site: bucket find/ folders by capture date + 2026-05-09 capture (67 finds)

Migrate every find from src/content/find/<slug>/ to src/content/find/<year>/<month>/<slug>/ — all 289 existing finds moved into 2026/05/. The find content-collection loader gets a new leafSlug generateId so ids (and therefore URLs at /find/<slug>/) stay flat; src/lib/find-hero.ts switches to a recursive **/hero glob. Bundle items[], promotedTo/fromFind keys, /sources cross-refs, and category/tag pages all keep working unchanged. Skill docs (daily-finds, build-review, build-bundle, cluster-bundles), README, and CHANGELOG updated for the new on-disk path. Also: 67 new finds from the 2026-05-09 capture run (Web Curios 8, MoMA 7, r/macapps 7, r/dadjokes 6, icanhazdadjoke 6, Wallpaper* Travel 5, Snow Peak 5, Kottke 3, Boutique Homes 3, etc.); felo-ergonic-screwdriver-set rolled back per editorial decision.
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+---
+name: "1D Chess"
+subtitle: "Chess puzzle reduced to a single line of squares"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://rowan441.github.io/1dchess/chess.html
+source: "Daring Fireball — Linked List"
+topics: [general-delight]
+tags: [puzzle, chess, web-toy, free]
+---
+
+Strip a chessboard to one row of eight squares and you'd think the game collapses — instead the puzzles get harder to see, because the spatial intuition that helps in 2D is gone. A small browser toy that takes about thirty seconds to learn and longer than expected to get good at. Free, no signup, no ads.
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+---
+name: "34 Rue Louise-Emilie"
+subtitle: "Two-bedroom Haussmannian apartment on a private Paris street"
+date: 2026-05-09
+link: https://www.boutique-homes.com/property/34-rue-louise-emilie
+linkText: "boutique-homes.com"
+source: "Boutique Homes"
+topics:
+  - travel
+tags: [paris, rental, design, haussmannian]
+description: "Designer Sandie Roy filled a 12-metre-ceilinged Haussmann apartment with European antiques and her own pieces — sits on a quiet, gated private street in central Paris."
+---
+
+The apartment is a working designer's home, not a styled rental: 12-metre ceilings, a kitchen full of southern light, and antiques that arrive from estate sales in the Vendée mixed with European artisan pieces commissioned for the space. The address is a private gated street in central Paris, so the windows open to silence — unusual for a stay this central.
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+---
+name: "Aer City Pack Pro 2 (24L)"
+subtitle: "Suspended-laptop-sleeve commuter pack, 24 litres, fits a 16-inch MacBook"
+date: 2026-05-09
+link: https://store.moma.org/products/aer-city-pack-pro-2-24l
+linkText: "MoMA Design Store"
+source: "MoMA Design Store"
+topics:
+  - gifts
+tags: [bag, commuter, edc, laptop]
+description: "The laptop pocket is suspended off the bag's bottom on a padded sling, so dropping the bag doesn't drop your computer onto the sidewalk."
+---
+
+The standout detail in Aer's commuter pack is the laptop pocket: it's suspended on a padded soft-lined sleeve that hangs off the bag's interior frame rather than sitting flush with the bottom panel. Drop the bag onto a curb and the laptop never reaches the impact. Twenty-four litres, fits a 16-inch MacBook, $219.
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+---
+name: "And Vinyly"
+subtitle: "A UK service that presses your cremated remains into a playable vinyl record"
+date: 2026-05-04
+link: "https://www.andvinyly.com/"
+source: "Open Culture"
+topics:
+  - general-delight
+  - gifts
+tags: [memorial, vinyl, oddity, uk]
+description: "A UK company that has been pressing cremation ashes into playable vinyl records since 2009 — voice, music, nature sounds, or thirty minutes of silence."
