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 Newly nominated sources awaiting review before promotion to `sources.json`. Each entry says where it came from and the case for adding it. Vet manually, then move to the main list.

+## 2026-05-06 (evening sweep)
+
+- **Outdoor Research — Infinite Guarantee** — https://www.outdoorresearch.com/ — surfaced via r/BuyItForLife reader experience post detailing same-day Foray jacket replacement under the lifetime warranty. The policy itself is a noteworthy "buy-it-once" pick — but the canonical landing URL was elusive in this run (`/pages/infinite-guarantee`, `/pages/our-infinite-guarantee`, `/pages/infinite-guarantee-policy` all 404). Worth a dedicated investigation pass to find the right URL and then capture as a guarantees/return-policy find rather than as an ongoing source.
+- **Westsider Rag** — https://www.westsiderag.com/ — Upper West Side neighborhood blog that ran the Andrew's Honey Shop bee-distribution story this run. Local NYC reporting that surfaces the kind of in-business neighborhood curiosity (working hives in a Columbus Ave shop window) that mass-market travel sources miss. Returned 403 to curl this run; needs a different fetch approach. Vet WebFetch first.
+- **22RE Studio** — https://22re.com/ — Los Angeles design firm behind Bar di Bello's interiors (captured this run). Could be an ongoing source for design-led restaurant openings and room-renovation features. Worth a one-pass scan to assess whether their journal/news output justifies regular checking.
+
 ## 2026-05-06

 - **Sandwich.vision** — https://sandwich.vision/ — surfaced as the publisher of Hovercraft (the virtual-camera Mac app captured this run). Sandwich is the production company behind the kind of small, deliberate, design-rich Mac/iOS app that fits the brief (also publisher of Sandwich Studio); their software page is a curated index of their releases. Low-volume, high-signal — worth scanning quarterly rather than daily.
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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`).
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+---
+name: "Andrew's Honey Shop"
+subtitle: "An Upper West Side honey shop with a working beehive in the front window"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.andrewshoney.com"
+linkText: "andrewshoney.com"
+source: "Messy Nessy Chic"
+topics:
+  - travel
+  - general-delight
+tags: [nyc, bees, shop, honey]
+description: "Andrew Coté's UWS shop sells local New York honey, hosts the city's annual live-bee distribution, and keeps active hives behind glass at the storefront."
+---
+
+Andrew Coté is a fourth-generation beekeeper and the founder of the NYC Beekeepers Association, and his shop at 75th and Columbus is where the city's beekeepers come every spring for the live-bee distribution he's run for twenty years. The front window holds active hives, glass-fronted, so the storefront doubles as a free pocket natural-history museum — exactly the kind of small, specific, in-business curiosity New York is supposed to still have. The shop sells local honey from his Connecticut and rooftop hives in 8oz bears up to one-gallon jugs.
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+---
+name: "Avocado"
+subtitle: "An invisible-in-the-notch teleprompter for Mac, with a Director Mode that turns any device into a remote prompter"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://avocadonotch.com"
+linkText: "avocadonotch.com"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [teleprompter, presentation, screen-sharing, indie]
+description: "A Mac teleprompter that hides in the MacBook notch during screen recording or sharing — invisible to viewers, readable to you."
+---
+
+Avocado parks a teleprompter strip inside the MacBook notch so it's invisible to whatever is screen-recording or sharing your display, but the talent can read it straight ahead at the camera. Drop a `.pptx` and it imports presenter notes as scripted segments with `[pause]` `[breathe]` cue markers; Director Mode hands a synced controller view to anyone on iOS/Android/Windows so a colleague can pace you without installing anything. Free with a $19.99 one-time unlock for Pro features.
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+---
+name: "Bar di Bello"
+subtitle: "A Milanese aperitivo room transplanted to Silver Lake"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/restaurants/bar-di-bello-los-angeles-review"
+linkText: "wallpaper.com"
+source: "Wallpaper* Travel"
+topics:
+  - travel
+tags: [restaurant, los-angeles, italian, design]
+description: "Modern Milanese cuisine in Sunset Row, Silver Lake. Interiors by Dean Levin nod to La Scala; Negronis match the scale."
+---
+
+Bar di Bello sits in the Sunset Row complex on Sunset Boulevard with interiors by 22RE's Dean Levin that crib directly from Brera and La Scala — burnished surfaces, low theatrical lighting, the kind of room that takes the edge off Los Angeles' usual brightness. The kitchen runs trofie alla Genovese, orecchiette with ragù bianco, and a breaded chicken cutlet you'll recognize from Milan; the bar pours Negronis and a "greenhouse martini" at scales sized to actually drink. Address: 3300 Sunset Blvd.
