content: 2026-05-13 capture run — 58 finds across 21 productive sources

Four-day gap since the 2026-05-09 sweep. Productive sources: r/macapps,
r/shortcuts, Six Colors, MacStories, DF, Brett Terpstra, Eclectic Light,
OSXDaily, Dr. Drang, MoMA, Kikkerland, Wallpaper, AFAR, Boutique Homes,
Outbound, Kottke, Open Culture, Web Curios, Wikiquote, The Marginalian,
A.Word.A.Day, Quote Investigator, r/BuyItForLife, Carryology, r/dadjokes,
icanhazdadjoke.

Source-maintenance flags this run (see log): Atlas Obscura confirmed
Cloudflare-blocked for the 6th run, A Continuous Lean dormant since
Dec 2025, Things Magazine cadence: weekly → quarterly, This Is Why I'm
Broke / Cool Material / StyleForum returning JS-rendered shells or
changed templates.

4 new source nominees in candidate-sources.md.

daily-finds.log.md

@@ -872,3 +872,117 @@ Graduated from find captured 2026-05-09, source: r/macapps.
 Hero + carousel: 4-slide carousel matching the homerow/dockdoor pattern. Pulled `Radial Menu.mp4`, `Preview.mp4`, `Cycles.mp4`, and `Stash.mp4` from `MrKai77/Loop` GitHub develop branch (`assets/graphics/`). Sources were 3680×2304@60 retina screen recordings, 4-6 MB each — re-encoded with ffmpeg (`scale=1280:-2`, libx264 CRF 23, yuv420p, faststart, audio stripped). Final sizes: 1.3 MB / 2.9 MB / 1.2 MB / 182 KB. Hero (slide 1, radial-menu.mp4) registered in `src/lib/hero.ts`.
 Category: `interface` (existing — same bucket as alcove, alt-tab, dockdoor, monocle).
 Pattern note: **GitHub `assets/graphics/` directories are an underused hero source for open-source mac apps**. Listed via `api.github.com/repos/.../contents/assets/graphics`, downloaded with curl. Source quality (retina captures) means re-encoding is mandatory or the page weighs 25+ MB; standard recipe is `scale=1280:-2` + CRF 23 + strip audio.
+
+## 2026-05-13 — capture run
+
+Sources scanned: 59 total — 50 active, 9 `fetch: skip`. Productive this run: 21 sources, 58 new finds after dedup against the 289-find baseline (347 total now). Four-day gap since the 2026-05-09 morning sweep.
+
+Productive sources: r/macapps (5 — Switch, Aira, Steno, ChessUnlock, Zenteek), r/shortcuts (2 — Add-to-Calendar Shortcut v4, Clipboard Sync via WebDAV), r/dadjokes (7), icanhazdadjoke (3), Six Colors (2 — Bartender 6 dynamic peninsula, Gnome), MacStories (1 — Monologue), Daring Fireball — Linked List (1 — Kagi Snaps), The Eclectic Light Company (1 — Versatility), OSXDaily (1 — Dial-up ISP with Raspberry Pi), Brett Terpstra (1 — TerminalWidget), Dr. Drang (1 — iOS Mail list-view block), MoMA Design Store (2 — Teenage Engineering EP-136 K.O., Kodak Charmera Keychain), Kikkerland (2 — Light Up Pencil, Woodpecker Garden Shears), Wallpaper* Travel (3 — Hannah St Hotel Melbourne, Auguste London, Cece's London), AFAR (1 — The Vietage by Anantara), Boutique Homes (1 — The Desert Wave Palm Desert), The Outbound Collective (1 — Zion Subway Bottom-Up), Kottke.org (4 — Tolkien Palantir essay, US regional map by Reddit vote, Desktop Tower Defense revived, Typhoon Sinlaku 4K), Open Culture (1 — WKRP becomes a real station), Web Curios (7 — Flipbook, Apocalypse Early Warning, Single Ride NYC, Audio Spaces, Wax Letter, Takeaway, Play Your Tubes Right), Wikiquote (1 — Julian of Norwich), The Marginalian (1 — Whitman/Emerson criticism), A.Word.A.Day (2 — Daphne du Maurier mirrors, Rake's progress etymology), Quote Investigator (2 — Tagore-misattributed children proverb, Zimmerman's Law of Complaints), r/BuyItForLife (4 — Justrite gas can, Speed Queen TC5, Floto duffle, Swedish Hasbeens), Carryology (1 — SOLIDSTATE Hardware buckle).
