content: 2026-07-29 capture run — 14 finds across 10 productive sources

candidate-sources.md

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 - **Considered and not nominated:** **Ignant** and **MyModernMet** both appeared as outbound credits this run, but on feed items dated well outside the window (2015 and 2024 respectively) — per the 07-22 rule, a credit that cannot be pointed back at inside the run is not a nomination. **Laughing Squid**, nominated 07-27, did not re-surface; still a first nomination, not yet a recurrence.
 - **Backlog unchanged and still the priority.** Highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai** (credited again this run, in Six Colors), **MetaFilter**, **Colossal** (credited again this run, in Kottke), **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**, plus **Calisphere** (07-25) and **Laughing Squid** (07-27). 17+ nominees stand unvetted — the fourteenth consecutive run past the 10+ nudge threshold. Adding any of them to `sources.json` remains a user decision.
 - **Still more urgent than any nomination, and the diagnosis has changed.** The four Reddit sources remain dark, but this is no longer the one-field paste error recorded since 07-22. Measured 2026-07-28: `REDDIT_CLIENT_ID` is now a correctly shaped 16-character ID with a 32-character secret, and the token endpoint still returns HTTP 401 across all three grant types. That points at a revoked registration or a rotated secret, so the fix is to regenerate credentials on the Reddit app page rather than to correct a field — see the 2026-07-28 capture-run entry in `daily-finds.log.md`.
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+### 2026-07-29 capture round
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+- **Sight Unseen** — https://www.sightunseen.com — design editorial founded by Jill Singer and Monica Khemsurov, covering independent furniture, objects and the studios making them. Surfaced by targeted search rather than an outbound credit, because this run produced no usable organic credit at all (the only real one, Kottke's "via open culture", points at a source already in rotation). The case: `sources.json` is thin on *object design* editorial — the design beat is currently carried by Kottke and MoMA Design Store, one of which is a link blog and the other a shop — and Sight Unseen writes about pieces before they reach a store, which is where the site's best design finds come from. **Feed probed and working this run:** `/feed/` returns 20 KB of clean RSS to plain curl, so it would go straight in as `fetch: "feed"`.
+- **Archive of Objects** — https://archiveofobjects.net — a curated catalogue of design objects organised into collections, the most on-brief of which is literally "100 Design Objects (Under $100) for Everyday Life". Nominated because the price ceiling is doing editorial work: it filters for the exact overlap this site keeps looking for, an object that is both genuinely designed and genuinely buyable. **Caveat recorded before anyone spends time on it:** the storefront is a Shopify-shaped site but `/collections/all/products.json` returns 404 (and the 404 page is served in Italian, suggesting a locale-split setup), so the MoMA/Kikkerland `products.json` path does not apply here. Vetting it means finding a working fetch path first — a collection-level feed or a locale-prefixed JSON endpoint — which is why this is a nomination and not a recommendation.
+- **No organic via/h-t credits this run.** A pass over every in-window item across all 42 fetched feeds produced exactly one genuine outbound credit — Kottke's "(via Open Culture)" on the Rob Watts country-names video — and Open Culture has been in `sources.json` since the beginning. Every other regex hit was the letters "ht" inside an ordinary word. Recording the null result because three consecutive runs have now leaned on targeted search rather than credits, which is itself a signal about how much of the feed pool is re-aggregation.
+- **Backlog unchanged and still the priority.** Highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**, plus **Calisphere** (07-25), **Laughing Squid** (07-27) and **The Kid Should See This** (07-28). 19+ nominees stand unvetted — the fifteenth consecutive run past the 10+ nudge threshold. Adding any of them to `sources.json` remains a user decision.
+- **Still more urgent than any nomination.** The four Reddit sources remain dark; re-measured again 2026-07-29 and the 07-28 diagnosis holds unchanged — a correctly shaped 16-character ID and 32-character secret, HTTP 401 from the token endpoint, and a ~300 KB "Welcome to Reddit" login wall on every `old.reddit.com/<sub>/.rss`. Seventh consecutive run. The fix is to regenerate the secret on the Reddit app page, not to re-paste a field.