diff --git a/candidate-sources.md b/candidate-sources.md index c1d905d..5e815da 100644 --- a/candidate-sources.md +++ b/candidate-sources.md @@ -119,3 +119,9 @@ Goal of this round: expand `gifts` coverage with sources that lean Amazon-purcha - **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. + +### 2026-07-04 capture round + +- **Spoon & Tamago** — https://www.spoon-tamago.com/ — long-running, tightly-curated blog on Japanese art, design, and craft; surfaced this run via Kottke (Saya Irie's eraser-shaving sculptures). Consistently taste-driven and delight-forward; Substack-style feed likely at /feed. Strong general-delight fit. +- **Craighill** — https://craighill.co/ — Brooklyn design-object studio (Chroma Scissors, Swingtop Lighter, desk hardware); surfaced via Carryology's founder profile. A maker whose product drops reliably clear the "delightful daily-use object" bar — track the shop/new-arrivals as a source, not a feed. +- **CW&T** — https://cwandt.com/ — design/tool studio behind the titanium Little Scissors and the Pen Type-B; surfaced via Carryology. Small, obsessive maker of precise, giftable objects; watch product drops. diff --git a/daily-finds.log.md b/daily-finds.log.md index 6245c04..9f82ed6 100644 --- a/daily-finds.log.md +++ b/daily-finds.log.md @@ -1453,3 +1453,99 @@ Amazon: added — amazon.com/dp/B00967MX3A (genuine Kartell 4966/03, sold by Ama ## 2026-07-03 — pick of the day: kartell-componibili-2-tier-storage Chosen over tldraw for tile legibility and variety: a striking studio product shot after a run of app/browser-game heroes, and the virtue ("1969, never revised, still shipping") reads instantly from the subtitle. + +## 2026-07-04 — capture run + +Sources scanned: 59 total — 25 hits, 22 empty, 1 blocked, 10 skipped, 1 cadence-skipped. (Window: since the 2026-06-21 capture run.) +Productive sources: r/macapps, Hacker News — Show HN, Product Hunt, MoMA Design Store, Kikkerland, Carryology, Gear Patrol, Cool Tools, Recomendo, The Awesomer, Permanent Style, r/BuyItForLife, This Is Why I'm Broke, Atlas Obscura, Wallpaper* Travel, Boutique Homes, Kottke.org, The Browser, Web Curios, Open Culture, A.Word.A.Day, The Marginalian, Quote Investigator, icanhazdadjoke, r/dadjokes. + +Captured finds (65): +- osaurus — Osaurus — source: r/macapps +- timebarx — TimeBarX — source: r/macapps +- trovelo — Trovelo — source: r/macapps +- groupctrl — GroupCtrl — source: r/macapps +- unfold-quicklook — Unfold — source: r/macapps +- dockside-mac-dock-workspace — Dockside — source: Hacker News — Show HN +- pixel-a-go-go — Pixel a Go-Go — source: Hacker News — Show HN +- origin-myth-map — Origin Myth Map — source: Hacker News — Show HN +- tamamon-desktop-pet — Tamamon — source: Product Hunt +- chompsaw-power-tool-for-kids — ChompSaw Power Tool for Kids — source: MoMA Design Store +- portable-manual-feeding-glue-gun — Portable Manual-Feeding Glue Gun — source: MoMA Design Store +- smart-laser-measure-tool — Smart Laser Measure Tool — source: MoMA Design Store +- wooden-mini-wrench-tool — Wooden Mini Wrench Tool — source: Kikkerland +- inkerie-rechargeable-led-book-light — Inkerie Rechargeable LED Book Light — source: Kikkerland +- rockin-corkscrew — Rockin' Corkscrew — source: Kikkerland +- space-gun-frother — Space Gun Frother — source: Kikkerland +- craighill-chroma-scissors — Craighill Chroma Scissors — source: Carryology +- cwt-gnuhr-little-scissors — CW&T x gnuhr Little Scissors — source: Carryology +- craighill-swingtop-lighter — Craighill Swingtop Lighter — source: Carryology +- dsptch-mono-sling — DSPTCH Mono Sling — source: Carryology +- chrome-tilit-chef-pack — Chrome x Tilit Chef Pack — source: Gear Patrol +- aerostrap-airpods-safety-strap — AeroStrap — source: Gear Patrol +- klein-11-in-1-screwdriver — Klein 11-in-1 Screwdriver — source: Cool Tools +- retractable-cable-luggage-lock — Retractable Cable Luggage Lock — source: Cool Tools +- new-world-champion-paper-airplane-book — The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book — source: Cool Tools +- promate-sea-slender-rx-dive-mask — Promate Sea Slender Rx Dive Mask — source: Recomendo +- goal-zero-lighthouse-600-lantern — Goal Zero Lighthouse 600 Camping Lantern — source: Recomendo +- maratac-titan-war-claw-multitool — Maratac Titan War Claw Multitool — source: The Awesomer +- ps-bruce-short — The Bruce Short — source: Permanent Style +- eley-hose-nozzle — Eley Hose Nozzle — source: r/BuyItForLife +- pb-swiss-tools-precision-screwdriver-set — PB Swiss Tools Precision Screwdriver Set — source: r/BuyItForLife +- igloo-little-playmate — Igloo Little Playmate — source: r/BuyItForLife +- bounty-hunter-leather-hat — Bounty Hunter Leather Hat — source: r/BuyItForLife +- sisyphus-kinetic-sand-art-display — Sisyphus Kinetic Sand Art Display — source: This Is Why I'm Broke +- otoset-ear-cleaning-system — OtoSet Ear Cleaning System — source: This Is Why I'm Broke +- doorless-shrine-of-gogni — Doorless Shrine of Gogni — source: Atlas Obscura +- horror-studies-archive-pittsburgh — Horror Studies Archive — source: Atlas Obscura +- vancouver-crow-nesting-zone — Vancouver Crow Nesting Zone — source: Atlas Obscura +- looming-head-of-janis-zvidra — The Looming Head of Jānis Zvīdra — source: Atlas Obscura +- hello-kitty-cafe-las-vegas — Hello Kitty Cafe (Las Vegas) — source: Atlas Obscura +- la-fantaisie-paris-art-suite — La Fantaisie's Living Gallery Suite — source: Wallpaper* Travel +- yasujiro-ozu-house-kamakura — Yasujirō Ozu's Former Home — source: Wallpaper* Travel +- nusfjord-lofoten-norway — Nusfjord — source: Wallpaper* Travel +- casa-tepeji-mexico-city — Casa Tepeji — source: Boutique Homes +- lifts-in-film — Lifts in Film — source: Kottke.org +- ai-compass-quiz — AI Compass — source: Kottke.org +- saya-irie-eraser-shavings — Saya Irie's Eraser Shaving Sculptures — source: Kottke.org +- christian-marclay-the-clock-lacma — Christian Marclay's The Clock — source: Kottke.org +- nomido-word-game — Nomido — source: The Browser +- half-life-2-in-browser — Half-Life 2 in Your Browser — source: Web Curios +- roland-50-studio — The Roland 50 Studio — source: Web Curios +- sunrisetracker — Sunrisetracker — source: Web Curios +- plant-atlas-clay-houseplants — Plant Atlas — source: Web Curios +- virtual-criterion-closet — The Virtual Criterion Closet — source: Web Curios +- uncovered-book-first-pages — Uncovered — source: Web Curios +- thai-beef-noodle-soup-52-years — The 52-Year Simmering Noodle Soup — source: Open Culture +- da-vinci-notebooks-reunited-online — Leonardo da Vinci's Reunited Notebooks — source: Open Culture +- jerry-gretzinger-imaginary-land-map — Jerry Gretzinger's Imaginary Land Map — source: Open Culture +- korzybski-belief-doubt-thinking — Alfred Korzybski on believing vs. doubting — source: A.Word.A.Day +- casals-work-age-vitality — Pablo Casals on work as the fountain of youth — source: The Marginalian +- london-notebook-writing — Jack London on keeping a notebook — source: Quote Investigator +- van-gogh-voice-paint — Van Gogh on silencing self-doubt — source: Quote Investigator +- joke-orca-instruments — Orca-stra — source: icanhazdadjoke +- joke-boa-constructor — Boa constructor — source: icanhazdadjoke +- joke-bookmark-brian — Can I have a bookmark? — source: r/dadjokes + +Shortlist (12, ranked): +1. chompsaw-power-tool-for-kids — a genuinely delightful, MoMA-clean product with a legible one-line virtue (finger-safe power tool for kids); strong hero + Amazon match [review candidate] +2. horror-studies-archive-pittsburgh — the world's only academic horror archive, built around Romero's papers; irresistible story [review candidate] +3. osaurus — offline open-source local AI for the Mac with an agent layer + privacy filter; squarely on-brand for the audience [review candidate] +4. yasujiro-ozu-house-kamakura — sleep inside a legendary filmmaker's restored home; rare, specific travel hook +5. vancouver-crow-nesting-zone — thousands of crows converge on five blocks nightly, best watched from a McDonald's; pure delight +6. saya-irie-eraser-shavings — images erased then rebuilt from their own shavings; striking art idea +7. cwt-gnuhr-little-scissors — 24g titanium folding scissors that keep real cutting power; excellent hero +8. sisyphus-kinetic-sand-art-display — a steel ball endlessly redraws its own sand patterns; carries an Amazon link +9. lifts-in-film — an archive of nothing but elevator scenes across cinema; overspecialized delight +10. plant-atlas-clay-houseplants — 114 houseplants each rendered as a handmade clay sculpture +11. timebarx — a Mac timer that turns the whole menu bar into a draining countdown across every display +12. london-notebook-writing — Jack London's notebook advice, verified to his own 1903 essay (topic variety) + +Amazon links added: 5 (chompsaw-power-tool-for-kids B0DYRF6D4C, sisyphus-kinetic-sand-art-display B085HGVL2N, new-world-champion-paper-airplane-book 1607743884, retractable-cable-luggage-lock B003YMZ5DI, goal-zero-lighthouse-600-lantern B08HRM4J8Y). CW&T x gnuhr Little Scissors checked — no genuine Amazon match, omitted. + +Image-fetch notes: 49 of 65 finds have heroes. 7 are text-only by design (4 quotes + 3 dad jokes). 9 heroless were genuine misses — mostly interactive web toys / SPAs that expose no og:image (ai-compass-quiz, christian-marclay-the-clock-lacma, half-life-2-in-browser, virtual-criterion-closet, da-vinci-notebooks-reunited-online, jerry-gretzinger-imaginary-land-map, origin-myth-map) plus two apps with only placeholder/marketing-overlay art (trovelo App Store had no screenshots yet; tamamon only ships title-overlaid promo images). Pattern worth a future fix: single-page web toys rarely set og:image; a lightweight screenshot capture step would rescue their heroes. + +Link-resolution notes: r/macapps, Show HN, Product Hunt, r/BuyItForLife and several aggregator posts pointed at discussion/affiliate URLs — writers resolved each to the maker's canonical page (osaurus→GitHub, groupctrl→GitHub, unfold→flew.gg, chrome-tilit→tilitnyc.com, maratac→countycomm.com, aerostrap→skiaero.com, eley→eleyhosereels.com, igloo→igloocoolers.com, bounty-hunter→millersleathershop.com, da-vinci→Museo Galileo, gretzinger→jerrysmap.com). Three finds had been resolved straight to amazon.com; corrected so `link` points at a non-Amazon page and the ASIN lives in `amazonLink`. + +Source maintenance: none. (r/shortcuts returned HTTP 429 this run — a transient rate-limit, not a block; it validated working 2026-07-03 and one 429 doesn't meet the 3-consecutive-run threshold, so no change. Everything else was re-validated 2026-07-03.) + +New source nominees: 3 (see candidate-sources.md) — spoon-tamago.com, Craighill, CW&T. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/aerostrap-airpods-safety-strap/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/aerostrap-airpods-safety-strap/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c8d4c66 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/aerostrap-airpods-safety-strap/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/aerostrap-airpods-safety-strap/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/aerostrap-airpods-safety-strap/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..965a610 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/aerostrap-airpods-safety-strap/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "AeroStrap" +subtitle: "A $10 cord that turns wireless earbuds back into a tethered pair" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://skiaero.com/products/aerostrap-earphones-holder" +linkText: "skiaero.com" +source: "Gear Patrol" +topics: [gifts, tools] +tags: [airpods, accessory, safety, cheap-fix] +description: "A simple corded clip connecting wireless earbuds together so a single one can't slip out and vanish, for about $10." +--- + +A simple corded clip that connects a pair of wireless earbuds together, so a single AirPod can't slip out and vanish down a drain, a subway gap, or a couch cushion. A $10 tether against a $250 replacement. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/ai-compass-quiz/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/ai-compass-quiz/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d30eed9 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/ai-compass-quiz/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "AI Compass" +subtitle: "A quiz that pinpoints how you actually feel about AI" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass" +linkText: "bambamramfan.github.io" +source: "Kottke.org" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [quiz, web-toy, ai, self-reflection] +description: "A short quiz that maps your contradictory feelings about AI onto named archetypes instead of a simple pro or anti camp." +--- + +A short interactive quiz that maps your nuanced, often-contradictory feelings about AI onto a spectrum of named types, rather than forcing you into a simple pro/anti camp. Jason Kottke called it genuinely useful for figuring out where he actually stands. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/bounty-hunter-leather-hat/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/bounty-hunter-leather-hat/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4868450 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/bounty-hunter-leather-hat/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/bounty-hunter-leather-hat/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/bounty-hunter-leather-hat/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bed10bd --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/bounty-hunter-leather-hat/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Bounty Hunter Leather Hat" +subtitle: "A heavy-duty leather sun hat put through a year of hiking abuse" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.millersleathershop.com/products/the-bounty-hunter-hat" +linkText: "millersleathershop.com" +source: "r/BuyItForLife" +topics: [clothing, gifts] +tags: [hiking, leather, bifl] +description: "A wide-brim leather outback hat from Miller's Leather Shop, put through a full year of hard hiking abuse and reviewed long-term on r/BuyItForLife." +--- + +Frustrated by unboxing-only reviews with no long-term data, this Redditor logged a full year of hard hiking in Miller's Leather Shop's wide-brim Bounty Hunter hat before writing it up. It shrugged off rain, mud, and heat without losing its shape or shrinking, with only minor fraying on the chin cord to show for the abuse. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/casa-tepeji-mexico-city/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/casa-tepeji-mexico-city/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b4ca063 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/casa-tepeji-mexico-city/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/casa-tepeji-mexico-city/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/casa-tepeji-mexico-city/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..50255b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/casa-tepeji-mexico-city/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Casa Tepeji" +subtitle: "A blue-stucco townhouse on Roma's most cinematic street" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.boutique-homes.com/property/casa-tepeji" +linkText: "boutique-homes.com" +source: "Boutique Homes" +topics: [travel] +tags: [mexico-city, architecture, rental] +description: "A 1960s Colonia Roma townhouse reworked into a deep-blue-stucco residence with avocado and goldenrod accents, on the street where Cuarón shot 'Roma'." +--- + +A 1960s Colonia Roma townhouse reworked by French architect Ombeline de Laage into a double-height, deep-blue-stucco residence with avocado-green and goldenrod accents and a tiled patio. It sleeps 8 — and sits on the same street where Alfonso Cuarón shot "Roma," a concrete hook beyond generic boutique-rental copy. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/casals-work-age-vitality/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/casals-work-age-vitality/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8e2b8dd --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/casals-work-age-vitality/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Pablo Casals on work as the fountain of youth" +subtitle: "At 93, still finding life more fascinating" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/29/pablo-casals-work-age/" +linkText: "themarginalian.org" +source: "The Marginalian" +topics: [quotes, general-delight] +tags: [aging, creativity, work] +description: "Cellist Pablo Casals, writing at 93, on why continued work and absorption in beauty keep age from dulling the senses." +--- + +"If you continue to work and to absorb the beauty in the world about you, you find that age does not necessarily mean getting old… I feel many things more intensely than ever before, and for me life grows more fascinating." Cellist Pablo Casals wrote this at 93, opening his 1970 memoir Joys and Sorrows — a sourced case for purposeful work as the real antidote to aging. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/chompsaw-power-tool-for-kids/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/chompsaw-power-tool-for-kids/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..72ce683 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/chompsaw-power-tool-for-kids/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/chompsaw-power-tool-for-kids/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/chompsaw-power-tool-for-kids/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a856411 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/chompsaw-power-tool-for-kids/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +name: "ChompSaw Power Tool for Kids" +subtitle: "A finger-safe power tool that turns cardboard into 3D builds" +date: 2026-07-04 +shortlist: true +link: "https://store.moma.org/products/chompsaw-power-tool-for-kids" +linkText: "store.moma.org" +source: "MoMA Design Store" +amazonLink: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DYRF6D4C" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [kids, tools, design] +description: "A cardboard-cutting power tool for kids 3+ that skips blades and spinning parts for a safe, rapid hole-punch action." +--- + +The ChompSaw swaps blades and spinning parts for a rapid hole-punch action, so kids ages 3+ can cut cardboard fast without risking fingers, hair, or clothing. It turns ordinary boxes into real 3D building material — a power tool engineered around child safety rather than scaled down from an adult one. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/christian-marclay-the-clock-lacma/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/christian-marclay-the-clock-lacma/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c8f7df0 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/christian-marclay-the-clock-lacma/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Christian Marclay's The Clock" +subtitle: "A 24-hour montage film that tells real time, screening at LACMA" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/christian-marclay-clock-0" +linkText: "lacma.org" +source: "Kottke.org" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [art, film, los-angeles, installation] +description: "A 24-hour film stitched from thousands of clock scenes that always shows the real current time, screening at LACMA this summer." +--- + +Christian Marclay's celebrated video piece stitches thousands of film and TV clips featuring clocks so the montage always displays the actual current time — a hypnotic, must-see-in-person work. LACMA is showing it July 26 to August 23, 2026, including two full 24-hour screenings. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/chrome-tilit-chef-pack/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/chrome-tilit-chef-pack/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c48f67c Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/chrome-tilit-chef-pack/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/chrome-tilit-chef-pack/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/chrome-tilit-chef-pack/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57a44fc --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/chrome-tilit-chef-pack/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Chrome x Tilit Chef Pack" +subtitle: "A bike-messenger bag reengineered with a chef's kit in mind, now a full 29L pack" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.tilitnyc.com/products/tilit-x-chrome-chef-backpack" +linkText: "tilitnyc.com" +source: "Gear Patrol" +topics: [tools, gifts] +tags: [edc, backpack, collab, everyday-carry] +description: "A 29L collab backpack pairing Chrome's cycling-grade toughness with Tilit's kitchen-tool organization, built for chefs and commuters alike." +--- + +Chrome Industries and chef-workwear label Tilit scaled their knife-roll-equipped sling into a full 29L daily pack — an odd-couple pairing of cycling-grade toughness and kitchen-tool organization that ends up working for anyone's everyday carry, not just chefs on bikes. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/craighill-chroma-scissors/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/craighill-chroma-scissors/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b7ec8f1 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/craighill-chroma-scissors/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/craighill-chroma-scissors/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/craighill-chroma-scissors/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a4235a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/craighill-chroma-scissors/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Craighill Chroma Scissors" +subtitle: "The handcrafted scissors that turned Craighill into a design phenomenon" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://craighill.co/products/chroma-scissors" +linkText: "craighill.co" +source: "Carryology" +topics: [tools, gifts] +tags: [edc, design, gifts] +description: "Precision-milled, brightly colored scissors that re-engineer how ordinary scissors work rather than just restyling them." +--- + +Craighill's Chroma Scissors are precision-milled and finished in saturated colors, and became the brand's breakout product by re-engineering how ordinary scissors work rather than giving them a cosmetic refresh. A rare case of a household object getting genuine design attention. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/craighill-swingtop-lighter/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/craighill-swingtop-lighter/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ca0932f Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/craighill-swingtop-lighter/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/craighill-swingtop-lighter/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/craighill-swingtop-lighter/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bfcf1fc --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/craighill-swingtop-lighter/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Craighill Swingtop Lighter" +subtitle: "A refillable stainless lighter built to be fidgeted with" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://craighill.co/products/swingtop-lighter" +linkText: "craighill.co" +source: "Carryology" +topics: [tools, gifts] +tags: [edc, gifts, design] +description: "A refillable stainless-steel lighter whose spring-loaded arm strikes the flint on its return stroke, turning ignition into a fidget motion." +--- + +Instead of a disposable flick lighter, the Swingtop uses a spring-loaded arm that strikes the flint on its return stroke, turning ignition into a satisfying fidget motion. It's refillable stainless steel, meant to be carried and used for years instead of tossed after one tank. