site: ui/ux refresh, seo pass, find/lists indexes, 25 new finds
- newspaper-style masthead (stats | "Unique" | About/Blog) on every page with per-page italic subheader + last-updated date on listing pages; sitewide 42rem reading width - pinterest home (hero + masonry, "load more"); old list view at /index3/ - new pages: /about, /blog, /legal, /find/, /finds/, custom 404 - footer collection links now clickable; "founded" stat replaces "updated" in the masthead - centralised SEO component with per-page json-ld (Review, BlogPosting, Product, Article, CollectionPage, ItemList, BreadcrumbList, etc.); @astrojs/sitemap + @astrojs/rss; robots.txt; promoted finds canonical to their review - memoize getSiteStats() so the masthead/footer counts don't multiply per-page build cost - 25 new daily-finds captures
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name: "Anker Nano Universal Travel Adapter"
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subtitle: "All four plug standards plus four USB ports in something the size of a deck of cards"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHVNW1CN
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linkText: "Buy on Amazon"
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source: "Six Colors"
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topics: [tools, travel]
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tags: [travel, charging, edc]
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The smallest universal travel adapter we've seen that still includes all four common plug regions (US/EU/UK/AU) plus two USB-C and two USB-A outputs at a useful 30W combined. Roughly an inch thick and three inches long, it replaces a tangle of region-specific dongles with a single brick that lives permanently in the toiletry bag.
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name: "Aootek Motion-Sensing Solar Fence Lights"
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subtitle: "Dim until something moves, then bright enough to actually see by"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://www.amazon.com/Aootek-Motion-Sensor-Lights-Daylight/dp/B0GFM7PS73
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linkText: "Buy on Amazon"
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source: "Recomendo"
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topics: [tools, gifts]
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tags: [outdoor, solar, motion-sensor]
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A six-pack of fence-mountable solar lights for around twenty dollars that solves the long-standing problem with cheap solar lights — they hold a real charge and they're bright enough to matter. The smart mode dims them to ambient at night and ramps them up the moment a person or animal triggers the PIR sensor, so you get useful light without leaving full brightness on for hours.
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name: "Birdfy AI Smart Bird Feeder"
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subtitle: "Camera feeder that names every visiting species and clips the good takeoffs"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://www.amazon.com/NETVUE-Birdfy-Watching-Capture-Detection/dp/B0B56BVWBM
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linkText: "Buy on Amazon"
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source: "Recomendo"
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topics: [gifts, general-delight]
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tags: [outdoor, birds, ai]
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A bird feeder with a small camera in the eaves that auto-identifies the species visiting your yard and saves a clip every time one lands. The device is the gateway to a hidden category of attention you weren't paying — it turns out a backyard feeder gets dozens of distinct species through it in a season, and seeing the names attached changes how you notice the rest of the day.
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name: "Casabrews CM5418 Espresso Machine"
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subtitle: "Sub-$200 espresso machine that punches well above its price"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://www.amazon.com/Espresso-Professional-Removable-Cappuccino-Macchiato/dp/B09X3WGJ3R
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linkText: "Buy on Amazon"
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source: "Recomendo"
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topics: [tools, gifts]
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tags: [coffee, kitchen, espresso]
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A 20-bar pump espresso machine with a real steam wand for under two hundred dollars — the rare cheap espresso maker whose pulls aren't visibly thin and whose milk frothing actually works. The point isn't to compete with a Breville; it's to be the machine that makes the daily Nespresso-pod habit feel embarrassing within a week.
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name: "Cilicon"
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subtitle: "Throwaway macOS virtual machines via Apple's Virtualization framework"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://github.com/traderepublic/Cilicon
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source: "One Thing Well"
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topics: [macos-apps, tools]
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tags: [virtualization, ci, open-source]
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A small open-source macOS app from Trade Republic that spins up a fresh, ephemeral VM from a template, runs whatever script you point at it, and tears the whole thing down on completion. It was built as a self-hosted CI runner for iOS apps, but it's quietly useful any time you want a clean Mac for ten minutes without polluting your real one — testing an installer, opening a sketchy DMG, profiling a build from scratch.
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name: "Companion Apps for Apple Music"
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subtitle: "Faithful re-creations of the classic iTunes interfaces, riding on top of modern Music"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://marioaguzman.github.io/music/
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source: "One Thing Well"
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topics: [macos-apps, general-delight]
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tags: [retro, music, apple]
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A small set of macOS apps from designer Mario A. Guzman that wrap Apple Music in pixel-accurate recreations of the classic iTunes 1, iTunes 4, and early iPod-era interfaces — brushed-metal title bar and all. They're not skins; they're standalone players that actually drive your library, so the nostalgia comes with the convenience of streaming you already pay for.
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name: "Damnlines"
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subtitle: "Live webcams of the queues outside viral New York food spots"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://damnlines.com/
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source: "Web Curios"
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topics: [general-delight, travel]
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tags: [nyc, webcam, food]
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A grid of street-level webcams pointed at the lines outside whichever bagel shop, soft-serve window, or pop-up bakery TikTok decided to ruin this week. Useful as a planning tool ("is the wait at Levain actually two hours right now?") and even better as ambient TV — a quiet meditation on what New Yorkers will, in fact, stand outside in the rain for.