+---
+
+And Vinyly has been quietly running since 2009: send them cremated remains and they press them into playable vinyl records. The grooves can hold whatever you want — a recorded voice, a piece of music, ambient sound from a meaningful place, or, if you prefer, thirty minutes of silence. £1,000 to £3,000 depending on how many records you want pressed. A genuinely strange and tender alternative to a headstone.
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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: "Anker 8-in-1 USB-C Hub & Tablet Stand"
+subtitle: "Eight ports plus an angled stand, so an iPad Pro becomes a real workstation"
+date: 2026-05-04
+link: "https://toolsandtoys.net/anker-8-in-1-usb-c-hub-tablet-stand/"
+linkText: "toolsandtoys.net"
+source: "Tools and Toys"
+topics:
+  - tools
+tags: [ipad, usb-c, hub, desk-setup, anker]
+description: "Anker's hub doubles as a tablet stand: eight ports plus a fixed viewing angle so an iPad Pro pairs with an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor as a single-cable workstation."
+---
+
+Most USB-C hubs are dongles you forget about. This Anker is a stand first — a chunk of weighted plastic angled for a 13" iPad Pro that happens to expose eight ports along its base. Plug the iPad in once and you have HDMI, Ethernet, SD/microSD, three USB-A, and pass-through power without the hub flopping around behind the screen. The trick is the form factor: it stops the iPad from being a tablet pretending to be a laptop and gives it a permanent dock-like home on the desk.
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+---
+name: "Anker Nano Universal Travel Adapter"
+subtitle: "All four plug standards plus four USB ports in something the size of a deck of cards"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHVNW1CN
+linkText: "Buy on Amazon"
+source: "Six Colors"
+topics: [tools, travel]
+tags: [travel, charging, edc]
+---
+
+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: "Anna's Archive"
+subtitle: "Offshore shadow library with 95 million scholarly articles"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://annas-archive.org/
+source: "Cool Tools"
+topics: [general-delight, tools]
+tags: [books, research, library]
+---
+
+When Sci-Hub and other shadow libraries get taken down, Anna's Archive is what stays up. Holds digital copies of effectively every book ever published plus a 95-million-article scholarly archive, hosted offshore. Kevin Kelly recommends it as the best way to digitize a personal library you've already paid for — re-download in searchable form what you bought in print decades ago.
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+---
+name: "Aootek Motion-Sensing Solar Fence Lights"
+subtitle: "Dim until something moves, then bright enough to actually see by"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://www.amazon.com/Aootek-Motion-Sensor-Lights-Daylight/dp/B0GFM7PS73
+linkText: "Buy on Amazon"
+source: "Recomendo"
+topics: [tools, gifts]
+tags: [outdoor, solar, motion-sensor]
+---
+
+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: "Apex Markdown Processor"
+subtitle: "One Markdown tool that renders every dialect — and shows images in your terminal"
+date: 2026-05-04
+link: "https://github.com/ApexMarkdown/apex"
+source: "Brett Terpstra"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+  - apple-tips
+tags: [markdown, terminal, cli, writing, brett-terpstra]
+description: "Brett Terpstra's Markdown processor that combines CommonMark, GFM, MultiMarkdown, Kramdown, and Marked features in one tool — and renders inline images directly in the terminal via ANSI."
+promotedTo: "apex-markdown-processor"
+---
+
+Apex collapses the choose-your-flavor problem of Markdown by speaking CommonMark, GitHub Flavored, MultiMarkdown, Kramdown, and Marked simultaneously, with tables, citations, file inclusion, fenced divs, and an extensible plugin system on top. The unique party trick is image rendering in the terminal: pipe a Markdown file through Apex and your inline screenshots actually appear in iTerm or any ANSI-capable terminal, instead of being silently dropped. Useful for everything from a quick blog draft to building documentation pipelines that stay readable at the command line.