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+---
+name: "Casa Siza"
+subtitle: "A Pritzker-Prize Álvaro Siza house in Mexico City that doubles as a public art gallery"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://boutique-homes.com/property/casa-siza"
+linkText: "boutique-homes.com"
+source: "Boutique Homes"
+topics:
+  - travel
+tags: [architecture, mexico-city, art, rental]
+description: "A Siza-designed townhouse in Santa María la Ribera with a converted garage door that opens the ground-floor gallery — works by Bosco Sodi, Izumi Kato, Mario García Torres — to the street."
+---
+
+Casa Siza is the rare Álvaro Siza commission you can actually rent: a clean-lined cubic townhouse in Mexico City's Santa María la Ribera, designed by the Portuguese Pritzker laureate, with a converted garage door at the ground floor that swings open and turns the living-level gallery into a sidewalk vitrine. Lucia Corredor (AD-100) handled interiors; the contemporary collection on display includes Bosco Sodi, Izumi Kato, and Mario García Torres. The neighborhood — central, art-nouveau, walkable — does the rest.
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+---
+name: "Cathedral Park"
+subtitle: "Gothic stone arches under the St Johns Bridge, Portland"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.theoutbound.com/oregon/photography/explore-cathedral-park"
+linkText: "theoutbound.com"
+source: "The Outbound Collective"
+topics:
+  - travel
+tags: [portland, photography, urban-park, free]
+description: "The St Johns Bridge's Gothic arches drop straight into the park beneath them — the church-sized geometry is what gives Cathedral Park its name and its photographers."
+---
+
+Cathedral Park sits directly beneath the St Johns Bridge in north Portland, and the bridge's twin Gothic arches — 400 feet of green-painted steel rising into vaulted points — turn the park into something closer to a roofless nave than a riverside green. The stone-and-shadow geometry is reliably the most photogenic ten minutes you'll spend in Portland, especially at golden hour. Free, on the Willamette, easily walked from the St Johns neighborhood.
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+---
+name: "The Dot and the Line"
+subtitle: "Chuck Jones' 1965 Oscar-winning ten-minute fable about geometry and self-improvement"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0yf7IkWceI"
+linkText: "youtube.com"
+source: "Open Culture"
+topics:
+  - general-delight
+tags: [animation, short-film, classic, math]
+description: "A straight line, smitten with a dot, watches her flirt with a chaotic squiggle and answers by mastering geometry. Won the 1965 Academy Award for Animated Short."
+---
+
+Chuck Jones' "The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics" is a ten-minute 1965 short adapted from Norton Juster's book, narrated by Robert Morley, and it's one of the most economical pieces of art the genre has ever produced. The line, in love with a dot, watches her run off with a careless squiggle; he answers by teaching himself angles, shapes, and finally three-dimensional geometry, until he can produce, on demand, anything she might want. It won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film that year. Watch it.
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+---
+name: "Compacto"
+subtitle: "A nine-tool PDF kit for Mac — local-only, no accounts"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://compacto.app"
+linkText: "compacto.app"
+source: "Brett Terpstra"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [pdf, privacy, local-first, indie]
+description: "Compress, merge, split, and convert PDFs without anything leaving your machine. Compression is permanently free; the full kit is a one-time $14.99."
+---
+
+Compacto is the answer to the dozens of "free PDF" sites that quietly upload your contracts to make money on the round trip. Everything runs locally on your Mac — compression, merge, split, convert, the lot — with no account creation and no subscription. Compression alone is permanently free; a $14.99 one-time purchase unlocks the full nine-tool suite forever.
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+---
+name: "DIY Wearable Hydraulic Cyborg Hand"
+subtitle: "A 203-piece kit that builds a working hydraulic robotic hand you wear like a glove"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.uncommongoods.com/product/diy-wearable-hydraulic-cyborg-hand"
+linkText: "uncommongoods.com"
+source: "Uncommon Goods"
+topics:
+  - gifts
+tags: [stem, kids, kit, science]
+description: "Build a hydraulic hand from 203 parts, fit it over your own hand, and grip with water-powered pistons. Configurable as left, right, or claw. Ages 7+."
+---
+
+This is the rare STEM kit that actually demonstrates the principle it teaches: 203 parts assemble into a functional hydraulic glove, and once you fill the syringes with water you can grip objects of varying sizes by squeezing the controllers. Configurable for left-handed, right-handed, or claw modes; the 40-page manual walks through hydraulic and pneumatic mechanics as you build. Ages 7 and up. 2021 STEAM Toy of the Year.