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name: "DockPops"
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subtitle: "iPhone-style app folders for the macOS Dock"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dockpops/id6759999009
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linkText: "Visit on App Store"
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source: "r/macapps"
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topics: [macos-apps]
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tags: [dock, productivity]
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A Mac app that gives the Dock the one feature it has never had — collapsible app folders that work like iOS's home-screen groups. Unlike macOS Stacks, the folders aren't tied to real directories on disk, so you can group apps by intent ("design tools", "writing"), give each folder its own Dock icon, and get a live preview of what's inside on hover.
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name: "Embassy of the Free Mind"
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subtitle: "Amsterdam museum and rare-book library for Hermetic and occult manuscripts"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://embassyofthefreemind.com/en/
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source: "Cool Tools"
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topics: [travel, general-delight]
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tags: [museum, amsterdam, books]
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One of the world's largest collections of Hermetic, alchemical, and esoteric texts, housed in a 17th-century canal house in Amsterdam and open to the public via themed guided tours (alchemy, magic, witchcraft, Rosicrucianism). Thousands of manuscripts have been digitized and are free to read online, but the visit is the point — you don't get to touch the books, but you can smell ones that are five centuries old.
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name: "Espro P7 French Press"
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subtitle: "Double micro-mesh filter that actually keeps grit out of the cup"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079T44WPZ
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linkText: "Buy on Amazon"
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source: "Tools and Toys"
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topics: [tools, gifts]
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tags: [coffee, kitchen, stainless-steel]
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A vacuum-insulated stainless French press whose filter is two stacked layers of woven micro-mesh — fine enough that the cup pours clean, with none of the silt that makes most French press coffee feel like sand at the bottom. The double wall keeps the brew warm for the second and third cups, which is when the standard glass press has already gone tepid.
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name: 'Felo "Ergonic" Screwdriver Set'
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subtitle: "Soft handles that deform under load to deliver more torque"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002YNQVPE
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linkText: "Buy on Amazon"
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source: "Tools and Toys"
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topics: [tools, gifts]
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tags: [hand-tools, ergonomic, made-in-germany]
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A German-made screwdriver set whose handles use a softer outer compound than the usual hard plastic — the grip squashes against your palm under twisting load, putting more skin in contact with the tool and reducing the pressure points that make long screw-driving sessions hurt. The shafts are chrome-vanadium with magnetized tips. It's the rare case of a household tool that's quietly nicer to hold than its peers without costing five times as much.
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name: "FlutterTime"
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subtitle: "Menu-bar timezone converter with a draggable timeline"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fluttertime-timezone-converter/id6740316879
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linkText: "Visit on App Store"
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source: "r/macapps"
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topics: [macos-apps]
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tags: [timezone, menu-bar, free]
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A free, ad-free, no-tracking menu-bar app that does one thing — convert times across the cities you care about by dragging a single horizontal timeline forward and back. The visual model is the right one for the problem (you immediately *see* whether 9am Berlin is before or after your Tokyo colleague's lunch), and unlike most timezone converters it stays where you can glance at it.
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name: "FrogFind"
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subtitle: "Search engine designed to render in browsers from 1995"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: http://www.frogfind.com
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source: "One Thing Well"
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topics: [tools, general-delight]
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tags: [retro-computing, search, web]
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A DuckDuckGo-powered search front end that strips every page through a readability filter and serves it as plain HTML so it loads on a Power Mac, a System 7 emulator, a vintage PalmPilot, or any browser too old for TLS 1.2. The genuinely useful side effect is that even modern browsers get a clean, ad-free, JavaScript-free version of any page they visit through it.
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name: "Penumbra Magic Postcards"
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subtitle: "Paper postcards that play a video when you scan the QR"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://www.penumbraprint.com/shop/
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source: "Web Curios"
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topics: [gifts, general-delight]
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tags: [print, ar, gift]
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Postcards printed with an unobtrusive QR that links to a private hosted video or photo set, so the recipient gets the physical card *and* a thirty-second clip from the trip. The hybrid solves the long-running paradox of postcards — the format is wonderful, but a still photo of a beach has lost most of what made you want to send it.
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name: "Magnified Sand"
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subtitle: "One-person archive of sand from around the world, photographed under a microscope"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://magnifiedsand.com/
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source: "Recomendo"
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topics: [general-delight]
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tags: [website, science, archive]
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A labor-of-love site by a single collector who photographs sand samples from beaches all over the world at high magnification. What looks like a uniform tan blanket from a meter up turns out, in the microscope, to be a constantly varying mix of crushed quartz, pulverized shells, volcanic glass, and tiny fossils — every beach has a different signature, and the gallery makes that legible.