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+---
+name: "Roll back to a macOS snapshot without Time Machine"
+subtitle: "tmutil snapshot before risky changes; Recovery + Time Machine to roll back"
+date: 2026-05-09
+link: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/07/how-to-make-and-roll-back-to-a-snapshot/
+linkText: "eclecticlight.co"
+source: "The Eclectic Light Company"
+topics:
+  - apple-tips
+tags: [macos, apfs, terminal, recovery]
+description: "Howard Oakley walks through `tmutil snapshot` and the Recovery-mode rollback path — a backup-of-last-resort that doesn't need an external drive."
+---
+
+`sudo tmutil snapshot` makes an APFS point-in-time copy of the boot volume in seconds; if a system update or kernel-extension experiment goes sideways, Recovery mode's Time Machine restore can roll back to it without ever touching an external drive. Howard Oakley is careful to note this isn't a backup substitute — rolling back deletes every later snapshot — but for a laptop on the road it's a one-line safety net.
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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: "AppCleaner"
+subtitle: "Drag an app onto it and every preference, cache, and login item goes too"
+date: 2026-05-05
+link: "https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/"
+linkText: "Visit freemacsoft.net"
+source: "Reader suggestion"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [macos, utility, uninstaller, free]
+description: "Free Mac uninstaller from FreeMacSoft that hunts down the dozen support files an app leaves scattered across ~/Library when you drag it to the Trash."
+---
+
+Dragging a Mac app to the Trash leaves behind preferences, application support folders, login items, and launch agents that nobody bothers to remove. AppCleaner finds the lot — drop an app onto its window and it lists every related file across `~/Library` and the system, ticked and ready to delete. Its SmartDelete mode also watches for apps you've already trashed and offers to clean up the leftovers. Free, lean, has been a "first day on a new Mac" install for a decade.
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+---
+name: "Apple Frames 4"
+subtitle: "Wraps screenshots in real device bezels, now with frame colors and a CLI"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/06c4fa36fe6f498eb783f948754861c0
+linkText: "Install shortcut"
+source: "MacStories"
+topics: [apple-tips, macos-apps]
+tags: [shortcuts, ios, screenshots, free]
+---
+
+Federico Viticci's free Shortcut adds the official Apple device bezel — iPhone, iPad, Watch, Mac, Studio Display — to any screenshot, in seconds, without Photoshop. Version 4 adds matching frame colors per device, proportional scaling when you merge screenshots from different sizes, and a separate CLI on GitHub for batch use in build pipelines. The kind of polished community utility that feels first-party.
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+---
+name: "Hannah Arendt — Men in Dark Times"
+subtitle: "On the strange humanity available to outsiders"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/03/hannah-arendt-men-in-dark-times/
+source: "The Marginalian"
+topics: [quotes]
+tags: [philosophy, arendt, books]
+---
+
+Arendt argues that those who are excluded develop a particular kind of fellowship — not despite the exclusion but through it. "This kind of humanity is the great privilege of pariah peoples; it is the advantage that the pariahs of this world always and in all circumstances can have over others." Read in 2026, the line lands differently than it did in 1968.
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+---
+name: "Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success"
+date: 2026-05-05
+link: "https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/04/arundhati-roy-success/"
+linkText: "themarginalian.org"
+source: "The Marginalian"
+topics:
+  - quotes
+  - general-delight
+tags: [arundhati-roy, success, attention, values]
+description: "Roy reframes success as a list of practiced verbs — to love, to be loved, to never forget your own insignificance — rather than an outcome."
+---
+
+Maria Popova lifts a passage from Arundhati Roy that resets what success is for: "To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you." Roy's measure is a set of ongoing verbs, not an outcome you cross off — and she lists them in an order that's hard to argue with. Worth printing out as a counterweight to the spreadsheet kind of life-keeping.
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+---
+name: "Atacama Desert Superblooms"
+subtitle: "Penguins, blooming desert, and 'sun wine' in the less-traveled half of Chile's Atacama"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://www.afar.com/magazine/how-to-get-off-the-beaten-path-in-chiles-atacama-desert
+source: "AFAR"
+topics: [travel]
+tags: [chile, desert, nature, wine]
+---
+
+The famous Atacama is San Pedro and the salt flats — AFAR points to the southern coastal stretch instead, where every few years the desert blooms with millions of pink añañuca flowers, Humboldt penguins nest on the offshore islands, and small wineries bottle "sun wine" using sun-only fermentation. Visit in the right month and the desert genuinely changes color.
