely to icanhazdadjoke; r/macapps and r/shortcuts produced nothing. + +Other blocked/broken this run: +- **Cool Material** — now a full Cloudflare JS challenge on ALL URLs (homepage + both Black Book month pages). Previously curl-friendly; regressed. Candidate for `fetch: skip`. +- **Werd.com** — HTTP 403 to both curl and WebFetch (was `webfetch` before). Regressed. +- **Atlas Obscura** — full Cloudflare block (genuine challenge page, no content body — worse than the prior 5471-byte stub). `fetch: skip` long overdue. +- **One Thing Well** — dormant: newest retrievable post is Jan 2023. Likely defunct. +- **Tools and Toys** — no 2026 content; newest posts are 2024. On indefinite hiatus. +- **This Is Why I'm Broke** — confirmed Angular SPA, empty template. +- **Unusual Hotels of the World** — confirmed ~4KB SPA shell. +- **Snow Peak** — product grid JS-rendered; no named SS26 apparel extractable. +- **StyleForum** — readable via curl but no single convergent buyable pick surfaced. +- **Kevin Kelly — thetechnium** — 2 posts, both meta-essays, no product candidates. +- **Roadtrippers / The Outbound Collective** — generic/mass-tourism canon only. + +Workarounds that worked: **MoMA Design Store** and **Kikkerland** HTML collection pages are now Shopify SPAs (nav-only), but `/collections/new/products.json` returns the full grid — use the JSON endpoint going forward. **TidBITS** issue-level pages 403, but individual article URLs are fetchable via curl. **Brett Terpstra** Web Excursions (May 11, May 23) were the richest single vein — followed and parsed. + +Skipped (per sources.json): The Sweet Setup, Indie App Sunday (Mastodon), Gear Patrol, The Awesomer, Permanent Style, Heddels, Mr Porter Journal, Spotted by Locals, The Browser. + +Kikkerland Amazon policy applied: 4 new items verified present on Kikkerland's own Amazon storefront ("Visit the Kikkerland Store") and linked via `amazon.com/dp/` — Bee Float Island (B0GS67PGMJ), Cappy the Capybara Planter (B0GS67XJC6), Axolotl Punch Needle Kit (B0GR8N1C47), Dachshund Trinket Tray (B0GR94FPFW). Amazon `/s` search returned results cleanly this run (no CAPTCHA). Deduped out as existing finds: Cat Watering Can, Light Up Pen/Pencil, Woodpecker Garden Shears. Croissant Bath Rug stays dropped (prior no-Amazon-match decision). + +### Captured finds + +- akomolafe-obstacles-creativity — Bayo Akomolafe on Obstacles as Creative Hubs — source: The Marginalian +- alvar-aalto-iridescent-vase-90th — Alvar Aalto Iridescent Glass Vase — 90th Anniversary NYC Edition — source: MoMA Design Store +- anbernic-rg-rotate — Anbernic RG Rotate — source: MacStories +- attenborough-at-100 — Attenborough at 100 — source: Kottke.org +- bakunin-ninth-symphony — Mikhail Bakunin on Beethoven's Ninth — source: Wikiquote +- bellow-memories-wolf-insignificance — Saul Bellow on Memory — source: A.Word.A.Day +- beston-animals-other-nations — Henry Beston on Animals as Other Nations — source: A.Word.A.Day +- black-sign-hakeme-check-engineers-shirt — Black Sign Hakeme Check Engineers Shirt — source: Standard & Strange Journal +- breaks-pomodoro-timer — Breaks — source: Recomendo +- camerons-world — Cameron's World — source: Recomendo +- casa-ideale-arles — Casa Ideale — source: Wallpaper* Travel +- cori-hornbaek-hotel — Cori Hornbæk Hotel — source: Wallpaper* Travel +- corneille-manner-of-giving — Pierre Corneille on the Manner of Giving — source: Wikiquote +- cosmos-visual-discovery — Cosmos — source: Recomendo +- dali-false-memories-jewels — Salvador Dalí on False and True Memories — source: A.Word.A.Day +- detailspro — DetailsPro — source: Daring Fireball — Linked List +- disposable-memory-project — The Disposable Memory Project — source: Web Curios +- diy-doodling-robot-kit — DIY Doodling Robot Kit — source: MoMA Design Store +- doyle-world-better-for-presence — Arthur Conan Doyle on Making the World Better — source: A.Word.A.Day +- earth-index — Earth Index — source: Web Curios +- far-out-company — Far Out Company — source: Recomendo +- feed-the-cat — Feed the Cat — source: Web Curios +- firewood-splitting-simulator — Firewood Splitting Simulator — source: Web Curios +- flower-lamp-yellow-tulip — Flower Lamp — Yellow Tulip — source: MoMA Design Store +- folo — Folo — source: Brett Terpstra +- forster-reason-idol-feeling — George Forster on Reason and Feeling — source: The Marginalian +- four-seasons-cartagena — Four Seasons Hotel Cartagena — source: Wallpaper* Travel +- frank-beauty-that-remains — Anne Frank on Beauty Amid Misery — source: Wikiquote +- garden-of-flowers-letterpress — Heikki's Garden of Flowers — source: Web Curios +- gerrymandle — Gerrymandle — source: Web Curios +- glider-browser-soaring — Glider — source: Web Curios +- google-earth-flight-simulator — Google Earth Flight Simulator — source: OSXDaily +- greatest-bird-names — The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time — source: Recomendo +- grubber-twin — grubber-twin — source: Brett Terpstra +- hacienda-botanica — Hacienda Botanica — source: Wallpaper* Travel +- hansberry-exceptional-lonely — Lorraine Hansberry on Exceptionalism and Loneliness — source: A.Word.A.Day +- hardy-galileo-verse-inquisition — Thomas Hardy on Galileo and Verse — source: A.Word.A.Day +- haskell-free-library-opera-house — Haskell Free Library & Opera House — source: Messy Nessy Chic +- hayek-state-planning-individual — Friedrich Hayek on Planning and the Individual — source: Wikiquote +- hendrix-park-hp-fatigues — Hendrix Park H.P. Fatigues — Japanese Gray HBT — source: Standard & Strange Journal +- hotel-bella-vista-trafoi — Hotel Bella Vista — source: Wallpaper* Travel +- hotel-corazon-mallorca — Hotel Corazón — source: Wallpaper* Travel +- how-solar-panels-work — How the Heck Do Solar Panels Work? — source: Kottke.org +- icare-dreamworld — Icare — source: Web Curios +- imdb-theatrical-stream-list — Theatrical Releases You Can Stream — source: Recomendo +- infinite-london — Infinite London — source: Web Curios +- joe-colombo-kd28-stacking-table-lamp — Joe Colombo KD28 Stacking Table Lamp — source: MoMA Design Store +- joke-de-brie-france — The Cheese Factory Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke +- joke-dog-whistle-trick — The Dog Whistle Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke +- joke-et-short-little-legs — The E.T. Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke +- joke-keyboard-shifts — The Keyboard Factory Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke +- joke-left-side-all-right — The Left Side Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke +- joke-pumpkin-no-hands — The Pumpkin Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke +- joke-seagull-bagel — The Seagull Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke +- joke-sentence-driving-test — The Driving Test Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke +- joke-soft-drink-coke — The Soft Drink Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke +- journiv — Journiv — source: Brett Terpstra +- julius-sumner-miller-why-is-it-so — Julius Sumner Miller: Why Is It So? — source: Open Culture +- kartell-componibili-2-tier-storage — Kartell Componibili 2-Tier Storage — source: MoMA Design Store +- kent-wilderness-living-mirror — Rockwell Kent on Wilderness as a Living Mirror — source: The Marginalian +- kikkerland-axolotl-punch-needle-kit — Axolotl Punch Needle Kit — source: Kikkerland +- kikkerland-bee-float-island — Bee Float Island — source: Kikkerland +- kikkerland-cappy-capybara-planter — Cappy the Capybara Planter — source: Kikkerland +- kikkerland-dachshund-trinket-tray — Dachshund Trinket Tray — source: Kikkerland +- learn-ai-layer-by-layer — Learn AI Layer by Layer — source: Recomendo +- leonardotheka — Leonardotheka — source: Kottke.org +- leros-greece — Leros, Greece — source: Wallpaper* Travel +- lettera — Lettera — source: MacStories +- make-look-scanned — make-look-scanned — source: Hacker News — Show HN +- mandai-rainforest-resort-singapore — Mandai Rainforest Resort by Banyan Tree — source: AFAR +- map-of-metal — The Map of Metal — source: Web Curios +- map-of-physics — The Map of Physics — source: Open Culture +- mechanical-pencil-teardowns — Mechanical Pencil — source: Recomendo +- meditype — Meditype — source: Web Curios +- metro-music-la — Metro Music LA — source: Web Curios +- mints-macos-utility — Mints — source: The Eclectic Light Company +- munenori-swordlessness — Yagyū Munenori on Swordlessness — source: Wikiquote +- museum-of-the-human-web — Museum of the Human Web — source: Web Curios +- niebuhr-complexity-rational-analysis — Reinhold Niebuhr on Complexity and Reason — source: Wikiquote +- nightstick-rechargeable-floodlight — Nightstick Rechargeable Floodlight — source: Cool Tools +- notchkin — Notchkin — source: Product Hunt +- oioi — oioi — source: Product Hunt +- outlier-air-jex-openseas — Outlier Air/jex Openseas — source: Outlier +- outlier-cannabiscotton-littlebigs — Outlier Cannabiscotton Littlebigs — source: Outlier +- outlier-injex-highdarts — Outlier Injex Highdarts — source: Outlier +- outlier-light-dungarees — Outlier Light Dungarees — source: Outlier +- outlier-ultrafine-merino-cut-one — Outlier Ultrafine Merino Cut One T-Shirt — source: Outlier +- pilgrim-mindful-walking — Pilgrim — Mindful Walking — source: Cool Tools +- pinebury-merino-wool-joggers — Pinebury Merino Wool Joggers — source: A Continuous Lean +- play-it-by-trust — Play It By Trust — source: Web Curios +- pocketbook-hudson — Pocketbook Hudson — source: Wallpaper* Travel +- porter-sin-against-life-beauty — Katherine Anne Porter on Beauty as Moral Duty — source: Wikiquote +- quake-1-in-browser — Quake 1 in the Browser — source: OSXDaily +- quercus-gay-georgia — Quercus — source: AFAR +- rarefilmm — Rarefilmm — source: Web Curios +- remarkable-paper-pure — reMarkable Paper Pure — source: MacStories +- renyi-mathematician-coffee — Alfréd Rényi on Mathematics — source: Quote Investigator +- ribbie — Ribbie — source: Kottke.org +- ringconn-gen-3 — RingConn Gen 3 — source: Recomendo +- rivay-linen-correspondent-jacket — Rivay Linen Correspondent Jacket — source: A Continuous Lean +- river-snorkeling-blue-ridge-mountains — River Snorkeling in the Blue Ridge Mountains — source: AFAR +- rsshub — RSSHub — source: Brett Terpstra +- rushdie-religion-fearless-disrespect — Salman Rushdie on Religion and Criticism — source: A.Word.A.Day +- saba-caribbean — Saba — source: AFAR +- saddleback-leather-double-handle-purse — Saddleback Leather Double Handle Purse — source: Carryology +- safecam-pro — SafeCam Pro — source: Brett Terpstra +- secret-envelope-patterns — S.E.C.R.E.T. — source: Web Curios +- silentknight-3 — SilentKnight 3 — source: The Eclectic Light Company +- socotra-island — Socotra Island — source: AFAR +- sortio — Sortio — source: Brett Terpstra +- splash-canvas — Splash Canvas — source: Web Curios +- stitch-your-travels-passport-cover — Stitch Your Travels Passport Cover DIY Kit — source: MoMA Design Store +- storied-colors — Storied Colors — source: Recomendo +- swf-rodeo — SWF Rodeo — source: Web Curios +- tackle-quicklook-problems — Fixing Generic QuickLook Thumbnails on macOS — source: The Eclectic Light Company +- tatter-blue-library — Tatter Blue Library — source: Messy Nessy Chic +- tella-thera-crete — Tella Thera — source: AFAR +- the-wedge-whistler — The Wedge — source: Boutique Homes +- timecapsule-smb — TimeCapsuleSMB — source: Six Colors +- tiny-world-builder — Tiny World Builder — source: Web Curios +- tldraw — tldraw — source: Uses This +- townsquare — TownSquare — source: Hacker News — Show HN +- traversee-cevenole-cycling — Traversée Cévenole — source: AFAR +- tuna-for-mac — Tuna — source: Brett Terpstra +- underground-paris-map — Underground Paris Map — source: Things Magazine +- utiutility — UTIutility — source: The Eclectic Light Company +- viberg-garmsville-brogue-navvy-boot — Viberg x Garmsville Brogue Navvy Boot — source: A Continuous Lean +- villa-argentina-dubrovnik — Villa Argentina — source: AFAR +- villa-fayoum — Villa Fayoum — source: AFAR +- virtual-os-museum — Virtual OS Museum — source: Web Curios +- weather-rothkos — Weather Rothkos — source: Web Curios +- wonder-looper-foxfibre-tsuriami-crewneck — Wonder Looper Foxfibre Tsuriami Crewneck T-Shirt — source: Standard & Strange Journal +- wonder-looper-super-looper-french-terry — Wonder Looper Super Looper French Terry Crewneck — source: Standard & Strange Journal +- works-in-progress — Works in Progress — source: Recomendo +- writer-deck-resource-list — Writer Deck Resource List — source: Recomendo +- yarlington-lodge-the-newt — Yarlington Lodge at The Newt — source: Wallpaper* Travel +- your-internet-radio-dial — Your Internet Radio Dial — source: Web Curios +- yourcenar-madness-destiny — Marguerite Yourcenar on Madness and Destiny — source: Wikiquote + +### Hero coverage + +- Heroes saved: 68 of 138. The remaining 70 are mostly intentionally text-only (16 of 19 quotes + all 9 dad-jokes) plus general-delight web toys / SPA app pages with no usable og:image (feed-the-cat, rarefilmm, map-of-metal, weather-rothkos, meditype, museum-of-the-human-web, garden-of-flowers-letterpress, play-it-by-trust, swf-rodeo, your-internet-radio-dial, tiny-world-builder, etc.) and several Brett Terpstra picks (his blog has no og:image cards). +- Notable hero patterns: MoMA/Kikkerland Shopify `cdn.shopify.com/.../files/*.jpg` came down clean (2040² and 750² respectively). Wallpaper `cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net` and AFAR `afar.brightspotcdn.com` reliable. Map of Physics fell back to YouTube `hqdefault.jpg` (maxres was the 120×90 placeholder). socotra-island recovered via the AFAR article og:image; villa-fayoum recovered via the bare Wix static URL (the `/v1/fit/...avif` transform endpoint returns text/plain). +- Hero failures (no image): silentknight-3 (only a 1400×122 banner in the post), mandai-rainforest-resort-singapore (Banyan Tree exposes no og:image / 403), nightstick (Amazon image-fetch blocked), cosmos-visual-discovery / learn-ai-layer-by-layer / imdb-theatrical-stream-list / writer-deck-resource-list / ringconn-gen-3 / far-out-company (JS-rendered or logo-only og:image). + +### Source-field fix + +The travel writer batch initially wrote the display domain (wallpaper.com, afar.com, boutique-homes.com, egyptbeyond.com) into the `source:` field instead of the sources.json name; corrected post-write to "Wallpaper* Travel", "AFAR", and "Boutique Homes" (villa-fayoum, surfaced via an AFAR article, attributed to AFAR). All 138 `source:` values now match a sources.json `name` exactly. + +### New source nominees + +11 this run (see candidate-sources.md): crossplay.news, Thought Asylum, Klipy, Bird History (Substack), Deepculture, nicoledonut.com, Herb Lester Associates, Neal.fun, Pippin Barr, Soph Warnes, Jack Weiss. + ## 2026-05-06 — review: felo-ergonic-screwdriver-set Graduated from find captured 2026-05-03, source: Tools and Toys. Reused the find's `hero.jpg` (the six-piece set, two-tone soft handles fanned beside the chrome shafts). New category `tools` introduced — `kit` is reserved for preparedness/glovebox objects (valchoose-barf-bags), `kitchen` is too narrow for a workshop tool, and none of the software-leaning categories fit a hand-tool. `tools` is now the natural home for future workshop/hand-tool graduates. Tags merge the find's set with `workshop` and `household`. Registered in `src/lib/hero.ts` per build-review Step 6. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/akomolafe-obstacles-creativity/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/akomolafe-obstacles-creativity/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c3095af Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/akomolafe-obstacles-creativity/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/akomolafe-obstacles-creativity/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/akomolafe-obstacles-creativity/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..330f889 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/akomolafe-obstacles-creativity/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Bayo Akomolafe on Obstacles as Creative Hubs" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/21/bayo-akomolafe-wilds-obstacles/" +linkText: "themarginalian.org" +source: "The Marginalian" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [creativity, obstacles, philosophy, nature] +description: "On obstacles as the universe's hubs of creativity." +--- + +> Obstacles are the universe's hubs of unspeakable creativity, redeeming us from tired victories, from the banality of crossing the finish line. + +— Bayo Akomolafe, from *These Wilds Beyond Our Fences*, via Maria Popova. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/alvar-aalto-iridescent-vase-90th/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/alvar-aalto-iridescent-vase-90th/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7c4e931 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/alvar-aalto-iridescent-vase-90th/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/alvar-aalto-iridescent-vase-90th/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/alvar-aalto-iridescent-vase-90th/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..efd201c --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/alvar-aalto-iridescent-vase-90th/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Alvar Aalto Iridescent Glass Vase — 90th Anniversary NYC Edition" +subtitle: "Finland's iconic lake-shaped vase turns 90 in iridescent glass" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://store.moma.org/collections/new/products/alvar-aalto-iridescent-glass-vase-90th-anniversary-nyc-edition" +linkText: "store.moma.org" +source: "MoMA Design Store" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [glass, finnish-design, limited-edition, collectible] +description: "Iittala's handcrafted 90th-anniversary edition of the Aalto vase wraps the undulating Finnish-lake silhouette in a color-shifting iridescent finish, exclusive to MoMA." +--- + +The Aalto vase's undulating freeform silhouette — said to trace the shoreline of a Finnish lake — turns 90 this year, and MoMA's exclusive NYC edition wraps it in an iridescent finish that shifts color with the viewing angle. Handcrafted in Finland at Iittala as a limited MoMA-exclusive run, it's a proper collectible rather than a curio. The iridescent treatment is the only change to a form that has required no others in nine decades. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/anbernic-rg-rotate/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/anbernic-rg-rotate/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3985ddd --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/anbernic-rg-rotate/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Anbernic RG Rotate" +subtitle: "Pocket Android handheld whose screen physically rotates" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://anbernic.com/products/rg-rotate" +linkText: "anbernic.com" +source: "MacStories" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [hardware, gaming, handheld, retro] +description: "A pocket Android gaming handheld with a screen that physically rotates to reveal gaming controls, designed for genuinely opportunistic retro gaming." +--- + +A pocket Android gaming handheld whose screen physically rotates to reveal the gaming controls underneath — the hinge is the transition between portrait media mode and landscape play. It's small enough for genuinely opportunistic retro gaming rather than couch-only sessions. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/attenborough-at-100/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/attenborough-at-100/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6284963 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/attenborough-at-100/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/attenborough-at-100/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/attenborough-at-100/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8772259 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/attenborough-at-100/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Attenborough at 100" +subtitle: "Searchable database of nearly 5,000 Attenborough episodes" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://attenborough-100.vercel.app" +linkText: "attenborough-100.vercel.app" +source: "Kottke.org" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [nature, archive, searchable, documentary] +description: "A fan-built searchable database of every David Attenborough series, filterable by animal, habitat, location, and theme, marking his 100th birthday." +--- + +A fan-built searchable database of nearly 5,000 episodes across 90 David Attenborough series — from Zoo Quest in 1954 to Secret Garden in 2026 — filterable by animal, habitat, location, or theme. Marking his 100th birthday, it gives you a way to find the exact episode where he talks about leopards or coral reefs across seven decades of work. That's the whole point: not a tribute page, but an actual research tool for the archive. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/bakunin-ninth-symphony/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/bakunin-ninth-symphony/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..72186ab --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/bakunin-ninth-symphony/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Mikhail Bakunin on Beethoven's Ninth" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin" +linkText: "en.wikiquote.org" +source: "Wikiquote" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [music, art, transcendence, anarchism] +description: "On art outlasting the world." +--- + +> Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain. + +— Mikhail Bakunin. Wikiquote Quote of the Day. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/bellow-memories-wolf-insignificance/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/bellow-memories-wolf-insignificance/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4e3589f --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/bellow-memories-wolf-insignificance/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Saul Bellow on Memory" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://wordsmith.org/words/recumbentibus.html" +linkText: "wordsmith.org" +source: "A.Word.A.Day" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [memory, identity, literature, awad] +description: "On memory as a defense against insignificance." +--- + +> Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. + +— Saul Bellow, novelist and Nobel laureate (10 June 1915–2005). A.Word.A.Day Thought for Today. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/beston-animals-other-nations/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/beston-animals-other-nations/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..24418ce --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/beston-animals-other-nations/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Henry Beston on Animals as Other Nations" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://wordsmith.org/words/brave_new_world.html" +linkText: "wordsmith.org" +source: "A.Word.A.Day" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [nature, animals, wonder, awad] +description: "On animals as other nations, not underlings." +--- + +> They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth. + +— Henry Beston, naturalist (1 June 1888–1968). A.Word.A.Day Thought for Today. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/black-sign-hakeme-check-engineers-shirt/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/black-sign-hakeme-check-engineers-shirt/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9410097 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/black-sign-hakeme-check-engineers-shirt/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/black-sign-hakeme-check-engineers-shirt/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/black-sign-hakeme-check-engineers-shirt/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7b6b695 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/black-sign-hakeme-check-engineers-shirt/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Black Sign Hakeme Check Engineers Shirt" +subtitle: "1910s American engineer workwear reproduced with lost details intact" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.standardandstrange.com/products/hakeme-check-engineers-shirt-beige-check" +linkText: "standardandstrange.com" +source: "Standard & Strange Journal" +topics: [clothing] +tags: [japanese-makers, work-shirt, heritage, linen-cotton] +description: "A Black Sign reproduction of 1910s–20s American engineer workwear in brushed 58/42 cotton-linen, with a pocketwatch pocket, angled buttonhole, and pattern-matched checks throughout." +--- + +Reproduced from photographs of 1910s–20s American engineer workwear, this Black Sign shirt carries details no modern interpretation has: a pocketwatch pocket with an angled buttonhole for the chain, a sideways yoke gathered behind the shoulders for overhead reach, and pattern-matched checks throughout. The 58/42 cotton-linen is brushed soft without losing its slightly irregular texture. Made in Japan. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/breaks-pomodoro-timer/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/breaks-pomodoro-timer/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c93a3f7 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/breaks-pomodoro-timer/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/breaks-pomodoro-timer/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/breaks-pomodoro-timer/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b27616a --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/breaks-pomodoro-timer/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Breaks" +subtitle: "Free, open-source Pomodoro timer for the macOS menu bar" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://gjinprelvukaj.github.io/Breaks" +linkText: Breaks +source: "Recomendo" +topics: [macos-apps, tools] +tags: [macos, productivity, focus, free] +description: "A genuinely free, open-source, analytics-free Pomodoro timer for macOS with six timing templates and on-device AI session summaries." +--- + +A genuinely free, open-source Pomodoro timer that lives quietly in the macOS menu bar — no subscription, no account, no analytics, all local. It includes six timing templates (Pomodoro, 52/17, Deep Work, Flowtime, Ultradian, Quick) to match how you actually work. On-device AI session summaries are powered by Apple Foundation Models, so nothing leaves your machine. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/camerons-world/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/06/camerons-world/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4f9d101 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/camerons-world/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/camerons-world/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/camerons-world/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba18528 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/camerons-world/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Cameron's World" +subtitle: "Infinite scrolling collage of archived GeoCities pages" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.cameronsworld.net/" +linkText: cameronsworld.net +source: "Recomendo" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [internet-history, nostalgia, archive, web-art] +description: "A lovingly assembled web collage drawn from thousands of archived GeoCities pages, presenting early-internet folk art as an infinite scrolling canvas." +--- + +A lovingly assembled web collage drawn from thousands of archived GeoCities pages (1994–2009), presenting early-internet folk art as an infinite scrolling canvas. Built by Cameron Askin from Internet Archive material, it captures the chaotic authenticity of personal homepages before platforms homogenized self-expression. Scrolling through it feels like excavating a buried neighborhood. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/casa-ideale-arles/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/casa-ideale-arles/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..582dfe0 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/casa-ideale-arles/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/casa-ideale-arles/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/casa-ideale-arles/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..72b4bc0 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/casa-ideale-arles/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Casa Ideale" +subtitle: "A 1970s organic sculpture in Arles converted into gallery and private stay" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/casa-ideale-luca-pronzato-we-are-ona-arles-france-opening" +linkText: "wallpaper.com" +source: "Wallpaper* Travel" +topics: [travel] +tags: [arles, design-house, cultural-venue, modernist] +description: "Villa Bank in Arles — an early-1970s organic building recognized as Architecture Contemporaine Remarquable — converted into a hybrid private stay, gallery, and cultural residency." +--- + +Villa Bank in Arles — an early-1970s organic sculpture by Émile Sala, recognized by France as Architecture Contemporaine Remarquable — has been converted by Luca Pronzato into a hybrid private stay, gallery, and cultural residency. The curved 350-square-metre house holds 67 Carla Sozzani photographs installed as 'rooms of vision' alongside Jean Prouvé, Gaetano Pesce, and Philippe Starck furnishings. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/cori-hornbaek-hotel/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/cori-hornbaek-hotel/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6eb7b7f Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/cori-hornbaek-hotel/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/cori-hornbaek-hotel/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/cori-hornbaek-hotel/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..af9c674 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/cori-hornbaek-hotel/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Cori Hornbæk Hotel" +subtitle: "A 1935 functionalist hotel on the Danish Riviera, carefully restored" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/hotels/cori-hornbaek-denmark" +linkText: "wallpaper.com" +source: "Wallpaper* Travel" +topics: [travel] +tags: [functionalist, danish-riviera, restoration, scandinavian] +description: "A 1935 Ole Falkentorp functionalist hotel on the Zealand coast restored to its streamlined modernist character, with a landmark oval tower suite and Gubi custom furniture." +--- + +A 1935 Ole Falkentorp functionalist hotel on the Zealand coast — the Danish Riviera — restored to its streamlined modernist character, with soft white curves and a landmark oval tower holding a one-bedroom suite ringed by curved floor-to-ceiling windows. Gubi made custom furniture for it, and the restaurant is led by a chef with 16 years at Michelin-starred Søllerød Kro. It's designed to be part of residents' daily life rather than a sealed-off resort. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/corneille-manner-of-giving/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/corneille-manner-of-giving/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..22f8211 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/corneille-manner-of-giving/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Pierre Corneille on the Manner of Giving" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre_Corneille" +linkText: "en.wikiquote.org" +source: "Wikiquote" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [generosity, virtue, ethics, brevity] +description: "On why how you give matters more than the gift." +--- + +> The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. + +— Pierre Corneille. Wikiquote Quote of the Day. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/cosmos-visual-discovery/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/cosmos-visual-discovery/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..94a26f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/cosmos-visual-discovery/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Cosmos" +subtitle: "Ad-free visual inspiration boards with color and style search" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.cosmos.so/" +linkText: cosmos.so +source: "Recomendo" +topics: [tools] +tags: [creative, mood-board, visual-search, design] +description: "An ad-free Pinterest alternative for curating visual inspiration boards, with image search by color, similarity, or style and a filter for AI-generated vs. human-made work." +--- + +An ad-free, distraction-free alternative to Pinterest that lets you curate visual inspiration boards and search images by color, similarity, or style rather than keywords. It surfaces artist attribution and source context, and lets you filter AI-generated content separately from human-made work. The result is a mood-board tool that actually respects what you're looking for. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/dali-false-memories-jewels/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/dali-false-memories-jewels/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..de4df81 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/dali-false-memories-jewels/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Salvador Dalí on False and True Memories" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://wordsmith.org/words/cats_meow.html" +linkText: "wordsmith.org" +source: "A.Word.A.Day" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [memory, psychology, surrealism, awad] +description: "On why false memories shine brightest." +--- + +> The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. + +— Salvador Dalí, painter (11 May 1904–1989). A.Word.A.Day Thought for Today. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/detailspro/hero.webp b/src/content/find/2026/06/detailspro/hero.webp new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5682659 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/detailspro/hero.webp differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/detailspro/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/detailspro/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7ddfc4c --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/detailspro/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "DetailsPro" +subtitle: "Visual SwiftUI builder that exports production-ready code" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://detailspro.app/" +linkText: "detailspro.app" +source: "Daring Fireball — Linked List" +topics: [macos-apps] +tags: [swiftui, design, ios-dev, visual-builder] +description: "A visual SwiftUI interface builder that exports one-to-one production code, doubling as a teaching tool across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro." +--- + +A visual SwiftUI interface builder that exports production-ready SwiftUI one-to-one — what you drag is exactly what Xcode gets — which makes it as much a teaching tool as a design tool. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro with iCloud sync, dark-mode preview, and a community library for sharing design files. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/disposable-memory-project/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/06/disposable-memory-project/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a6557d9 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/disposable-memory-project/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/disposable-memory-project/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/disposable-memory-project/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc63a52 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/disposable-memory-project/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "The Disposable Memory Project" +subtitle: "784 images from 500+ found disposable cameras worldwide" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.disposablememoryproject.org/" +linkText: "disposablememoryproject.org" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [archive, photography, participatory-art, global] +description: "Between 2008–2013, artist Matthew Knight released 500+ disposable cameras worldwide; 33 were returned, producing 784 images from 557 contributors across 73 countries." +--- + +Between 2008 and 2013, artist Matthew Knight released over 500 disposable cameras into the world; 152 were found, 33 returned, producing 784 images from 557 contributors across 73 countries. The archive documents what strangers chose to photograph with a found camera — an accidental portrait of the world's casual, unguarded moments. One of the more human things on the internet. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/diy-doodling-robot-kit/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/diy-doodling-robot-kit/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..034e60c Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/diy-doodling-robot-kit/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/diy-doodling-robot-kit/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/diy-doodling-robot-kit/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d5c0996 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/diy-doodling-robot-kit/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "DIY Doodling Robot Kit" +subtitle: "Three-armed automaton draws geometric patterns with felt-tip pens" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://store.moma.org/collections/new/products/diy-doodling-robot-kit" +linkText: "store.moma.org" +source: "MoMA Design Store" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [kids, stem, robotics, art] +description: "A build-it-yourself three-armed robot that scribbles geometric patterns with three felt-tip pens simultaneously, teaching basic robotics through art output rather than a screen." +--- + +The three-armed automaton scribbles geometric patterns simultaneously with three felt-tip pens — you change pen height and angle to vary the output, so every run produces a slightly different drawing. It teaches rudimentary robotics through felt-tip marks on paper, a more memorable lesson than a screen, and doubles as an art machine with unpredictable results. The assembly itself is part of the lesson: the robot is only meaningful once you understand how it works. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/doyle-world-better-for-presence/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/doyle-world-better-for-presence/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..21a379f --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/doyle-world-better-for-presence/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Arthur Conan Doyle on Making the World Better" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://wordsmith.org/words/elginism.html" +linkText: "wordsmith.org" +source: "A.Word.A.Day" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [kindness, character, tolerance, awad] +description: "On leaving the world a little better for your presence." +--- + +> I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence; and even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. + +— Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (22 May 1859–1930). A.Word.A.Day Thought for Today. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/earth-index/hero.avif b/src/content/find/2026/06/earth-index/hero.avif new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0943368 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/earth-index/hero.avif differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/earth-index/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/earth-index/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..017f1d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/earth-index/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Earth Index" +subtitle: "Search 3.2 billion satellite tiles for environmental patterns" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.earthgenome.org/earth-index" +linkText: "earthgenome.org" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [satellite, environment, search, mapping] +description: "An AI search engine for satellite imagery that has analyzed 3.2 billion 10-hectare tiles of Earth's surface, enabling searches for environmental patterns across any region and time window." +--- + +An AI search engine for satellite imagery: it has analyzed 3.2 billion 10-hectare tiles of the Earth's surface, so you can search for environmental patterns — deforestation, solar-farm expansion, wetland loss — across any region and time window. Built for environmental defenders but usable by anyone curious about the planet from above. The scale of pre-analyzed coverage is what makes it fast rather than theoretical. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/far-out-company/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/far-out-company/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7610f31 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/far-out-company/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Far Out Company" +subtitle: "1960s–70s counterculture art archive for design inspiration" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://faroutcompany.com/" +linkText: faroutcompany.com +source: "Recomendo" +topics: [tools, general-delight] +tags: [archive, counterculture, design, history] +description: "A deep archive of 1960s–70s counterculture visual art — concert posters, underground newspapers, album art — curated as a deliberate counterweight to algorithm-generated imagery." +--- + +A deep archive of 1960s–70s counterculture visual art — concert posters, underground newspapers, album art, commune photography — curated as a design-inspiration resource. The hand-lettered psychedelic typography and DIY aesthetic are a deliberate counterweight to algorithm-generated imagery. It's the kind of visual rawness that's hard to find assembled anywhere else. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/feed-the-cat/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/feed-the-cat/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f8dab8 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/feed-the-cat/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Feed the Cat" +subtitle: "Remotely trigger food dispensers for shelter cats via webcam" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.feed-the.cat/" +linkText: "feed-the.cat" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [live-webcam, interactive, animals, remote-control] +description: "A donation-supported site where you watch live shelter cat webcams and can remotely trigger food dispensers with a cooldown to prevent overfeeding." +--- + +A donation-supported site where you watch live webcam feeds of cats at shelters and rescue centres — and can actually trigger the food dispensers remotely, with a cooldown so nobody overfeeds. The creator started it to monitor their own cat Bishop and expanded it to partner shelters. Genuine remote-control cat feeding through a webpage. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/firewood-splitting-simulator/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/firewood-splitting-simulator/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4aea329 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/firewood-splitting-simulator/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Firewood Splitting Simulator" +subtitle: "First-person 3D log-chopping with satisfying physics splits" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://screen.toys/firewood/" +linkText: "screen.toys" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [web-toy, 3d, satisfying, physics] +description: "A first-person 3D log-chopping simulator built in Three.js where you swing the axe, the wood splits with physics, and the pieces tumble — no stakes, no score." +--- + +A first-person 3D log-chopping simulator built in Three.js — you swing the axe, the wood splits with physics, and the pieces tumble. No stakes, no score, just the satisfaction of the split crack and the way the logs roll. The kind of web toy that exists purely to feel good. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/flower-lamp-yellow-tulip/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/flower-lamp-yellow-tulip/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..859ce4b Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/flower-lamp-yellow-tulip/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/flower-lamp-yellow-tulip/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/flower-lamp-yellow-tulip/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff390f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/flower-lamp-yellow-tulip/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Flower Lamp — Yellow Tulip" +subtitle: "A silk tulip frozen at peak bloom that's also a lamp" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://store.moma.org/collections/new/products/flower-lamp-yellow-tulip" +linkText: "store.moma.org" +source: "MoMA Design Store" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [lighting, botanical, design-classic, sculpture] +description: "Mike Bliss's 1984 trompe-l'oeil tulip lamp — silk petals over a light source, frozen at peak bloom — is back in production at MoMA, and the soft diffused glow is genuinely useful." +--- + +Mike Bliss conceived these silk flower lamps in 1984 as a trompe-l'oeil object — a tulip frozen at peak bloom that also happens to be a lamp — and MoMA is re-issuing them. The joke is that it works: the soft diffused glow through the petals is genuinely useful while remaining entirely absurd as a design proposition. The piece lives in the productive space between sculpture and functional object, which is exactly where the best lamps tend to live. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/folo/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/folo/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a85aca2 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/folo/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Folo" +subtitle: "Open-source AI-first RSS reader that ingests 24+ source types" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://folo.is/" +linkText: "folo.is" +source: "Brett Terpstra" +topics: [macos-apps, tools] +tags: [rss, ai, reading, feeds] +description: "A GPL-3.0 AI-first RSS reader that ingests social feeds, research repos, and YouTube alongside traditional RSS, with a Vibe Read mode to surface signal over noise." +--- + +An open-source, AI-first RSS reader that ingests 24+ source types — social feeds like Bluesky and Threads, research repos like Nature and Hugging Face, even YouTube — and uses a 'Vibe Read' mode to surface signal over noise. GPL-3.0, briefly GitHub's #1 trending repo, with both a web app and a desktop client. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/forster-reason-idol-feeling/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/forster-reason-idol-feeling/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ace7b5f Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/forster-reason-idol-feeling/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/forster-reason-idol-feeling/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/forster-reason-idol-feeling/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b25aeb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/forster-reason-idol-feeling/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "George Forster on Reason and Feeling" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/20/george-forster-andrea-wulf/" +linkText: "themarginalian.org" +source: "The Marginalian" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [science, emotion, enlightenment, philosophy] +description: "On the danger of worshipping cold reason at the expense of feeling." +--- + +> Never before has there been a greater danger of elevating cold reason into a universally worshipped idol at the expense of feeling. + +— George Forster, 18th-century naturalist, from Andrea Wulf's new biography, via Maria Popova. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/four-seasons-cartagena/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/four-seasons-cartagena/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..91521bf Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/four-seasons-cartagena/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/four-seasons-cartagena/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/four-seasons-cartagena/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..40f0b02 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/four-seasons-cartagena/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Four Seasons Hotel Cartagena" +subtitle: "An 18-year adaptive reuse of a 16th-century Franciscan cloister" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/hotels/four-seasons-cartagena-review" +linkText: "wallpaper.com" +source: "Wallpaper* Travel" +topics: [travel] +tags: [colombia, colonial, adaptive-reuse, historic] +description: "An 18-year project stitching together a 16th-century Franciscan cloister, a club with a monumental split staircase, and spa vaults in Cartagena's Getsemaní." +--- + +An 18-year adaptive-reuse project stitching together a 16th-century Franciscan cloister — a quiet courtyard shaded by four banyan trees over a century old — the former Club Cartagena with its monumental split staircase now under a glass roof, and a spa carved into the monks' food-preparation vaults. The glass atrium lets moonlight pattern the marble floors at night, and the hotel sits in Getsemaní rather than the tourist core. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/frank-beauty-that-remains/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/frank-beauty-that-remains/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2128422 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/frank-beauty-that-remains/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Anne Frank on Beauty Amid Misery" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_Frank" +linkText: "en.wikiquote.org" +source: "Wikiquote" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [resilience, hope, beauty, history] +description: "On choosing the beauty that still remains." +--- + +> I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains. + +— Anne Frank, from her diary. Wikiquote Quote of the Day. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/garden-of-flowers-letterpress/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/garden-of-flowers-letterpress/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..771fcb5 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/garden-of-flowers-letterpress/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Heikki's Garden of Flowers" +subtitle: "Searchable archive of historical letterpress type ornaments" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/" +linkText: "heikkilotvonen.com" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [typography, archive, design, letterpress] +description: "A photographed and catalogued archive of historical letterpress type ornaments and printer's flowers, documented from original sources by Heikki Lotvonen." +--- + +A catalogued archive of historical letterpress type ornaments and printer's flowers — the decorative botanical and geometric elements typesetters used to fill pages before photography. Heikki Lotvonen has photographed and documented them from original sources, making a searchable visual library of something most people have seen but never noticed as a distinct art form. The documentation is meticulous and the specimens are genuinely beautiful. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/gerrymandle/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/06/gerrymandle/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a938da7 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/gerrymandle/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/gerrymandle/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/gerrymandle/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..203c634 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/gerrymandle/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Gerrymandle" +subtitle: "Draw district lines daily and learn gerrymandering firsthand" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://gerrymandle.cc/" +linkText: "gerrymandle.cc" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [daily-game, puzzle, politics, education] +description: "A free daily hex-grid puzzle where you draw electoral district lines to win a majority, making gerrymandering's packing and cracking tactics viscerally legible." +--- + +A free daily hex-grid puzzle where you draw electoral district lines to win a majority — and in doing so you understand gerrymandering from the inside. Packing and cracking become viscerally clear the moment you try to use them. New puzzle every day, browser-based, no account required. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/glider-browser-soaring/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/glider-browser-soaring/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d8cb4a3 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/glider-browser-soaring/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/glider-browser-soaring/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/glider-browser-soaring/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ce940fe --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/glider-browser-soaring/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Glider" +subtitle: "Endless soaring flight simulator with daily shared routes" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://khalifa.games/glider/" +linkText: "khalifa.games" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [browser-game, flight, exploration, 3d] +description: "An endless gliding flight simulator in the browser with thermals, ridge lift, and alpine valleys — a shared daily flight route means everyone sees the same landscape." +--- + +An endless gliding flight simulator in the browser — thermals, ridge lift, alpine valleys and island archipelagos to soar over, with a shared daily flight route so everyone sees the same landscape. The physics feel real enough that catching a thermal at the right moment produces genuine relief. One of the more serene games on the web. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/google-earth-flight-simulator/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/google-earth-flight-simulator/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..97bccd0 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/google-earth-flight-simulator/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Google Earth Flight Simulator" +subtitle: "Hidden flight simulator inside Google Earth's web app" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://earth.google.com/" +linkText: "earth.google.com" +source: "OSXDaily" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [google-earth, easter-egg, browser, flight] +description: "Google Earth's web app hides a flight simulator under Tools → Flight Simulator, letting you fly over anywhere you've searched with mouse and arrow keys." +--- + +Google Earth's web app hides a flight simulator under Tools → Flight Simulator that lets you fly over anywhere you've searched first. It's currently only in the web version, controlled with mouse and arrow keys, and labeled experimental — the kind of Easter egg that's been there for ages and almost nobody knows about. Search somewhere beautiful, then take off from it. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/greatest-bird-names/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/greatest-bird-names/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c90d065 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/greatest-bird-names/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/greatest-bird-names/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/greatest-bird-names/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1e1362f --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/greatest-bird-names/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time" +subtitle: "5,000-word ranked countdown of ornithology's most absurd names" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/the-100-greatest-bird-names-of-all" +linkText: birdhistory.substack.com +source: "Recomendo" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [birds, humor, nature, writing] +description: "A 5,000-word ranked countdown of the most wonderfully absurd bird names in ornithology, each with etymology, behavior, and deadpan commentary." +--- + +A 5,000-word ranked countdown of the most wonderfully absurd bird names in ornithology — Horned Screamer, Supertramp Fantail, Inaccessible Island Rail — each with etymology, behavior, and deadpan commentary. The reveal of the #1 spot is a perfect piece of comedic misdirection. Genuinely funny piece of nature writing. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/grubber-twin/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/grubber-twin/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..354acf8 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/grubber-twin/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "grubber-twin" +subtitle: "CLI tool that syncs config folders between two Macs via Markdown" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://github.com/rhsev/grubber-twin" +linkText: "GitHub" +source: "Brett Terpstra" +topics: [macos-apps, tools] +tags: [sync, config, cli, dotfiles] +description: "A command-line tool that syncs configuration folders between two Macs using self-documenting Markdown files as the sync manifest." +--- + +A command-line tool that syncs configuration folders between two Macs using self-documenting Markdown files as the sync manifest. It's a tidy answer to the new-Mac-setup problem: keep your configs in a repo, document them in plain Markdown, and let the tool do the transfer. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/hacienda-botanica/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/hacienda-botanica/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..62c1250 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/hacienda-botanica/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/hacienda-botanica/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/hacienda-botanica/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fd31ec3 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/hacienda-botanica/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Hacienda Botanica" +subtitle: "Bill Bensley's personal retreat, now bookable as exclusive buyout" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/hacienda-botanica-bill-bensley-review" +linkText: "wallpaper.com" +source: "Wallpaper* Travel" +topics: [travel] +tags: [private-estate, thailand, architect-designed, buyout] +description: "Bill Bensley's private Mae Rim valley estate — built over two decades — available as an exclusive-use buyout on 16 hectares of northern Thai jungle." +--- + +Bill Bensley's personal weekend retreat in the Mae Rim valley, built over nearly two decades, is now bookable as an exclusive-use buyout — thick terracotta walls and shaded casitas in an unexpectedly Hispanic idiom set on 16 hectares of northern Thai jungle, crossed by a private suspension bridge over the river. The head gardener tends endemic plants that erupt during monsoon season with leaves two metres high. Menus are negotiated before arrival. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/hansberry-exceptional-lonely/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/hansberry-exceptional-lonely/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..85fc43e --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/hansberry-exceptional-lonely/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Lorraine Hansberry on Exceptionalism and Loneliness" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://wordsmith.org/words/laconism.html" +linkText: "wordsmith.org" +source: "A.Word.A.Day" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [identity, solitude, creativity, awad] +description: "On the loneliness that comes with being exceptional." +--- + +> The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. + +— Lorraine Hansberry, playwright (19 May 1930–1965). A.Word.A.Day Thought for Today. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/hardy-galileo-verse-inquisition/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/hardy-galileo-verse-inquisition/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e42bef9 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/hardy-galileo-verse-inquisition/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Thomas Hardy on Galileo and Verse" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://wordsmith.org/words/deipnosophist.html" +linkText: "wordsmith.org" +source: "A.Word.A.Day" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [art, science, history, awad] +description: "On how poetic form can disarm a dangerous truth." +--- + +> If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone. + +— Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet (2 June 1840–1928). A.Word.A.Day Thought for Today. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/haskell-free-library-opera-house/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/haskell-free-library-opera-house/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bccad72 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/haskell-free-library-opera-house/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Haskell Free Library & Opera House" +subtitle: "1904 opera house where the US–Canada border runs through the seats" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://haskellopera.com/opera-house/" +linkText: "haskellopera.com" +source: "Messy Nessy Chic" +topics: [travel, general-delight] +tags: [architecture, border, history, unusual-place] +description: "A Victorian opera house and library straddling the US–Canada border in Vermont and Quebec, with the reading room in the US and the stage in Canada." +--- + +A Victorian opera house and library in Derby Line, Vermont / Stanstead, Quebec that straddles the US–Canada border — the reading room sits in the US, the stage in Canada, and the international boundary runs through the seats. Built in 1904, it still operates as both a working library and a performance venue. The border runs through an active building people use every week. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/hayek-state-planning-individual/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/hayek-state-planning-individual/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..98c8017 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/hayek-state-planning-individual/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Friedrich Hayek on Planning and the Individual" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek" +linkText: "en.wikiquote.org" +source: "Wikiquote" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [economics, freedom, politics, individualism] +description: "On how state planning crowds out the individual's own." +--- + +> The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual. + +— Friedrich Hayek. Wikiquote Quote of the Day. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/hendrix-park-hp-fatigues/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/hendrix-park-hp-fatigues/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..069bcf2 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/hendrix-park-hp-fatigues/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/hendrix-park-hp-fatigues/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/hendrix-park-hp-fatigues/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2bfee4b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/hendrix-park-hp-fatigues/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Hendrix Park H.P. Fatigues — Japanese Gray HBT" +subtitle: "One-at-a-time Sausalito fatigues on 1940s sewing machines" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.standardandstrange.com/products/fatigues-grey-denim" +linkText: "standardandstrange.com" +source: "Standard & Strange Journal" +topics: [clothing] +tags: [small-batch, workwear, cotton, made-in-usa] +description: "Japanese gray herringbone twill fatigues made one at a time by a single operator on nine vintage machines — some from the 1940s — in Sausalito, California." +--- + +Each pair is made one at a time by a single operator on nine vintage sewing machines — some from the 1940s — in Sausalito, California, about as close to genuine one-at-a-time American clothing production as exists. The Japanese gray herringbone twill is 100% cotton, built to soften and fade with wear, with four roomy patch pockets, seven belt loops, a button fly with Japanese nickel buttons, and flat-felled seams. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/hotel-bella-vista-trafoi/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/hotel-bella-vista-trafoi/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e52407f Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/hotel-bella-vista-trafoi/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/hotel-bella-vista-trafoi/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/hotel-bella-vista-trafoi/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7cc55cb --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/hotel-bella-vista-trafoi/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Hotel Bella Vista" +subtitle: "Matteo Thun expands a 150-year family hotel inside Stelvio National Park" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/hotels/hotel-bella-vista-trafoi-expansion-matteo-thun" +linkText: "wallpaper.com" +source: "Wallpaper* Travel" +topics: [travel] +tags: [alpine, architect-designed, national-park, south-tyrol] +description: "Matteo Thun added 24 suites and a 550-square-metre wellness complex to a 150-year-old family hotel in Trafoi, inside Stelvio National Park." +--- + +Matteo Thun added 24 suites and a 550-square-metre wellness complex to a 150-year-old family hotel in Trafoi, inside Stelvio National Park at the foot of the Ortler massif — years of permitting required to protect the landscape. The new wing is clad in Swiss pine, fir, and oak around a 'nest' concept, with a 5,000-square-metre outdoor wellness terrain and an infinity pool cantilevered over the Trafoi Canyon. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/hotel-corazon-mallorca/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/hotel-corazon-mallorca/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7ed1fbc Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/hotel-corazon-mallorca/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/hotel-corazon-mallorca/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/hotel-corazon-mallorca/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5cef2d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/hotel-corazon-mallorca/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Hotel Corazón" +subtitle: "A restored 18th-century finca owned by a photographer and horticulturist" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/hotels/hotel-corazon-mallorca-review" +linkText: "wallpaper.com" +source: "Wallpaper* Travel" +topics: [travel] +tags: [balearic-islands, finca, bohemian, garden] +description: "A restored 18th-century finca between Sóller and Deià, owned by photographer Kate Bellm, with 17 personal rooms and a chapel repurposed as a spa." +--- + +A restored 18th-century finca between Sóller and Deià in the Serra de Tramuntana, owned by photographer Kate Bellm and horticulturist Edgar Lopez — its 17 rooms are personal rather than polished, with candy-pink linens, rough ceramics, and a chapel repurposed as a spa. The 'Holy Wood' suite has wobbly doors and rounded steps echoing Jacques Couëlle, and the kitchen garden feeds the table within minutes of harvest. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/how-solar-panels-work/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/how-solar-panels-work/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..308d376 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/how-solar-panels-work/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "How the Heck Do Solar Panels Work?" +subtitle: "Interactive explainer from photons through the full energy chain" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-do-solar-panels-work" +linkText: "perthirtysix.com" +source: "Kottke.org" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [interactive-explainer, science, education, visualization] +description: "An interactive scroll-driven visual explainer that walks from individual photons hitting silicon through the full energy-conversion chain, earning its complexity with animated diagrams." +--- + +An interactive visual explainer that walks from individual photons hitting silicon through the full energy-conversion chain, with animated diagrams that respond as you scroll. Its virtue is patience: it doesn't rush past the bandgap or the p-n junction, and it earns the complexity. One of the better science explainers of its kind. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/icare-dreamworld/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/06/icare-dreamworld/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d75e7b5 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/icare-dreamworld/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/icare-dreamworld/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/icare-dreamworld/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac88a1f --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/icare-dreamworld/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Icare" +subtitle: "Browser 3D adventure through artist-inspired dreamworlds" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.icare-game.world/" +linkText: "icare-game.world" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [browser-game, 3d, art-game, exploration] +description: "A browser-based 3D adventure set in artist-inspired dreamworlds where you talk to characters, collect artifacts, and restore surreal floating environments via SparkJS — no download needed." +--- + +A browser-based 3D adventure set in artist-inspired dreamworlds — you talk to characters, collect artifacts scattered through floating architecture and clouds, and restore each surreal environment. It runs in-browser via SparkJS with no download, closer to an interactive art installation than a conventional game. The kind of thing you stumble into and spend an hour inside. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/imdb-theatrical-stream-list/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/imdb-theatrical-stream-list/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fb41d86 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/imdb-theatrical-stream-list/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Theatrical Releases You Can Stream" +subtitle: "Updated IMDb list of current films available to watch at home" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.imdb.com/list/ls521170945/" +linkText: IMDb +source: "Recomendo" +topics: [tools] +tags: [movies, streaming, imdb, discovery] +description: "A continuously updated IMDb list of current theatrical releases that are also available to stream or rent at home, solving the 'is this still only in cinemas?' problem." +--- + +A curated, continuously updated IMDb list of current theatrical releases that are also available to stream or rent at home — solving the perpetual "is this still in cinemas or can I watch it now?" problem for people not near an arthouse theater. Bookmark it and check before buying a ticket. Exactly the kind of low-key useful resource that should just exist somewhere obvious. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/infinite-london/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/06/infinite-london/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c388a19 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/infinite-london/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/infinite-london/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/infinite-london/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1483e2b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/infinite-london/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Infinite London" +subtitle: "Procedurally generated 3D London that extends forever in-browser" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://huggingface.co/spaces/mishig/infinite-london" +linkText: "Hugging Face" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [3d, generative, city, exploration] +description: "A procedurally generated 3D London extending infinitely via tile-based algorithm, explorable with WASD controls entirely in the browser." +--- + +A procedurally generated 3D model of London that extends infinitely using a tile-based algorithm — you fly through streets, parks, landmarks, and past moving vehicles with WASD controls, and each session generates fresh terrain. Built by Mishig Davaadorj and runs entirely in the browser with no install required. The infinite extension is the trick: it never dead-ends. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/joe-colombo-kd28-stacking-table-lamp/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/joe-colombo-kd28-stacking-table-lamp/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0880e73 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/joe-colombo-kd28-stacking-table-lamp/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/joe-colombo-kd28-stacking-table-lamp/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/joe-colombo-kd28-stacking-table-lamp/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ed64261 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/joe-colombo-kd28-stacking-table-lamp/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Joe Colombo KD28 Stacking Table Lamp" +subtitle: "1967 space-age disc lamp revived with USB charging" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://store.moma.org/collections/new/products/joe-colombo-kd28-table-lamp-from-kartell-forest-green" +linkText: "store.moma.org" +source: "MoMA Design Store" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [space-age, design-history, lighting, modernist] +description: "Joe Colombo's 1967 disc-shaded lamp — equal parts Kubrick prop and functional light — is revived by Kartell in recycled polypropylene with a USB charging port built in." +--- + +Joe Colombo's 1967 KD28 looks like a prop from a Kubrick film but lights a room beautifully — the disc-shaped polypropylene shade repositions to direct light precisely, and units stack vertically into a sculptural column. Kartell revived it with recycled materials and USB charging, so the space-age shape now carries contemporary hardware. The stacking detail means one lamp becomes a floor-to-ceiling installation with just a few more units. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-de-brie-france/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-de-brie-france/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f21c23d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-de-brie-france/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "The Cheese Factory Joke" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/SSCQCdi39Ed" +linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com" +source: "icanhazdadjoke" +topics: [dad-jokes] +tags: [pun, food, france] +description: "A cheese pun about a French explosion." +--- + +> Did you hear about the cheese factory that exploded in France? +> +> There was nothing left but de Brie. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-dog-whistle-trick/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-dog-whistle-trick/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..83c6ec6 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-dog-whistle-trick/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "The Dog Whistle Joke" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/82wHlbaapzd" +linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com" +source: "icanhazdadjoke" +topics: [dad-jokes] +tags: [pun, logic, parenting] +description: "A trick-question pun about dog whistles." +--- + +> I asked the doctor if my newborn could hear a dog whistle. He said no human can hear a frequency that high, at any age. +> +> Trick question — dogs can't whistle. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-et-short-little-legs/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-et-short-little-legs/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..709fd64 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-et-short-little-legs/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "The E.T. Joke" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/diGeqOfiqc" +linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com" +source: "icanhazdadjoke" +topics: [dad-jokes] +tags: [pun, movies, classic] +description: "A pun about what E.T. is short for." +--- + +> What's E.T. short for? +> +> He's only got little legs. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-keyboard-shifts/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-keyboard-shifts/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b46e136 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-keyboard-shifts/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "The Keyboard Factory Joke" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/218xkq49prc" +linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com" +source: "icanhazdadjoke" +topics: [dad-jokes] +tags: [pun, workplace, wordplay] +description: "A workplace pun about keyboard shifts." +--- + +> I was fired from the keyboard factory yesterday. +> +> I wasn't putting in enough shifts. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-left-side-all-right/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-left-side-all-right/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4ddbcb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-left-side-all-right/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "The Left Side Joke" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/08EQZ8EQukb" +linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com" +source: "icanhazdadjoke" +topics: [dad-jokes] +tags: [pun, wordplay] +description: "A pun about being all right." +--- + +> Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? +> +> He's all right now. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-pumpkin-no-hands/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-pumpkin-no-hands/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..053883a --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-pumpkin-no-hands/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "The Pumpkin Joke" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/IRZDtWSnWDd" +linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com" +source: "icanhazdadjoke" +topics: [dad-jokes] +tags: [pun, seasonal, halloween] +description: "A pun about why pumpkins sit on porches." +--- + +> Why do pumpkins sit on people's porches? +> +> They have no hands to knock on the door. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-seagull-bagel/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-seagull-bagel/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cff0dcf --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-seagull-bagel/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "The Seagull Joke" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/0ga2wsPZgib" +linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com" +source: "icanhazdadjoke" +topics: [dad-jokes] +tags: [pun, birds, classic] +description: "A classic pun about seagulls and bays." +--- + +> Why do seagulls fly over the ocean? +> +> Because if they flew over the bay, we'd call them bagels. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-sentence-driving-test/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-sentence-driving-test/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3171f98 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-sentence-driving-test/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "The Driving Test Joke" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/4EBXnjiVKBd" +linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com" +source: "icanhazdadjoke" +topics: [dad-jokes] +tags: [pun, grammar, wordplay] +description: "A grammar pun about full stops." +--- + +> Why did the sentence fail its driving test? +> +> It never came to a full stop. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-soft-drink-coke/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-soft-drink-coke/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3093bae --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/joke-soft-drink-coke/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "The Soft Drink Joke" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/RSvzPuzAdpb" +linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com" +source: "icanhazdadjoke" +topics: [dad-jokes] +tags: [pun, drinks, wordplay] +description: "A pun about a soft drink to the head." +--- + +> A man got hit in the head with a can of Coke. +> +> He was alright, though — it was a soft drink. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/journiv/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/journiv/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..08fba87 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/journiv/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Journiv" +subtitle: "Self-hosted journaling with mood tracking and full data ownership" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.journiv.com/" +linkText: "journiv.com" +source: "Brett Terpstra" +topics: [tools] +tags: [journaling, self-hosted, privacy, analytics] +description: "A self-hosted journaling app with mood tracking, goal logging, analytics, and advanced search — Day One-style features with perpetual data ownership and no subscription." +--- + +A self-hosted journaling app with mood tracking, activity and goal logging, media uploads, analytics, and advanced search — all running on infrastructure you control. For anyone who wants Day One-style journaling without handing their diary to a cloud subscription, it's the obvious alternative, with perpetual data ownership and no subscription cliff. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/julius-sumner-miller-why-is-it-so/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/julius-sumner-miller-why-is-it-so/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf0f077 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/julius-sumner-miller-why-is-it-so/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Julius Sumner Miller: Why Is It So?" +subtitle: "Complete 1962–73 physics demo show archived by ABC Australia" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.youtube.com/show/VLPLJI8aSIWm2aCGQlEVsLoGujnEnX98boSm" +linkText: "YouTube" +source: "Open Culture" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [science, archive, television, education] +description: "Complete episodes of Julius Sumner Miller's 1962–73 Australian physics demonstration show, archived by ABC — theatrical science communication decades before Bill Nye." +--- + +Complete episodes of Julius Sumner Miller's 1962–73 Australian science show, archived by ABC — physics demonstrations performed with theatrical intensity decades before Bill Nye made the format famous. Miller treats every experiment as if the answer will change your life, which is an authentic relic of mid-century science communication rather than a performance. The physics is real and the showmanship is genuine. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/kartell-componibili-2-tier-storage/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/kartell-componibili-2-tier-storage/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a323dbd Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/kartell-componibili-2-tier-storage/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/kartell-componibili-2-tier-storage/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/kartell-componibili-2-tier-storage/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..43811af --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/kartell-componibili-2-tier-storage/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Kartell Componibili 2-Tier Storage" +subtitle: "55 years of unrevised cylindrical stacking storage" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://store.moma.org/collections/new/products/kartell-componibili-2-tier-storage-burgundy-1" +linkText: "store.moma.org" +source: "MoMA Design Store" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [italian-design, storage, modernist, mid-century] +description: "Anna Castelli Ferrieri's 1969 stacking cylinder, shown at MoMA in 1972, has stayed in uninterrupted production for 55+ years — proof that the design was correct the first time." +--- + +Designed by Anna Castelli Ferrieri in 1969 and featured in MoMA's 1972 exhibition *Italy: The New Domestic Landscape*, the cylindrical stacking units have stayed in production for over 55 years without a single revision — which is itself the argument for one. The modular system lets a single unit grow into a column of three, scaling storage without changing the visual language. New colorways like Burgundy plant it firmly in current home aesthetics without chasing trends. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/kent-wilderness-living-mirror/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/kent-wilderness-living-mirror/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2095865 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/kent-wilderness-living-mirror/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/kent-wilderness-living-mirror/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/kent-wilderness-living-mirror/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fd99e45 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/kent-wilderness-living-mirror/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Rockwell Kent on Wilderness as a Living Mirror" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/21/rockwell-kent-wilderness/" +linkText: "themarginalian.org" +source: "The Marginalian" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [wilderness, solitude, creativity, art] +description: "On wilderness as a mirror of the imagination." +--- + +> The wilderness is, to a man's imagination, a kind of living mirror that gives back as its own all and only all that the imagination of a man brings to it. + +— Rockwell Kent, from his Alaska journal, via Maria Popova. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-axolotl-punch-needle-kit/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-axolotl-punch-needle-kit/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c2ad5bc Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-axolotl-punch-needle-kit/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-axolotl-punch-needle-kit/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-axolotl-punch-needle-kit/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c3fb969 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-axolotl-punch-needle-kit/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Axolotl Punch Needle Kit" +subtitle: "Complete punch needle kit with axolotl motif, bamboo hoop included" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GR8N1C47" +linkText: "Amazon" +source: "Kikkerland" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [craft, textile, beginner, punch-needle] +description: "A complete beginner punch needle kit — bamboo hoop, hollow needle, pre-printed monk's cloth, yarn — pairing the tactile looping technique with an axolotl motif." +--- + +Punch needle is a tactile, rhythmic textile technique where a hollow needle punches loops of yarn through fabric to build a fuzzy pile image — fast to learn and genuinely different in feel from standard embroidery. This complete kit pairs it with an axolotl motif and includes bamboo hoop, punch needle, pre-printed monk's cloth, and yarn, so there's nothing left to source. The axolotl's frilled silhouette suits the medium particularly well: the loops give it texture the flat image lacks. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-bee-float-island/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-bee-float-island/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..88623ad Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-bee-float-island/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-bee-float-island/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-bee-float-island/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f1b5ca2 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-bee-float-island/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Bee Float Island" +subtitle: "Cork honeycomb floats give bees a safe place to drink" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GS67PGMJ" +linkText: "Amazon" +source: "Kikkerland" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [garden, pollinators, cork, wildlife] +description: "Two cork honeycomb floats give bees a stable landing platform in garden water sources, solving a common drowning problem with biodegradable material and a quietly clever shape." +--- + +Bees frequently drown in garden water sources because they have nowhere safe to land and drink — these two honeycomb-shaped cork floats give them a stable platform. The cork is naturally buoyant and biodegradable, and the hexagonal pattern is a small design pleasure rather than an afterthought. Genuine ecological work in the form of a clever object: it solves a specific, documented problem with an appropriate material and a fitting shape. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-cappy-capybara-planter/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-cappy-capybara-planter/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4984f97 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-cappy-capybara-planter/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-cappy-capybara-planter/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-cappy-capybara-planter/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..be6db95 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-cappy-capybara-planter/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Cappy the Capybara Planter" +subtitle: "Ceramic capybara carrying your succulent on its back" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GS67XJC6" +linkText: "Amazon" +source: "Kikkerland" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [plants, novelty, home, character-design] +description: "A ceramic capybara planter sized for a real succulent or small plant, making literal the internet's mascot for unflappable calm — your plant rides on its back like a hitchhiker." +--- + +The capybara has become the internet's mascot for unflappable calm, and this ceramic planter makes that literal — your succulent or small plant rides on the giant rodent's back like a hitchhiker. The pot accommodates real plants rather than just decorative moss, which keeps it from being pure novelty. It's an unusually specific cultural object for plant people who are also online, which turns out to be a large and underserved group. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-dachshund-trinket-tray/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-dachshund-trinket-tray/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3089a32 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-dachshund-trinket-tray/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-dachshund-trinket-tray/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-dachshund-trinket-tray/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..93704e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/kikkerland-dachshund-trinket-tray/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Dachshund Trinket Tray" +subtitle: "Terracotta catch-all tray elongated to match a dachshund's silhouette" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GR94FPFW" +linkText: "Amazon" +source: "Kikkerland" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [home, terracotta, novelty, catch-all] +description: "A terracotta tray elongated to the silhouette of a dachshund — functional catch-all for keys and rings, where the joke and the form are inseparable." +--- + +The terracotta tray is elongated to match a dachshund's silhouette and works as a genuine catch-all for keys, rings, or coins — the low rim and flat base make it practical, not just decorative. The joke and the function are inseparable: the tray is long because a dachshund is long, and both facts are funny. It's the kind of object that earns a permanent spot on an entryway table through usefulness, not just charm. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/learn-ai-layer-by-layer/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/learn-ai-layer-by-layer/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1efbac9 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/learn-ai-layer-by-layer/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Learn AI Layer by Layer" +subtitle: "Free interactive book building LLM understanding from scratch" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://learnai.robennals.org/" +linkText: learnai.robennals.org +source: "Recomendo" +topics: [tools] +tags: [ai, education, interactive, free] +description: "A free 27-chapter interactive online book that builds LLM understanding from first principles, with hands-on playgrounds and PyTorch examples requiring only middle-school math." +--- + +A free, interactive online book that builds understanding of how LLMs work from the ground up — from "everything is numbers" through transformers, reinforcement learning, and interpretability — with hands-on playgrounds and PyTorch examples throughout. It assumes only middle-school math across its 27 chapters. One of the clearest bottom-up explanations of the full stack that's publicly available. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/leonardotheka/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/leonardotheka/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84656a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/leonardotheka/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Leonardotheka" +subtitle: "3,500 pages of Leonardo's manuscripts reunited digitally" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://teche.museogalileo.it/leonardo/home/index_en.html" +linkText: "museogalileo.it" +source: "Kottke.org" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [archive, manuscripts, history-of-science, leonardo] +description: "Museo Galileo's platform reunites roughly 3,500 pages of Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts scattered across Europe for 400 years, with reconstructed pages and browsing by foliation, subject, or watermark." +--- + +Museo Galileo's platform reunites roughly 3,500 pages of Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts that were physically scattered across Europe for 400 years, with reconstructed full pages showing the original connections between his drawings and notes. You can browse by foliation, subject, or watermark, and compare pages that haven't been side by side since the 16th century. Digitization doing something physically impossible. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/leros-greece/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/leros-greece/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..95fc8eb Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/leros-greece/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/leros-greece/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/leros-greece/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..34304a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/leros-greece/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Leros, Greece" +subtitle: "Italy's most intact rationalist urbanism outside Italy, on a Greek island" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/leros-island-greece-guide" +linkText: "wallpaper.com" +source: "Wallpaper* Travel" +topics: [travel] +tags: [greek-islands, rationalist-architecture, dodecanese, under-the-radar] +description: "Leros's port town Lakki holds one of the world's most intact Italian rationalist urban ensembles — a Mussolini-era naval base with de Chirico surrealist overtones." +--- + +The port town of Lakki on Leros is one of the most intact examples of Italian rationalist urbanism outside Italy — boxy dwellings and art-deco municipal buildings built as a Mussolini-era naval base, with de Chirico surrealist overtones, set among 18th-century windmills and a medieval castle. Still largely off the package-holiday circuit, it layers in the weight of a notorious 1958 psychiatric hospital alongside extraordinary architectural coherence. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/lettera/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/lettera/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc7d3ab Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/lettera/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/lettera/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/lettera/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..817dd44 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/lettera/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Lettera" +subtitle: "File-system Markdown editor built on the Bear 2 engine" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://lettera.md" +linkText: "lettera.md" +source: "MacStories" +topics: [macos-apps] +tags: [markdown, writing, native-mac, beta] +description: "A native Mac Markdown editor from the Bear team that works directly against the file system with no proprietary database." +--- + +From the Bear team and built on the Bear 2 editing engine, Lettera works directly against the Mac file system — open a single file or a whole folder as a workspace, with no proprietary database. Markdown syntax hides when you're not editing so the document reads like a preview while you stay in the source, and it supports MathJax, inline images, tables, ePub export, and version history. Currently a free public beta via TestFlight. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/make-look-scanned/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/make-look-scanned/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..55c367e --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/make-look-scanned/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "make-look-scanned" +subtitle: "Make any PDF look like it was printed and scanned" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://overflowy.github.io/make-look-scanned/" +linkText: "Demo" +source: "Hacker News — Show HN" +topics: [tools] +tags: [pdf, wasm, cli, utility] +description: "A client-side WebAssembly tool and CLI that applies seven configurable degradation passes to make a clean PDF look convincingly scanned." +--- + +Takes a clean PDF and runs it through seven configurable degradation passes — skew, paper tone, scanner grain, defocus, edge vignette, JPEG compression, optional grayscale — entirely client-side via WebAssembly, so nothing is uploaded. It also ships as a CLI. The result looks convincingly like a document that's been printed and scanned, for the times a form insists on exactly that. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/mandai-rainforest-resort-singapore/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/mandai-rainforest-resort-singapore/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..716a75e --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/mandai-rainforest-resort-singapore/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Mandai Rainforest Resort by Banyan Tree" +subtitle: "Seed-pod treehouse suites inside Singapore's working wildlife sanctuary" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.afar.com/hotels/the-best-new-hotels-of-2026" +linkText: "afar.com" +source: "AFAR" +topics: [travel] +tags: [singapore, wildlife-reserve, treehouse, eco-hotel] +description: "Twenty-four seed-pod-shaped treehouse suites elevated above the Upper Seletar Reservoir inside Singapore's Mandai Wildlife Reserve, where macaques walk the railings." +--- + +Twenty-four seed-pod-shaped treehouse suites elevated above the Upper Seletar Reservoir, inside Singapore's Mandai Wildlife Reserve, where macaques walk the railings and the city skyline is invisible. The 'City in Nature' concept means you wake inside a working wildlife sanctuary without leaving Singapore's urban footprint. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/map-of-metal/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/map-of-metal/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8bb2181 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/map-of-metal/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "The Map of Metal" +subtitle: "Interactive genealogy of metal subgenres with curated playlists" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://mapofmetal.com/" +linkText: "mapofmetal.com" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [interactive-map, music, history, metal] +description: "An interactive genealogy of metal subgenres from the 1960s to today, with influence connections and curated YouTube playlists for each genre." +--- + +An interactive genealogy of metal subgenres from the 1960s to today — nodes connected by influence, each genre linking to curated YouTube playlists so you can hear the evolution rather than just read about it. You can trace exactly how death metal and doom metal share a Black Sabbath ancestor. The playable playlists are what make it useful rather than decorative. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/map-of-physics/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/map-of-physics/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dd97a4b Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/map-of-physics/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/map-of-physics/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/map-of-physics/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a318f09 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/map-of-physics/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "The Map of Physics" +subtitle: "Animated overview of every physics field and the gaps between them" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FfKaIgArJ8" +linkText: "YouTube" +source: "Open Culture" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [science, visualization, education, animation] +description: "Dominic Walliman's animated visualization connecting all physics fields — classical mechanics, quantum, relativity, thermodynamics — including where they don't yet meet." +--- + +Dominic Walliman's animated visualization of how all physics fields connect — classical mechanics, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, relativity, and the gaps between them — also downloadable as a poster. Its virtue is honesty: it shows the edges where fields don't yet meet, which most overviews skip. You walk away with a clearer picture of what's actually unresolved in physics, not just what's been solved. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/mechanical-pencil-teardowns/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/06/mechanical-pencil-teardowns/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8afc922 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/mechanical-pencil-teardowns/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/mechanical-pencil-teardowns/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/mechanical-pencil-teardowns/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..13b7a06 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/mechanical-pencil-teardowns/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Mechanical Pencil" +subtitle: "Meticulous 3D animations of everyday object internals" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://mechanical-pencil.com/" +linkText: mechanical-pencil.com +source: "Recomendo" +topics: [general-delight, tools] +tags: [engineering, animation, design, 3d] +description: "An artist-engineer's project that CADs and animates the internal mechanisms of everyday objects — PILOT G2, Zippo, BIC pencil, PEZ dispenser — in meticulous hand-crafted 3D." +--- + +An artist-engineer's project that CADs, illustrates, and animates the internal mechanisms of everyday objects — currently the PILOT G2 pen, Zippo lighter, BIC pencil, and PEZ dispenser. Each teardown is a meticulous hand-crafted 3D animation that reveals how the thing actually works. The level of care put into animating a $2 pen is the whole point. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/meditype/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/meditype/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fcdc781 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/meditype/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Meditype" +subtitle: "Type Aurelius and Thoreau over ambient soundscapes, no clock" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://meditype-omega.vercel.app/" +linkText: "meditype-omega.vercel.app" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [typing, literature, mindfulness, tool] +description: "A meditative typing-practice app using public-domain philosophical texts over ambient soundscapes, replacing drills against a clock with intentional slow reading." +--- + +A meditative typing-practice app that uses public-domain texts — Meditations, Walden, Tao Te Ching — over ambient soundscapes. Instead of drilling nonsense words against a clock, you type Aurelius slowly, and the audio turns it into an intentional activity rather than a speed exercise. The combination of meaningful text and sound makes it feel closer to reading than to practice. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/metro-music-la/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/metro-music-la/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dda12ec --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/metro-music-la/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Metro Music LA" +subtitle: "Real LA train arrivals translated into live generative ambient music" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://metromusic.weisswideweb.com/" +linkText: "weisswideweb.com" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [generative-music, data-sonification, transit, ambient] +description: "Real LA Metro train arrivals are translated into a live generative ambient score — each rail line has its own synthesizer voice, shifting through seven musical modes across the day." +--- + +Real LA Metro train arrivals are translated into a live generative ambient score — each rail line has its own synthesizer voice, and the harmony shifts through seven musical modes across the day. The longer you listen, the more you hear the city's transit rhythm in the music. Data sonification that actually sounds good. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/mints-macos-utility/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/mints-macos-utility/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b49942c --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/mints-macos-utility/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Mints" +subtitle: "Free Mac utility that surfaces QuickLook generators and diagnostics" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://eclecticlight.co/downloads/" +linkText: "eclecticlight.co" +source: "The Eclectic Light Company" +topics: [apple-tips, macos-apps] +tags: [macos, quicklook, diagnostics, utility] +description: "A free multifunction Mac utility that lists QuickLook generators alongside system diagnostics — the fastest way to diagnose blank icons after a macOS upgrade." +--- + +A free multifunction Mac utility that surfaces QuickLook generators — both built-in qlgenerators and third-party app extensions — alongside logs and other system diagnostics in one place. The QuickLook panel is the fastest way to diagnose why a file suddenly shows a generic icon after a macOS upgrade, a problem that became widespread when Sequoia removed legacy generators. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/munenori-swordlessness/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/munenori-swordlessness/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cef6d9d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/munenori-swordlessness/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Yagyū Munenori on Swordlessness" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yagy%C5%AB_Munenori" +linkText: "en.wikiquote.org" +source: "Wikiquote" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [martial-arts, strategy, zen, paradox] +description: "On mastering the art of having no sword." +--- + +> If you have attained mastery of swordlessness, you will never lack for a sword. The opponent's sword is your sword. + +— Yagyū Munenori. Wikiquote Quote of the Day. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/museum-of-the-human-web/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/museum-of-the-human-web/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2306d5c --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/museum-of-the-human-web/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Museum of the Human Web" +subtitle: "90 artifacts memorializing the era humans built the web alone" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://museum.parallel.ai/" +linkText: "museum.parallel.ai" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [archive, internet-history, interactive, nostalgia] +description: "A digital museum with 90 artifacts spanning ARPANET to pre-ChatGPT, framed as a memorial to the era humans built the web without AI assistance." +--- + +A digital museum commemorating the era when the web was built entirely by humans — from ARPANET to the eve of ChatGPT — with 90 artifacts spanning devices, file formats, platforms, failures, and breakthroughs, framed as a memorial to "the last time we did this alone." The framing is pointed and the artifact selection is good. It benefits the Internet Archive and the Computer History Museum. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/niebuhr-complexity-rational-analysis/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/niebuhr-complexity-rational-analysis/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a16bee --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/niebuhr-complexity-rational-analysis/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Reinhold Niebuhr on Complexity and Reason" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Reinhold_Niebuhr" +linkText: "en.wikiquote.org" +source: "Wikiquote" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [reason, politics, ethics, modernity] +description: "On why complexity demands reason over sentiment." +--- + +> The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment. + +— Reinhold Niebuhr. Wikiquote Quote of the Day. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/nightstick-rechargeable-floodlight/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/nightstick-rechargeable-floodlight/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d76e4e --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/nightstick-rechargeable-floodlight/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Nightstick Rechargeable Floodlight" +subtitle: "600-lumen magnetic work light that charges via AC or DC" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016PZTWCU" +linkText: Amazon +source: "Cool Tools" +topics: [tools, gifts] +tags: [hardware, workshop, lighting, hands-free] +description: "A 600-lumen rechargeable work light with three built-in magnets and a 360-degree rotating hook for hands-free illumination, charging via both AC and DC." +--- + +A 600-lumen rechargeable work light with three built-in magnets and a 360-degree rotating hook, so you can clamp it to pipes or surfaces for genuine hands-free illumination. It charges via both AC and DC, making it useful at the workbench and in the car. A simple, well-executed tool that solves the "I need light exactly here" problem without fuss. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/notchkin/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/notchkin/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8ff843a --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/notchkin/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Notchkin" +subtitle: "Keyboard-driven notes app that lives in the MacBook notch" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://notchkin.app/" +linkText: "notchkin.app" +source: "Product Hunt" +topics: [macos-apps] +tags: [notes, menu-bar, macbook-notch, minimal] +description: "A one-time-purchase notes app that colonises the MacBook notch, entirely keyboard-driven and stored only on-device." +--- + +A $4.99 one-time-purchase notes app that colonises the MacBook notch — on notchless Macs a notch-shaped panel drops from the top of the screen instead. It's entirely keyboard-driven (⌘⇧N for a new note, ⌥⇧V to capture the clipboard), hashtag-organised, and stored only on-device. No subscription, no window to manage. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/oioi/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/oioi/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d6f6cb2 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/oioi/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "oioi" +subtitle: "Free open-source clipboard manager with Liquid Glass aesthetic" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://oioi.top/" +linkText: "oioi.top" +source: "Product Hunt" +topics: [macos-apps, tools] +tags: [clipboard, open-source, cross-platform, menu-bar] +description: "A free, open-source cross-platform clipboard manager styled in the macOS 26 Liquid Glass aesthetic, with a terse two-keystroke interaction model." +--- + +A free, open-source clipboard manager styled in the macOS 26 Liquid Glass aesthetic, on macOS, Windows, and Linux. The interaction model is terse — ⌘V for instinct, ⌥V for memory — so the history overlay only appears on the second keystroke and never displaces the native paste shortcut. It keeps text, images, and files in one searchable panel. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-air-jex-openseas/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-air-jex-openseas/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..31ccf16 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-air-jex-openseas/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-air-jex-openseas/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-air-jex-openseas/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f675a3b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-air-jex-openseas/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Outlier Air/jex Openseas" +subtitle: "110gsm warp-knit polyester shirt that opens at the armpit" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://outlier.nyc/products/air-jex-openseas" +linkText: "outlier.nyc" +source: "Outlier" +topics: [clothing] +tags: [technical-fabric, shirt, hot-weather, made-in-nyc] +description: "A 110gsm open-construction polyester shirt with a single armpit button that converts it from tent silhouette to fully open, built for extreme heat." +--- + +A 100% polyester warp-knit shirt at 110gsm — light and open-construction enough that air flows through nearly unimpeded. The defining move is the elimination of conventional side seams: a single button at the armpit lets it open from tent-like to absurdly open, and the whole thing packs down to almost nothing. Built for the days when any normal shirt fabric feels like a mistake. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-cannabiscotton-littlebigs/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-cannabiscotton-littlebigs/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bcac68f Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-cannabiscotton-littlebigs/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-cannabiscotton-littlebigs/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-cannabiscotton-littlebigs/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6786641 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-cannabiscotton-littlebigs/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Outlier Cannabiscotton Littlebigs" +subtitle: "55% hemp Italian-woven pocket short with adjustable waist" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://outlier.nyc/products/cannabiscotton-littlebigs" +linkText: "outlier.nyc" +source: "Outlier" +topics: [clothing] +tags: [hemp-cotton, shorts, natural-fiber, made-in-nyc] +description: "A 280gsm hemp-cotton-elastane short woven in Italy with four powermesh pockets and an inside/outside adjustable waist, made in Manhattan." +--- + +55% hemp, 44% cotton, 1% elastane, woven in Italy at 280gsm — hemp gives a noticeably cool hand, cotton gives pliability, and the trace elastane prevents restriction without visible stretch behavior. Six-inch inseam, four powermesh pockets, and an inside/outside adjustable waist with a paracord drawstring make the case for a non-synthetic pocket short in real weight. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-injex-highdarts/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-injex-highdarts/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6f057f5 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-injex-highdarts/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-injex-highdarts/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-injex-highdarts/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..34985bd --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-injex-highdarts/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Outlier Injex Highdarts" +subtitle: "Linen-poly warp-knit trouser with clean dart construction" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://outlier.nyc/products/injex-highdarts" +linkText: "outlier.nyc" +source: "Outlier" +topics: [clothing] +tags: [technical-fabric, trousers, linen-blend, made-in-nyc] +description: "A 59/41 linen-polyester warp-knit trouser that solves linen's wrinkling problem with a clean dart-seamed silhouette, made in Manhattan." +--- + +A 59/41 linen-polyester warp-knit trouser where the polyester warp gives the linen enough structure to hold its shape and resist wrinkling — solving the main daily-wear failure mode of pure linen. The signature cut uses long darts instead of side seams for a cleaner silhouette, and the rear pockets are Japanese powermesh to cut bulk at the seat. Made in Manhattan. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-light-dungarees/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-light-dungarees/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..532506d Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-light-dungarees/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-light-dungarees/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-light-dungarees/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7861f38 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-light-dungarees/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Outlier Light Dungarees" +subtitle: "Full technical spec in a vintage workwear dungaree silhouette" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://outlier.nyc/products/light-dungarees" +linkText: "outlier.nyc" +source: "Outlier" +topics: [clothing] +tags: [technical-fabric, dungarees, nylon, made-in-nyc] +description: "A 97/3 nylon-elastane dungaree at 200gsm with DWR, UPF 50+, and 35% stretch, made in Manhattan with Italian matte-black stainless hardware." +--- + +A 97/3 nylon-elastane dungaree at 200gsm with fluorocarbon-free DWR, 35% two-way stretch, UPF 50+, and quick-dry — a full technical spec sheet in a silhouette that looks like vintage workwear, down to a reversed yoke that nods to heritage construction. Two front jeans pockets, two rear patch pockets, and a fifth pocket, made in Manhattan with Italian matte-black stainless hardware. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-ultrafine-merino-cut-one/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-ultrafine-merino-cut-one/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4b758f8 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-ultrafine-merino-cut-one/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-ultrafine-merino-cut-one/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-ultrafine-merino-cut-one/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b6b8e98 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/outlier-ultrafine-merino-cut-one/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Outlier Ultrafine Merino Cut One T-Shirt" +subtitle: "16.5-micron merino tee at the softer end of practical weight" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://outlier.nyc/products/ultrafine-merino-cut-one-t-shirt" +linkText: "outlier.nyc" +source: "Outlier" +topics: [clothing] +tags: [merino, t-shirt, technical-fabric, made-in-nyc] +description: "A 190gsm, 16.5-micron merino T-shirt made in Portugal in a straight long cut, sitting at the soft end of daily-wear weights." +--- + +16.5-micron merino at 190gsm — the micron count sits at the softer end of what's practical in a daily-wear weight, so it regulates temperature across a wide range while staying genuinely soft against skin rather than scratchy. Made in Portugal in a straight long cut, priced as a serious piece rather than a fast-fashion upgrade. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/pilgrim-mindful-walking/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/pilgrim-mindful-walking/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9868d4e Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/pilgrim-mindful-walking/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/pilgrim-mindful-walking/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/pilgrim-mindful-walking/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..573a4ee --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/pilgrim-mindful-walking/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Pilgrim — Mindful Walking" +subtitle: "iOS walking companion with location-stamped voice notes and cairns" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pilgrim-mindful-walking/id6760921056" +linkText: App Store +source: "Cool Tools" +topics: [tools] +tags: [ios, walking, journaling, mindfulness] +description: "An iOS walking companion that records GPS routes, captures on-device-transcribed voice notes by location and weather, and lets you leave ephemeral audio messages for other walkers." +--- + +An iOS walking companion that records GPS-mapped routes, captures on-device-transcribed voice notes stamped by location and weather, and generates shareable postcard-style walk summaries. It also lets you leave ephemeral audio messages for other walkers at specific locations, and drop permanent cairns. A thoughtful intersection of journaling, wayfinding, and quiet community. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/pinebury-merino-wool-joggers/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/pinebury-merino-wool-joggers/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e1279d Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/pinebury-merino-wool-joggers/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/pinebury-merino-wool-joggers/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/pinebury-merino-wool-joggers/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e10aa8 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/pinebury-merino-wool-joggers/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Pinebury Merino Wool Joggers" +subtitle: "220gsm merino-nylon fleece jogger that travels without washing" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://pinebury.us/collections/merino-wool-bottoms/products/winter-wool-merino-wool-jogger-sweatpants-black" +linkText: "pinebury.us" +source: "A Continuous Lean" +topics: [clothing] +tags: [merino, trousers, made-in-usa, daily-wear] +description: "A 78/22 merino-nylon fleece jogger at 220gsm made in the USA, with a natural twill drawstring, deep hand pockets, and a zippered rear pocket." +--- + +78/22 merino-nylon fleece at 220gsm with a brushed interior — the nylon adds the durability pure merino usually lacks while keeping merino's temperature regulation and odor resistance. Natural twill drawstring, deep side hand pockets, a zippered rear pocket, and a tapered fit; made in the USA. The pitch is simple: a jogger that travels well and doesn't need washing after every wear. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/play-it-by-trust/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/play-it-by-trust/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c44f49 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/play-it-by-trust/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Play It By Trust" +subtitle: "Super Mario World 1-1 rendered invisible — play from memory" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://pippinbarr.com/play-it-by-trust/index.html" +linkText: "pippinbarr.com" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [art-game, browser-game, conceptual, mario] +description: "Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 rendered entirely in matching sky blue, playable only by memory and sound — a Pippin Barr conceptual browser game." +--- + +Super Mario Bros.' World 1-1 rendered entirely in sky blue — the same blue as the background — so you can't see Mario, the platforms, or the enemies. You play purely by memory and touch, listening for sounds. Pippin Barr's game is about what it means to know a space so well you don't need to see it, which turns out to be a genuinely interesting question to sit with. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/pocketbook-hudson/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/pocketbook-hudson/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd4bf50 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/pocketbook-hudson/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/pocketbook-hudson/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/pocketbook-hudson/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6abde14 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/pocketbook-hudson/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Pocketbook Hudson" +subtitle: "An 1883 factory block converted into 46 rooms" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/hotels/pocketbook-hudson-review" +linkText: "wallpaper.com" +source: "Wallpaper* Travel" +topics: [travel] +tags: [adaptive-reuse, industrial, new-york, design-hotel] +description: "A 70,000-square-foot 1883 pocketbook factory in Hudson, NY converted into a design hotel with a subterranean nightclub and communal bathhouse." +--- + +A 70,000-square-foot former pocketbook factory occupying an entire city block in Hudson, NY — built in 1883 — has been converted into 46 rooms with stainless-steel elevated bathtubs and burgundy window frames that make the industrial bones the architecture itself. Beneath it, a subterranean nightclub called Ether and a communal bathhouse with cold and warm plunge pools and sauna. Designed by Charlap Hyman & Herrero, with half-price bathhouse access reserved for locals. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/porter-sin-against-life-beauty/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/porter-sin-against-life-beauty/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..19e69e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/porter-sin-against-life-beauty/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Katherine Anne Porter on Beauty as Moral Duty" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Katherine_Anne_Porter" +linkText: "en.wikiquote.org" +source: "Wikiquote" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [beauty, ethics, life, literature] +description: "On the moral duty to protect beauty, even one's own." +--- + +> The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own — even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. + +— Katherine Anne Porter. Wikiquote Quote of the Day. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/quake-1-in-browser/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/quake-1-in-browser/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ca2e3ff Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/quake-1-in-browser/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/quake-1-in-browser/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/quake-1-in-browser/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..036b510 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/quake-1-in-browser/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Quake 1 in the Browser" +subtitle: "The full 1996 Quake, running in any modern browser" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://q1.pieter.com/" +linkText: "q1.pieter.com" +source: "OSXDaily" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [games, browser, retro, quake] +description: "The complete 1996 Quake — single-player campaign and QuakeWorld multiplayer — runs natively in any modern browser with original controls and no install." +--- + +The full 1996 Quake — single-player campaign and QuakeWorld multiplayer both — runs natively in any modern browser with the original keyboard/mouse controls and no install required, working on any OS including iOS. It's a faithful port with the complete episode structure and online multiplayer lobbies, not a tech demo. The kind of thing that makes you realize how much we used to take for granted just to play a game. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/quercus-gay-georgia/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/quercus-gay-georgia/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c93eacc Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/quercus-gay-georgia/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/quercus-gay-georgia/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/quercus-gay-georgia/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ab5d296 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/quercus-gay-georgia/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Quercus" +subtitle: "A Relais & Châteaux biodynamic cattle ranch stay in Gay, Georgia" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.afar.com/hotels/the-best-new-hotels-of-2026" +linkText: "afar.com" +source: "AFAR" +topics: [travel] +tags: [agritourism, biodynamic, georgia, relais-chateaux] +description: "An adults-only Relais & Châteaux property on a working biodynamic cattle ranch in Gay, Georgia, where Michelin-starred chef Ryan Smith cooks from on-property gardens and livestock." +--- + +An adults-only Relais & Châteaux property on a working biodynamic cattle ranch in Gay, Georgia — an Italian family's estate filled with Visconti heirlooms — where Michelin-starred chef Ryan Smith cooks from hand-tended gardens and on-property livestock. Guests paddle the Flint River, hike pecan groves, and cold-plunge; the philosophy treats land, body, and spirit restoration as inseparable. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/rarefilmm/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/rarefilmm/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3407d6a --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/rarefilmm/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Rarefilmm" +subtitle: "Free streaming archive of obscure and forgotten cinema" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://rarefilmm.com/" +linkText: "rarefilmm.com" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [film-archive, free, arthouse, streaming] +description: "A donation-supported free streaming archive of rare silent-era, experimental, arthouse, and documentary films spanning the 1920s through the 2010s." +--- + +A free streaming archive of rare, obscure, and forgotten cinema — silent-era works, experimental shorts, arthouse features, and documentaries spanning the 1920s through the 2010s, with a live chat. Donation-supported, it's a cave of films that genuinely wouldn't be accessible otherwise. Not a dump of public-domain scraps but a curated collection of things worth seeking out. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/remarkable-paper-pure/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/remarkable-paper-pure/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dee40a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/remarkable-paper-pure/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "reMarkable Paper Pure" +subtitle: "Entry-level e-ink writing tablet with no distractions" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-paper-pure" +linkText: "remarkable.com" +source: "MacStories" +topics: [tools, general-delight] +tags: [e-ink, hardware, note-taking, reading] +description: "The entry-level reMarkable e-ink tablet — no colour, no backlight — offering a distraction-free surface for reading PDFs and taking handwritten notes." +--- + +The entry-level e-ink writing tablet from reMarkable — no colour, no backlight, just a paper-like surface at a lower price than the Paper Pro. The appeal is the subtraction: a distraction-free layer for reading PDFs and articles and taking handwritten notes, and it pairs cleanly with Mac automation to push documents to it and pull notes back. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/renyi-mathematician-coffee/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/renyi-mathematician-coffee/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d00368 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/renyi-mathematician-coffee/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Alfréd Rényi on Mathematics" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://quoteinvestigator.com/2026/06/13/mathematician-coffee/" +linkText: "quoteinvestigator.com" +source: "Quote Investigator" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [mathematics, science, wit, coffee] +description: "The famous coffee-into-theorems line, finally attributed correctly." +--- + +> A mathematician is a machine which turns coffee into theorems. + +— Alfréd Rényi, mathematician. Quote Investigator traced the line to Rényi, credited by Paul Erdős in 1971 — resolving the common misattribution to Erdős himself. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/ribbie/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/ribbie/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1b1b797 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/ribbie/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Ribbie" +subtitle: "Live MLB games rendered in real-time 8-bit pixel art" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://ribbie.tv" +linkText: "ribbie.tv" +source: "Kottke.org" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [sports, pixel-art, live, baseball] +description: "Watch live MLB games rendered in real-time 8-bit pixel art, with score, bases, and count — the most relaxing way to follow baseball that exists." +--- + +Watch live MLB games rendered in real-time 8-bit pixel art — score, bases, count and all. The cozy lo-fi aesthetic strips baseball down to its essential geometry: a diamond of moving dots and a number flipping. The most relaxing way to follow a game that exists. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/ringconn-gen-3/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/ringconn-gen-3/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f22357d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/ringconn-gen-3/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "RingConn Gen 3" +subtitle: "Oura-level health tracking smart ring with no subscription" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.ringconn.com/" +linkText: ringconn.com +source: "Recomendo" +topics: [tools, gifts] +tags: [health, wearable, hardware, no-subscription] +description: "A smart ring matching the Oura Ring 4's health-tracking depth — sleep, stress, recovery, sleep-apnea risk — with no monthly subscription and full data export." +--- + +A smart ring that matches the Oura Ring 4's health tracking — sleep, activity, stress, recovery, sleep-apnea risk, fertility awareness — with no monthly subscription and full data export. It adds vibration alerts for health nudges at a price that undercuts the subscription-locked alternatives. One purchase, all the data, owned by you. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/rivay-linen-correspondent-jacket/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/rivay-linen-correspondent-jacket/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d370177 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/rivay-linen-correspondent-jacket/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/rivay-linen-correspondent-jacket/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/rivay-linen-correspondent-jacket/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b99b81 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/rivay-linen-correspondent-jacket/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Rivay Linen Correspondent Jacket" +subtitle: "Garment-dyed Italian herringbone linen jacket, broken-in at birth" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://rivaynyc.com/products/linen-correspondent-jacket-in-military-olive" +linkText: "rivaynyc.com" +source: "A Continuous Lean" +topics: [clothing] +tags: [linen, jacket, heritage, summer-weight] +description: "Italian herringbone linen jacket garment-dyed and washed to arrive broken-in, made in Portugal with military-spec urea buttons and a phone-sized interior pocket." +--- + +Italian herringbone linen, garment-dyed and washed so it arrives broken-in rather than stiff — the key move for a linen piece meant for daily use from day one. Military-spec urea buttons, adjustable cuffs, an interior patch pocket sized for a phone or wallet, and a locker loop make it a warm-weather layer that goes from a flight to a dinner without looking like it tried. Made in Portugal. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/river-snorkeling-blue-ridge-mountains/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/river-snorkeling-blue-ridge-mountains/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e0c9808 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/river-snorkeling-blue-ridge-mountains/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/river-snorkeling-blue-ridge-mountains/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/river-snorkeling-blue-ridge-mountains/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0cb590a --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/river-snorkeling-blue-ridge-mountains/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "River Snorkeling in the Blue Ridge Mountains" +subtitle: "Swimming upstream through Appalachian rivers to find iridescent native fish" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.afar.com/magazine/what-to-know-about-river-snorkeling-in-north-carolina" +linkText: "afar.com" +source: "AFAR" +topics: [travel] +tags: [north-carolina, freshwater, unusual-activity, appalachian] +description: "Oxbow River Snorkeling leads visitors horizontal near the riverbed through the Blue Ridge Mountains, past iridescent gilt darters and giant ancient eastern hellbenders." +--- + +Oxbow River Snorkeling leads visitors upstream — horizontal near the riverbed, against the current — through the Blue Ridge Mountains, where iridescent gilt darters, saffron shiners, and pink-bellied river chub build pebble spawning nests below the surface. Ancient eastern hellbenders, giant salamanders, appear only in the healthiest water. Guides say you never cross a bridge again without wondering what's underneath. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/rsshub/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/rsshub/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..33d0b71 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/rsshub/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "RSSHub" +subtitle: "Open-source tool that manufactures feeds for sites that don't publish them" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://docs.rsshub.app/" +linkText: "docs.rsshub.app" +source: "Brett Terpstra" +topics: [tools] +tags: [rss, scraping, feeds, automation] +description: "An open-source aggregator that manufactures RSS feeds for sites that don't publish them, bridging social platforms, GitHub, and walled gardens for any RSS workflow." +--- + +An open-source aggregator with the motto 'Everything is RSSible' — it manufactures feeds for sites that don't publish them, from social platforms to GitHub to individual product pages. Self-host it or use the public instance; either way it's the bridge for any RSS workflow that keeps hitting walled gardens. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/rushdie-religion-fearless-disrespect/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/rushdie-religion-fearless-disrespect/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b0b444 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/rushdie-religion-fearless-disrespect/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Salman Rushdie on Religion and Criticism" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://wordsmith.org/words/pulchritudinous.html" +linkText: "wordsmith.org" +source: "A.Word.A.Day" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [free-speech, religion, courage, awad] +description: "On why ideas, including religions, deserve criticism." +--- + +> "Respect for religion" has become a code phrase meaning "fear of religion." Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect. + +— Salman Rushdie, writer (b. 19 June 1947). A.Word.A.Day Thought for Today, on Rushdie's birthday. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/saba-caribbean/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/saba-caribbean/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..415c4fd Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/saba-caribbean/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/saba-caribbean/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/saba-caribbean/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..96d84e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/saba-caribbean/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Saba" +subtitle: "A five-square-mile Dutch island with no beaches and world-class diving" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.afar.com/magazine/how-to-escape-the-crowds-in-the-caribbean" +linkText: "afar.com" +source: "AFAR" +topics: [travel] +tags: [caribbean, diving, no-beach, dutch-island] +description: "A five-square-mile Dutch island with no cruise ships, no beaches, and some of the Caribbean's best-preserved diving, including the coral-encrusted Eye of the Needle pinnacle." +--- + +A five-square-mile Dutch island with fewer than 2,000 residents, no cruise ships, no beaches, and no resort strip — but some of the Caribbean's best-preserved diving, including the coral-encrusted Eye of the Needle pinnacle. Its appeal is precisely its resistance to mass tourism: boutique hotels, volcanic terrain, and a pace that asks you to slow down. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/saddleback-leather-double-handle-purse/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/saddleback-leather-double-handle-purse/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6cdf19d Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/saddleback-leather-double-handle-purse/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/saddleback-leather-double-handle-purse/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/saddleback-leather-double-handle-purse/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5a74e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/saddleback-leather-double-handle-purse/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Saddleback Leather Double Handle Purse" +subtitle: "Full-grain pigskin purse with marine-grade steel, 100-year guarantee" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://saddlebackleather.com/double-handle-purse/" +linkText: "saddlebackleather.com" +source: "Carryology" +topics: [tools, gifts] +tags: [leather, bag, full-grain, daily-carry] +description: "A full-grain pigskin leather purse with 316 stainless steel hardware, German polyester thread at the stress points, and a 100-year guarantee from Saddleback." +--- + +Full-grain pigskin leather with 316 stainless steel hardware — the alloy used in marine environments — and stress points sewn with German polyester thread, so the construction confidence sits at the joints, not just the material. At roughly 10×7×4.5 inches in two colorways, it's backed by Saddleback's 100-year guarantee. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/safecam-pro/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/safecam-pro/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a79206 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/safecam-pro/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "SafeCam Pro" +subtitle: "Blurs your video feed when an unexpected face appears" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/safecam-pro/id6762551827?mt=12" +linkText: "App Store" +source: "Brett Terpstra" +topics: [macos-apps] +tags: [privacy, video-calls, webcam, security] +description: "A virtual-camera layer that blurs or blacks out your video feed the moment you leave frame or an unrecognised face appears, with all processing local." +--- + +Adds a virtual-camera layer to video calls that watches for your trusted face: when you leave the frame — or an unauthorized person enters — it instantly blurs, pixelates, or blacks out the feed. All processing is local, with no recording or upload, and the $9.99 one-time purchase covers up to six family members via Family Sharing. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/secret-envelope-patterns/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/secret-envelope-patterns/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e744221 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/secret-envelope-patterns/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "S.E.C.R.E.T." +subtitle: "Searchable archive of confidential envelope interior patterns" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://secret-archive.org/" +linkText: "secret-archive.org" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [archive, design, typography, obsessive] +description: "A searchable archive classifying and preserving the geometric patterns printed inside confidential envelopes — the interlocking spirals and crosshatches that obscure contents from light." +--- + +A searchable archive devoted to classifying and preserving the geometric patterns printed inside confidential envelopes — the interlocking spirals and crosshatches that stop people reading the contents against the light. The subject is so specific it loops back around to fascinating, and every pattern is photographed and catalogued. Deep internet at its best. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/silentknight-3/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/silentknight-3/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6fefd27 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/silentknight-3/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "SilentKnight 3" +subtitle: "Free Mac security checker now exports results as text and JSON" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://eclecticlight.co/2026/06/18/silentknight-3-second-beta-adds-text-and-json-reporting/" +linkText: "eclecticlight.co" +source: "The Eclectic Light Company" +topics: [apple-tips, macos-apps] +tags: [security, macos, xprotect, monitoring] +description: "Howard Oakley's free macOS security checker now exports XProtect and firmware status as plain text and JSON, making checks scriptable for the first time." +--- + +Howard Oakley's free macOS security checker — XProtect and XProtect Remediator versions, macOS and firmware currency, FileVault status — now exports its results as plain text and JSON, making the checks scriptable and database-importable for the first time. The latest beta also runs from a standard user account rather than requiring admin, on Apple-silicon Macs running macOS 15.6+. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/socotra-island/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/socotra-island/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c3fc13 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/socotra-island/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/socotra-island/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/socotra-island/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3173160 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/socotra-island/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Socotra Island" +subtitle: "The Galápagos of the Arabian Sea, with dragon's-blood trees under the Milky Way" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.afar.com/magazine/can-socotra-survive-its-own-discovery" +linkText: "afar.com" +source: "AFAR" +topics: [travel] +tags: [yemen, dragon-blood-trees, unesco, remote] +description: "Socotra's dragon's-blood trees — many three centuries old — grow in canyon walls alongside frankincense fields and bottle trees on an island that harbors species found nowhere else." +--- + +Socotra's dragon's-blood trees — many three centuries old, with crowns that spread like inverted umbrellas — form forests in canyon walls most stunning under the Milky Way, on an island that harbors species found nowhere else and earns its 'Galápagos of the Arabian Sea' name. Frankincense fields, bottle trees, and the white sandbars of Qalansiyah Lagoon fill the rest. The younger trees are now endangered by feral goats and drought. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/sortio/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/sortio/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..580a833 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/sortio/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Sortio" +subtitle: "AI file organizer that reads document contents, not just names" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.getsortio.com/" +linkText: "getsortio.com" +source: "Brett Terpstra" +topics: [macos-apps, tools] +tags: [files, ai, organization, automation] +description: "A cross-platform AI file organizer that reads document contents and sorts, renames, and routes files from natural-language prompts, with optional local processing." +--- + +An AI file organizer that reads document contents — not just filenames — and sorts, renames, and routes files from natural-language prompts. It runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux, supports fully local processing via Ollama for privacy-sensitive work, and adds audit logging for professional workflows. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/splash-canvas/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/splash-canvas/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..02f864a Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/splash-canvas/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/splash-canvas/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/splash-canvas/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a68ab8b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/splash-canvas/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Splash Canvas" +subtitle: "Paint with octopus tentacles using GPU fluid simulation" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/splash-canvas/vQFCtQB7FDnYkA" +linkText: "Google Arts & Culture" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [web-toy, generative-art, interactive, ocean] +description: "Drag an octopus or squid across the canvas and it paints with its tentacles using GPU fluid simulation for ink physics, with Gemini-powered narration by David Li of Blob Opera." +--- + +Drag an octopus or squid across the canvas and it paints with its tentacles — each creature has a distinct style, and Gemini-powered characters narrate your artwork while turtles named Smudge and Scrape can ruin everything. Built by David Li (of Blob Opera), it uses a GPU fluid simulation for the ink physics. A web toy that justifies the form. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/stitch-your-travels-passport-cover/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/stitch-your-travels-passport-cover/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec9c20e Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/stitch-your-travels-passport-cover/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/stitch-your-travels-passport-cover/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/stitch-your-travels-passport-cover/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff4bbf8 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/stitch-your-travels-passport-cover/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Stitch Your Travels Passport Cover DIY Kit" +subtitle: "Soft leather passport cover you embroider yourself, no experience needed" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://store.moma.org/collections/new/products/stitch-your-travels-passport-cover-diy-kit" +linkText: "store.moma.org" +source: "MoMA Design Store" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [embroidery, travel, diy, leather] +description: "A real soft-leather passport cover pre-perforated with a world-map outline so you stitch the continents yourself — a daily-carry object you assembled, guided by the perforations." +--- + +A real soft-leather passport cover comes perforated with a world-map outline so you stitch the continents in thread — the result is a daily-carry object you actually assembled, which beats any mass-produced alternative. The perforations guide the needle precisely, so no embroidery experience is required to get a clean result. It's the rare gift kit where the finished object is genuinely more useful than what you'd buy off a shelf. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/storied-colors/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/06/storied-colors/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d3ab903 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/storied-colors/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/storied-colors/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/storied-colors/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7db4f72 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/storied-colors/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Storied Colors" +subtitle: "Browseable catalog of 252 pigments spanning 40,000 years" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://storiedcolors.com/browse/" +linkText: storiedcolors.com +source: "Recomendo" +topics: [general-delight, tools] +tags: [color, history, reference, art] +description: "A browseable catalog of 252 pigments and dyes from 40,000 BCE to 2016, each with origin story, chemical makeup, historical usage, and lightfastness data." +--- + +A browseable catalog of 252 pigments and dyes spanning 40,000 BCE to 2016, each with its origin story, chemical makeup, historical usage, and lightfastness. You can filter by hue family, era, toxicity, and source material — mineral, plant, animal, or synthetic. It's both a research tool and a genuinely absorbing read, color by color. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/swf-rodeo/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/swf-rodeo/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d26a880 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/swf-rodeo/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "SWF Rodeo" +subtitle: "6,817 manually vetted Flash files playable via Ruffle emulator" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://swf.rodeo/" +linkText: "swf.rodeo" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [flash, archive, nostalgia, games] +description: "An archive of 6,817 manually reviewed Flash games, animations, and oddities playable in-browser via the Ruffle emulator with no plugin required." +--- + +An archive of 6,817 vetted Flash files — games, animations, oddities — playable via the Ruffle emulator with no plugin required. The selection has been manually reviewed rather than bulk-scraped, so it skews toward the genuinely memorable stuff from the early-2000s web rather than the junk. The curation is the point: someone went through all of it so you don't have to. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/tackle-quicklook-problems/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/tackle-quicklook-problems/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8852291 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/tackle-quicklook-problems/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Fixing Generic QuickLook Thumbnails on macOS" +subtitle: "Systematic guide to fixing blank icons after a macOS upgrade" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/20/tackle-quicklook-problems/" +linkText: "eclecticlight.co" +source: "The Eclectic Light Company" +topics: [apple-tips] +tags: [macos, quicklook, troubleshooting, sequoia] +description: "Howard Oakley's step-by-step workflow for diagnosing and fixing generic QuickLook thumbnails introduced when Sequoia dropped legacy generators." +--- + +Howard Oakley's systematic guide to fixing generic QuickLook thumbnails — the wave of blank icons that followed Sequoia dropping legacy generators. The workflow: find the file's UTI with UTIutility, identify the responsible generator with qlmanage -m or Mints, check whether it still exists, then reset with qlmanage -r. Concrete and repeatable for anyone whose Finder fills with generic icons after an OS upgrade. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/tatter-blue-library/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/tatter-blue-library/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..984f930 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/tatter-blue-library/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/tatter-blue-library/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/tatter-blue-library/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8f60e25 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/tatter-blue-library/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Tatter Blue Library" +subtitle: "10,000-item Brooklyn textile research library open by appointment" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://tatter.org/blue-library/" +linkText: "tatter.org" +source: "Messy Nessy Chic" +topics: [travel, general-delight] +tags: [textiles, archive, brooklyn, installation] +description: "A Brooklyn textile research library housing 10,000 swatches, samples, historical textiles, and books, browsable by appointment and documented online." +--- + +A Brooklyn textile research library housing 10,000 items — swatches, samples, historical textiles, books — that doubles as an installation space exploring the material history of cloth. The collection is physically browsable by appointment, with online documentation; 10,000 textile items in one room is a genuinely unusual density of fabric history. It sits at the intersection of archive, research library, and art installation. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/tella-thera-crete/hero.avif b/src/content/find/2026/06/tella-thera-crete/hero.avif new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3de17ca Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/tella-thera-crete/hero.avif differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/tella-thera-crete/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/tella-thera-crete/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fbad39f --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/tella-thera-crete/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Tella Thera" +subtitle: "A 21-room zero-waste eco-hotel built into Crete's northwest hillside" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.afar.com/hotels/the-best-new-hotels-of-2026" +linkText: "afar.com" +source: "AFAR" +topics: [travel] +tags: [crete, eco-hotel, zero-waste, design-hotel] +description: "A 21-room boutique eco-hotel above Kissamos Bay on Crete's northwest coast, with suites in subterranean volumes and green roofs planted with native herbs for natural cooling." +--- + +A 21-room boutique eco-hotel above Kissamos Bay on Crete's northwest coast, with suites built into subterranean volumes and green roofs planted with native herbs for natural thermal cooling. The zero-waste restaurant grows its own produce on-property; a rooftop yoga terrace and private in-room plunge pools complete it — Crete without the Santorini script. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/the-wedge-whistler/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/the-wedge-whistler/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..87f9c9b Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/the-wedge-whistler/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/the-wedge-whistler/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/the-wedge-whistler/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..13bb228 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/the-wedge-whistler/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "The Wedge" +subtitle: "A 5,500-square-foot brutalist chalet by the Green River in Whistler" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.boutique-homes.com/property/the-wedge-by-boutique" +linkText: "boutique-homes.com" +source: "Boutique Homes" +topics: [travel] +tags: [whistler, brutalist, mountain, architect-designed] +description: "A blackened-wood-and-concrete chalet in Whistler by Battersby Howat Architects, built for a family of snowboarders on a two-acre plot bisected by the Green River." +--- + +A 5,500-square-foot blackened-wood-and-concrete chalet in Whistler by Battersby Howat Architects, built for a family of snowboarders — its geometric form rises from a forested two-acre plot bisected by the Green River, whose rush is constant white noise. Hemlock ceilings warm the brutalist shell, 40-foot glass doors open to a pool and hot tub, and a cantilevered studio hangs over the riverbank, 18 minutes from the slopes. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/timecapsule-smb/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/timecapsule-smb/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ad686b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/timecapsule-smb/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "TimeCapsuleSMB" +subtitle: "Open-source modern Samba server for Apple Time Capsules" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB" +linkText: "GitHub" +source: "Six Colors" +topics: [macos-apps] +tags: [macos, networking, open-source, time-machine] +description: "An open-source project that flashes a modern Samba server onto Apple Time Capsule hardware to restore compatibility after macOS 27 drops AFP." +--- + +macOS 27 drops AFP, and Apple's Time Capsules only speak AFP/SMB1 — so this open-source project flashes a modern Samba server directly onto the Time Capsule's own hardware, storing the binary on the internal disk and running it from a 16 MB RAM disk the firmware can't evict. A companion mDNS helper advertises the share over Bonjour so it just appears in Finder's Network pane, and there's a GUI installer for those who'd rather not touch the CLI. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/tiny-world-builder/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/tiny-world-builder/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..af822ea --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/tiny-world-builder/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Tiny World Builder" +subtitle: "Browser-based isometric miniature village builder, no objectives" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://tinyworld.build/" +linkText: "tinyworld.build" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [web-toy, creative, building, miniature] +description: "A browser-based isometric miniature village builder with no objectives or progress bars — just buildings, paths, plants, and landscape features to arrange." +--- + +A browser-based miniature village builder — place buildings, paths, plants, and landscape features to construct a tiny isometric world. No objectives, no progress bars, just building. The virtue is the scale: everything is kept small and toy-like, which keeps the creative scope manageable and the result consistently charming rather than overwhelming. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/tldraw/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/06/tldraw/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bcfa453 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/tldraw/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/tldraw/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/tldraw/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e3acfb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/tldraw/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "tldraw" +subtitle: "Instant browser-based infinite whiteboard, no account needed" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.tldraw.com/" +linkText: tldraw.com +source: "Uses This" +topics: [tools] +tags: [whiteboard, diagrams, browser, free] +description: "A browser-based infinite whiteboard for technical diagrams and visual thinking — no account required, works instantly, exports cleanly." +--- + +A browser-based infinite whiteboard favored by developer-artist Justin Garrison for technical diagrams and visual thinking — no account required, it works instantly and exports cleanly. He calls it out alongside Procreate as one of his primary visual-thinking tools. Zero-friction is the whole pitch: open a tab and draw. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/townsquare/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/townsquare/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..121bd79 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/townsquare/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "TownSquare" +subtitle: "One script tag adds real-time presence to any website" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://townsquare.cauenapier.com/" +linkText: "townsquare.cauenapier.com" +source: "Hacker News — Show HN" +topics: [tools] +tags: [web, presence, open-source, social] +description: "A lightweight real-time presence layer that adds visitor cursors, movement, short messages, and high-fives to any website via a single script tag." +--- + +A single script tag adds a lightweight real-time presence layer to any website — visitors show up as cursors or avatars, move around, leave short messages, and high-five each other, with no accounts and no algorithmic feed. Each site gets its own isolated space; nothing is shared across domains. Free and open source. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/traversee-cevenole-cycling/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/traversee-cevenole-cycling/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8adb804 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/traversee-cevenole-cycling/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/traversee-cevenole-cycling/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/traversee-cevenole-cycling/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c42187 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/traversee-cevenole-cycling/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Traversée Cévenole" +subtitle: "An 81-mile bike-and-train loop through Europe's largest Dark Sky Reserve" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.afar.com/magazine/what-its-like-to-bike-the-traversee-cevenole-in-france" +linkText: "afar.com" +source: "AFAR" +topics: [travel] +tags: [cycling, cevennes, france, dark-sky] +description: "An 81-mile bike-and-train loop through the Cévennes National Park — a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and Europe's largest International Dark Sky Reserve — over three days." +--- + +An 81-mile bike-and-train loop through the Cévennes National Park — a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and Europe's largest International Dark Sky Reserve — cycling granite gorges and stone villages for three days, then returning by train. The midpoint is Ferme Auberge de la Bombine, a working farm serving abundant traditional meals from its own produce. The loop's structure (62 miles cycling, the rest by rail) keeps it manageable for non-specialists. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/tuna-for-mac/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/tuna-for-mac/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57b4557 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/tuna-for-mac/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Tuna" +subtitle: "Modern Swift launcher pitched as the Quicksilver successor" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://tunaformac.com/" +linkText: "tunaformac.com" +source: "Brett Terpstra" +topics: [macos-apps] +tags: [launcher, productivity, keyboard, quicksilver] +description: "A fully-native Swift launcher with modal interaction modes, Hyper-key support, and a one-time Pro unlock — the most credible Quicksilver heir in years." +--- + +A modern, fully-native Swift launcher pitched as the spiritual successor to Quicksilver, with modal interaction modes (Fuzzy, Combo, Text, Talk), built-in Hyper-key support, and a one-time $49 Pro unlock rather than a subscription. It's in active beta with voice input and an extension API already in the pipeline — the most credible Quicksilver heir in years. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/underground-paris-map/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/06/underground-paris-map/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4ca2786 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/underground-paris-map/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/underground-paris-map/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/underground-paris-map/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f0309f --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/underground-paris-map/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Underground Paris Map" +subtitle: "Pocket-folding guide to Paris catacombs and hidden subterranean spaces" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.herblester.com/products/underground-paris" +linkText: "herblester.com" +source: "Things Magazine" +topics: [general-delight, gifts] +tags: [maps, paris, urban-exploration, printed] +description: "Herb Lester Associates' pocket-folding guide maps the Paris underground — catacombs, wartime bunkers, abandoned métro stations, medieval wall fragments — printed on ten A5 panels." +--- + +Herb Lester Associates makes pocket-folding city guides for what guidebooks ignore, and this one maps the Paris underground: catacombs, wartime bunkers, wine cellars, abandoned métro stations, and medieval wall fragments. Printed as ten A5 panels on heavy stock that fold to jacket-pocket size, it covers both the famous Denfert-Rochereau ossuary and obscurities like a bank-vault door beneath the Champs-Élysées. It's a guide to a city most visitors walk above without knowing it exists below them. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/utiutility/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/utiutility/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..45981f3 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/utiutility/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/utiutility/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/utiutility/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..779f67d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/utiutility/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "UTIutility" +subtitle: "Free Mac app for exploring Uniform Type Identifier hierarchies" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://eclecticlight.co/downloads/" +linkText: "eclecticlight.co" +source: "The Eclectic Light Company" +topics: [apple-tips, macos-apps] +tags: [macos, file-types, uti, diagnostics] +description: "A free Mac app that draws the full UTI hierarchy for any file extension, helping developers and power users understand why a generator won't recognise a file type." +--- + +A free Mac app for exploring Uniform Type Identifiers: type in a file extension and it draws the full UTI hierarchy and shows what conforms to what. It's the quickest way to understand why an app or QuickLook generator won't recognise a file type — genuinely useful for developers and power users alike. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/viberg-garmsville-brogue-navvy-boot/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/viberg-garmsville-brogue-navvy-boot/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e3b4a64 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/viberg-garmsville-brogue-navvy-boot/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/viberg-garmsville-brogue-navvy-boot/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/viberg-garmsville-brogue-navvy-boot/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..19b904b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/viberg-garmsville-brogue-navvy-boot/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Viberg x Garmsville Brogue Navvy Boot" +subtitle: "Brogued Navvy Boot bridging military utility and English dress heritage" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://viberg.com/products/navvy-garms-pabjs" +linkText: "viberg.com" +source: "A Continuous Lean" +topics: [clothing] +tags: [boots, heritage, goodyear-welt, collaboration] +description: "A Viberg x Jason Jules collaboration putting broguing on the round-toe Navvy last in C.F. Stead Janus Calf Suede with a 270° antique flat welt and oak-bark-tanned leather sole." +--- + +This Viberg x Jason Jules (Garmsville) collaboration puts a brogued upper on the round-toe Navvy Boot last — referencing vintage US Navy patterns — in C.F. Stead Janus Calf Suede, with a 270° antique flat welt and an oak-bark-tanned leather sole. Broguing on a Navvy last is the whole idea: it bridges military utility and English dress heritage in a proportion Jules pulled from his own archive. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/villa-argentina-dubrovnik/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/villa-argentina-dubrovnik/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd92b88 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/villa-argentina-dubrovnik/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/villa-argentina-dubrovnik/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/villa-argentina-dubrovnik/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8873f88 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/villa-argentina-dubrovnik/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Villa Argentina" +subtitle: "A 1913 Dubrovnik villa restored with local stone on a limestone bluff" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.afar.com/hotels/villa-argentina-hotel-reopens-in-dubrovnik" +linkText: "afar.com" +source: "AFAR" +topics: [travel] +tags: [croatia, adriatic, historic-restoration, waterfront] +description: "Built in 1913 and now restored by Croatian firm 3LHD using locally sourced stone, wood, and ceramics, Villa Argentina sits on a limestone bluff with a 200-foot stretch of Adriatic shoreline." +--- + +Built in 1913 as a private home — named for the owner's time in Argentina — and now restored by Croatian firm 3LHD using locally sourced stone, wood, and ceramics, with over 14,000 Mediterranean plants in the grounds. It sits on a limestone bluff with a 200-foot stretch of Adriatic shoreline and direct views of the medieval walls and the island of Lokrum; the lead architect grew up in the neighborhood. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/villa-fayoum/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/villa-fayoum/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a6b6552 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/villa-fayoum/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/villa-fayoum/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/villa-fayoum/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c77f0c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/villa-fayoum/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Villa Fayoum" +subtitle: "A restored 12-room estate in Egypt's Fayoum Oasis, near the Valley of Whales" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.egyptbeyond.com/villafayoum" +linkText: "egyptbeyond.com" +source: "AFAR" +topics: [travel] +tags: [egypt, oasis, fossil-landscape, boutique-villa] +description: "A 12-room villa on a 6,000-square-metre garden estate in Fayoum Oasis, restored with vintage Egyptian textiles, two hours from Cairo and day-trip distance from the Valley of the Whales." +--- + +A 12-room villa on a 6,000-square-metre garden estate in Tunis village, Fayoum Oasis — two hours southwest of Cairo — restored by the founder of Al Moudira with vintage Egyptian textiles, antiques, and salvaged craft around a 16-metre pool in golden granite and Sinai marble. Day trips reach Wadi Al-Hitan, the UNESCO Valley of the Whales, where 40-million-year-old fossilized whale skeletons protrude from the desert floor. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/virtual-os-museum/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/06/virtual-os-museum/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6900ebf Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/virtual-os-museum/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/virtual-os-museum/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/virtual-os-museum/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9dc5c72 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/virtual-os-museum/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Virtual OS Museum" +subtitle: "1,700+ pre-installed operating systems in one runnable VM" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://virtualosmuseum.org/" +linkText: "virtualosmuseum.org" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [archive, computing-history, emulation, interactive] +description: "Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems — from 1948's Manchester Baby through NeXTSTEP, BeOS, and early Android — bundled as a single Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM." +--- + +Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems — from the 1948 Manchester Baby through Windows Longhorn betas, PalmOS, Plan 9, NeXTSTEP, BeOS, and early Android — bundled as a single Linux VM you can run in QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM. Its virtue is completeness: a runnable history of every significant branch in the computing tree, not just the famous ones. The kind of preservation project that shouldn't be possible but is. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/weather-rothkos/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/weather-rothkos/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac189bb --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/weather-rothkos/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Weather Rothkos" +subtitle: "Pairs your local weather with a matching Rothko painting" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://rothko.joonas.wtf/" +linkText: "rothko.joonas.wtf" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [generative, art, weather, data-visualization] +description: "Reads your location's current weather and temperature and selects a Rothko painting whose emotional quality matches those conditions." +--- + +It reads your location's current weather and temperature and selects a Rothko painting that matches the emotional quality of those conditions — cold and overcast draws a different canvas than hot and humid. The pairing leans on Rothko's own stated intent that his paintings should evoke specific emotional states. It lands unexpectedly apt more often than you'd expect. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/wonder-looper-foxfibre-tsuriami-crewneck/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/wonder-looper-foxfibre-tsuriami-crewneck/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d411c17 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/wonder-looper-foxfibre-tsuriami-crewneck/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/wonder-looper-foxfibre-tsuriami-crewneck/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/wonder-looper-foxfibre-tsuriami-crewneck/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..be886a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/wonder-looper-foxfibre-tsuriami-crewneck/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Wonder Looper Foxfibre Tsuriami Crewneck T-Shirt" +subtitle: "Naturally brown cotton knitted on century-old loopwheel machines" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.standardandstrange.com/products/foxfibre-tsuriami-crewneck-t-shirt-coyote-15" +linkText: "standardandstrange.com" +source: "Standard & Strange Journal" +topics: [clothing] +tags: [japanese-makers, t-shirt, natural-fiber, loopwheel] +description: "A 228gsm tee in naturally brown Foxfibre cotton knitted on vintage tsuriami loopwheel machines in Japan at one meter per hour, with Union Special flat side seams." +--- + +The Foxfibre cotton is naturally brown — grown that color, never dyed — then knitted on century-old tsuriami loopwheel machines in Japan at about one meter per hour. The result is a 228gsm tee with Union Special flat side seams and a gravity-formed fabric whose hand is unlike anything knit on modern equipment; the Coyote 15 colorway blends 15% of that undyed brown with organic ELS cotton. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/wonder-looper-super-looper-french-terry/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/wonder-looper-super-looper-french-terry/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..94f91ae Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/wonder-looper-super-looper-french-terry/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/wonder-looper-super-looper-french-terry/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/wonder-looper-super-looper-french-terry/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b75f494 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/wonder-looper-super-looper-french-terry/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Wonder Looper Super Looper French Terry Crewneck" +subtitle: "446gsm Wakayama loopwheel sweatshirt with randomly varied loops" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.standardandstrange.com/products/super-looper-french-terry-pullover-crewneck-orange" +linkText: "standardandstrange.com" +source: "Standard & Strange Journal" +topics: [clothing] +tags: [japanese-makers, sweatshirt, loopwheel, cotton] +description: "A 446gsm loopwheel-knit French terry crewneck from Wakayama with randomly varied loop sizes for a plush dry hand, raglan shoulders, and a vintage triangle collar." +--- + +At 446gsm this is a substantial loopwheel-knit sweatshirt made on vintage tsuriami machines in Wakayama, where Wonder Looper varies the loop sizes randomly rather than uniformly to produce a distinctively plush, dry hand that ordinary fleece can't match. Raglan shoulders, a heavy ribbed vintage triangle collar, and flat tonal seams, sized for washed shrinkage. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/works-in-progress/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/works-in-progress/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fd3a4c2 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/works-in-progress/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/works-in-progress/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/works-in-progress/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..60f3fb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/works-in-progress/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Works in Progress" +subtitle: "Stripe's long-form magazine on technology, science, and progress" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://worksinprogress.co/" +linkText: worksinprogress.co +source: "Recomendo" +topics: [general-delight, tools] +tags: [magazine, science, technology, long-form] +description: "A Stripe-published long-form magazine covering underrated ideas in technology, science, policy, and infrastructure with a rigorously researched but accessible optimistic lens." +--- + +A Stripe-published long-form magazine covering new and underrated ideas in technology, science, policy, and infrastructure with an optimistic, progress-oriented lens. Articles range from epidurals to nuclear energy to urban planning — rigorously researched but written for a general curious audience. It's one of the few places doing genuine long-form on why things get built (or don't). diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/writer-deck-resource-list/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/writer-deck-resource-list/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6969a63 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/writer-deck-resource-list/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Writer Deck Resource List" +subtitle: "Comprehensive guide to distraction-free writing hardware" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://johnnywebber.com/writerdecks/" +linkText: johnnywebber.com +source: "Recomendo" +topics: [tools] +tags: [writing, distraction-free, hardware, productivity] +description: "A comprehensive single-reference guide to distraction-free writing devices — AlphaSmart Neo2 to modern e-ink tablets — covering buying advice and which hardware suits which habits." +--- + +A comprehensive guide to distraction-free writing devices — from the classic AlphaSmart Neo2 to modern e-ink tablets — covering how to buy them, what to expect, and which hardware suits which writing habits. A single reference point for anyone who wants to write away from a full computer. Saves the hours of fragmented forum research the topic otherwise demands. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/yarlington-lodge-the-newt/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/06/yarlington-lodge-the-newt/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2c25410 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/06/yarlington-lodge-the-newt/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/yarlington-lodge-the-newt/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/yarlington-lodge-the-newt/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e1e0292 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/yarlington-lodge-the-newt/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Yarlington Lodge at The Newt" +subtitle: "A Regency rectory on a Tudor estate, each room named for a literary heroine" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/hotels/the-newt-somerset-yarlington-lodge" +linkText: "wallpaper.com" +source: "Wallpaper* Travel" +topics: [travel] +tags: [somerset, country-house, regency, literary] +description: "A Regency rectory on a Tudor estate granted by Henry VIII to two of his queens, restored into eight rooms each named for a literary heroine with the novel at the bedside." +--- + +A Regency rectory on a Tudor estate — Henry VIII granted it to two of his queens — restored into eight bedrooms each named for a literary heroine of the period, with the corresponding novel at the bedside. 'Regency meets Empire' interiors mingle fabric walls and canopy-tented ceilings, a speakeasy overlooks the croquet lawn, and the lodge forms part of The Newt Somerset estate. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/your-internet-radio-dial/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/your-internet-radio-dial/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c28902 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/your-internet-radio-dial/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Your Internet Radio Dial" +subtitle: "Global internet radio stations arranged as a tunable FM dial" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://www.yourinternetradiodial.net/" +linkText: "yourinternetradiodial.net" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [radio, global, interface, retro] +description: "A skeuomorphic radio-dial interface for global internet radio stations, tuned by dragging with Shazam integration to identify what's playing." +--- + +A skeuomorphic radio-dial interface for browsing global internet radio stations — grouped and arranged like an actual radio band, tunable by dragging, with Shazam integration to identify what's playing. The conceit is charming: it treats the internet's thousands of stations as if they were all on one FM band. It makes browsing feel like scanning rather than searching a database. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/06/yourcenar-madness-destiny/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/06/yourcenar-madness-destiny/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e99ef79 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/06/yourcenar-madness-destiny/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Marguerite Yourcenar on Madness and Destiny" +date: 2026-06-21 +link: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marguerite_Yourcenar" +linkText: "en.wikiquote.org" +source: "Wikiquote" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [creativity, fate, philosophy, literature] +description: "On the touch of madness required to build a destiny." +--- + +> A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny. + +— Marguerite Yourcenar. Wikiquote Quote of the Day.