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+---
+name: "DoodleMate"
+subtitle: "Animate your child's drawings — no generative AI in the output"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://doodlemate.com"
+linkText: "doodlemate.com"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+  - tools
+tags: [kids, animation, photo, web]
+description: "Photograph a paper drawing, get a fully rigged character that can be dropped into pre-built animations and stories. Pose estimation does the rigging; the animation itself uses no AI."
+---
+
+DoodleMate's tagline is "Your art, not AI's" — a deliberate stake against image-to-video models that re-draw a child's lines into something glossier and unrecognizable. You photograph a paper drawing; non-generative pose-estimation models auto-rig the character in seconds; the resulting figure goes into pre-built short stories and a Mother's Day eCard, where the animation runs without any generative inference. Free community beta in the browser.
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+---
+name: "GooseNeck"
+subtitle: "A posture coach that uses your MacBook's hidden motion sensors instead of the camera"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://gooseneck.app"
+linkText: "gooseneck.app"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [posture, sensors, privacy, indie]
+description: "Apple Silicon MacBooks have undocumented motion sensors used internally for fall detection. GooseNeck reads them to nudge you when you slouch — no webcam, no cloud."
+---
+
+GooseNeck taps the motion sensors Apple ships in every Apple Silicon MacBook for fall detection but never exposed to developers. Calibrate your baseline once, then a colored dot in the Dynamic Island stays green while you sit straight and turns red as you drift; smart break reminders count active typing time, not wall clock, so a 5-minute coffee doesn't reset your session. $14.99 one-time, M1 or newer only — direct download because private APIs disqualify it from the App Store.
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+---
+name: "Hendrix Park"
+subtitle: "Hand-made jeans and trousers from a Sausalito workshop full of vintage machines"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.standardandstrange.com/blogs/standard-strange-stories/inside-the-hendrix-park-workshop-with-rix-cannell"
+linkText: "standardandstrange.com"
+source: "Standard & Strange Journal"
+topics:
+  - clothing
+tags: [denim, made-in-usa, workshop, heritage]
+description: "Rix Cannell builds his pants on a collection of vintage machines, each one matched to a specific seam. The S&S journal entry documents the workshop and the in-progress collaboration."
+---
+
+Hendrix Park is Rix Cannell's one-person operation in Sausalito: a workshop full of vintage industrial sewing machines, each one bought for a specific job — the chainstitch hem, the bar tack, the belt-loop stitcher — because no modern machine matches their pull or their stitch length. He builds jeans, trousers, and pants by hand on the lot, currently in collaboration with Standard & Strange on a signature pair. The journal entry walks through the room, machine by machine.
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+---
+name: "Honey Spoon Variety Gift Set"
+subtitle: "Twelve crystallized-honey spoons in four single-flower flavors"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.uncommongoods.com/product/honey-spoon-variety-gift-set"
+linkText: "uncommongoods.com"
+source: "Uncommon Goods"
+topics:
+  - gifts
+tags: [tea, honey, flavors, made-in-usa]
+description: "Stir one into tea and the spoon dissolves: tupelo, rose, lavender, or lemon honey crystals on a wooden stick. Twelve per box, four flavors."
+---
+
+The conceit is small and exact: each spoon is a wooden stick crowned with a hardened pour of crystallized honey, and you drop it into a hot drink to dissolve at once into both sweetness and a floral note. Tupelo is the most honey-like (clean, no flower), rose is unmistakably rose, lavender is unmistakably lavender, lemon does what you'd expect; twelve per box, three of each variety. Handmade in the USA, $25.
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+---
+name: "Idalia at Pillar Hall"
+subtitle: "Fine dining inside a 30,000-sq-ft Victorian hall in West London"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/restaurants/idalia-pillar-hall-london-review"
+linkText: "wallpaper.com"
+source: "Wallpaper* Travel"
+topics:
+  - travel
+tags: [restaurant, london, design, fine-dining]
+description: "Pillar Hall, where Vivienne Westwood debuted her Pirate collection in 1981, is now Idalia — Des Gunewardena's contemporary country-house room in Olympia."
+---
+
+Pillar Hall is a 30,000-square-foot Victorian space in Olympia best known historically as the venue where Vivienne Westwood debuted her Pirate collection in 1981. Des Gunewardena (D&D London co-founder) has converted it into Idalia: chef Samantha Williams (ex-Angela Hartnett) running seasonal British produce as "food for celebration, not contemplation," with Robert Angell's interiors leaning into the building's ceremonial scale. Pastry is run by Lorena Tommasi (ex-Jeremy King). Address: 5 Olympia Way, W14 0EY.
