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.
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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
+
+- **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.
+- **Lowtechguys.com** — https://lowtechguys.com/ — surfaced as the publisher of Cling (the file-finder captured this run). Indie Mac developer / blog crossing into utilities and small-batch software releases. The "/articles/" path appears to host their writing; vet whether the cadence justifies a daily check or whether it's better as an opportunistic monitor.
+- **Express Transit (the site)** — https://expresstransit.com/ — surfaced as a Six Colors recommendation this run. Strictly speaking it's a directory not a feed, but new entries are added when new transit networks light up Apple Wallet — worth checking via "what's new" once a month for travel-tip captures.
+- **Glenn Fleishman — glennf.com** — https://glennf.com/ — Glenn published Mister Plimsoll (captured this run) and is a long-running Apple-platform writer (TidBITS, Macworld, his own books on technical history). Independent site indexing his current projects and blog. Strong signal for both apple-tips and macos-apps; vet for cadence.
+
 ## 2026-05-05

 - **Routinehub.co** — https://routinehub.co/ — surfaced as the canonical hosting URL for the SmartMover shortcut captured this run. Community-driven directory of iOS/macOS Shortcuts with upvotes, descriptions, and version history; a less-noisy alternative or complement to `r/shortcuts`. Has a `?sort=top&days=7` view that should be straightforward to scan; vet for noise vs. signal across the shortcuts category before promoting.
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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`.
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      "cadence": "weekly",
      "notes": "And now it's all this — engineer's perspective on macOS automation, command-line tricks, and Shortcuts. Quiet authority."
    },
-    {
-      "name": "9to5Mac — Guides",
-      "url": "https://9to5mac.com/guides/",
-      "type": "blog",
-      "topics": ["apple-tips"],
-      "cadence": "daily",
-      "notes": "Tip and how-to guides across iOS/macOS/iPadOS. Volume is high; scan for the discovery-flavored posts rather than the SEO-bait ones."
-    },
    {
      "name": "r/shortcuts",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/",
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+---
+name: "App Store Updates Deep Link"
+subtitle: "An itms-apps:// URL that jumps straight to the Updates page"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/985456af1a2341cc9f1d5f38fbc9fa7c"
+linkText: "iCloud shortcut"
+source: "r/shortcuts"
+topics:
+  - apple-tips
+tags: [shortcuts, app-store, deep-link, ios]
+description: "iOS doesn't expose the Updates page as a one-tap target — itms-apps://apps.apple.com/updates does."
+---
+
+iOS apps update silently in the background, but staged rollouts mean the version you wanted last Tuesday might still be a few hours away. There's no Home Screen affordance for the Updates pane, so you usually go App Store → tap your avatar → scroll to Updates. The URL `itms-apps://apps.apple.com/updates` jumps straight there, and a one-action Shortcut wraps it for the Action Button.
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+---
+name: "Cling"
+subtitle: "A keyboard-first file finder that sees what Spotlight ignores"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://lowtechguys.com/cling/"
+linkText: "lowtechguys.com"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [search, file-finder, keyboard, indie]
+description: "Fuzzy-search every file on your Mac — including the dotfiles and app-data directories Spotlight refuses to see — in under 100ms."
+---
+
+Cling indexes the parts of your filesystem Spotlight pretends don't exist: hidden files, dotfiles, system directories, the contents of `~/Library`. The whole interface is keyboard: type, see results in 100ms, hit a hotkey to open / QuickLook / batch-rename / drag the result somewhere else. Free for the basics; €12 lifetime unlocks Quick Filters and external-volume indexing.
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+---
+name: "Current Reader"
+subtitle: "An RSS reader built around rivers, not inboxes"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.currentreader.app/"
+source: "Daring Fireball — Linked List"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [rss, reading, indie, ios, macos]
+description: "No unread counts, no badges. Articles flow downstream and age out by the velocity you assign each feed."
+---
+
+Most RSS apps treat your feeds as an inbox: counts, badges, the small guilty drumbeat of unfinished reading. Current Reader is built around the opposite metaphor — a river. New articles surface at the top, drift down, and are considered "gone" at a rate you set per feed (Breaking, News, Article, Essay, Evergreen). $9.99 one-time on iPhone, iPad, and Mac; nine handcrafted themes; syncs with Feedbin and FreshRSS.
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+name: "Echoes of Genius: Enduring Wisdom from Great Minds"
+subtitle: "A self-published quote book arranged as a perpetual calendar"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://geni.us/Kiqgp"
+linkText: "Amazon"
+source: "Recomendo"
+topics:
+  - quotes
+  - gifts
+tags: [book, quotes, calendar, daily-read]
+description: "366 quotes by subject — one per day — sourced from the kind of people who actually had something to say."
