content: 2026-05-06 evening sweep — 25 finds, Reddit ?t=day surfaces same-day fresh

daily-finds.log.md

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 Graduated from find captured 2026-05-06, source: r/macapps. Reused the find's `hero.png` (1650×930 SQL editor screenshot from the Reddit launch gallery). Category `indie` (matches blip, sindre-sorhus-older-mac-apps — open-source single-developer Mac apps). `link:` rewritten from the Reddit launch post to the canonical homepage `tablepro.app`; tags merge the find's set with `macos` and `mcp`.
 
+## 2026-05-06 — capture run (evening sweep)
+
+Sources scanned: 60 total — 25 hits across 14 sources, ~28 unproductive (mostly same-day repeats from morning run), 8 blocked/broken (same set as morning), 9 skipped (per sources.json `fetch: skip`). Net 25 new finds after dedup against the 198 morning-run baseline.
+Productive sources: r/macapps (4), Hacker News — Show HN (1), Brett Terpstra (3 from May 6 Web Excursions), Wallpaper* Travel (3), Boutique Homes (1), The Outbound Collective (1), Standard & Strange Journal (1), Outlier (1), Messy Nessy Chic (1, via Vol. 772 finally substantive), Things Magazine (1, owls-in-towels), Open Culture (1), Uncommon Goods (3), r/dadjokes (3), icanhazdadjoke (1).
+Unproductive but live (same-day no-change since morning): MacStories (same Astropad/Pedometer 8/Apple Frames 4 set), Tools and Toys (same 8 visible — all already captured this week), Six Colors (same Hovercraft/Mister Plimsoll/storage-tip set, all captured), Daring Fireball (chess-peace/1d-chess/noir-japanese-cookies/express-transit-directory all captured; new ScopeXR is news-style, Adobe/Photoshop critiques are essays not picks), One Thing Well (top 10 unchanged: Linky/FrogFind/One Thing/yt-dlp/Cilicon/Heatwave/nom/gum/Smol Pub/Newsboat — all captured), Kottke (same Curtis supercut / Bacon / Krakauer / Murderbot / Fred Again / Eric Rohman set; only new addition is Eric Rohman Artvee gallery — passed as not "thing to use/visit"), Cool Tools (same Mick Rock / Frequent Fliers / Embassy roundup), Recomendo (substack feed lastBuildDate 2026-05-07 but most recent post is still issue #513 from 2026-05-03 = morning's #513 already captured 2/3 picks), A.Word.A.Day (same Freud-affections-spending quote captured this morning), The Marginalian (silphium/Nussbaum/Pythagoras already captured this morning; new May-5 Aztec/Humboldt/Darwin Emoji piece passed — quote too generic), Quote Investigator (same Reeve/Dyer/Exclamation/Stendhal/Lobsters/Feet-Knees set — Stendhal already captured 2026-05-03; "Feet/Knees" anonymous origin failed bar; "Lobsters" too archaic), Cool Material (homepage = same 6 Nike/Material discount listicles as morning), Werd (same listicle pattern), A Continuous Lean (still December 2025), Put This On / Carryology / Standard & Strange (same posts as morning except S&S Hendrix Park surfaced this run, captured), Eclectic Light (same medium-and-message-miniature / metadata / XProtect / Perseus set), Brett Terpstra Web Excursions had 3 new picks not visible in morning's index-only scan (ScreenKite, Compacto, ticker; SitApp duplicated GooseNeck which is more interesting; CleanShot X is mainstream/affiliate sponsor; fontlet too dev-niche), Dr. Drang / OSXDaily / AFAR / Roadtrippers (same content as morning), Wallpaper Travel surfaced 3 new vs morning (Bar di Bello, Idalia at Pillar Hall, Orient Express Corinthian — morning only listed already-captured Kai Hakone), Boutique Homes (same 5 unchanged + 1 new — Casa Siza by Álvaro Siza captured), Outbound Collective (Cathedral Park new), Outlier (Sunwarp Sunguard new since morning's Injex/Cannabiscotton/Ramielust set), Snow Peak (skipped this run — morning's 28-product extraction was deemed "deep-dive run" and not repeated), Uses This (skipped — same index-page pattern), Hacker News Show HN scan: only DoodleMate passed beyond morning's already-captured top 3; Hallucinopedia rejected as authoritative-fake-encyclopedia, doesn't fit delight brief without harm; rest of top 25 fail same dev-niche / AI-marketing bar as morning. Product Hunt skipped (same AI-marketing pattern verified across 4 runs).
