content: 2026-05-06 capture run — 28 finds, Kikkerland routed to Amazon, drop 9to5Mac

Captured 28 finds across 14 productive sources. Kikkerland items rewritten
to Amazon ASINs (huckleberry slingshot B0GNJ8GCF5, bug blaster B0GS6F32CK)
so the affiliate handler tags them at render; croissant bath rug dropped —
no Kikkerland-branded match on Amazon. 9to5Mac removed from sources after
three runs of category-subpath instability.

daily-finds.log.md

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 Running record of every candidate surfaced by `/daily-finds`. The chosen pick of the day is prepended with `[chosen]`. Source attribution per candidate lets us track which sources produce winners over time.
 
+## 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`).
+Productive sources: r/macapps (4), Daring Fireball — Linked List (1), Six Colors (3), Hacker News — Show HN (3), r/shortcuts (1), Roadtrippers Magazine (1), The Marginalian (3), A.Word.A.Day (1), Recomendo (2), Cool Material (2), Kikkerland (2), Uncommon Goods (1), r/dadjokes (3), icanhazdadjoke (1).
+Unproductive but live: MacStories (Astropad Workbench / Cronos game / Pedometer 8 / Apple Frames 4 — all already captured or fail bar as too-mainstream/news), Tools and Toys (all 7 visible posts already captured 2026-05-03→05-05 run), One Thing Well (top 8 already captured Linky/FrogFind/One Thing/yt-dlp/Cilicon/Heatwave/nom/gum across prior runs), Kottke.org (week dominated by Curtis supercut, Bacon docs, Krakauer, Murderbot recut, Fred Again 108-hour video — all interesting reads but not "things to use/visit"), Cool Tools (this week's top three are "What's in my NOW?" interview with Erik Schneider, the Mick Rock/Horrorstör mini-pair, and Frequent Fliers travel — descriptions too thin for individual product picks), Carryology (Bellroy x Carryology Sling collab and Warp&Weft fabric-essay — descriptions still too thin), Werd (entirely listicles), A Continuous Lean (only December 2025 SIGNALS post still on homepage), Put This On (Inside Track eBay roundups + J. Press style drawings — no isolated picks), Standard & Strange Journal (continued Field Guide essays on jungle jacket variations / GI pockets / military jacket warmth — historical not productized), Outlier (same Injex/Cannabiscotton/Ramielust/Pants drops surfaced past three runs), Eclectic Light Company (week dominated by metadata-ignore + XProtect updates + macOS VM audio-video sync — system-internals reads, not picks), Brett Terpstra (Apex callout support + Web Excursions + already-captured Timelined/TerminalWidget/Apex), Dr. Drang — leancrew.com (3 posts, all iOS Mail blocking commentary + AirPort Express nostalgia + Krugman graphing math — no isolated apps), OSXDaily (MacBook Neo vs Air, M4 iPad Air deal, RC builds — generic reporting; Notepad++ already captured; Calendar Inbox already captured; Secure Erase already captured), AFAR (Mendocino state parks expansion, Chicago/USVI/Wyoming/Fort Myers — generic destinations), Wallpaper* Travel (Capella Kyoto / Hotel Villa Colette / .Here / Azuma Farm / Fife Arms all already captured 2026-05-04 + 05-05), Boutique Homes (same 5 properties since 2026-05-05 — Casa Nano 2.0 already captured, others have descriptions too thin), Things Magazine (link roundups only), Open Culture (medieval Europe video, Confidence cartoon, Egyptian honey, Bacon, Stallone Rambo recut — interesting facts but not "things"; ashes-vinyl already captured as and-vinyly), Quote Investigator (Toni Morrison's "barefaced" most recent — accepted but quote attribution is "unknown poet" so editorial value is thin; other 4 already captured 2026-05-05), Messy Nessy Chic (Vol. 772 page is a stub; Vol. 771 items all captured 2026-05-05), The Outbound Collective (only 2 new of 6 — The Narrows + Subway Bottom Up + Havasu — but all are mass-tourism canon Zion/Grand Canyon spots; remaining 3 already captured), Hacker News — Show HN beyond top 3 (Tilde.run / Hallucinopedia / PHP-fts / Templatical / Flightsim / AION / Pay.sh / Vibeguard / Tuiql / Guten — fail bar as too-niche-developer or too-AI-marketing), Product Hunt (Kanwas/Shadow/Superset/Pay.sh/Gyro/Databox/Alumni/Contrario/WOZCODE — 9 of 10 are AI marketing copy; Wispr Flow already mainstream), Snow Peak (28 products extracted via curl — Land Lock/Land Nest/Amenity Dome/Field Barista Kettle/Kitchen Mesh Case/Shelter Inner Duo/Low Beach Chair/Micro Hozuki — solid catalog but descriptions thin without WebFetch enrichment; reserve for a dedicated Snow Peak deep-dive run), Uses This (5 most recent interviews don't list specific tools on the index page — same pattern as last 3 runs), Roadtrippers other 5 (Monument Valley/Hearst/Zion/Coney Island — mass-tourism canon; only Weeki Wachee passes the bar).