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+---
+name: "Ikoi"
+subtitle: "A task manager that asks how you feel before showing you the list"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://ikoi.app"
+linkText: "ikoi.app"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [tasks, adhd, focus, indie]
+description: "Energy check-in (zombie / okay / hyperfocus) surfaces tasks sized to your current state. Focus mode shows exactly one. Untouched tasks fade and self-archive instead of glaring red."
+---
+
+Ikoi flips the usual list-of-47-things on its head: each task carries an energy rating, you log in zombie or hyperfocus, and the app surfaces only the tasks that match. Every entry has an optional "2-minute door opener" — not "clean the kitchen" but "open the dishwasher" — and untouched items fade and auto-archive instead of accumulating overdue red. Universal purchase across iOS, iPadOS, macOS with iCloud sync; free for 5 active tasks, $29.99 lifetime for unlimited.
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+---
+name: "The Broken Finger Joke"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/jNCtkyIeNuc"
+linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com"
+source: "icanhazdadjoke"
+topics:
+  - dad-jokes
+tags: [pun, idiom, two-line]
+description: "A one-sentence injury report that doubles as a perfect setup-and-payoff structure."
+---
+
+> I broke my finger at work today. On the other hand, I'm completely fine.
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+---
+name: "The Tall Order Joke"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1t5dblk/my_wife_challenged_me_to_bake_her_a_pizza_in_the_shape_of/"
+linkText: "r/dadjokes"
+source: "r/dadjokes"
+topics:
+  - dad-jokes
+tags: [pun, idiom, baking]
+description: "An idiom-pun joke whose punchline is also literally true about the Eiffel Tower."
+---
+
+> My wife challenged me to bake her a pizza in the shape of the Eiffel Tower.
+>
+> I thought to myself… that's a tall order.
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+---
+name: "The Mortgage Freeman Joke"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1t5ge36/what_do_you_call_an_aging_actor_who_paid_his_home_off/"
+linkText: "r/dadjokes"
+source: "r/dadjokes"
+topics:
+  - dad-jokes
+tags: [pun, name, two-line]
+description: "A two-line celebrity-pun joke that lands the moment you read the punchline."
+---
+
+> What do you call an aging actor who paid his home off?
+>
+> Mortgage Freeman.
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+---
+name: "The Soap Opera Joke"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1t50bp6/singing_in_the_shower_is_fun_until_you_get_shampoo/"
+linkText: "r/dadjokes"
+source: "r/dadjokes"
+topics:
+  - dad-jokes
+tags: [pun, classic, shower]
+description: "The kind of two-line groaner that earns a delayed grimace once the genre name lands."
+---
+
+> Singing in the shower is fun until you get shampoo in your mouth.
+>
+> Then it's a soap opera.
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+---
+name: "Orient Express Corinthian"
+subtitle: "A 220m sailing yacht that runs on wind, with art deco interiors by Maxime d'Angeac"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/orient-express-corinthian-maxime-dangeac-design"
+linkText: "wallpaper.com"
+source: "Wallpaper* Travel"
+topics:
+  - travel
+tags: [sailing, yacht, design, deco]
+description: "Three 100-meter carbon masts and 4,500 m² of rigid SolidSail let the Corinthian make 17 knots on wind alone. Inaugural voyage leaves the Riviera June 2026."
+---
+
+The Corinthian is the Accor group's bet that you can build a credible cruise yacht in the lineage of the Orient Express name without burning fuel for show: three 100-meter carbon masts carry 4,500 m² of rigid SolidSail panels, enough to push the 220-meter ship at 17 knots on wind alone in good conditions. Architect Maxime d'Angeac — a yacht-design first-timer — splits the interiors between early-20th-century ocean liner décor on decks 4–6 and curved futurism on deck 7, with handcrafted art deco bas-reliefs by Etienne Rayssac. Inaugural voyage departs the French Riviera in June, ending the season in the Caribbean.
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+---
+name: "Outlier Sunwarp Sunguard"
+subtitle: "A four-way-stretch UPF 50+ longsleeve you can wear like a regular shirt"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://outlier.nyc/products/sunwarp-sunguard"
+linkText: "outlier.nyc"
+source: "Outlier"
+topics:
+  - clothing
+tags: [sun-protection, technical, stretch, summer]
+description: "UPF 50+ longsleeve in Outlier's stretchy quick-drying Sunwarp fabric, with underarm gussets for full range of motion and a high neck for ear-to-collarbone coverage."