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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: "Azuma Farm Koiwai"
+subtitle: "A 24-room slow-living retreat on a working Japanese farm"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/hotels/azuma-farm-koiwai-japan-opening
+source: "Wallpaper* Travel"
+topics: [travel]
+tags: [hotel, japan, slow-travel, agritourism]
+---
+
+A small architectural retreat embedded inside Iwate Prefecture's Koiwai Farm — a 130-year-old working dairy. The trade is real: you stay on the property, eat what the farm produces, and the design (low timber, deep eaves, big glass to the pasture) refuses the resort default. Twenty-four rooms total, which is the right size for a place built around silence.
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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: "Simone de Beauvoir on Marriage and the Freedom to Change"
+date: 2026-05-05
+link: "https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/04/simone-de-beauvoir-marriage-change/"
+linkText: "themarginalian.org"
+source: "The Marginalian"
+topics:
+  - quotes
+  - general-delight
+tags: [beauvoir, marriage, choice, philosophy]
+description: "Beauvoir on why a marriage isn't a single decision but a daily one — and why that's its strength, not its problem."
+---
+
+Maria Popova surfaces a Beauvoir argument worth holding onto: a real choice isn't made once but kept in motion — "constantly in the making; it is repeated." Beauvoir applies it to marriage, but it lands harder when you generalise it: a vow, a job, a city, a friendship are alive only as long as they're being chosen again. The Marginalian's reading sets the line against Beauvoir's wider work and her partnership with Sartre, where the daily renegotiation was the whole point.
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+---
+name: "Celia Carriage, British Pullman"
+subtitle: "Baz Luhrmann's Midsummer-Night-in-the-Jazz-Age railway carriage"
+date: 2026-05-09
+link: https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/baz-luhrmann-interview-belmond-british-pullman-celia-carriage
+linkText: "wallpaper.com"
+source: "Wallpaper* Travel"
+topics:
+  - travel
+tags: [train, design, baz-luhrmann, belmond]
+description: "Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin redressed a 1932 Pullman carriage as a 12-seat lounge themed on A Midsummer Night's Dream. Day excursions out of London."
+---
+
+Belmond invited Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin to redo a 1932 Pullman carriage — they delivered a 12-guest cocktail-and-dining lounge themed on *A Midsummer Night's Dream* viewed through a Jazz-Age lens. Originally built in 1932, "Celia" runs day excursions on the British Pullman starting May 2026.
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+---
+name: "BetterAudio"
+subtitle: "Free menu bar audio manager with per-app volume and EQ"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1t1xiq1/betteraudio_i_built_a_free_menu_bar_audio_manager/
+linkText: "View on r/macapps"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics: [macos-apps]
+tags: [macos, audio, menu-bar]
+---
+
+Solves the things macOS audio refuses to: different volumes for Spotify and a Zoom call, EQ per app, one-click switching between AirPods and speakers, and pinning a specific app to a specific output device. Free, with an iPhone remote so you can mute the meeting from your phone without alt-tabbing. Smart routing means your music auto-pauses to your AirPods when a call comes in.
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+---
+name: "Birdfy AI Smart Bird Feeder"
+subtitle: "Camera feeder that names every visiting species and clips the good takeoffs"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://www.amazon.com/NETVUE-Birdfy-Watching-Capture-Detection/dp/B0B56BVWBM
+linkText: "Buy on Amazon"
+source: "Recomendo"
+topics: [gifts, general-delight]
+tags: [outdoor, birds, ai]
+---
+
+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: "DIY Birth Month Flower Perpetual Calendar"
+subtitle: "A perpetual desk calendar built around the birth-month flower of every name in your life"
+date: 2026-05-05
+link: "https://www.uncommongoods.com/product/diy-birth-month-flower-perpetual-calendar"
+linkText: "uncommongoods.com"
+source: "Uncommon Goods"
+topics:
+  - gifts
+tags: [calendar, birthdays, botanical, perpetual]
+description: "A build-your-own perpetual calendar with botanical illustrations corresponding to each person's birth-month flower — the kind that actually gets used because the names are written in by hand."