+Blocked or broken this run: TidBITS (skip per sources.json — confirmed unchanged), Reader's Digest Jokes (skip per sources.json — confirmed), 9to5Mac `/category/apple-tips/` (404 — same instability as `/guides/macos-tips/` last run; per-category subpaths remain unstable), Atlas Obscura (Cloudflare challenge — 5471-byte stub identical to 2026-05-05 run; the regression sticks. Skill note from 2026-05-05 said "fetch: skip is overdue" — confirmed second run in a row), Kevin Kelly thetechnium (curl returned 99KB this run; the markup pattern is `<h2>` (no `entry-title` class) wrapping post titles — 12 visible. Most recent post "Our Uncertain Uncertainties" was retrievable via WebFetch but is a Kelly meta-essay on uncertainty, not a "find" — the source remains workable for harvesting but content this run wasn't productive), MoMA Design Store `/collections/new` (regressed — last run 2026-05-05 had 15 products via curl; this run only nav anchors + a single E-Gift Card entry. Likely Shopify's anti-bot got tighter; consider switching to `/collections/new-arrivals.json` if available), This Is Why I'm Broke (homepage is now an Angular SPA with no rendered content via curl; only the empty template ships — fetch needs to switch to client-rendered scraping or skip), Cool Material `/feature/black-book-april-2026/` worked this run (last run user cancelled the fetch) — yielded 10 products of which 2 passed the bar.
+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
+
+- cling — Cling — source: r/macapps
+- extrabar — ExtraBar — source: r/macapps
+- tablepro — TablePro — source: r/macapps
+- revpdf — RevPDF — source: r/macapps
+- mac-juice-monitor — Mac Juice Monitor — source: Hacker News — Show HN
+- mister-plimsoll — Mister Plimsoll — source: Six Colors
+- current-reader — Current Reader — source: Daring Fireball — Linked List
+- hovercraft — Hovercraft — source: Six Colors
+- app-store-updates-deep-link — App Store Updates Deep Link — source: r/shortcuts
+- express-transit-directory — Express Transit — source: Six Colors
+- palette-inspiration — Palette Inspiration — source: Hacker News — Show HN
+- skymap-galaxy-browser — Skymap — source: Hacker News — Show HN
+- weeki-wachee-springs — Weeki Wachee Springs State Park — source: Roadtrippers Magazine
+- silphium-heart-symbol — Silphium and the Origin of the Heart Symbol — source: The Marginalian
+- nussbaum-human-fragility — Martha Nussbaum on Human Fragility — source: The Marginalian
+- pythagoras-philosopher-wisdom — Pythagoras on the Philosopher at the Olympics — source: The Marginalian
+- freud-affections-spending — Freud on Spending Affection — source: A.Word.A.Day
+- nothing-empty-workspace — 'Nothing' Is the Secret to Structuring Your Work — source: Recomendo
+- echoes-of-genius — Echoes of Genius: Enduring Wisdom from Great Minds — source: Recomendo
+- martha-stoumen-wines — Martha Stoumen Wines Membership — source: Cool Material
+- radmor-pop-art-headcover — Radmor 'Pop-Art' Leather Driver Headcover — source: Cool Material
+- kikkerland-huckleberry-slingshot — Huckleberry Slingshot — source: Kikkerland (link → Amazon ASIN B0GNJ8GCF5)
+- kikkerland-bug-blaster — Bug Blaster — source: Kikkerland (link → Amazon ASIN B0GS6F32CK)
+- ritual-intention-paper-incense — Ritual Intention Paper Incense — source: Uncommon Goods
+- joke-pea-lemon-potato — The Pea, Lemon, and Potato Joke — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-einstein-newton-pascal — The Einstein, Newton, and Pascal Joke — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-khakis-boston-ohio — The Khakis Joke — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-clock-time-consuming — The Clock Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke
+
+### Hero coverage
+
+- Heroes saved: 20 of 29 attempted (9 text-only: 4 jokes + 3 quotes + 1 essay-via-Recomendo + 1 deep-link-URL find).
+- All og:image fetches succeeded on first pass except mac-juice-monitor (GitHub OG card carried repo-tagline overlay text per skill rules — replaced by fetching `https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/<id>` from the README's "Screenshots" section, yielding a clean 1424×1024 menu-bar screenshot).
+- Pattern unlock: **GitHub `user-attachments/assets/<uuid>` URLs are publicly fetchable** without the `private-user-images.githubusercontent.com` redirect — those uuids in a README's `![]()` syntax resolve directly via curl with a Safari UA. Worth adding to the skill: when a GitHub OG card is rejected for overlay text, the README's first inline image (rendered via the user-attachments redirect) is the canonical fallback.
+- Pattern unlock: **Shopify `cdn/shop/files` images** for storefronts that strip product imagery from collection pages can still be reached via the brand's own CDN host — Stoumen's collection page only exposed a logo as og:image, but the membership page's inline `<img>` tags listed all 23 product bottle shots; we picked the canonical Andrew Thomas Lee bottle shot.