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name: "Notepad++ for Mac"
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subtitle: "Native macOS port of the Windows-only text editor people refuse to give up"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://notepad-plus-plus-mac.org/
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source: "r/macapps"
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topics: [macos-apps]
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tags: [editor, open-source, native]
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A community-led, Apple-notarized port of Notepad++ written in Objective-C++ against the official source — not a Wine wrapper, not an Electron shell, an actual Universal Binary that runs natively on Apple Silicon. It exists for the population of switchers who never found a Mac editor with the same combination of zero-config, multi-document, regex-everywhere muscle memory.
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name: "Refine"
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subtitle: "Local-first writing assistant that runs entirely on-device"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://refine.sh
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source: "r/macapps"
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topics: [macos-apps]
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tags: [writing, privacy, local-ai]
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A Grammarly-shaped writing assistant for the Mac that does grammar, tone, and style suggestions without sending a word over the wire — every model runs locally on Apple Silicon. Nine months of community feedback have sanded down the rough edges, and unlike most "local AI" apps it works in any text field system-wide, not just inside its own editor.
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name: "Roll: Disposable Camera"
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subtitle: "Camera app that hides your photos for three days to a year"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/roll-disposable-camera/id6759272118
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linkText: "Visit on App Store"
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source: "Web Curios"
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topics: [general-delight]
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tags: [ios, photography, slow]
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An iPhone camera that takes a photo and then refuses to show it to you — for three days, three weeks, three months, or up to a year, your choice. The trick of it is the gap: by the time the picture surfaces, your memory has dimmed enough that the image lands like a postcard from someone else, and the throwaway shots feel earned in a way the camera roll never quite does.
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name: "Skull (Card Game)"
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subtitle: "Three roses, one skull, and the pile in the middle that everyone is lying about"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://www.amazon.com/Bluffing-Strategy-Players-Average-Playtime/dp/B00GYDLY8E
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linkText: "Buy on Amazon"
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source: "Recomendo"
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topics: [gifts, general-delight]
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tags: [board-game, party, bluffing]
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A bluffing game with the simplest possible rule sheet — each player gets three rose cards and one skull, plays a card face-down, and at any point can challenge to flip a chosen number of cards from the stacks without hitting a skull. It plays in twenty minutes, the table tension is immediate, and unlike most party games it works just as well with three players as with six.
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name: "Stillgram"
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subtitle: "iPhone camera that erases the crowd around the landmark"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://stillgram.io/
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source: "Recomendo"
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topics: [tools, travel]
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tags: [ios, photography, ai]
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An iPhone camera app that runs on-device AI to remove other people from your travel photos in real time — point it at the Trevi Fountain or Shibuya Crossing, snap, and you get the landmark uncluttered. The Pro tier ($14.99) lets you tap to keep specific people in the frame, so it doubles as the "everyone except my kid in front of the Eiffel Tower" mode that no other app does well.
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name: "Tom's Keys"
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subtitle: "Third-party car key fobs you program yourself for a fraction of dealer prices"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://tomskey.com/
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source: "Recomendo"
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topics: [tools]
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tags: [auto, diy]
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A small operation selling aftermarket key fobs for most US-market cars at roughly a quarter of what the dealer charges, with online instructions that walk you through the manufacturer's bizarre programming sequence (open the door six times, insert key twice, press both buttons, repeat). The dance is the dealer's fault, not Tom's — and the spare fob you've been putting off for two years suddenly costs $98 instead of $400.
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name: "UGREEN Uno MagSafe Power Bank"
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subtitle: "Tiny face on the screen reacts to your phone's battery level"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D228PXC7
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linkText: "Buy on Amazon"
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source: "Tools and Toys"
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topics: [tools, gifts]
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tags: [charging, magsafe, delight]
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A 5,000mAh MagSafe-compatible power bank with a small front-facing screen that shows a cartoon face whose expression changes with the iPhone's charge state — sleepy when low, beaming when topped up. It's a charger that earns a glance instead of being silently buried in a bag, and it's the kind of small humanizing touch you don't expect from a USB-C accessory.
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name: "umoven Pop-Up Bifold Wallet"
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subtitle: "Push the slider and the cards fan out for you"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFV6FYGV
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linkText: "Buy on Amazon"
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source: "Tools and Toys"
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topics: [tools, gifts]
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tags: [edc, wallet, rfid]
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An aluminum-framed wallet with a thumb slider on the spine that ejects the card stack in a fanned arc, so the card you reach for is the card you see. RFID-blocked, holds 8–10 cards plus folded bills under an external strap. It's the closest a wallet gets to feeling mechanical — there's a small satisfying *click* every time you use it.
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name: "Unruly Play"
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subtitle: "Archive of 169 unconventional games for unconventional places"
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date: 2026-05-03
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link: https://unrulyplay.com
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source: "Kottke.org"
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topics: [general-delight]
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tags: [games, archive, public-space]
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A digital archive of 169 games, performances, and playful provocations designed to be staged in unexpected public locations — escalators, parking lots, hotel hallways, library stacks. Most are explained in a paragraph and a diagram and are free to use; the value is in the implicit argument that you can manufacture delight in pretty much any built environment if you bring the rules with you.
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