+---
+
+The Sunwarp Sunguard is Outlier's case for treating sun protection as everyday clothing rather than fishing-shop technicalwear: UPF 50+ in a soft four-way-stretch knit that doesn't read as performance gear, with underarm gussets that let you actually swing your arms and a high neck that closes the gap between hat and collarbone. The dye-sublimation prints on hi-viz bases solve the "all my UPF shirts look like rentals" problem. $240.
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+---
+name: "Owls in Towels"
+subtitle: "A single-purpose website cataloguing rehab photos of owls wrapped in cloth"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://owlsintowels.org"
+linkText: "owlsintowels.org"
+source: "Things Magazine"
+topics:
+  - general-delight
+tags: [animals, single-purpose, web, cute]
+description: "Wildlife rehabbers wrap injured owls in fabric so they can be weighed, treated, and fed. Otherwise, the owls get in a flap. This site is just photos of those owls."
+---
+
+Owls in Towels is a single-purpose web site of the most specifically-named delight: photos of injured or rescued owls wrapped in towels, blankets, and fabric scraps by wildlife rehabbers, who do this because an unwrapped owl will flap around and injure itself further while being weighed, fed, or treated. Each photo names the bird, the rehab center, and the species. There is nothing else on the site, which is exactly what makes it good.
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+---
+name: "Read or Rest Spinning Decider Bookmark"
+subtitle: "A gold spinner that lands on 'One More Chapter' or 'To Be Continued'"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.uncommongoods.com/product/read-or-rest-spinning-decider-bookmark"
+linkText: "uncommongoods.com"
+source: "Uncommon Goods"
+topics:
+  - gifts
+tags: [reading, bookmark, decision, gold]
+description: "An 18K-gold-PVD-coated stainless bookmark with a tiny spinning book on top. Closed inside the book, it peeks out as a spinner — flick it for the verdict."
+---
+
+The Read or Rest is a bookmark with a tiny gold book-shape on top that spins, and the only two faces it lands on are "One More Chapter" and "To Be Continued." Closed inside a book, the spinner peeks above the page block and looks like a slim brass charm; pull the book out, flick the top, and the bookmark itself decides whether you're done. 18K gold PVD over stainless, designed and made in the USA, $25 — the rare exclusive that justifies the price by being smaller and more particular than its concept suggests.
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+---
+name: "ScreenKite"
+subtitle: "A native, free Mac screen recorder that exports 4× faster than Screen Studio"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.screenkite.com"
+linkText: "screenkite.com"
+source: "Brett Terpstra"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [screen-recording, native, free, indie]
+description: "Built in Swift, accelerated with Metal — auto-zoom on cursor, built-in trim and zoom effects, exports stay on your machine. No subscription."
+---
+
+ScreenKite is the rare Mac screen recorder that's both genuinely native and genuinely free: Swift, Metal-accelerated, no Electron, no signup. The built-in editor auto-zooms on cursor and clicks during recording so you don't have to hand-keyframe every callout, and trims and zoom effects live in the same window so there's no round-trip to Final Cut. The author benchmarks a 1m10s export against Screen Studio's 3m40s on the same clip.
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+---
+name: "SmartPic"
+subtitle: "Local AI photo editing for Mac — no cloud upload, no subscription"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://smartpic.app"
+linkText: "smartpic.app"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [photo-editing, on-device, privacy, indie]
+description: "4× upscaling, object removal, and background removal that all run on the Neural Engine — your photos stay on your Mac."
+---
+
+SmartPic does the four things you actually reach for in cloud editors — 4× upscaling, object removal, background removal, batch processing — and runs them entirely on your Mac's Neural Engine. There's a Finder contextual-menu integration so right-click on an image kicks off processing in place, no upload step. Recently notarized and headed for the App Store; trial is now unlimited time but capped at 10 images.
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+---
+name: "ticker"
+subtitle: "An LED-style scrolling ticker for the Mac menu bar, fed from the command line"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://github.com/rhsev/ticker"
+linkText: "github.com/rhsev/ticker"
+source: "Brett Terpstra"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+  - tools
+tags: [menu-bar, cli, retro, open-source]
+description: "Notifications stack and disappear; ticker scrolls through the menu bar at 20fps in 5×7 dot matrix, and the motion is what catches your eye."
+---
+
+The author's case for ticker: motion catches the eye, notifications don't. ticker scrolls a queue of messages through a configurable-width menu bar slot at 20fps in a 5×7 dot-matrix font (Adafruit GFX bitmap), advancing one column per frame so it stays pixel-smooth without burning CPU. Drive it from any script with `ticker --send "..."`, `--urgent`, or `--very-urgent` (which interrupts the current scroll). macOS 12+, Apple Silicon or Intel.