+---
+
+Most birthday calendars sit in a drawer because the work of writing every name in is the part nobody does. This one ships as a kit: you fill in the dates with the names that matter to you, and each month is illustrated with that month's birth-flower (asters for September, marigolds for October, and so on). Perpetual, so it doesn't expire on January 1 — and the act of writing the names in turns the calendar into the gift, not the object.
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+---
+name: "Blind Data"
+subtitle: "Statistical analysis of 877 Guardian Blind Date columns"
+date: 2026-05-09
+link: https://blinddates.rory.codes/
+linkText: "blinddates.rory.codes"
+source: "Web Curios"
+topics:
+  - general-delight
+tags: [data, romance, the-guardian, analysis]
+description: "Rory Pulvino scraped 17 years of the Guardian's Blind Date column and ran the numbers — what predicts a 10/10, what predicts seeing each other again."
+---
+
+The Guardian's *Blind Date* column has run weekly since 2009, with each pair rating their date out of ten on six dimensions and answering whether they'd see each other again. Rory Pulvino scraped all 877 dates and ran the numbers: which questionnaire variables actually correlate with reciprocal interest, which don't, and what the answer to "would you have shared the bill?" predicts.
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+---
+name: "Blip"
+subtitle: "AirDrop for everyone, even the Windows users"
+date: 2026-05-05
+link: "https://blip.net/"
+linkText: "Visit blip.net"
+source: "Reader suggestion"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [file-transfer, cross-platform, menu-bar, free]
+description: "Menu-bar file-transfer app that works like AirDrop but spans Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android — direct, end-to-end, no server-side storage, no size limit."
+promotedTo: blip
+---
+
+AirDrop is great until the person you're sending to has a ThinkPad. Blip lives in the menu bar and beams files device-to-device the same way — pick a contact (identified by email), drop a file in, it streams directly without ever sitting on a Blip server. Works on the same Wi-Fi or across the internet, no size cap, and the Mac/Windows/Linux/iOS/Android clients all talk to each other. Free for personal use.
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+---
+name: "Blue Whale of Catoosa"
+subtitle: "55-foot concrete whale on Route 66, Oklahoma"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://www.roadtrippers.com/places/catoosa-ok/attractions/the-blue-whale-of-catoosa
+source: "Roadtrippers Magazine"
+topics: [travel, general-delight]
+tags: [route-66, roadside, oklahoma]
+---
+
+Hugh Davis built it in the early 1970s as a 34th-anniversary gift to his wife, who collected whale figurines. It became the swimming hole for the local town and is now one of the most visited stops on Route 66 east of Tulsa. Free to walk through; the right kind of monument because it was made for one specific person and accidentally became a destination.
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+---
+name: "55-Minute Boards of Canada B-Sides Mix"
+subtitle: "Rare and unreleased material from the Scottish electronic duo, in one continuous session"
+date: 2026-05-05
+link: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxQNAKzJ3vg"
+linkText: "youtube.com"
+source: "Kottke.org"
+topics:
+  - general-delight
+tags: [music, boards-of-canada, mix, electronic]
+description: "A fan-curated 55-minute mix of Boards of Canada B-sides and rarities — the kind of background that doesn't ask anything of you."
+---
+
+Boards of Canada release on geological timescales, so the deep cuts and discarded sketches accumulate quietly in places like this — a fan-assembled 55-minute set drawn from B-sides and unreleased material. Kottke surfaced it as the rare ambient-leaning mix that holds up as both work-music and something to sit with. Sustained mood, no jarring transitions; reliably the right answer to "play something."