+- Hovercraft `og` URL: `https://sandwich.vision/hovercraft/og` returned content with no extension — `file` confirmed PNG, saved as `hero.png`.
+- Reddit gallery and v.redd.it links: extrabar and revpdf used `external-preview.redd.it` URLs from the post's preview metadata; tablepro used the first `media_metadata` hi-res frame at 1650×930 from the gallery JSON.
+- Marginalian: silphium had a custom WP-uploaded hero (`silphium_marginalian0.jpg` 925×486); Nussbaum and Pythagoras were stock author photos at 600×315 — adequate for tile use, not flagship.
+- Weeki Wachee: Roadtrippers' `atlas-assets.roadtrippers.com` URL has resize parameters baked into the path; the 1200×630 variant came down clean.
+- Hero failures: zero this run.
+
+### New source nominees
+
+4 this run (see candidate-sources.md):
+- Sandwich.vision — surfaced via Hovercraft. Production company / app studio with a deliberate, design-rich catalog.
+- Lowtechguys.com — surfaced via Cling. Indie Mac developer + blog crossing into utility releases.
+- Express Transit (the site) — surfaced via Six Colors recommendation. Travel-tip directory of Wallet-supported transit systems globally.
+- Glenn Fleishman — glennf.com — surfaced via Mister Plimsoll. Long-running Apple-platform writer with an independent project index.
+
+### Post-run editorial adjustments
+
+- **Kikkerland captures must be Amazon-purchasable.** User policy this run: only keep Kikkerland finds whose product is listed under Kikkerland's own Amazon storefront, and rewrite `link:` to the Amazon ASIN URL so the affiliate handler tags it. This run: huckleberry-slingshot kept (ASIN B0GNJ8GCF5), bug-blaster kept (ASIN B0GS6F32CK), croissant-bath-rug **dropped** (no Kikkerland-branded match on Amazon — only off-brand croissant rugs surfaced). The two `kikkerland.com/products/...` links were swapped for `amazon.com/dp/<asin>` URLs; affiliate handler in `src/lib/affiliate.ts` tags at render time. Skill update candidate: when capturing from Kikkerland, search Amazon for each item before writing the find file, and use the Amazon URL as the canonical `link:` if a Kikkerland-branded result exists.
+- **9to5Mac removed from sources.json.** Three consecutive runs of category-subpath instability (`/guides/macos-tips/`, `/guides/`, `/category/apple-tips/` all 404 or empty nav). User pulled the source.
+
+### Source maintenance for next pruning pass
+
+- **Atlas Obscura** confirmed `fetch: skip` overdue (2nd consecutive run with 5471-byte Cloudflare stub). Carrying forward from 2026-05-05's recommendation.
+- **MoMA Design Store**: regressed this run vs 2026-05-05 (15 products → 1). The `/collections/new` HTML now has only nav anchors. Try `/collections/new.json` (Shopify's standard JSON endpoint) — most Shopify stores ship one even when the HTML is anti-bot.
+- **This Is Why I'm Broke**: confirmed Angular SPA — homepage HTML is empty template. Either skip or accept that this source needs headless-browser scraping.
+- **Kikkerland**: `/collections/new` worked this run (53 products extracted) — update sources.json `fetchUrl` to `https://www.kikkerland.com/collections/new` (singular) and the source becomes reliably productive.
+- **Uncommon Goods**: `/new` continues to work (15 products this run, same as 2026-05-05) — update sources.json `fetchUrl` formally.
+- **A.Word.A.Day**: the curl + grep approach for "Thought for Today" worked cleanly this run (full quote extracted, untruncated). Pattern: `curl … wordsmith.org/words/today.html | grep -A8 "THOUGHT FOR TODAY"`.
+- **Cool Material**: `/feature/black-book-<month>-<year>/` is the productive entry point — the homepage and `/gear/` continue to be too noisy. Worth pinning sources.json `fetchUrl` to a monthly-updated Black Book pattern.
+- **Reddit `gallery` posts**: when `url` is `reddit.com/gallery/<id>`, the canonical media-metadata path in JSON is `[0].data.children[0].data.media_metadata.<imgid>.s.u` — preview.redd.it URL with width up to 1650. Worked clean for tablepro this run.
+
 ## 2026-05-05 — review: smartmover-shortcut
 
 Graduated from find captured 2026-05-05, source: r/shortcuts. Reused the find's `hero.jpg` (iPhone screenshot of the shortcut's main-menu — Whats in the box / View all boxes / Manage items / Manage boxes / Generate labels / About / EXIT). New category `automation` introduced — none of the existing review categories (history, indie, input, interface, journal, kitchen, screenshots, writing) fit an Apple Shortcut, and `automation` is the natural home for future Shortcuts/AppleScript/Hammerspoon graduates. Tags merge the find's set with `ios` and `routinehub`.