content: 2026-08-01 capture run — 19 finds across 10 productive sources

candidate-sources.md

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 - **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.
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+- **designboom** — https://www.designboom.com — daily design/architecture/technology magazine, running since 1999. Surfaced the way this list prefers: an explicit outbound credit in Kottke's feed, whose terrarium-phone-case post is a straight pointer at designboom's own write-up ("this transparent phone case grows moss and plants inside · designboom.com"). The case for adding it is the object beat — designboom covers fabricated things with the mechanism described, which is exactly the register the site's find bodies want, and its coverage runs *ahead* of the aggregators that currently supply the design finds. **Caveat found while using it this run, and it is the reason this is a nomination rather than a recommendation:** designboom's strength is also its problem — much of what it features is a one-off designer project with nothing to buy, which fails the bar. The terrarium case itself was written up and then dropped for exactly that reason. A useful source would need the same stock-check discipline This Is Why I'm Broke now gets.
+- **Unnecessary Inventions** — https://www.unnecessaryinventions.com — Matt Benedetto's ongoing series of deliberately absurd products that are nonetheless actually built and photographed. Surfaced as the outbound link behind This Is Why I'm Broke's "Infinity Saucelet". The fit is the humour beat, which the site currently serves almost entirely with dad jokes and word finds — this would supply *objects* that are funny, which is a gap. Caveat: most of the inventions are prototypes rather than products, so the same buyability filter applies; a handful do go on sale.
+- **Considered and not nominated:** **Select.Supply** (https://select.supply), which hosts today's `chipbuilder` find and carries "Stumble" and "Fun" sections that look like a curated browser-toy directory. Not nominated because a single find is not evidence of a beat, and its og-image ("The Ultimate Collection") suggests an SEO link farm as readily as an editorial one. Worth watching for a recurrence before spending vetting time on it.
+- **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), **The Kid Should See This** (07-28) and **Sight Unseen** / **Archive of Objects** (07-29). 21+ nominees stand unvetted — the sixteenth 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 2026-08-01 and the 07-28 diagnosis holds unchanged for the eighth consecutive run — correctly shaped 16-character ID and 32-character secret, HTTP 401 from the token endpoint, ~300 KB login wall on every `old.reddit.com/<sub>/.rss`. Regenerating the secret on the Reddit app page recovers four sources without vetting anything new.