+
+Blocked or empty: Atlas Obscura (Cloudflare-stub for 6th run — confirmed dead, flagging for `fetch: skip` per source maintenance notes below), This Is Why I'm Broke (JS-rendered SPA — body is template-shell only with `{{header.title}}` placeholders visible), Cool Material (returns 297K but listings are JS-rendered; only category and feature/* URLs visible, not parseable by regex), Unusual Hotels of the World (curl returns 4K shell only — title `<title>Uhotw</title>` is the entire useful payload), TidBITS (403 to WebFetch), StyleForum (curl returns 160K but structItem-title regex matches zero — XenForo template changed since last successful parse), Reader's Digest Jokes (curl timed out), A.Word.A.Day index page (WebFetch returned navigation only — had to fetch /words/today.html directly for the daily quote).
+
+Captured finds:
+- switch-window-cycler — Switch — source: r/macapps
+- aira-teleprompter — Aira — source: r/macapps
+- steno-private-ai-notes — Steno — source: r/macapps
+- chessunlock-mac — ChessUnlock — source: r/macapps
+- zenteek-music-player — Zenteek — source: r/macapps
+- bartender-6-dynamic-peninsula — Bartender 6 — source: Six Colors
+- gnome-gif-menubar — Gnome — source: Six Colors
+- monologue-dictation-cli — Monologue — source: MacStories
+- kagi-snaps — Kagi Snaps — source: Daring Fireball — Linked List
+- terminalwidget-desktop — TerminalWidget — source: Brett Terpstra
+- versatility-versioned-pdfs — Versatility — source: The Eclectic Light Company
+- dial-up-isp-raspberry-pi — Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi — source: OSXDaily
+- ios-mail-block-list-view — Block iOS Mail senders from list view — source: Dr. Drang — leancrew.com
+- add-to-calendar-shortcut-v4 — Add to Calendar Shortcut v4 — source: r/shortcuts
+- clipboard-sync-webdav-shortcut — Clipboard Sync via WebDAV — source: r/shortcuts
+- teenage-engineering-ep-136 — Teenage Engineering EP-136 K.O. — source: MoMA Design Store
+- kodak-charmera-keychain — Kodak Charmera Keychain Camera Blind Box — source: MoMA Design Store
+- light-up-pencil-kikkerland — Light Up Pencil — source: Kikkerland
+- woodpecker-garden-shears — Woodpecker Garden Shears — source: Kikkerland
+- hannah-st-hotel-melbourne — Hannah St Hotel — source: Wallpaper* Travel
+- auguste-london — Auguste — source: Wallpaper* Travel
+- ceces-london — Cece's — source: Wallpaper* Travel
+- vietage-vietnam-train — The Vietage by Anantara — source: AFAR
+- desert-wave-palm-desert — The Desert Wave — source: Boutique Homes
+- zion-subway-bottom-up — The Subway, Zion (Bottom Up) — source: The Outbound Collective
+- tolkien-palantir-essay — What Would J.R.R. Tolkien Think of Palantir? — source: Kottke.org
+- us-regional-map-reddit — US Regional Map by Reddit Vote — source: Kottke.org
+- desktop-tower-defense-revived — Desktop Tower Defense — source: Kottke.org
+- typhoon-sinlaku-4k — Mesmerizing 4K Video of Cat-5 Typhoon Sinlaku — source: Kottke.org
+- wkrp-cincinnati-real-station — WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Station — source: Open Culture
+- flipbook-ai-encyclopedia — Flipbook — source: Web Curios
+- apocalypse-early-warning-jets — The Apocalypse Early Warning System — source: Web Curios
+- single-ride-nyc-subway — Single Ride — source: Web Curios
+- audio-spaces-global-map — Audio Spaces — source: Web Curios
+- wax-letter-custom-seals — Wax Letter — source: Web Curios
+- takeaway-letters-puzzle — Takeaway — source: Web Curios
+- play-your-tubes-right — Play Your Tubes Right — source: Web Curios
+- julian-norwich-mercy-grace — Julian of Norwich "Mercy and forgiveness leadeth us to grace" — source: Wikiquote
+- whitman-disobey-all — Whitman: "I felt down in my soul the clear and unmistakable conviction to disobey all" — source: The Marginalian
+- daphne-du-maurier-mirrors — Daphne du Maurier: "How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten" — source: A.Word.A.Day
+- rakes-progress-hogarth — Rake's progress — source: A.Word.A.Day
+- do-not-confine-children-1887 — "Do Not Confine Your Children to Your Own Learning" — source: Quote Investigator
+- nobody-notices-things-go-right — "Nobody Notices When Things Go Right" — source: Quote Investigator