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/cwt-gnuhr-little-scissors/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/cwt-gnuhr-little-scissors/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ba4a29 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/cwt-gnuhr-little-scissors/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/cwt-gnuhr-little-scissors/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/cwt-gnuhr-little-scissors/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac61d1e --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/cwt-gnuhr-little-scissors/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "CW&T x gnuhr Little Scissors" +subtitle: "24-gram titanium scissors that fold flat for pocket carry" +date: 2026-07-04 +shortlist: true +link: "https://cwandt.com/products/little-scissors" +linkText: "cwandt.com" +source: "Carryology" +topics: [tools, gifts] +tags: [edc, titanium, gifts] +description: "A CW&T x gnuhr collaboration pairing VG10 steel blades with titanium handles in a 24-gram pair of scissors that folds pocket-flat." +--- + +A collaboration between CW&T and gnuhr, these scissors pair VG10 steel blades with Grade 5 titanium handles machined with weight-saving cutouts, landing at just 24 grams while folding small enough to live in a pocket. Most pocket scissors trade cutting power for size — this pair keeps both. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/da-vinci-notebooks-reunited-online/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/da-vinci-notebooks-reunited-online/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..80233b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/da-vinci-notebooks-reunited-online/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Leonardo da Vinci's Reunited Notebooks" +subtitle: "Manuscripts split for 400 years, now browsable together online" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://teche.museogalileo.it/leonardo/ricostruzioni/index.html?lang=en" +linkText: "teche.museogalileo.it" +source: "Open Culture" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [leonardo-da-vinci, archive, manuscripts, history] +description: "Museo Galileo's Leonardotheka project digitally reunites da Vinci notebook pages physically scattered for four centuries." +--- + +Pages from Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, physically scattered for four centuries, have been digitally reunited into a single browsable online archive — letting anyone page through the Renaissance polymath's sketches side by side for the first time in hundreds of years. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/dockside-mac-dock-workspace/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/07/dockside-mac-dock-workspace/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6bf60d1 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/dockside-mac-dock-workspace/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/dockside-mac-dock-workspace/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/dockside-mac-dock-workspace/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9accd5f --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/dockside-mac-dock-workspace/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Dockside" +subtitle: "Turns the empty space around the macOS Dock into a widget workspace" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://hachipoo.com/dockside-app" +linkText: "hachipoo.com" +source: "Hacker News — Show HN" +topics: [macos-apps] +tags: [macos, dock, widgets, indie] +description: "A single-purpose Mac utility that fills the unused screen space flanking the Dock with live widgets instead of leaving it as dead wallpaper." +--- + +Dockside claims the unused screen real estate flanking the macOS Dock and turns it into a small live widget workspace, rather than leaving it as dead wallpaper. A single-purpose utility that exploits screen geometry Apple never gave a job to. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/doorless-shrine-of-gogni/hero.webp b/src/content/find/2026/07/doorless-shrine-of-gogni/hero.webp new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5309d9f Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/doorless-shrine-of-gogni/hero.webp differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/doorless-shrine-of-gogni/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/doorless-shrine-of-gogni/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..66501c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/doorless-shrine-of-gogni/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Doorless Shrine of Gogni" +subtitle: "The Georgian mountain shrine whose doors never survive" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/doorless-shrine-of-gogni" +linkText: "atlasobscura.com" +source: "Atlas Obscura" +topics: [travel] +tags: [georgia, shrine, pilgrimage, folklore] +description: "A Georgian mountain shrine locals call 'door-thrown-off' — no door installed here has ever survived, so it stays open to visitors around the clock." +--- + +Georgians call this holy-mountain shrine "Karugdebeli" — "door-thrown-off" — because as long as anyone can remember, no door installed here has survived, leaving it open to visitors around the clock. The first shrine on the site dates to the 7th or 8th century CE, and local legend reads the missing doors as divine intervention rather than vandalism. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/dsptch-mono-sling/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/dsptch-mono-sling/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d1e7821 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/dsptch-mono-sling/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/dsptch-mono-sling/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/dsptch-mono-sling/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b26d6a --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/dsptch-mono-sling/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "DSPTCH Mono Sling" +subtitle: "A 9L commuter sling with a 3-way strap and a real water-bottle pocket" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.dsptch.com/collections/mono-sling" +linkText: "dsptch.com" +source: "Carryology" +topics: [tools, clothing, gifts] +tags: [bags, edc, travel] +description: "A 9-liter, USA-made sling with a 3-way strap, a 14-inch laptop sleeve, and a dedicated water-bottle pocket." +--- + +The Mono Sling's 3-way strap switches between cross-body, shoulder, and backpack carry without extra hardware, fitting a 14-inch laptop and a dedicated external water-bottle pocket into a compact 9-liter shape. Made in the USA in Dyneema, X-Pac, or Ultra fabric with a lifetime guarantee. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/eley-hose-nozzle/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/eley-hose-nozzle/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f3c3008 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/eley-hose-nozzle/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/eley-hose-nozzle/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/eley-hose-nozzle/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8489474 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/eley-hose-nozzle/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Eley Hose Nozzle" +subtitle: "A brass swivel hose nozzle built to outlast the plastic kind" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.eleyhosereels.com/products/swiveling-pistol-grip-spray-gun" +linkText: "eleyhosereels.com" +source: "r/BuyItForLife" +topics: [tools, gifts] +tags: [outdoor, garden, bifl] +description: "A brass-and-rubber garden hose nozzle with a swivel joint and sturdy trigger, praised on r/BuyItForLife for outlasting plastic nozzles many times over." +--- + +A BuyItForLife thread erupted over this brass-and-rubber spray gun's swivel joint and soft, even spray, with owners reporting years of daily watering and zero degradation — well past the half-season lifespan of typical plastic hose nozzles. Eley sells it factory-direct rather than through Amazon, and the sturdy on/off trigger is the whole point: a small, unglamorous object where durability is the entire feature. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/goal-zero-lighthouse-600-lantern/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/goal-zero-lighthouse-600-lantern/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2729537 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/goal-zero-lighthouse-600-lantern/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/goal-zero-lighthouse-600-lantern/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/goal-zero-lighthouse-600-lantern/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ed4f559 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/goal-zero-lighthouse-600-lantern/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Goal Zero Lighthouse 600 Camping Lantern" +subtitle: "A hand-crank lantern that also charges your phone in a blackout" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://goalzero.com/products/lighthouse-600-lantern-usb-power-hub" +linkText: "goalzero.com" +source: "Recomendo" +amazonLink: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HRM4J8Y" +topics: [tools, gifts] +tags: [emergency, lantern, camping, hand-crank] +description: "An adjustable 600-lumen LED lantern with USB phone charging and a hand crank for blackouts, credited with getting one family through an 18-hour outage." +--- + +An adjustable LED lantern with a built-in battery that charges phones over USB, plus a hand crank as manual backup — one minute of cranking buys ten minutes of light with no batteries or wall power needed. Mark Frauenfelder credits it with getting his family through an 18-hour outage. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/groupctrl/hero.gif b/src/content/find/2026/07/groupctrl/hero.gif new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d55b0d8 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/groupctrl/hero.gif differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/groupctrl/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/groupctrl/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a661fac --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/groupctrl/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "GroupCtrl" +subtitle: "A workflow-based, git-configurable alternative to Cmd+Tab" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://github.com/brodmo/GroupCtrl" +linkText: "github.com" +source: "r/macapps" +topics: [macos-apps] +tags: [open-source, window-management, productivity, free] +description: "A free, GPL-3.0 Mac app switcher that replaces Cmd+Tab with named, git-versionable groups of apps configured in a plain YAML file." +--- + +GroupCtrl rebuilds Cmd+Tab around named groups of apps — say Bloom, BBEdit, and Preview under "Files" — that you switch between instead of memorizing a hotkey per app. The config lives in a git-friendly YAML file, so your groups are versionable and shareable like dotfiles. Free and GPL-3.0. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/half-life-2-in-browser/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/half-life-2-in-browser/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c096699 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/half-life-2-in-browser/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Half-Life 2 in Your Browser" +subtitle: "The full 2004 classic, playable free with no download" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://hl2.slqnt.dev/" +linkText: "hl2.slqnt.dev" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [gaming, web-toy, nostalgia, browser-game] +description: "The full 2004 game Half-Life 2, headcrabs and all, running free inside a browser tab with no download required." +--- + +Not a demo or a tribute — as far as anyone can tell, this is the entire original Half-Life 2 running inside a browser tab for free, headcrabs and all. A genuinely startling piece of web engineering wrapped around a beloved 2004 classic. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/hello-kitty-cafe-las-vegas/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/hello-kitty-cafe-las-vegas/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aad4cdd Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/hello-kitty-cafe-las-vegas/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/hello-kitty-cafe-las-vegas/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/hello-kitty-cafe-las-vegas/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d09c9f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/hello-kitty-cafe-las-vegas/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Hello Kitty Cafe (Las Vegas)" +subtitle: "A bright pink container cafe tucked inside a Strip park" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hello-kitty-cafe-at-the-park-mgm-las-vegas" +linkText: "atlasobscura.com" +source: "Atlas Obscura" +topics: [travel] +tags: [las-vegas, novelty, cafe, hello-kitty] +description: "A bright pink, container-style Hello Kitty cafe sits inside The Park's rare patch of Las Vegas Strip greenery, with room for outdoor picnics." +--- + +In the middle of the Strip sits an unlikely oasis: a Hello Kitty cafe operating out of a bright pink, container-like structure inside The Park's rare stretch of Vegas greenery. Unlike its sister locations, it has room for a proper outdoor picnic, making it a memorable detour from the casino floor. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/horror-studies-archive-pittsburgh/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/horror-studies-archive-pittsburgh/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..70edece Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/horror-studies-archive-pittsburgh/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/horror-studies-archive-pittsburgh/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/horror-studies-archive-pittsburgh/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7a80c6b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/horror-studies-archive-pittsburgh/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Horror Studies Archive" +subtitle: "The world's only academic center devoted to the horror genre" +date: 2026-07-04 +shortlist: true +link: "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/horror-studies-archive" +linkText: "atlasobscura.com" +source: "Atlas Obscura" +topics: [travel] +tags: [horror, archive, film, pittsburgh] +description: "The University of Pittsburgh built the world's first academic center for horror studies around George Romero's donated production archive." +--- + +When George Romero's family offered to donate 100 boxes of his manuscripts, letters, and marketing materials, the University of Pittsburgh said yes — then built the world's first center for the academic study of horror around it. Romero shot nearly a dozen films around Pittsburgh, including Night of the Living Dead, making this a fitting home for the collection. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/igloo-little-playmate/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/igloo-little-playmate/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d2ea51 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/igloo-little-playmate/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/igloo-little-playmate/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/igloo-little-playmate/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2cd4cb6 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/igloo-little-playmate/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Igloo Little Playmate" +subtitle: "The compact lunch cooler that's outlasted three decades of daily use" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.igloocoolers.com/products/retro-little-playmate-cooler" +linkText: "igloocoolers.com" +source: "r/BuyItForLife" +topics: [gifts, tools] +tags: [cooler, lunchbox, bifl] +description: "A small Igloo cooler that's served one Redditor's father as a daily lunchbox for 30-plus years, now revived with its original side push-button latch." +--- + +A Redditor's father has carried the same Igloo Little Playmate as his daily lunchbox for over 30 years — the one before it lasted just as long. Igloo recently revived the classic with its original side push-button latch, a plain, cheap, unglamorous object whose entire virtue is refusing to fail under daily abuse. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/inkerie-rechargeable-led-book-light/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/inkerie-rechargeable-led-book-light/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d14419a Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/inkerie-rechargeable-led-book-light/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/inkerie-rechargeable-led-book-light/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/inkerie-rechargeable-led-book-light/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..70863c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/inkerie-rechargeable-led-book-light/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Inkerie Rechargeable LED Book Light" +subtitle: "A clip-on reading light that skips the disposable coin cells" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.kikkerland.com/products/inkerie-rechargeable-led-book-light" +linkText: "kikkerland.com" +source: "Kikkerland" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [reading, home, gifts] +description: "A rechargeable clip-on book light with multiple brightness settings, built to avoid the disposable coin cells most clip lights need." +--- + +This clip light attaches to almost any book or headboard and cycles through several brightness settings off one rechargeable battery, skipping the disposable coin cells most clip lights rely on. A small, well-made object aimed at a daily habit: reading in bed without waking a partner. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/jerry-gretzinger-imaginary-land-map/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/jerry-gretzinger-imaginary-land-map/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..30ddee7 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/jerry-gretzinger-imaginary-land-map/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Jerry Gretzinger's Imaginary Land Map" +subtitle: "One man's hand-drawn map of a fictional country, in progress since 1963" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.jerrysmap.com/the-map" +linkText: "jerrysmap.com" +source: "Open Culture" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [outsider-art, map, archive, curiosity] +description: "Since 1963, one man has drawn and revised a map of an invented country now made of thousands of hand-drawn panels." +--- + +Since 1963, Jerry Gretzinger has been drawing and continually revising a map of an entirely invented country, now thousands of individually hand-made panels — an outsider-art obsession that has quietly become one of the great ongoing personal art projects. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/joke-boa-constructor/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/joke-boa-constructor/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d889b7c --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/joke-boa-constructor/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +--- +name: "Boa constructor" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/" +linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com" +source: "icanhazdadjoke" +topics: [dad-jokes] +tags: [animals, pun, wordplay] +description: "A wholesome, immediately gettable homophone pun about a snake who builds houses for a living." +--- + +What do you call a snake who builds houses? A boa constructor. A wholesome homophone pun that's immediately gettable — the platonic ideal of a dad joke. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/joke-bookmark-brian/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/joke-bookmark-brian/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..610535d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/joke-bookmark-brian/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Can I have a bookmark?" +subtitle: "Eleven years old and he still doesn't know my name" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1umt0bp/today_my_son_asked_can_i_have_a_bookmark/" +linkText: "reddit.com/r/dadjokes" +source: "r/dadjokes" +topics: [dad-jokes] +tags: [wordplay, meta, fresh] +description: "A twist on the 'Hi Hungry, I'm Dad' template, where the punchline subverts expectations since the dad's name isn't Brian." +--- + +Today my son asked, "Can I have a bookmark?" I burst into tears — eleven years old and he still doesn't know my name is Brian. A twist on the classic "Hi Hungry, I'm Dad" template that sets up the expected name-pun and then subverts it, since the dad's real name doesn't match. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/joke-orca-instruments/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/joke-orca-instruments/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..86c18fa --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/joke-orca-instruments/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +--- +name: "Orca-stra" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/" +linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com" +source: "icanhazdadjoke" +topics: [dad-jokes] +tags: [animals, music, pun] +description: "A one-beat pun about a group of killer whales playing instruments together in an orca-stra." +--- + +What do you call a group of killer whales playing instruments? An orca-stra. A clean one-beat pun that lands the wordplay without any setup padding — the kind of tight groaner the format rewards. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/klein-11-in-1-screwdriver/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/klein-11-in-1-screwdriver/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..156d062 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/klein-11-in-1-screwdriver/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/klein-11-in-1-screwdriver/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/klein-11-in-1-screwdriver/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e5e498d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/klein-11-in-1-screwdriver/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Klein 11-in-1 Screwdriver" +subtitle: "The multi-bit driver a Repair Cafe volunteer calls a magic key" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.kleintools.com/catalog/multi-bit-nut-drivers/11-1-multi-bit-screwdrivernut-driver-phillips-slotted-square-torx" +linkText: "kleintools.com" +source: "Cool Tools" +topics: [tools] +tags: [repair, hand-tools, edc, multi-bit] +description: "An 11-bit screwdriver that opens nearly any household appliance, recommended by a Repair Cafe volunteer as a 'magic key.'" +--- + +An 11-bit screwdriver that opens nearly any household appliance despite the mismatched screws manufacturers use, recommended by a retired airline pilot who volunteers at Repair Cafes. He calls it "a magic key" — one tool standing in for a whole drawer of single-purpose drivers. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/korzybski-belief-doubt-thinking/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/korzybski-belief-doubt-thinking/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7c73547 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/korzybski-belief-doubt-thinking/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Alfred Korzybski on believing vs. doubting" +subtitle: "Both save us from actually thinking" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://wordsmith.org/words/comstock_lode.html" +linkText: "wordsmith.org" +source: "A.Word.A.Day" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [philosophy, skepticism, thinking] +description: "Alfred Korzybski's paradox that believing everything and doubting everything are both convenient ways of avoiding the harder work of actual thinking." +--- + +"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." A.Word.A.Day's Thought for Today credits engineer-mathematician-philosopher Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950), founder of general semantics, with the line — a tidy paradox skewering credulity and cynicism as equally lazy postures. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/la-fantaisie-paris-art-suite/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/la-fantaisie-paris-art-suite/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f1478bc Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/la-fantaisie-paris-art-suite/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/la-fantaisie-paris-art-suite/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/la-fantaisie-paris-art-suite/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c273780 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/la-fantaisie-paris-art-suite/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "La Fantaisie's Living Gallery Suite" +subtitle: "A Paris hotel room turned nine-month art installation" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/hotels/la-fantaisie-paris-art-suite-by-szabolcs-bozo" +linkText: "wallpaper.com" +source: "Wallpaper* Travel" +topics: [travel] +tags: [paris, hotel, art, design] +description: "Room 607 at La Fantaisie Paris is artist Szabolcs Bozó's nine-month living gallery — a hotel suite you sleep inside rather than merely view." +--- + +Hungarian artist Szabolcs Bozó has turned Room 607 at La Fantaisie Paris into a nine-month living gallery of creatures, colour, and soft sculpture. Guests can book a night's sleep inside the artwork itself, rather than viewing it behind glass in a museum. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/lifts-in-film/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/lifts-in-film/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..833d6c7 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/lifts-in-film/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/lifts-in-film/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/lifts-in-film/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..949a617 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/lifts-in-film/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Lifts in Film" +subtitle: "A curated archive of elevator scenes across movies and TV" +date: 2026-07-04 +shortlist: true +link: "https://www.liftsinfilm.com" +linkText: "liftsinfilm.com" +source: "Kottke.org" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [film, archive, elevators, curiosity] +description: "An entire archive devoted to cataloguing elevator scenes across film and TV, from Speed to The Shining to Mad Men." +--- + +An entire archive devoted to a single hyper-specific obsession: elevator scenes, collected across Speed, The Shining, Drive, Mad Men, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, The Silence of the Lambs, and dozens more. The kind of gloriously overspecialized cataloguing project that makes you watch films differently. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/london-notebook-writing/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/london-notebook-writing/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..438a66d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/london-notebook-writing/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Jack London on keeping a notebook" +subtitle: "Slap into it every stray thought" +date: 2026-07-04 +shortlist: true +link: "https://quoteinvestigator.com/2026/06/27/keep-notebook/" +linkText: "quoteinvestigator.com" +source: "Quote Investigator" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [writing, creativity, advice] +description: "Jack London's advice to carry a notebook everywhere and capture every stray thought, verified back to his own 1903 essay." +--- + +"Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain." Quote Investigator traces the line to Jack London's own 1903 essay "Getting into Print" in The Editor, later corroborated by his widow Charmian's 1921 biography — verified against the original trade-press source, not a floating meme. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/looming-head-of-janis-zvidra/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/looming-head-of-janis-zvidra/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..acfe920 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/looming-head-of-janis-zvidra/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/looming-head-of-janis-zvidra/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/looming-head-of-janis-zvidra/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b81d00 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/looming-head-of-janis-zvidra/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "The Looming Head of Jānis Zvīdra" +subtitle: "An oversized Soviet stone head staring into a Latvian train junction" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-looming-head-of-janis-zvidra" +linkText: "atlasobscura.com" +source: "Atlas Obscura" +topics: [travel] +tags: [latvia, soviet, monument, oddity] +description: "A monumental Soviet-era stone head near Rēzekne's train junction memorializes Jānis Zvīdra, a teenage communist activist killed in 1920." +--- + +On a grassy corner near the Rēzekne train-station junction sits an oversized, intensely stoic stone head staring into the distance — a Soviet monument to Jānis Zvīdra, a local teenager turned communist activist killed by Latvian security forces in 1920 at age 25. A textbook example of the Soviet habit of turning local youths into monumental legends. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/maratac-titan-war-claw-multitool/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/maratac-titan-war-claw-multitool/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..971fc33 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/maratac-titan-war-claw-multitool/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/maratac-titan-war-claw-multitool/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/maratac-titan-war-claw-multitool/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..74abc7e --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/maratac-titan-war-claw-multitool/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Maratac Titan War Claw Multitool" +subtitle: "A 0.35oz titanium keychain tool with six functions" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://countycomm.com/products/titan-war-claw-multi-tool-maratac" +linkText: "countycomm.com" +source: "The Awesomer" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [edc, titanium, keychain, multitool] +description: "A 0.35oz titanium keychain multitool packing a box cutter, driver, pry bar, bottle opener, and ferro-rod striker into 3.5 inches." +--- + +A titanium keychain tool light enough (0.35 oz, 3.5 inches) to forget you're carrying, but it packs a serrated box cutter, flathead driver, pry bar, bottle opener, bit driver, and ferro-rod striker. The kind of unglamorous EDC upgrade that replaces five drawer tools with one keyring attachment. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/new-world-champion-paper-airplane-book/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/new-world-champion-paper-airplane-book/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..153bbfb Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/new-world-champion-paper-airplane-book/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/new-world-champion-paper-airplane-book/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/new-world-champion-paper-airplane-book/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f9091f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/new-world-champion-paper-airplane-book/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book" +subtitle: "Aeronautically tested folds, including a 226-foot record design" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://kk.org/cooltools/projectiles/" +linkText: "kk.org/cooltools" +source: "Cool Tools" +amazonLink: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1607743884" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [book, paper-airplanes, kids, gift] +description: "A book of aeronautically tested paper airplane designs, including a 226-foot record-setting fold, for kids and adults alike." +--- + +Third-generation folding plans developed with real aeronautical testing rather than schoolyard folklore — the book's winning design flew a record 226 feet. Kevin Kelly's pitch: the ultimate paper airplane still hasn't been invented, and these plans are the tools to go try. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/nomido-word-game/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/07/nomido-word-game/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe32069 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/nomido-word-game/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/nomido-word-game/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/nomido-word-game/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..434e5d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/nomido-word-game/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Nomido" +subtitle: "The Browser's daily word game" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://thebrowser.com/nomido-game" +linkText: "thebrowser.com" +source: "The Browser" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [word-game, daily-puzzle, web-toy] +description: "A daily word puzzle from literary digest The Browser, in the same once-a-day, share-your-result vein as Wordle." +--- + +A daily word puzzle from the literary digest The Browser, in the same once-a-day, share-your-result vein as Wordle — a small ritual for readers who'd rather solve a puzzle than doomscroll. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/nusfjord-lofoten-norway/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/nusfjord-lofoten-norway/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1506163 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/nusfjord-lofoten-norway/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/nusfjord-lofoten-norway/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/nusfjord-lofoten-norway/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..30f5808 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/nusfjord-lofoten-norway/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Nusfjord" +subtitle: "One of Norway's oldest fishing villages, now a cultured Arctic getaway" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/nusfjord-lofoten-islands-norway-guide" +linkText: "wallpaper.com" +source: "Wallpaper* Travel" +topics: [travel] +tags: [norway, lofoten, fishing-village, arctic] +description: "Nusfjord, one of Norway's oldest fishing villages on the Lofoten archipelago, has become a surprisingly rich summer arts destination above the Arctic Circle." +--- + +Culture has found an unlikely stage in Nusfjord, one of Norway's oldest and most dramatically situated settlements on the Lofoten archipelago — a preserved timber fishing village above the Arctic Circle that has become a surprisingly rich summer destination. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/origin-myth-map/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/origin-myth-map/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..51523a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/origin-myth-map/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Origin Myth Map" +subtitle: "Creation myths of the world's civilizations, plotted on one map" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://originmap.sunnyguha.com/" +linkText: "originmap.sunnyguha.com" +source: "Hacker News — Show HN" +topics: [tools] +tags: [web-toy, mythology, map, culture] +description: "An interactive world map plotting creation and origin myths from cultures worldwide, browsable by geography instead of chapter." +--- + +Plots creation and origin myths from cultures worldwide onto an interactive world map, so you can click from the Popol Vuh to the Kojiki to Norse cosmogony by geography instead of by textbook chapter. A browsing rabbit hole for people who like their trivia mapped rather than listed. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/osaurus/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/07/osaurus/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fcc53ab Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/osaurus/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/osaurus/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/osaurus/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a450c26 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/osaurus/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Osaurus" +subtitle: "Fully offline, open-source local AI for your Mac" +date: 2026-07-04 +shortlist: true +link: "https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus" +linkText: "github.com" +source: "r/macapps" +topics: [macos-apps] +tags: [ai, open-source, local-llm, privacy] +description: "MIT-licensed Swift app that runs local LLMs natively on Apple Silicon with memory, tools, and scheduling, plus an on-device privacy filter for cloud calls." +--- + +Osaurus runs local LLMs natively in Swift on Apple Silicon rather than through Python bindings like Ollama or LM Studio, and layers on memory, tools, and scheduling those lack. It is MIT-licensed and free; even when you opt into a cloud model, an on-device filter scrubs names, emails, and secrets before anything leaves the Mac. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/otoset-ear-cleaning-system/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/otoset-ear-cleaning-system/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..901b84c Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/otoset-ear-cleaning-system/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/otoset-ear-cleaning-system/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/otoset-ear-cleaning-system/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7b9e14b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/otoset-ear-cleaning-system/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "OtoSet Ear Cleaning System" +subtitle: "FDA-cleared automated earwax removal, headphone-style" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://otoset.com/" +linkText: "otoset.com" +source: "This Is Why I'm Broke" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [health, ear-care, gadget, fda-cleared] +description: "An FDA-cleared headphone-shaped device that flushes both ear canals at once, clearing earwax without cotton swabs or a clinic visit." +--- + +An FDA-cleared device shaped like a pair of headphones that delivers cleaning solution into both ear canals at once and clears wax without cotton swabs or a clinic visit. A genuinely specific medical-adjacent gadget rather than a generic wellness accessory. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/pb-swiss-tools-precision-screwdriver-set/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/pb-swiss-tools-precision-screwdriver-set/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba983b2 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/pb-swiss-tools-precision-screwdriver-set/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/pb-swiss-tools-precision-screwdriver-set/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/pb-swiss-tools-precision-screwdriver-set/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ce0b5c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/pb-swiss-tools-precision-screwdriver-set/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "PB Swiss Tools Precision Screwdriver Set" +subtitle: "A Swiss-made electronics screwdriver set with spring-steel tips that don't strip" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://pbswisstools.us/collections/screwdrivers" +linkText: "pbswisstools.us" +source: "r/BuyItForLife" +topics: [tools, gifts] +tags: [edc, precision, bifl] +description: "A Swiss-made precision screwdriver kit whose spring-steel tips and free-spinning caps hold up under years of micro-electronics repair work." +--- + +A long-term owner explains why a Slotted/Phillips/Torx/Hex/Pentalobe kit built from PB Swiss Tools' precision electronics line holds up for micro-electronics work: smooth-spinning end caps allow constant one-finger pressure, and a proprietary spring-steel alloy resists cam-out without turning brittle. The metallurgy is the feature, and a lifetime warranty backs every tip. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/pixel-a-go-go/hero.webp b/src/content/find/2026/07/pixel-a-go-go/hero.webp new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1e5ec0e Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/pixel-a-go-go/hero.webp differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/pixel-a-go-go/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/pixel-a-go-go/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..335f1c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/pixel-a-go-go/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Pixel a Go-Go" +subtitle: "GameBoy Camera-style filters and retro screenshot upscaling for iOS" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://pixel.cameron.software/" +linkText: "pixel.cameron.software" +source: "Hacker News — Show HN" +topics: [tools] +tags: [ios, retro, photography, gameboy] +description: "An iPhone app that recreates the dithered 1998 GameBoy Camera look and upscales those deliberately crude images for sharing or printing." +--- + +Pixel a Go-Go recreates the low-res, dithered look of the 1998 GameBoy Camera on an iPhone, then upscales those deliberately crude images back up for sharing or printing. A specific, well-loved photographic aesthetic revived as a pocket app rather than a hunted-down eBay accessory. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/plant-atlas-clay-houseplants/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/plant-atlas-clay-houseplants/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bfc948e Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/plant-atlas-clay-houseplants/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/plant-atlas-clay-houseplants/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/plant-atlas-clay-houseplants/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38c329b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/plant-atlas-clay-houseplants/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Plant Atlas" +subtitle: "114 houseplants, each rendered as a tiny clay sculpture" +date: 2026-07-04 +shortlist: true +link: "https://sheets.works/plant-atlas/" +linkText: "sheets.works" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [houseplants, art, archive, clay] +description: "A field guide to 114 houseplants where every entry is illustrated with a handmade clay sculpture set in its native homeland." +--- + +A field guide to 114 houseplants where every entry is illustrated with a handmade clay sculpture set in a pot representing the plant's homeland — an unusually tactile, artful way to browse an otherwise ordinary plant-care reference. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/portable-manual-feeding-glue-gun/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/portable-manual-feeding-glue-gun/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bb3b83e Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/portable-manual-feeding-glue-gun/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/portable-manual-feeding-glue-gun/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/portable-manual-feeding-glue-gun/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8329dcc --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/portable-manual-feeding-glue-gun/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Portable Manual-Feeding Glue Gun" +subtitle: "A cordless, manual-feed glue gun for crafting anywhere" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://store.moma.org/products/portable-manual-feeding-glue-gun" +linkText: "store.moma.org" +source: "MoMA Design Store" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [tools, craft, gifts] +description: "A cordless Hoto glue gun with manual stick feeding for finer control, light enough to carry from room to room." +--- + +This Hoto-made glue gun drops the cord and the trigger-fed stick for manual feeding, giving finer control on delicate work while staying light enough to carry room to room. Built for both kids and adults — a genuinely useful crafting tool rather than a toy version of one. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/promate-sea-slender-rx-dive-mask/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/promate-sea-slender-rx-dive-mask/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a9979e0 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/promate-sea-slender-rx-dive-mask/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/promate-sea-slender-rx-dive-mask/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/promate-sea-slender-rx-dive-mask/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7442b2e --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/promate-sea-slender-rx-dive-mask/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Promate Sea Slender Rx Dive Mask" +subtitle: "A scuba mask built to take real prescription lenses, from $60" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://getwetstore.com/collections/scuba-diving-dive-masks/products/promate-sea-slender-scuba-dive-mask-rx-able-mk275-rx" +linkText: "getwetstore.com" +source: "Recomendo" +topics: [tools, travel] +tags: [scuba, prescription, travel, accessibility] +description: "A prescription-ready dive mask that fits real optical lenses up to a -10 correction, letting near-sighted swimmers see clearly underwater for about $60." +--- + +A dive mask made to accept real prescription lenses — up to a -10 correction — so severely near-sighted swimmers aren't left snorkeling blind. Kevin Kelly says it turned his wife from a bystander into a full participant on family snorkeling trips, for about $60. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/ps-bruce-short/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/ps-bruce-short/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b0c87b Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/ps-bruce-short/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/ps-bruce-short/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/ps-bruce-short/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..499d3a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/ps-bruce-short/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "The Bruce Short" +subtitle: "Permanent Style's chino short, cut from the same cloth as the Bruce chino" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.permanentstyle.com/2026/06/introducing-the-bruce-short.html" +linkText: "permanentstyle.com" +source: "Permanent Style" +topics: [clothing] +tags: [menswear, chinos, made-in-italy] +description: "Permanent Style's chino short, cut from the same strong-twill cotton, sizing, and colorways as its popular Bruce chino, made in Italy and sold direct." +--- + +Permanent Style extended its popular Bruce chino into a short using the identical strong right-hand cotton twill, sizing, and colorways (beige, khaki, plus a new navy), so buyers match sizes and colors across both pieces. Pre-washed against shrinkage and made in Italy by East Harbour Surplus, sold direct. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/retractable-cable-luggage-lock/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/retractable-cable-luggage-lock/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9f41d77 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/retractable-cable-luggage-lock/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/retractable-cable-luggage-lock/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/retractable-cable-luggage-lock/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ae0f7c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/retractable-cable-luggage-lock/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Retractable Cable Luggage Lock" +subtitle: "A pull-out steel cable that locks through any zipper or handle" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://kk.org/cooltools/cable-luggage-lock-compact-speaker-duffel-bag-in-a-pouch/" +linkText: "kk.org/cooltools" +source: "Cool Tools" +amazonLink: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YMZ5DI" +topics: [tools, gifts] +tags: [travel, security, luggage, edc] +description: "A retractable steel cable lock that threads through a suitcase's zippers or handles to deter opportunistic theft while traveling." +--- + +A retractable steel cable lock that threads through a suitcase's zipper pulls or handles, so a bag left unattended for a moment on a train can't simply be lifted and walked off with. Cheap, compact, and small enough to live permanently in a daypack. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/rockin-corkscrew/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/rockin-corkscrew/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..81ccb0f Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/rockin-corkscrew/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/rockin-corkscrew/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/rockin-corkscrew/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4f00d03 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/rockin-corkscrew/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Rockin' Corkscrew" +subtitle: "A working waiter's corkscrew cast as an electric guitar" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.kikkerland.com/products/rockin-corkscrew" +linkText: "kikkerland.com" +source: "Kikkerland" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [kitchen, bar, gifts] +description: "A waiter's-style corkscrew cast as a miniature electric guitar — a bar-cart conversation piece that still opens bottles." +--- + +A standard waiter's-style corkscrew mechanism cast in the shape of an electric guitar, doubling as a bar-cart conversation piece and an actual working tool. A simple idea executed well rather than a gag gift that breaks after one bottle. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/roland-50-studio/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/07/roland-50-studio/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7c5a58 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/roland-50-studio/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/roland-50-studio/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/roland-50-studio/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5ba2835 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/roland-50-studio/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "The Roland 50 Studio" +subtitle: "An interactive tribute to 50 years of Roland's instruments" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://roland50.studio/" +linkText: "roland50.studio" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [music, web-toy, design, instruments] +description: "A lavishly built browser tribute to 50 years of Roland's synths and drum machines, flagged as an honest multi-hour timesink." +--- + +A lavishly built, browser-based tribute marking 50 years of Roland's synths and drum machines — the kind of rabbit hole Web Curios flagged as an honest multi-hour timesink for anyone who falls down it. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/saya-irie-eraser-shavings/hero.webp b/src/content/find/2026/07/saya-irie-eraser-shavings/hero.webp new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d46a541 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/saya-irie-eraser-shavings/hero.webp differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/saya-irie-eraser-shavings/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/saya-irie-eraser-shavings/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04e9ed1 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/saya-irie-eraser-shavings/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Saya Irie's Eraser Shaving Sculptures" +subtitle: "Images erased, then recomposed from their own shavings" +date: 2026-07-04 +shortlist: true +link: "https://spoon-tamago.com/saya-irie-eraser-shavings" +linkText: "spoon-tamago.com" +source: "Kottke.org" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [art, sculpture, japan, curiosity] +description: "Japanese artist Saya Irie erases an image, then rebuilds it as a delicate 3D sculpture from the eraser's own shavings." +--- + +Japanese artist Saya Irie erases an image, then painstakingly uses the eraser shavings themselves to recompose it into a delicate three-dimensional sculpture — turning the literal byproduct of erasure into the artwork. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/sisyphus-kinetic-sand-art-display/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/sisyphus-kinetic-sand-art-display/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d6f915a Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/sisyphus-kinetic-sand-art-display/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/sisyphus-kinetic-sand-art-display/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/sisyphus-kinetic-sand-art-display/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f945044 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/sisyphus-kinetic-sand-art-display/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +name: "Sisyphus Kinetic Sand Art Display" +subtitle: "A steel ball endlessly redraws its own sand patterns beneath glass" +date: 2026-07-04 +shortlist: true +link: "https://sisyphus-industries.com/product/executive/" +linkText: "sisyphus-industries.com" +source: "This Is Why I'm Broke" +amazonLink: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085HGVL2N" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [kinetic-art, desk-object, sand-table, display] +description: "A tabletop kinetic sand table where a magnet-driven ball endlessly redraws abstract patterns beneath glass — the desk-scale version of the larger Sisyphus tables." +--- + +A small illuminated sand table where a magnet-driven metal ball continuously redraws an ever-changing abstract pattern, running unattended for hours. The tabletop version of the much larger Sisyphus installations — a genuine kinetic-art object rather than a desk toy. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/smart-laser-measure-tool/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/smart-laser-measure-tool/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e755910 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/smart-laser-measure-tool/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/smart-laser-measure-tool/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/smart-laser-measure-tool/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5ca1b19 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/smart-laser-measure-tool/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Smart Laser Measure Tool" +subtitle: "A one-button laser measure with an app that maps whole rooms" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://store.moma.org/products/smart-laser-measure-tool" +linkText: "store.moma.org" +source: "MoMA Design Store" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [tools, home, gifts] +description: "A Hoto laser measure with a steadier one-handed grip and a companion app that stitches readings into full floor plans." +--- + +Made by Hoto, this laser measure has a hollowed-out grip ring shaped for a steadier one-handed hold, plus a companion app that stitches individual measurements into full floor plans. A real upgrade for anyone sizing furniture or planning a gallery wall, not a rebadged basic unit. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/space-gun-frother/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/space-gun-frother/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2663571 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/space-gun-frother/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/space-gun-frother/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/space-gun-frother/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e76da1f --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/space-gun-frother/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Space Gun Frother" +subtitle: "A ray-gun-shaped handheld milk frother that actually froths" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.kikkerland.com/products/space-gun-frother" +linkText: "kikkerland.com" +source: "Kikkerland" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [kitchen, coffee, gifts] +description: "A retro ray-gun-shaped handheld frother that's a genuinely functional daily tool for coffee or hot chocolate." +--- + +This battery-powered whisk is molded into a retro ray-gun shape, but it is a genuinely functional milk frother for coffee or hot chocolate, not just a shelf object. The novelty shape earns its keep because it stays a tool you'd reach for each morning. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/sunrisetracker/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/07/sunrisetracker/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ad9675 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/sunrisetracker/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/sunrisetracker/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/sunrisetracker/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8fd80ae --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/sunrisetracker/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Sunrisetracker" +subtitle: "See exactly where on Earth the sun is rising right now" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.ohayoworld.com/en/" +linkText: "ohayoworld.com" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [web-toy, world-map, sunrise, curiosity] +description: "A live map that shows exactly where the sun is rising right now, letting you watch dawn sweep around the globe." +--- + +A simple, quietly mesmerizing live map that answers one question — where is the sun rising at this exact moment? — and lets you watch dawn sweep around the globe in real time. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/tamamon-desktop-pet/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/tamamon-desktop-pet/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f33d223 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/tamamon-desktop-pet/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Tamamon" +subtitle: "A desktop pet that grows as you code with Claude Code" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://tamamons.com" +linkText: "tamamons.com" +source: "Product Hunt" +topics: [macos-apps, tools] +tags: [desktop-pet, claude-code, novelty, indie] +description: "A tiny on-screen pet that levels up based on real Claude Code activity, turning terminal sessions into something with a visible, silly stake." +--- + +Tamamon is a tiny on-screen Tamagotchi-style pet that levels up in response to your actual coding activity in Claude Code, turning terminal sessions into something with a visible, slightly silly stake. It only grows if you actually do the work. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/thai-beef-noodle-soup-52-years/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/07/thai-beef-noodle-soup-52-years/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4e98add Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/thai-beef-noodle-soup-52-years/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/thai-beef-noodle-soup-52-years/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/thai-beef-noodle-soup-52-years/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a407b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/thai-beef-noodle-soup-52-years/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "The 52-Year Simmering Noodle Soup" +subtitle: "A Bangkok beef noodle broth that has never stopped cooking since 1974" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/the-thai-beef-noodle-soup-that-has-been-continuously-simmering-for-52-years.html" +linkText: "openculture.com" +source: "Open Culture" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [thailand, food, bangkok, curiosity] +description: "A Bangkok noodle stall has kept the same beef broth continuously simmering for 52 years, day and night, since 1974." +--- + +Even as Bangkok racks up Michelin stars, locals point you to a humbler landmark: a beef noodle soup stall (Wattana Panich) whose broth pot has been kept continuously simmering, day and night, for 52 years — arguably the city's most memorable bowl precisely because of its uninterrupted history. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/timebarx/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/07/timebarx/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..834c7b6 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/timebarx/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/timebarx/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/timebarx/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2dab8ae --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/timebarx/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "TimeBarX" +subtitle: "A Mac timer where the whole menu bar is the countdown" +date: 2026-07-04 +shortlist: true +link: "https://gettimebarx.com/" +linkText: "gettimebarx.com" +source: "r/macapps" +topics: [macos-apps] +tags: [menu-bar, productivity, focus, utility] +description: "A Mac menu-bar timer that turns the entire bar into a draining progress indicator across every connected display, not just a corner icon." +--- + +TimeBarX turns the entire menu bar into the countdown: a thin progress bar drains across the top of every connected display in real time, so time-remaining is a glance rather than a click. It spans multiple monitors, which most menu-bar timers skip. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/trovelo/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/trovelo/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6a39ff1 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/trovelo/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Trovelo" +subtitle: "A private trip planner with no accounts, subscription, or servers" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trovelo-private-trip-planner/id6760258252" +linkText: "apps.apple.com" +source: "r/macapps" +topics: [macos-apps] +tags: [travel, privacy, utility, one-time-purchase] +description: "A native Mac trip planner that replaces scattered Maps tabs and spreadsheets, syncing privately over iCloud with no accounts or Trovelo servers." +--- + +Trovelo replaces the usual scatter of Maps tabs, Notes, and spreadsheets for trip planning with one native Mac app that stores everything privately over iCloud only — no Trovelo servers, no account. Where TripIt charges yearly and Wanderlog is ad-supported, the pro tier is a one-time $1.99; the free tier covers 3 active trips and 50 cards. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/uncovered-book-first-pages/hero.png b/src/content/find/2026/07/uncovered-book-first-pages/hero.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..128aa6b Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/uncovered-book-first-pages/hero.png differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/uncovered-book-first-pages/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/uncovered-book-first-pages/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ae06d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/uncovered-book-first-pages/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Uncovered" +subtitle: "Tinder, but for the first pages of novels" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://uncovered.ink/" +linkText: "uncovered.ink" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [books, web-toy, reading, discovery] +description: "Swipe through opening pages of unfamiliar novels and match with whichever ones hook you, skipping blurbs and star ratings entirely." +--- + +Swipe through the opening pages of unfamiliar novels, judging each purely on its first lines, and match with whichever ones hook you — a clever, low-friction way to find a next read that sidesteps blurbs and star ratings entirely. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/unfold-quicklook/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/unfold-quicklook/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d7c5348 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/unfold-quicklook/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/unfold-quicklook/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/unfold-quicklook/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b775a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/unfold-quicklook/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Unfold" +subtitle: "Quick Look for folders, archives, source code, and LaTeX" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://flew.gg/projects/unfold" +linkText: "flew.gg" +source: "r/macapps" +topics: [macos-apps] +tags: [quick-look, finder, utility, productivity] +description: "A macOS Quick Look extension adding spacebar previews for folders, archives, source code, LaTeX, eBooks, and comics that Finder can't otherwise show." +--- + +Unfold plugs the gaps in macOS's native Quick Look, adding spacebar previews for folders, archives, source code, LaTeX, eBooks, and comics that Finder can't otherwise show without opening a dedicated app. Unlike developer-focused rivals, it targets the file types ordinary users pile up. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/van-gogh-voice-paint/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/van-gogh-voice-paint/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f101f41 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/van-gogh-voice-paint/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Van Gogh on silencing self-doubt" +subtitle: "Paint all the more, and the voice goes quiet" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://quoteinvestigator.com/2026/06/24/voice-paint/" +linkText: "quoteinvestigator.com" +source: "Quote Investigator" +topics: [quotes] +tags: [art, self-doubt, perseverance] +description: "A line from Van Gogh's 1883 letter to his brother Theo on quieting self-doubt by simply continuing to paint." +--- + +"If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." Van Gogh wrote this to his brother Theo on October 28, 1883, from Drenthe; Quote Investigator confirms the original Dutch via the Van Gogh Museum's letter archive and traces the English wording to a 1927 letters compilation — genuine primary-source provenance. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/vancouver-crow-nesting-zone/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/vancouver-crow-nesting-zone/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..31c7c3e Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/vancouver-crow-nesting-zone/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/vancouver-crow-nesting-zone/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/vancouver-crow-nesting-zone/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe9d533 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/vancouver-crow-nesting-zone/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Vancouver Crow Nesting Zone" +subtitle: "Thousands of crows roost on the same five blocks every night" +date: 2026-07-04 +shortlist: true +link: "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/vancouver-crow-nesting-zone" +linkText: "atlasobscura.com" +source: "Atlas Obscura" +topics: [travel] +tags: [wildlife, birds, vancouver, nature] +description: "Every crow in Vancouver's Lower Mainland converges nightly on five blocks of Still Creek Drive in Burnaby, then disperses again at dawn." +--- + +Every crow from Vancouver's sprawling Lower Mainland converges on the same five-block stretch of Still Creek Drive in Burnaby each dusk, then disperses again at dawn — a loud, massive, genuinely bizarre migration spectacle. A second-floor McDonald's on Willingdon Avenue is one of the best vantage points for watching it. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/virtual-criterion-closet/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/virtual-criterion-closet/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc314d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/virtual-criterion-closet/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "The Virtual Criterion Closet" +subtitle: "A browsable 3D replica of the famous Criterion Collection closet" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://the-criterion-closet.vercel.app/" +linkText: "the-criterion-closet.vercel.app" +source: "Web Curios" +topics: [general-delight] +tags: [film, web-toy, 3d, criterion] +description: "A 3D recreation of the Criterion Collection's famous closet that lets you virtually browse and pull discs off the shelf." +--- + +A 3D recreation of the Criterion Collection's famous closet — the one visiting directors get photographed picking films from — that lets you virtually browse and pull discs off the shelf yourself. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/wooden-mini-wrench-tool/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/wooden-mini-wrench-tool/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f47708 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/wooden-mini-wrench-tool/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/wooden-mini-wrench-tool/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/wooden-mini-wrench-tool/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e9f920f --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/wooden-mini-wrench-tool/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +name: "Wooden Mini Wrench Tool" +subtitle: "A pocket-size multi-tool shaped like a tiny adjustable wrench" +date: 2026-07-04 +link: "https://www.kikkerland.com/products/wooden-mini-wrench-tool" +linkText: "kikkerland.com" +source: "Kikkerland" +topics: [gifts] +tags: [tools, edc, gifts] +description: "A pocket multi-tool shaped like a mini adjustable wrench that folds into a knife, flathead bit, and bottle opener." +--- + +Shaped like a miniature adjustable wrench with a wood-toned handle, this pocket multi-tool folds out into a mini knife, flathead bit, and bottle opener. A genuine 4-in-1 EDC piece rather than a novelty keychain — small enough to actually carry and use. diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/yasujiro-ozu-house-kamakura/hero.jpg b/src/content/find/2026/07/yasujiro-ozu-house-kamakura/hero.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..db79412 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/content/find/2026/07/yasujiro-ozu-house-kamakura/hero.jpg differ diff --git a/src/content/find/2026/07/yasujiro-ozu-house-kamakura/index.mdx b/src/content/find/2026/07/yasujiro-ozu-house-kamakura/index.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a05f78b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/find/2026/07/yasujiro-ozu-house-kamakura/index.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +name: "Yasujirō Ozu's Former Home" +subtitle: "Sleep in the century-old Kita-Kamakura house where Ozu spent his final years" +date: 2026-07-04 +shortlist: true +link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/spend-a-night-at-the-house-of-the-legendary-filmmaker-yasujiro-ozu" +linkText: "wallpaper.com" +source: "Wallpaper* Travel" +topics: [travel] +tags: [japan, film, guesthouse, history] +description: "The century-old Kita-Kamakura house where Tokyo Story director Yasujirō Ozu lived his final years has reopened as a guesthouse for overnight guests." +--- + +Hidden in the hills of Kita-Kamakura, the century-old residence where Tokyo Story director Yasujirō Ozu lived out his final years has been restored as a guesthouse — a rare chance to stay inside a legendary filmmaker's private world rather than visit a museum about him.