+Blocked or broken this run: TidBITS / Reader's Digest Jokes (skip per sources.json — confirmed), 9to5Mac (skipped — already pulled per morning post-run note), Atlas Obscura (Cloudflare 5471-byte stub identical to morning — third consecutive run with stub, `fetch: skip` is now thoroughly overdue; flipping next prune), Kevin Kelly thetechnium (skipped this run — morning content unproductive, no fresh post expected within the same day), MoMA Design Store (skipped this run — morning regression confirmed; should be migrated to JSON endpoint per morning's note), This Is Why I'm Broke (skipped this run — morning Angular-SPA confirmation), Web Curios (most recent post still 24/04/26 — no May 2026 issue yet), Westsider article (HTTP 403 to curl — couldn't grab a hero photo of Andrew's Honey Shop from the source; fell through to skipping the hero rather than substituting a generic logo). Reddit JSON endpoints continued to work cleanly throughout.
+Amazon CAPTCHA still fires on `/s/` search URLs even with full headers + compression (verified — page returned the akamai bm-verify interstitial); direct `/dp/<asin>/` URLs continue to return clean HTML. **Decision**: skipped Kikkerland this run rather than risk capturing items without verifying Amazon-storefront presence. The morning post-run policy ("only keep Kikkerland finds whose product is listed under Kikkerland's own Amazon storefront") cannot be reliably enforced when search is CAPTCHA-blocked. Pattern for future runs: either pre-cache Kikkerland's Amazon brand-store ASIN list, or move the storefront verification to a different Amazon endpoint (the brand-store landing at `/stores/Kikkerland/page/<id>` is a known alternative).
+Skipped (per sources.json): The Sweet Setup, Indie App Sunday (Mastodon), Gear Patrol, The Awesomer, Permanent Style, Heddels, Mr Porter Journal, Spotted by Locals, The Browser.
+
+### Captured finds (evening)
+
+- gooseneck-posture-coach — GooseNeck — source: r/macapps
+- avocado-notch-teleprompter — Avocado — source: r/macapps
+- ikoi-adhd-task-manager — Ikoi — source: r/macapps
+- smartpic — SmartPic — source: r/macapps
+- doodlemate — DoodleMate — source: Hacker News — Show HN
+- screenkite — ScreenKite — source: Brett Terpstra
+- compacto — Compacto — source: Brett Terpstra
+- ticker-led-menu-bar — ticker — source: Brett Terpstra
+- bar-di-bello — Bar di Bello — source: Wallpaper* Travel
+- idalia-pillar-hall — Idalia at Pillar Hall — source: Wallpaper* Travel
+- orient-express-corinthian — Orient Express Corinthian — source: Wallpaper* Travel
+- casa-siza — Casa Siza — source: Boutique Homes
+- cathedral-park-portland — Cathedral Park — source: The Outbound Collective
+- hendrix-park-rix-cannell — Hendrix Park — source: Standard & Strange Journal
+- outlier-sunwarp-sunguard — Outlier Sunwarp Sunguard — source: Outlier
+- andrews-honey-shop — Andrew's Honey Shop — source: Messy Nessy Chic
+- owls-in-towels — Owls in Towels — source: Things Magazine
+- chuck-jones-dot-and-line — The Dot and the Line — source: Open Culture
+- diy-wearable-hydraulic-cyborg-hand — DIY Wearable Hydraulic Cyborg Hand — source: Uncommon Goods
+- read-or-rest-spinning-bookmark — Read or Rest Spinning Decider Bookmark — source: Uncommon Goods
+- honey-spoon-variety-set — Honey Spoon Variety Gift Set — source: Uncommon Goods
+- joke-mortgage-freeman — The Mortgage Freeman Joke — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-soap-opera — The Soap Opera Joke — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-eiffel-tower-tall-order — The Tall Order Joke — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-broken-finger-other-hand — The Broken Finger Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke
+
+### Hero coverage (evening)
+
+- Heroes saved: 20 of 25 attempted (5 text-only: 4 jokes + 0 quotes this run; andrews-honey-shop fell through to no-hero).
+- All og:image fetches succeeded on first pass except Andrew's Honey Shop. Westsider article (the Messy Nessy linked source) returned HTTP 403 to curl with Safari UA, blocking access to whatever photo accompanied the article. The shop's own site uses a generic Unsplash bee photo as homepage hero (`bianca-ackermann-ys-sZZkdT1s-unsplash.jpg`) and an SVG-script logo as og:image — neither passes the skill rule against generic logos. Logged as failure; tile will render hero-less per text-only conventions until a graduate-to-review run can sub in a real photo.
+- chuck-jones-dot-and-line: YouTube `maxresdefault.jpg` returned a 120×90 placeholder; fell through to `hqdefault.jpg` (480×360) which passed the 400px-long-edge bar. Pattern: Open Culture's embedded YouTube videos sometimes have only HQ-default thumbnails available, never maxres. Worth noting in the skill: try `hqdefault.jpg` as the second pass after `maxresdefault.jpg` returns the placeholder.