+- justrite-gas-can — Justrite Gas Can — source: r/BuyItForLife
+- speedqueen-tc5 — Speed Queen TC5 / DC5 — source: r/BuyItForLife
+- floto-duffle-bag — Floto Duffle Bag — source: r/BuyItForLife
+- swedish-hasbeens-clogs — Swedish Hasbeens — source: r/BuyItForLife
+- solidstate-hardware-buckle — SOLIDSTATE Hardware — source: Carryology
+- joke-suitcase-emotional-baggage — Suitcase Emotional Baggage Joke — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-shatner-panties — The Shatner Panties Joke — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-final-front-ear — The Final Front-Ear Joke — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-wind-turbines-metal-fan — Wind Turbines Metal Fan Joke — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-mortician-electrician — Mortician and Electrician Joke — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-postmen-anagram — Postmen Anagram Joke — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-cow-lightning-medium-rare — Cow Lightning Medium Rare Joke — source: r/dadjokes
+- joke-queue-silent-letters — The Queue Silent-Letters Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke
+- joke-moscow-russian — Moscow Russian Into Things Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke
+- joke-garden-plot-thickens — Garden Plot Thickens Joke — source: icanhazdadjoke
+
+### Hero coverage
+
+Heroes saved: 31 of 42 attempted (the 10 jokes and 6 quote-only finds are text-only by convention and excluded from the denominator). Misses (11 finds): aira-teleprompter (Reddit video post with no static preview asset), terminalwidget-desktop (Brett's OG image was the 96×96 site favicon — too small), typhoon-sinlaku-4k (Kottke's OG was a 1×1 spacer; fixed by falling back to YouTube `maxresdefault` thumbnail), justrite-gas-can (corporate site og:image was just the brand logo — removed), speedqueen-tc5 (no og:image meta), swedish-hasbeens-clogs (no og:image), apocalypse-early-warning-jets (data-art site, no og), desktop-tower-defense-revived (JS app, no og), audio-spaces-global-map (no og), takeaway-letters-puzzle (vercel app, no og), us-regional-map-reddit (brilliantmaps article had no fetchable og), add-to-calendar-shortcut-v4 (icloud.com Shortcut URL — Apple's shortcut-sharing service doesn't expose any preview).
+
+Pattern notes this run:
+
+- **Reddit JSON `external-preview.redd.it` URLs require a valid `s=` signature parameter** — stripping it returns a 425-byte empty response (not a useful image, not a redirect). The signature is per-image and per-fetch; reconstructing it without it is impossible. If a Reddit post has only `external-preview` (typically video posts with no static preview), there's no usable hero — skip. This is distinct from `preview.redd.it` URLs (gallery items) which do work.
+- **YouTube thumbnail fallback for Kottke video posts**: Kottke's own OG image is sometimes a 1×1 spacer or a generic site logo when the post embeds a YouTube video. Falling back to `https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<id>/maxresdefault.jpg` (or `hqdefault.jpg` if maxres 404s) gives a usable 1280×720 hero. Worth formalizing in the skill as the canonical Kottke-video-post recipe.
+- **OG image presence is roughly inversely correlated with site freshness for hobbyist projects**: most of this run's misses (Apocalypse EWS, Audio Spaces, Takeaway, Desktop Tower Defense revival) are small one-developer projects on Vercel/Netlify/personal-domains where setting up `og:image` is the last polish step nobody got to. Wallpaper, MoMA, Wikipedia, and YouTube reliably ship social cards because they have someone whose job it is. Don't bet on hobbyist sites having OGs and don't try to chase fallbacks for them — accept the miss.
+- **icloud.com Shortcuts URLs have no fetchable preview**: Apple's shortcut-sharing service `icloud.com/shortcuts/<uuid>` returns a JS-rendered preview page with no og:image. For Shortcuts captured via r/shortcuts, the canonical pattern would need to be: fetch the Reddit post's preview image (often a screenshot of the Shortcut's flow) rather than trying to find an OG on the iCloud landing page. Not always possible — skip if neither is available.