+---
+
+A small, self-published volume that pairs the daily-quote-calendar format with the editorial discipline of a curated commonplace book. Each day gets a single quotation from somebody worth quoting, organized by theme rather than alphabet, so the year reads as a slow rotation through ideas rather than a random shuffle. Recomendo's pick this issue.
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+---
+name: "Express Transit"
+subtitle: "Which transit systems work with tap-to-pay in Apple Wallet, worldwide"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://expresstransit.com"
+source: "Six Colors"
+topics:
+  - apple-tips
+  - travel
+tags: [apple-wallet, transit, travel, reference]
+description: "Going to Tokyo, Singapore, London? This site tells you whether you can tap your iPhone through the gates without buying a card."
+---
+
+Apple Pay's Express Transit list is buried inside Wallet and refuses to give you a forward-looking answer to "if I land in Taipei tomorrow, will my watch tap through?" Express Transit (the site) is the publicly maintained directory: every supported transit network, what mode (Suica, ePURSE, EMV contactless), and the current activation steps for visitors. Saves you the panicked Google search at a fare gate.
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+---
+name: "ExtraBar"
+subtitle: "A different approach to menu-bar management on macOS Tahoe"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1t5ccdx/extrabar_a_different_approach_to_menu_bar_managers/"
+linkText: "r/macapps launch post"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [menu-bar, tahoe, indie, customization]
+description: "Tahoe broke the conventional menu-bar managers; ExtraBar replaces the menu bar itself rather than fighting macOS over icon position."
+---
+
+When macOS Tahoe broke the way Bartender, Ice, and friends hide menu-bar icons, most apps tried to patch around the new restrictions. ExtraBar took the other route: it replaces the menu bar entirely with a fully customizable surface, so you decide which icons live there and which don't. A pragmatic answer to an OS that increasingly resists letting you arrange your own desktop.
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+---
+name: "Freud on Spending Affection"
+subtitle: "Today's A.Word.A.Day Thought for Today, on Freud's birthday"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://wordsmith.org/words/bombaster.html"
+linkText: "wordsmith.org"
+source: "A.Word.A.Day"
+topics:
+  - quotes
+tags: [psychology, generosity, awad, freud]
+description: "An economy of affection that contradicts every other economy: spending the fund renews it."
+---
+
+> One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.
+
+— Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (6 May 1856–1939). Today's *A.Word.A.Day* Thought for Today, surfaced on Freud's birthday.
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+name: "Hovercraft"
+subtitle: "Stay on camera; let your slides float beside you"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://sandwich.vision/hovercraft"
+source: "Six Colors"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [video-call, presenting, virtual-camera, indie]
+description: "A virtual camera that places slides next to your face on the call instead of consigning you to a thumbnail in the corner."
+---
+
+Screen-sharing during a call shrinks you to a webcam thumbnail and replaces your face with a cursor wandering across the deck. Hovercraft creates a virtual camera that puts your slides into the same frame as you — pinch and resize them with hand gestures, navigate with arrow keys, hide with `V`. Sources can be PDF decks, Keynote files, or any window. $19 single-Mac; no subscription.
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+name: "The Clock Joke"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/R7hFtWv49h"
+linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com"
+source: "icanhazdadjoke"
+topics:
+  - dad-jokes
+tags: [pun, idiom, short]
+description: "A two-line eat-the-clock pun that tells you exactly what kind of joke it is in the punchline."
+---
+
+> I ate a clock yesterday. It was so time consuming.
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+---
+name: "The Einstein, Newton, and Pascal Joke"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/top/?t=week"
+linkText: "r/dadjokes"
+source: "r/dadjokes"
+topics:
+  - dad-jokes
+tags: [physics, math, pun, classic]
+description: "Three physicists, three counting strategies, one chalk square."
+---
+
+> Einstein, Newton, and Pascal are playing a game of hide and seek.
+>
+> Einstein starts counting: "One, two, three…"
+>
+> Pascal runs off and hides behind a large bush.
+>
+> Newton, however, just stands there. He takes out a piece of chalk, draws a square on the ground exactly one metre by one metre, and stands inside it.
+>
+> Einstein opens his eyes. "Newton — I've found you!"
+>
+> Newton: "No, you haven't. You've found one Newton per square metre. You've found Pascal."
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+---
+name: "The Khakis Joke"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/top/?t=week"
+linkText: "r/dadjokes"
+source: "r/dadjokes"
+topics:
+  - dad-jokes
+tags: [accents, regional, homophone, wordplay]
+description: "A two-cities setup that runs the same word through two American accents and lands two different meanings."
