One written standard for every audience-facing word: concise, to the
point, inspiring delight through specificity — with word budgets per
copy type (reviews had drifted from a ~370-word median to 500-1000+).
All writing skills now reference the charter, and daily-pipeline gains
a stage-4 copy-edit pass: a subagent that didn't write the day's copy
tightens it against the charter, prose only, diff reviewed before
commit. Digest gains a copy-edit line.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WZaczDJjL3xZ3u5spsN5AL
New rule at every selection stage: daily-finds drops such items at
capture (categorical, overrides design/gift appeal; borderline cases
skip too), build-bundle and cluster-bundles treat legacy alcohol
finds as ineligible for new bundles, and build-review refuses to
graduate them even on explicit slug. Existing finds stay published
per forward-only decision; CLAUDE.md records the policy centrally.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WZaczDJjL3xZ3u5spsN5AL
The real failure mode is 0-1 images (wall of text); two heroes read
fine on the 1-2 column layouts. Keep ~4 as the aim — prefer
hero-bearing candidates among equal fits, more images for bigger
bundles — since 2 among 8 items still looks thin on the wide
4-column grid. Restores the 3-item minimum bundle size.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WZaczDJjL3xZ3u5spsN5AL
Bundles now ship only when at least four of their items have a hero.*
image, purely so the grid never renders image-thin. Clusters that miss
the floor are held back and logged rather than padded or written thin;
the weekly catch widens its window to older unbundled hero-bearing
finds instead of holding. Capture gets a nudge to try a second image
source before giving up on a hero.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WZaczDJjL3xZ3u5spsN5AL
Topics — the curated subscription layer: 18-value controlled vocabulary
in src/lib/topics.ts, enum-enforced by the content schema on finds and
reviews so unattended runs can't drift it. /topics/ index +
/topics/<t>/ pages with finds first-class alongside reviews, per-topic
RSS feeds that include finds (unlike category/tag feeds), "By topic"
section on /feeds/, Topics footer link and llms.txt section, dev-shim
coverage for the new feed URLs. daily-finds and build-review skills now
classify at capture/graduation time; "giftable" is a tag, never a
topic.
Per-source indexes: /sources/<slug>/ lists every review and find from a
source (catalog ∪ names in content, so retired sources resolve);
find/review colophons link "(more from this source)"; /sources/ cards
link "everything from this source →"; sub-3-item pages noindexed.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WZaczDJjL3xZ3u5spsN5AL
- daily-finds: feed-first fetch strategy (fetch: feed + feedUrl), cadence-aware
scanning, new score-and-shortlist stage (shortlist: true, up to 12/day, top
1-3 flagged as review candidates), Amazon affiliate lookup for shortlisted
physical products, and authority to apply mechanical sources.json maintenance
(skip dead sources, demote dormant ones, record working fetch paths) instead
of logging recommendations nobody executes.
- build-bundle: auto mode (no confirmation gate when unattended) and a 'weekly'
date-based catch mode so shortlisted finds never sit invisible for weeks.
- cluster-bundles: auto mode.
- build-review: hero.ts registration step removed (heroes auto-discovered from
hero.<ext>); mandatory fact-check against the product's own site in auto
mode; amazonLink carry-through; auto mode publishes and logs instead of
pausing twice for approval.
- New daily-pipeline skill: capture → bundle → reviews → pick of the day →
build → commit → push → digest, with granular per-stage commits. This is the
entrypoint for scheduled runs.
- Project CLAUDE.md documenting the pipeline and its foot-gun conventions.
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.
UI / dev tooling
- /find/ index: sort by file birthtime desc (sub-day chronology even when
many finds share the same frontmatter date); render the captured-at on
its own line under the host (~0.65rem mono muted)
- New dev-only filter at the top of /find/: All / Not in lists, persisted
in localStorage; "not in lists" hides finds referenced by any superpost
- New editorial-tags chip strip on each find card (dev-only): selected
tags visible by default, full picker on hover/focus-within with a "…"
button for arbitrary tag entry; clicks copy /edit-find-tag <slug> <tag>
to the clipboard via the existing EditConfirm singleton
- New optional editorialTags: string[] field on the find collection
- New src/data/editorial-tags.json — master list of available tags (initial
set: ["delete"]); display order follows file order
/grid/ now uses the JS Masonry component instead of CSS column-count, so
the middle column no longer "dips"; tile hover updated to match the home
page's accent-glow / no-translate style
Content
- New review: apex-markdown-processor (graduated from find of same slug;
hero reused from the find folder)
- New review: sindre-sorhus-older-mac-apps (graduated; intentionally
hero-less per the source page's text-only design)
- New review: superkey (added by user; hero wired in src/lib/hero.ts)
- 24 new finds captured by /daily-finds across travel, jokes, quotes,
product picks, and indie tools
- 2 new finds superposts: 2026-05-04-a-small-atlas, 2026-05-04-off-until-needed
Misc
- daily-finds.log.md and candidate-sources.md updated with the day's runs
- build-finds skill prompt iterated by user
- New "Why this exists" post; masthead "founded" links to it
- Post template: serif headline + date in masthead, "Filed under {category}" in footer
- Drop counts from footer Collections list
- Masonry component for home + sources grid; source badges link to /sources/#slug
- Theme toggle (settings page + cog) with dark-mode-aware tokens
- Six new themed find lists; cluster-finds skill
Make it explicit that when a post on a known source credits or links
out to another publication ("via X", "first seen on Y", etc.), that
publication becomes a candidate source. Drop the previous 1-2 nominees
cap — capture every plausible new source the run surfaces.
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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