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+---
+name: "Boulay de la Meurthe — \"Worse than a crime; it was a blunder\""
+subtitle: "Not Talleyrand, not Fouché, not Napoleon"
+date: 2026-05-09
+link: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/06/crime-blunder/
+linkText: "quoteinvestigator.com"
+source: "Quote Investigator"
+topics:
+  - quotes
+tags: [attribution, napoleon, history, talleyrand]
+description: "QI traces the famous remark on the Duke of Enghien's 1804 execution — most likely Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe, attested in 1807. Talleyrand and Napoleon's later attributions are spurious."
+---
+
+The famous remark on Napoleon's 1804 execution of the Duke of Enghien gets pinned to Talleyrand, Fouché, and Napoleon himself, in roughly that order of confidence. Quote Investigator traces it to a magistrate few non-historians have heard of: Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe, in 1807. The Talleyrand attribution doesn't appear until 1822, the Napoleon one until 1844.
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+---
+name: "Bridge City Chopstick Master Gen 2"
+subtitle: "Woodworking jig for making your own chopsticks"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://bridgecitytools.com/products/csmv2-chopstick-master-gen-2
+source: "Tools and Toys"
+topics: [tools, gifts]
+tags: [woodworking, craft]
+---
+
+A purpose-built woodworking jig that lets a beginner whittle a clean pair of chopsticks from any scrap of hardwood. The whole tool exists to make exactly one object, and the precision of the jig means your first pair is usable rather than a souvenir of the attempt.
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+---
+name: "Buckminster Fuller — Animated Population Growth, 1965"
+subtitle: "Fuller's silent Dymaxion-projection visualisation of human population from 1000 BCE to 1965"
+date: 2026-05-09
+link: https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/buckminster-fuller-creates-an-animated-visualization-of-human-population-growth.html
+linkText: "openculture.com"
+source: "Open Culture"
+topics:
+  - general-delight
+tags: [data-viz, fuller, population, history]
+description: "A 1965 silent film by Buckminster Fuller and John McHale projects human population growth onto Fuller's Dymaxion world map — with concurrent technology breakthroughs marked."
+---
+
+Sixty years before "data visualization" was a job title, Bucky Fuller and John McHale made this silent film: human population from 1000 BCE forward, projected onto Fuller's Dymaxion world map (which preserves continental shape better than Mercator). The clock ticks; the map fills with light; transportation and communication breakthroughs surface as technology markers; the curve goes vertical near the end.
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+---
+name: "Calendar Inbox for Detected Events"
+subtitle: "iOS and macOS now collect Siri-suggested events in one inbox"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://osxdaily.com/2026/05/01/calendar-inbox-on-iphone-mac-adds-detected-events-from-messages-and-mail/
+source: "OSXDaily"
+topics: [apple-tips]
+tags: [ios, macos, calendar]
+---
+
+Siri has been quietly detecting flight numbers and appointment times in Mail and Messages for years — but they used to vanish into the calendar grid where you couldn't see what was provisional. The new Calendar Inbox surfaces every detected event in one list so you can confirm or dismiss in batch. Exactly the right place for that information.
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+---
+name: "Capella Kyoto"
+subtitle: "Kengo Kuma-designed hotel that feels like an old townhouse, not a chain"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/hotels/capella-kyoto-review
+source: "Wallpaper* Travel"
+topics: [travel]
+tags: [hotel, japan, kyoto, architecture]
+---
+
+Kengo Kuma's design language — slatted timber, soft layered walls, the building absorbing rather than imposing — translates surprisingly well to a 52-room hotel in central Kyoto. The architecture refuses the high-luxe glassy thing in favor of something that reads as a continuation of the surrounding *machiya* townhouses. The kind of stay that earns the city it sits in.
