Six Mac tools bound by their pricing stance rather than their function:
free (MDV), GPL open source (VoiceInk), and four one-time purchases from
$8.99 to $19.99. AudioPen, captured the same day, is excluded as the
subscription counterexample that sharpens the theme.
Text Catalyst and AudioBo weren't shortlisted but are the cleanest legs
of this theme — shortlist rank gates the shortlist, not bundle
membership. 5 of 6 items carry heroes.
Three graduations, and the fact-check earned its keep on every one.
Shanling M0 Pura (music): the 250mW balanced figure needs an adapter Shanling
sells separately — out of the box it is 100mW, on a single 3.5mm jack. The
'cannot stream' pitch holds (no Wi-Fi, no apps) but the review declines to sell
the myth: Bluetooth-receiver mode will happily play your phone's Spotify. Read
alongside the existing Zenteek review — the same argument with a battery in it.
Lunacy (play): runs the original unmodified After Dark module, not a
reimplementation — confirmed. Corrects the find's attribution of More After
Dark to Apple (it was Berkeley Systems) and disambiguates Jeff Halter, who made
Lunacy, from Ben Haller, who wrote Lunatic Fringe in 1991. Ships no game data;
you supply your own copy. Same developer as the Stacks HyperCard player, which
is the actual story.
Lai Tak Tsuen Estate (places — new category): the find was substantially wrong
and both it and this morning's bundle have been corrected in place. Not two
1975 towers but four cylinders across two twin-cylinder blocks, completed 1976.
And access is not 'a guard checks resident cards' — there are coded gates and
posted notices prohibiting entry and photography, put up because the Ghost in
the Shell shoot turned a residential estate into a backdrop. The bundle no
longer invites anyone through the gate, and this is emphatically not the pick.
Pool was at exactly 25 (the nominal cluster threshold) but yesterday's cluster
run already judged its remainder un-clusterable, so re-clustering would only
re-litigate that. Two tight 3-item themes instead, neither padded: three places
built for living/working rather than visiting (the run's one real patch to a
travel axis that has been thin for a week), and three things that argue for the
handmade page by being one — which finally surfaces london-notebook-writing,
shortlisted-but-invisible since 07-04.
The useful menagerie, Who actually said that, The completists, Ambient data,
Made on the old machines, Never out of production, Six groans (third serving),
Nothing to win here. All items previously unbundled; zero reuse.
Three bundles drafted 2026-05-14 from the 2026-05-13 capture pool:
- Six games inside a single tab: takeaway, single-ride, play-your-tubes-
right, desktop-tower-defense, cursor-camp, vaskange
- Six more clean groans: suitcase, mortician, cow-lightning, queue,
garden-plot, wind-turbines (sequel to six-clean-groans)
- Six Mac apps from this week's catch: Switch, Aira, Steno, ChessUnlock,
Monologue, TerminalWidget
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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