site: cluster run — 7 bundles from the shortlist backlog

daily-finds.log.md

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 Source maintenance: none. r/shortcuts and r/dadjokes returned HTTP 429 while r/macapps and r/BuyItForLife succeeded from the same old.reddit.com/.rss host in the same run — per-subreddit intermittent throttling, not a dead source. r/shortcuts has now 429'd several consecutive runs; the real fix remains app-only OAuth (still no REDDIT_CLIENT_ID/SECRET in env or .env), so it is held, not skipped, and flagged for the user. No sources.json change; no quarterly re-probe due (newest skipReason dated 2026-07-13).
 
 New source nominees: 0 new this run. The candidate-sources.md backlog is still large and stale (10+ unvetted) — Public Domain Review, Michael Tsai, MetaFilter, Colossal, Craig Mod/Ridgeline, Nomadico all high-conviction and repeatedly re-surfacing. Worth the user's vetting.
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+## 2026-07-16 — cluster run
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+Wrote 7 bundles from the unbundled shortlist backlog (39 finds; the pool had grown past the ~25 threshold, so the daily-pipeline bundle stage ran cluster-bundles instead of a single bundle). Weekly catch skipped: a week's catch (2026-07-12) already sits inside the trailing 7 days. Reuses across bundles: 0 (every item was drawn from the unbundled pool; no item appears in two clusters).
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+Deferred clusters (hero floor): none — all 7 met the floor.
+Uncovered finds: transparent-window-bird-feeder and merinolino-boxford (genuine singletons — a window bird feeder and an Outlier merino-linen shirt — that fit none of the day's honest themes; left uncovered rather than padded, per the skill, and catchable by a future bundle/weekly). Also intentionally left unclustered but already discoverable via the review pool: osaurus, lunacy, analogtv-full-simulation, powerhouz-starship-home-dashboard, chompsaw-power-tool-for-kids (all promoted to reviews).
+Ineligible (alcohol/borderline): do-your-whisky-whiskey-making-kit (whiskey kit — categorical exclusion) and fieldbar-mini-bar (a picnic cooler, but named "Mini Bar" and tagged food-and-drink — excluded from new bundles on the borderline-alcohol "when in doubt, skip" rule). Both stay published as finds.
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+Bundles created:
+- 2026-07-16-comforts-off-the-grid: A better night off the grid (5 items) — joolca-hottap-go, clasica-fiberglass-camper-trailer, claymore-3face-mini-area-light, snow-peak-micro-hozuki-light, lectrofan-alpha-noise-machine
+- 2026-07-16-carry-a-second-job: Carry that does a second job (4 items) — ant-design-apex-pocket-screwdriver, aulumu-g05-phone-stand, cjrb-pyrite-light-thermochromic, king-jim-kerita-folding-cutting-mat
+- 2026-07-16-reshape-the-mac: Small apps that reshape the Mac (5 items) — finbar, zen-mode-hammerspoon, timegauge, iconed, knockoff-shopping
+- 2026-07-16-off-the-screen: Off the screen, into your ears (4 items) — prostir-zvuku, heard-epub-reader-ios, breva-trackpad-breathing-guide, shanling-m0-pura
+- 2026-07-16-collections-of-the-overlooked: Collections of the overlooked (4 items) — john-margolies-americana-archive, naturalists-library-wildlife-illustrations, venetian-bridge-fights, moist-towelette-online-museum
+- 2026-07-16-places-on-a-longer-clock: Places on a longer clock (4 items) — tropfsteinmaschine-hamburg, pont-de-la-batiaz, wolf-trail-europe, lafcadio-hearn-japanese-gardens
+- 2026-07-16-tools-for-one-craft: Tools for one particular craft (4 items) — edist, spellsurf-word-tool, wyrm-math, youtube-guitar-tab-parser (youtube-guitar-tab-parser has no hero; 3/4 heroes, floor met)
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+30 of 39 backlog finds now bundled; the unbundled shortlist pool drops to ~9 (the 2 uncovered singletons + 5 review-visible items + 2 ineligible).