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+---
+name: "Casa Nano 2.0"
+subtitle: "Japanese micro-house where every cubic inch does something"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://www.boutique-homes.com/property/casa-nano-20
+source: "Boutique Homes"
+topics: [travel]
+tags: [tokyo, architecture, rental, japan]
+---
+
+A Tokyo rental whose entire footprint fits in the kind of plot most cities call a parking space. The architecture turns the constraint into the show — a staircase that doubles as bookshelves, ceiling-to-floor glass to borrow daylight, hidden storage in every plane. Stay for a long weekend and your spatial intuition adjusts; everything else feels wasteful.
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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: "Casabrews CM5418 Espresso Machine"
+subtitle: "Sub-$200 espresso machine that punches well above its price"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://www.amazon.com/Espresso-Professional-Removable-Cappuccino-Macchiato/dp/B09X3WGJ3R
+linkText: "Buy on Amazon"
+source: "Recomendo"
+topics: [tools, gifts]
+tags: [coffee, kitchen, espresso]
+---
+
+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: "CasaCau"
+subtitle: "Six private apartments inside a 17th-century palazzo, steps from the Trevi"
+date: 2026-05-09
+link: https://www.boutique-homes.com/property/casacau-apartments
+linkText: "boutique-homes.com"
+source: "Boutique Homes"
+topics:
+  - travel
+tags: [rome, rental, design, palazzo]
+description: "Six apartments inside a 17th-century Roman palazzo, decorated with mid-century modernism and contemporary art instead of the usual frescoed-ceiling cliché. Includes Turkish baths."
+---
+
+CasaCau sits inside a 17th-century palazzo a block from the Trevi Fountain — but instead of the usual gilt-and-frescoed treatment, the six apartments are styled in mid-century modernism layered with contemporary art and vintage finds. Hotel-grade service (concierge, Turkish baths) attached to a residence-grade space.
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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: "Chess Peace"
+subtitle: "A pacifist chess puzzle: place the pieces so none can attack each other"
+date: 2026-05-05
+link: "https://chesspeace.app/"
+source: "Daring Fireball — Linked List"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+  - general-delight
+tags: [ios, chess, puzzle, indie-game]
+description: "Logic puzzle for iOS that uses the chess pieces' move rules in reverse — arrange them on the board so none threatens another."
+---
+
+The board has a fixed set of squares; you have a fixed set of pieces. The only rule is that no piece can attack another, which turns the chess move-vocabulary into a constraint solver instead of a combat system. $7 one-time, no ads, no subscription — small enough to dip into on a train, generous enough that the late-game boards are real puzzles.
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+---
+name: "Land Lines"
+subtitle: "Draw a line; Google Maps finds the matching ridge, river, or coastline"
+date: 2026-05-09
+link: https://lines.chromeexperiments.com/
+linkText: "chromeexperiments.com"
+source: "Web Curios"
+topics:
+  - general-delight
+tags: [google, maps, browser, geography]
+description: "A Chrome Experiment that takes a hand-drawn squiggle and finds a real-world geographic feature — coastline, ridge, river — that matches its shape."
+---
+
+Land Lines is the Chrome Experiment where you draw a curve and the page hunts through Google Maps satellite imagery for a real-world ridge, river, or coastline that matches the shape. The matches arrive in seconds, complete with the location — the Atacama coast, a Greenland fjord, a river in Bangladesh — and the surprise is how often the match feels uncanny.
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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: "Cilicon"
+subtitle: "Throwaway macOS virtual machines via Apple's Virtualization framework"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://github.com/traderepublic/Cilicon
+source: "One Thing Well"
+topics: [macos-apps, tools]
+tags: [virtualization, ci, open-source]
+---
+
+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: "Circle to Search"
+subtitle: "Trace a finger around anything on screen to search it — image, text, product"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/14508957
+source: "Cool Tools"
+topics: [tools, general-delight]
+tags: [android, search, google]
+---
+
+Android-only feature that lets you literally circle anything on screen — a sweater in a photo, a sentence in an article, a phone number — and Google searches that exact selection without screenshots or copy-paste. Works inside any app. iPhone has nothing equivalent yet; if your spouse uses Android and you don't, this is the moment of envy.