+---
+
+> If you lose your khakis in Ohio, it means you can't find your pants.
+>
+> But if you lose your khakis in Boston, it means you can't start your car.
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+---
+name: "The Pea, Lemon, and Potato Joke"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/top/?t=week"
+linkText: "r/dadjokes"
+source: "r/dadjokes"
+topics:
+  - dad-jokes
+tags: [shaggy-dog, produce, physics, long-form]
+description: "A shaggy-dog joke about three vegetables leaving a bar that earns its punchline through the differential rolling behaviour of legumes, citrus, and tubers."
+---
+
+> A pea, a lemon, and a potato were leaving a bar at the top of a very steep hill after a long night.
+>
+> The pea, feeling quite energetic, shouted, "Lads! We're all round — let's just roll home!" and immediately shot down the hill.
+>
+> The lemon wobbled after him, but his oval shape made him list violently from side to side, and he ended up tumbling end-over-end into a hedge.
+>
+> The potato just stood there. The pea, picking himself up at the bottom, called back: "Oi, Spud! Why aren't you rolling?"
+>
+> The potato shrugged: "Because I'm a potato. Potatoes don't roll."
+>
+> "Why not?" yelled the pea.
+>
+> "Because we just sit there. We can't even."
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+---
+name: "Bug Blaster"
+subtitle: "A $8 handheld bug-launcher styled as a galactic ray gun"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GS6F32CK"
+linkText: "View on Amazon"
+source: "Kikkerland"
+topics:
+  - gifts
+tags: [novelty, summer, household, kikkerland]
+description: "A pump-action mosquito-deterrent gadget designed to look like the SF prop a six-year-old would assemble out of cardboard."
+---
+
+A $8 plastic handheld that loads bug-spray-style payloads and launches them at the offending mosquito with a satisfying click. The styling is unapologetically retro-future ray gun. The function sits between earnest tool and toy — for a kid it's a toy, for the adult on the porch in July it's a way to handle one mosquito without the bigger spray and the bigger guilt.
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+---
+name: "Huckleberry Slingshot"
+subtitle: "Beechwood and silicone, comes with five foam balls"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNJ8GCF5"
+linkText: "View on Amazon"
+source: "Kikkerland"
+topics:
+  - gifts
+tags: [toy, outdoor, kids, screen-free]
+description: "An $18 backyard slingshot with foam ammo and FSC-certified beechwood — built to be a child's first."
+---
+
+The Huckleberry line is Kikkerland's screen-free play sub-brand, and the slingshot is the cleanest piece in the lineup: FSC-certified beechwood frame, silicone band, EVA grip, five 1.5-inch foam balls in the box. $18. Aim it at a paper target or a leaf. The materials suggest it'll outlast the kid's interest, then surface ten years later in a younger sibling's hand.
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+---
+name: "Mac Juice Monitor"
+subtitle: "Bluetooth device battery levels, in your menu bar"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://github.com/p32929/mac-juice-monitor"
+linkText: "GitHub"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [menu-bar, bluetooth, battery, open-source]
+description: "macOS will tell you the battery state of an Apple keyboard but not your Logitech mouse, your AirPods clone, or your gamepad — Mac Juice Monitor fills the gap."
+---
+
+The macOS battery widget shows your AirPods and Magic Mouse but stays mute about every other Bluetooth peripheral: third-party keyboards, gamepads, headsets that report battery over the standard service but not Apple's private API. Mac Juice Monitor reads the public BLE battery characteristic and surfaces every connected device's percentage in the menu bar. Free, open-source, and tiny.
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+---
+name: "Martha Stoumen Wines Membership"
+subtitle: "Quarterly delivery from a low-intervention California winemaker"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.marthastoumen.com/pages/membership"
+source: "Cool Material"
+topics:
+  - gifts
+  - general-delight
+tags: [wine, small-batch, california, membership]
+description: "Two or four bottles a quarter from a winemaker working old varietals — Negroamaro, Carignan, Mission — with minimal intervention."
+---
+
+Stoumen farms in Mendocino, presses with native yeasts, bottles small lots of grapes most California producers won't touch (Mission, Negroamaro, Zibibbo, Carignan). The membership is the only way to get the rarest single-vineyard bottlings; everything is allocation-only. Tier choice is two or four bottles per quarterly release. The kind of wine subscription where you can't predict what shows up — which is the entire point.