+- ticker (rhsev/ticker): used the README's inline `demo.gif` from `raw.githubusercontent.com/rhsev/ticker/main/demo.gif` rather than the GitHub OG card (which carries the repo-tagline overlay). Confirms the morning's pattern: README inline images via raw.githubusercontent.com are the canonical hero fallback for GitHub finds whose OG card has overlay text.
+- Reddit r/macapps galleries: gooseneck used the first `media_metadata` frame at 2940×1912 (clean motion-sensor schematic + screenshots collage); ikoi used a 2558×1716 frame (energy-checkin UI screenshot); avocado used the post's `external-preview.redd.it` URL (1920×1080 video frame, since the v.redd.it stream isn't a still); smartpic similarly used `external-preview.redd.it` (960×624, just barely above the 400px bar — accepted).
+- Wallpaper srcset/cdn-mos pattern: all three Wallpaper picks (bar-di-bello, idalia-pillar-hall, orient-express-corinthian) had the og:image at `cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/<hash>.jpg` and they all came down clean at 1540–2000px. Confirms Wallpaper's CDN is reliable for hero retrieval.
+- Casa Siza: `og:image` resolved to `ik.imagekit.io/boutiquehomes/.../casa-siza_apartment_mexico-city_interior-living-room-art-piece.jpg` at 1920×1280, served clean.
+- Hendrix Park: Standard & Strange Shopify CDN served the article OG at 1280×720 clean. The image is a YouTube `maxresdefault` thumbnail (`maxresdefault-7.jpg`) that S&S clearly grabbed when embedding their workshop tour video — adequate for a tile.
+- Sunwarp Sunguard: Outlier's Sanity-hosted product image (2000×2000 square) is the canonical hero for the product page. Outlier consistently uses Sanity for product imagery.
+- Owls in Towels: og:image was a 1200×630 PNG hosted on the site's own `/content/media/` path — clean.
+- Hero failures (1): andrews-honey-shop (Westsider 403; canonical site has no usable photo of the storefront).
+
+### New source nominees (evening)
+
+3 this run (see candidate-sources.md):
+- Outdoor Research Infinite Guarantee (`outdoorresearch.com`) — surfaced via r/BuyItForLife reader experience post. Their warranty policy is itself a noteworthy purchase-philosophy pick, but the canonical URL was elusive in this run; logging as nominee for a dedicated Infinite-Guarantee feature once the right URL is identified.
+- Westsider Rag (`westsiderag.com`) — Upper West Side neighborhood blog that surfaced the Andrew's Honey Shop bee-distribution piece. Hyper-local NYC reporting is rarely a unique source category.
+- 22RE (`22re.com`) — design firm behind Bar di Bello interiors. A potential ongoing source for design-led restaurants and rooms.
+
+### Source maintenance notes (evening)
+
+- **Atlas Obscura**: third consecutive run with the 5471-byte Cloudflare stub (2026-05-05, 2026-05-06 morning, 2026-05-06 evening). `fetch: skip` is now overdue past the patience threshold — flip next prune.
+- **Kikkerland Amazon-policy automation**: until Amazon `/s/` search reliably returns content, Kikkerland captures will need either a pre-cached brand-store ASIN list or migration to the brand-store landing endpoint. This run skipped the Kikkerland scan rather than risk capturing items without storefront verification.
+- **YouTube thumbnails**: prefer `hqdefault.jpg` as a fallback when `maxresdefault.jpg` returns the 120×90 placeholder. Pattern confirmed twice now (boards-of-canada-b-sides-mix 2026-05-05 used maxres successfully; chuck-jones-dot-and-line 2026-05-06 evening had to fall through).
+- **Westsider Rag**: HTTP 403 to curl with Safari UA. Add to the skill's known-403 list or wrap with a different UA if WebFetch ever needs to access neighborhood-blog sources. The article was readable via WebFetch in the morning's scan but the image fetch needs the raw HTML.
+- **Reddit ?t=day vs ?t=week**: this evening run's 25 picks included 4 r/macapps items that had been published since the morning sweep (which used `?t=week`). Pattern: for same-day re-runs, switching to `?t=day` surfaces fresh content that's risen above the noise floor in the last few hours but isn't yet in the weekly top — worth keeping in the skill's "evening sweep" playbook.
+- **Brett Terpstra Web Excursions**: the morning run's index-only scan missed the May 6 Web Excursions content because the index page only lists titles. WebFetching the post URL directly surfaces its 5–6 contained picks. Pattern: when the most recent Brett Terpstra post is a Web Excursions, follow the link and parse — three of this run's captures came from a single Web Excursions post.
+
 ## 2026-05-06 — capture run
 
 Sources scanned: 60 total — 28 hits across 14 sources, ~26 unproductive-but-live, 8 blocked/broken, 9 skipped (per sources.json `fetch: skip`).