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+---
+name: "CleanMyKeyboard"
+subtitle: "One tap to disable the keyboard so you can wipe it down"
+date: 2026-05-05
+link: "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cleanmykeyboard/id6468120888?mt=12"
+linkText: "Visit on App Store"
+source: "Reader suggestion"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [macos, utility, cleaning, indie]
+description: "Tiny Mac app that locks all keyboard input on demand so you can clean the keys without spamming triple-q into a Terminal."
+---
+
+The fix-this-yourself kind of utility: one button locks every key on the Mac, you scrub the keyboard with a cloth and isopropyl, then click Stop to wake it back up. Solves the actual problem you have when you reach for the keyboard with a damp microfiber and remember every press is doing something. Apple's own answer is to shut the laptop down, which is a worse answer.
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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: "Clocker"
+subtitle: "Multiple time zones in the menu bar, with a meeting-time slider"
+date: 2026-05-05
+link: "https://github.com/n0shake/clocker"
+linkText: "View on GitHub"
+source: "Reader suggestion"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [macos, time-zones, menu-bar, open-source]
+description: "Free open-source menu-bar app that shows clocks for any number of cities and lets you scrub a slider to find a meeting time that works everywhere."
+---
+
+Clocker stacks every time zone you care about in a single menu-bar dropdown — give each one a custom label ("Mum", "Berlin team", "the SRE on call") and pin a few to the bar itself. The killer detail is the timeline slider at the bottom: drag it forward and every clock updates in lock-step, so finding a 9-to-6 overlap across three continents is a five-second scrub instead of arithmetic. Free, open source, on the App Store too.
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+---
+name: 'CoBak "Composition Notebook" Case'
+subtitle: "reMarkable 2 disguised as a school comp book"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNX5587H
+linkText: "Buy on Amazon"
+source: "Tools and Toys"
+topics: [tools, gifts]
+tags: [accessories, stationery, disguise]
+---
+
+A hard case for the reMarkable 2 paper tablet styled exactly like a marble-cover school composition notebook. The disguise is the point — you carry an expensive piece of e-paper hardware in something that reads as cheap stationery, which is both funny and quietly useful in any setting where flashing tech feels wrong.
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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: "Companion Apps for Apple Music"
+subtitle: "Faithful re-creations of the classic iTunes interfaces, riding on top of modern Music"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://marioaguzman.github.io/music/
+source: "One Thing Well"
+topics: [macos-apps, general-delight]
+tags: [retro, music, apple]
+---
+
+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: "Contact Sheet"
+subtitle: "Open a folder of photos, see them like a darkroom proof print"
+date: 2026-05-09
+link: https://contact-sheet.vecho.me
+linkText: "contact-sheet.vecho.me"
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics:
+  - macos-apps
+tags: [photos, finder, indie, review]
+description: "A Mac app for the moment when you don't want to import to Photos, build an album, or wait for indexing — you just want to look at a folder."
+---
+
+Contact Sheet skips importing entirely: point it at a folder and it lays out every image as a darkroom-style grid you can pan and zoom through in real time. No library, no indexing, no cloud sync — just the folder you actually have on disk, presented the way a photographer would actually want to triage it.
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+---
+name: "Curflow"
+subtitle: "System-wide mouse gestures so your hand never leaves the mouse"
+date: 2026-05-03
+link: https://curflow.app
+source: "r/macapps"
+topics: [macos-apps]
+tags: [macos, productivity, mouse]
+---
+
+Draw a gesture with your mouse and the action fires — close tab, switch app, copy — without reaching for the keyboard. Unlike browser-only gesture extensions (Gesturefy, CrxMouse) it works in Finder, VS Code, Slack, every app on the Mac. Native SwiftUI with per-app mappings, so a downward swipe in Chrome can do something different than the same swipe in Figma.
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