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+---
+name: "Mister Plimsoll"
+subtitle: "A free disk-space watchdog from Glenn Fleishman"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://misterplimsoll.app"
+source: "Six Colors"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [disk-space, menu-bar, indie, alerts]
+description: "Set per-volume thresholds; get an iMessage when your scratch SSD or backup drive crosses the line."
+---
+
+Most disk-space tools either nag from the menu bar or assume you're standing in front of the Mac when storage runs out. Mister Plimsoll is built for the case where you aren't — set thresholds per volume (startup disk, backup drive, external scratch) and route the alert to on-screen, email, or iMessage. Free beta, no account, no tracking, no upsell. Glenn Fleishman is the author.
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+---
+name: "'Nothing' Is the Secret to Structuring Your Work"
+subtitle: "A short essay on why an empty workspace is the only useful starting condition"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.vangemert.dev/blog/nothing"
+source: "Recomendo"
+topics:
+  - general-delight
+tags: [productivity, writing, focus, essay]
+description: "Mark van Gemert argues that the productive question isn't 'what should I add?' — it's 'what's already in the way?'"
+---
+
+A short developer-blog essay on the discipline of beginning a session by removing — not adding — until the workspace is genuinely empty. Open tabs, draft files, half-finished thoughts pinned to the screen all carry attentional weight; clearing them isn't avoidance, it's the prerequisite to actually starting. Recomendo issue 513 surfaced it.
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+---
+name: "Martha Nussbaum on Human Fragility"
+subtitle: "On openness as a precondition for being good"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/06/martha-nussbaum-bill-moyers-world-of-ideas/"
+source: "The Marginalian"
+topics:
+  - quotes
+tags: [philosophy, ethics, vulnerability, marginalian]
+description: "Nussbaum's argument from Bill Moyers' World of Ideas: that the condition of being good requires staying breakable."
+---
+
+> To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame.
+
+Martha Nussbaum, drawing on Greek tragedy, in conversation with Bill Moyers. The corollary she gives is hard: closing yourself off to avoid being shattered is itself a refusal of the human project. Maria Popova frames the full piece around the line.
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+---
+name: "Palette Inspiration"
+subtitle: "Color palettes extracted from 22,000+ master paintings"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://paletteinspiration.com/"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics:
+  - tools
+  - general-delight
+tags: [color, design, art, reference]
+description: "Browse the exact colors Vermeer, Hopper, or the Impressionists actually used — by artist, style, or genre."
+---
+
+Most palette tools generate "harmonies" from a colour wheel; this one inverts the question. It pulls palettes out of the actual pixels of paintings — 22,797 of them, from 3,065 artists across 94 styles — and lets you browse by Vermeer or Rothko or by the broader category (Impressionism, Renaissance, Art Nouveau). A free, browser-only resource that's more useful than any "trending colors of 2026" article.
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+---
+name: "Pythagoras on the Philosopher at the Olympics"
+subtitle: "Where the word 'philosopher' actually came from"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/06/pythagoras-olympic-games/"
+source: "The Marginalian"
+topics:
+  - quotes
+tags: [philosophy, etymology, pythagoras, marginalian]
+description: "The story Pythagoras told to explain why he was neither athlete, vendor, nor spectator — and coined a new third category."
+---
+
+Asked at the Olympic Games which of the three kinds of attendee he was — the competitor chasing glory, the merchant chasing profit, or the spectator chasing entertainment — Pythagoras answered that he was none of them; he was there to *watch*. From that he named a new category: φιλόσοφος, the lover of wisdom.
+
+> He seeks to uncover the secrets of nature. This is the man I call a philosopher for although no man is completely wise in all respects, he can love wisdom as the key to nature's secrets.
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+---
+name: "Radmor 'Pop-Art' Leather Driver Headcover"
+subtitle: "A small-batch leather headcover that looks nothing like an animal"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://radmorgolf.com/collections/special-projects-26/products/radmor-script-leather-headcover-driver-black-yellow-copy"
+source: "Cool Material"
+topics:
+  - gifts
+tags: [golf, leather, small-batch, accessories]
+description: "Black-and-yellow script leather, hand-finished — a driver cover that doesn't pretend to be a duck or a bear."
+---
+
+Driver headcovers come in two flavours: the licensed-cartoon-character novelty, and the corporate logo block. Radmor's "Special Projects" run is the third option — hand-finished leather in graphic black-and-yellow Pop-Art script, made in small batches and re-released seasonally. Bold without being a costume. The rest of the Radmor catalog leans the same way: heritage-quality construction, modern restraint.
