Dedup was the story: 56 candidates surfaced, 31 already captured (the daily
feeds largely re-served yesterday's items), 2 previously rejected on merit,
5 failed the bar today.
Shortlisted 10. Two items were demoted off the shortlist by the fact-check
step rather than before it — the Coleman stove's Snow Peak IGT compatibility
is not a claim Coleman makes (and it is backorder-only), and Shortverse is a
filmmaker hosting platform, not the viewer-facing short-film streamer it
looked like. Both stay as finds, honestly written.
5 Amazon links. Source maintenance: Kevin Kelly demoted weekly -> as-needed
(publishes, but the Technium is essays, never things); The Browser's free feed
now carries only 2 of 5 daily picks; two Reddit 429s recorded but not acted on
(same-domain subs succeeded, so it reads as throttling, not a block).
Probed all 59 sources for feeds. Highlights: Atlas Obscura, This Is Why I'm
Broke, A Continuous Lean, Gear Patrol, The Awesomer, Permanent Style, and The
Browser all rescued from blocked/skip status by working feeds; all four Reddit
subs work again via the anonymous .rss endpoint (top/.json remains dead);
MoMA Design Store + Kikkerland switched to Shopify products.json endpoints.
Newly skipped (confirmed dead/dormant): Tools and Toys, One Thing Well,
Cool Material, Werd.com, Unusual Hotels of the World.
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.
A small Astro + MDX blog for delightful, daily-use finds. The architecture
separates capture from publication and supports reuse:
- find/ captured items, hidden from indexes
- finds/ editorial superposts referencing find slugs in a grid
- reviews/ full-length writeups; can graduate from a find via fromFind
- posts/ regular essays
Three project-local skills under .claude/skills/ drive the pipeline:
daily-finds (capture-only sweep across sources.json), build-finds (draft
a thematic superpost), build-review (graduate a find).
sources.json carries 47 curated feeds with per-source fetch strategy
(webfetch / curl / skip) so Cloudflare-blocked sites and Reddit JSON
endpoints are handled deterministically. /sources renders a 3-column
card stream with a "Recent finds" cross-reference per source.
Seeds: 17 reviews and one superpost referencing 5 finds.
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