+
+### New source nominees
+
+4 this run (see candidate-sources.md):
+- Lex Friedman (lexfriedman.com) — developer of Gnome captured this run; small personal site with project releases
+- Kyle McDonald (kylemcdonald.net) — data-artist behind Apocalypse Early Warning System; long catalog of unusual web projects
+- Brilliant Maps (brilliantmaps.com) — map-curation site surfaced via Kottke; steady source of unusual cartography
+- Hand-drawn Games (handdrawngames.com) — Flash-era game revivals; quarterly check candidate
+
+### Source maintenance notes for next prune
+
+- **Atlas Obscura confirmed dead**: 6 consecutive runs returning the 5471-byte Cloudflare stub. The prior maintenance note suggested trying their RSS feed at `https://www.atlasobscura.com/feeds/articles` as a possible bypass — that wasn't tested this run. **Action: flip `fetch: skip` with `skipReason: Cloudflare-blocked, RSS feed untested but try once before fully retiring.**
+- **A Continuous Lean**: still at SIGNALS #151 (December 19, 2025). Six-plus months of dormancy. The May 2 ACL × Rivay collab announcement preceded a complete posting hiatus. **Action: flip `fetch: skip` with `skipReason: dormant since Dec 2025`.**
+- **Things Magazine**: still at April 5, 2026. Eight-plus weeks since last post. The cadence in `sources.json` says `weekly` but actual posting is every 1–2 months. **Action: change `cadence: weekly` → `cadence: quarterly` and revisit again in two weeks.**
+- **Put This On**: posted twice this run (Plantar Fasciitis style drawings May 13, Cufflink Countdown May 11) — actively writing but the content this cycle is style-tip / shop-promo, neither of which surfaces individual buyable items the way their archives used to. Keep at `weekly` for now; the cadence isn't the issue, the editorial focus shift is.
+- **Unusual Hotels of the World**: curl returns only 4K with `<title>Uhotw</title>` and no body — site appears to have lost its content or migrated to a SPA. Not actionable from this skill; **flag for manual review** rather than auto-skip.
+- **This Is Why I'm Broke**: HTML is a Vue/React shell with `{{header.title}}` placeholders visible in body. Content is API-fetched at runtime. The same pattern as Permanent Style and others. **Either find their backend API endpoint (preferred) or flip `fetch: skip` with `skipReason: SPA, requires headless render`.**
+- **Cool Material**: 297K HTML returned cleanly but my listing parses returned zero results — the post-block CSS selectors I was matching against have changed. Their `/feature/` URLs are visible in raw HTML; the next pass should grep for `<a href="https://coolmaterial.com/feature/[^"]+"` and pull from there. **Action: update the skill's parse pattern for Cool Material.**
+- **StyleForum**: similar story — 160K HTML, but `class="title structItem-title"` no longer matches. XenForo template changed. **Action: re-derive selectors against the current homepage, or skip until refresh.**
+- **Reader's Digest Jokes**: curl timed out (exit code 28) — server appears to be either slow or actively rate-limiting. Worth one more retry next run before flagging.
+- **Snow Peak homepage**: this run the homepage emphasized Alpha Breeze / Land Lock / Land Nest tents and the IGT Camp Kitchen — none of which earn a capture under our brief (too specialty-camping rather than daily-use-titanium-kit). Their /collections/new-arrivals JSON is still the right channel; the homepage on its own is not productive for our purposes. **Note: continue fetching new-arrivals JSON, deprioritize homepage scanning.**
+
+## 2026-05-13 — review: bartender-6-dynamic-peninsula
+
+Graduated from find captured 2026-05-13, source: Six Colors.
+Hero + carousel: 4-slide carousel matching the homerow/dockdoor/loop pattern. Pulled `bt6-hero-dark.png`, `widgets.png`, `BartenderBar.png`, and `triggers-dark.png` from `macbartender.com/Bartender6/img/`. All are clean marketing screenshots with no overlay text. Peninsula (slide 1) reused the find folder's existing hero copy. Total page weight ~4.7 MB across the four PNG screenshots — comparable to homerow and loop carousels.
+Category: `interface` (existing — same bucket as alcove, ice, dockdoor, monocle, loop).
+Connection note: pairs naturally with the existing `ice` review (subtitle: "The free, open-source successor to Bartender") and `alcove` (Mac notch widget app). All three sit in the same conceptual neighborhood; the Bartender 6 review references Alcove directly in the body since the peninsula is genuinely on Alcove's turf.
+
+## 2026-05-13 — review: gnome-gif-menubar
+
+Graduated from find captured 2026-05-13, source: Six Colors.
+Hero: single screenshot. Replaced the find's icon-based hero with the actual product screenshot from `lexfriedman.com/gnome/screenshot.png` (726×466, 89 KB) — the icon was a misleading hero for the grid since Gnome's interest is the menu-bar interaction, not the app glyph. Single-image format matches hyperkey/alcove/tot — no carousel since the source page only has the icon + one screenshot.
+Category: `interface` (same bucket as alcove, dockdoor, monocle).
+Editorial note: Gnome's text-in-GIF Apple-Vision OCR is the underappreciated feature — "type 'don't call me Shirley' and the Airplane! GIF surfaces" — so the body leads with the hotkey workflow but earns its second paragraph from OCR. Lex Friedman's own copy on the product page is delightful (the post-trial Weird-Al-or-Rick-Astley freemium gimmick is a keeper); the review preserves the gimmick without copying his voice verbatim.