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+---
+name: "RevPDF"
+subtitle: "A free, fully offline Mac PDF editor"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1t4xe3d/update_revpdf_40_a_completely_free_offline_mac/"
+linkText: "r/macapps launch post"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [pdf, editor, ocr, free]
+description: "Edit, OCR, and batch-process PDFs without uploading them to anyone's cloud — version 4 ships a native-feeling UI."
+---
+
+Most "free" PDF tools either route your file through a server or limit batches to two pages. RevPDF runs entirely on your Mac — annotate, redact, OCR, sign, batch-merge — with the PDF never leaving the local disk. Version 4 brings a redesigned native interface and faster batch operations. Useful when the document is sensitive enough that uploading isn't an option.
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+---
+name: "Ritual Intention Paper Incense"
+subtitle: "Write your intention on the paper, then burn it"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.uncommongoods.com/product/ritual-intention-paper-incense"
+source: "Uncommon Goods"
+topics:
+  - gifts
+tags: [incense, ritual, paper, writing]
+description: "A single sheet that doubles as the surface you write on and the incense you burn — a small, deliberate act formalised."
+---
+
+Most "intention setting" rituals end with the paper still on the desk a week later, slowly migrating into a stack of bills. This is the version that cleans up after itself: an aromatic paper that you write on with a regular pen, fold, and light. The smoke is the close-out of the ritual. A small object, but one whose form fully matches its function.
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+---
+name: "Silphium and the Origin of the Heart Symbol"
+subtitle: "The plant that gave us ❤ — and is being un-extincted"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/06/silphium/"
+source: "The Marginalian"
+topics:
+  - quotes
+  - general-delight
+tags: [history, botany, etymology, marginalian]
+description: "The familiar heart shape comes from silphium seeds; the plant went extinct two thousand years ago and a Turkish botanist may have just brought it back."
+---
+
+The reason the cardiologist's symbol doesn't look anything like an actual heart is that it isn't one. It's a silphium seed pod — silphium being the contraceptive-and-aphrodisiac plant the Greeks of Cyrene grew on coins, then over-harvested into extinction by the second century AD. Botanist Mahmut Miski has spent the last decade arguing that *Ferula drudeana*, growing on a single Turkish slope, is silphium's surviving cousin, and that cold-stratification can bring the lineage back. Maria Popova traces the whole 2,400-year arc.
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+---
+name: "Skymap"
+subtitle: "An interactive 3D galaxy catalog in your browser, rendered with WebGPU"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://skymap.rulkens.com/"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics:
+  - tools
+  - general-delight
+tags: [astronomy, webgpu, visualization, free]
+description: "Fly through real galaxy positions in three dimensions; it's the GAIA / NASA catalog, not procedurally generated."
+---
+
+Most "galaxy maps" online are stylised flat illustrations. Skymap is the real thing: actual galaxy positions plotted in 3D, rendered live by your GPU through WebGPU, navigable with mouse and keyboard. Click any object for catalog data; zoom out to see the cosmic web; zoom in to a single elliptical. Works in Chrome and Safari Tech Preview; no install, no account.
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+---
+name: "TablePro"
+subtitle: "A free, native, open-source database client for macOS"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1t45ql1/os_tablepro_free_native_macos_database_client_18/"
+linkText: "r/macapps launch post"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [database, developer-tools, open-source, sql]
+description: "One Mac-native client across 18 database flavours — relational, key-value, document, analytical, cloud — with an MCP server included."
+---
+
+Most Mac database clients force a choice: TablePlus is closed and paid, Sequel Ace only does MySQL, DBeaver is Java pretending to be a Mac app. TablePro is the native, free, open-source middle path — one window for Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, Mongo, Redis, DynamoDB, and a dozen more, with an MCP server bundled so AI agents can drive it. iPad version is in TestFlight.
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+---
+name: "Weeki Wachee Springs State Park"
+subtitle: "The Florida state park with a live mermaid show, running since 1947"
+date: 2026-05-06
+link: "https://maps.roadtrippers.com/us/spring-hill-fl/nature/weeki-wachee-springs-state-park"
+linkText: "Roadtrippers entry"
+source: "Roadtrippers Magazine"
+topics:
+  - travel
+tags: [florida, state-park, kitsch, springs]
+description: "Old Florida roadside kitsch at its purest — performers in tails breathing through air hoses behind a glass wall, since the Truman administration."
+---
+
+Spring Hill, Florida. The mermaid theatre is the original 1947 underwater amphitheatre; performers still pass the audition by holding their breath through a 120-foot dive and treading water for ten unbroken minutes. Outside the show: a riverboat to spot manatees, a wildlife enclosure with a three-legged tortoise named Tripod, a roped swimming area in the spring itself. Admission $13. The kind of place that's only memorable because it should not still exist.