tldraw: fact-check enriched the find — dual product (free whiteboard /
source-available SDK), licensing corrected to the proprietary tldraw
license (not MIT). Fresh first-party screenshot hero.
Kartell Componibili: first review to carry amazonLink (genuine Kartell
4966/03, sold by Amazon) — exercises the new 'Also on Amazon' affiliate
rendering end to end. New 'design' category.
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.
The generator still resolved heroes at the old flat src/content/find/<slug>/
path, so every mosaic was skipped as 'no heroes' and src/generated/
bundle-mosaics sat empty. Home-page bundle tiles have been mosaic-less since
the May migration.
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.
- 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.
- src/lib/hero.ts: review heroes are now auto-discovered via import.meta.glob
over reviews/*/hero.<ext>; only legacy non-hero-named assets remain as
explicit overrides. New reviews need zero registration.
- Pick of the day moves from a hardcoded HERO_SLUG in index.astro to
src/data/pick.json (content edit, not code edit); dev set-pick API and
the review-page button now write pick.json. Fallback: latest review.
- Schemas: finds gain shortlist (bool) + amazonLink; reviews gain amazonLink.
- Review + find pages render an 'Also on Amazon' affiliate link when
amazonLink is set, with shared disclosure handling.
- Both hero globs now include .avif (two June finds ship avif heroes).
Found the canonical home for Editorio: developer Lovre Crncevic's site
at editorio.crncevic.org, free on the Mac App Store at id6759334075.
Updates:
- Review and find now link to editorio.crncevic.org (was Reddit-only)
- Review body adds App Store link inline + corrects the "anonymous dev"
framing (Lovre Crncevic is named), version 5.4, App Store privacy
label, free no-IAP, ~40 MB RAM, sub-100 ms file open
- Replaced the small Reddit-OG-card hero with the developer site's
1280×800 screenshot (36 KB webp) showing the actual side-by-side
source+preview with independent minimaps
- hero.ts import retargeted to hero.webp
RemCTL (Federico Viticci's Reminders CLI): category `automation`,
hero reused from MacStories OG card. Body flags the private-API
caveat — RemCTL reads Reminders' SQLite + ReminderKit directly.
Editorio (indie markdown+code editor): category `writing`, hero reused
from Reddit OG. No homepage exists yet; review acknowledges single-
Reddit-post documentation. Used astro:assets <Image> for responsive
srcset on the small JPG.
Muxy (SwiftUI workspace): category `terminal`, fresh hero from the
github.com/muxy-app/muxy README. The find sold this as "a terminal
with a sidebar" — the review's blockquote opens by correcting that.
Muxy is actually a full SwiftUI workspace (Git tooling, file tree,
command palette, Mermaid preview, 490 themes, iOS+Android companion
apps). Review link points to github repo per user direction.
Single-image review of the Scale AI Show HN browser game about Claude
Code permission fatigue. Category: `play` — same new category started
for cursor-camp-neal-fun. Body corrects the find's generic "AI agent"
to name Claude Code specifically, per the game's own meta tags.
Ten-day gap since the 2026-05-20 sweep. Pool grows from 414 → 468 finds.
Productive: Six Colors, MacStories (3), Daring Fireball (3), Brett
Terpstra, Eclectic Light, Show HN (5), Wallpaper* Travel (5), AFAR (2),
Boutique Homes, Cool Tools (2), Kottke.org (4), Open Culture (5),
Quote Investigator (4), A.Word.A.Day, The Marginalian (4), MoMA (3),
Recomendo (3), icanhazdadjoke (7).
Major blocker: Reddit JSON endpoint is hard-blocked this run — all four
r/* sources returned identical 189908-byte HTML payloads regardless of
UA or URL pattern. Lost ~15-25 finds. Next-pass action: OAuth Reddit
API.
Other blockers: TidBITS 403, Web Curios ECONNREFUSED with no recent
issue URL resolvable, Things Magazine still on May 15 post (monthly-ish
cadence confirmed), Atlas Obscura serving evergreen 2017-era content,
A Continuous Lean dormant 9 runs.
5 new source nominees in candidate-sources.md.
Single-image review of Neal Agarwal's Cursor Camp browser toy, reusing
the find's existing 1200×630 share card. New `play` category — none of
the existing buckets fit a web-toy, and the 2026-05-14 six-browser-games
bundle has 5+ other candidates that will graduate cleanly into it.
Seven-day gap since the 2026-05-13 sweep. Pool grows from 347 → 414 finds.
Productive: r/macapps (10), r/shortcuts (5), Six Colors, MacStories,
Daring Fireball (3), Brett Terpstra, Wallpaper* Travel (5), AFAR (3),
The Outbound Collective (3), r/BuyItForLife (3), Kottke.org, Web Curios
(5), Recomendo, Cool Tools (2), Wikiquote, The Marginalian (3),
A.Word.A.Day (2), Quote Investigator, r/dadjokes (7), icanhazdadjoke (3),
Things Magazine (3 — first new post in 6 weeks).
Source-maintenance flags this run: Reddit JSON endpoint rate-limits hard
on >10 per-post fetches in a 60s window (mid-run hero fetch failed for 6
posts); switch to extracting previews from the top listing JSON at scan
time. Atlas Obscura no longer Cloudflare-blocked but homepage falls back
to evergreen 2017-era pieces. A Continuous Lean dormant for 8 runs.
Things Magazine cadence: weekly → monthly (not quarterly as flagged on
05-13).
7 new source nominees in candidate-sources.md.
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
4-slide carousel (library, graph-search, visualizer, DSP) sourced from
zenteek.app. New `music` category — none of the existing buckets
(interface, indie, writing) fit a music player. Audirvana/Apple Music/Roon
named directly as comparisons in the body.
Bartender 6: 4-slide carousel (peninsula, widgets, menu-bar, triggers)
sourced from macbartender.com/Bartender6/img/. Category: interface —
pairs naturally with the existing ice and alcove reviews.
Gnome: single-image review for Lex Friedman's menu-bar GIF picker.
Replaced the find's icon hero with the actual screenshot from
lexfriedman.com/gnome/screenshot.png. Body highlights the underrated
Apple-Vision OCR feature (text-in-GIF search).
Both heroes registered in src/lib/hero.ts.
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.
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.
The original Tools and Toys post linked B002YNQVPE, which is the VDE-rated insulated electrician's variant. The review's content describes the standard Ergonic comfort-grip set; B0012CRXU0 is the matching SKU.
Inclusion isn't endorsement; no warranty on safety/quality/durability/fit
or continued existence; no responsibility after click-through. Plain,
non-legalese tone preserved.
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.
New review under category `automation` (introduced for Apple
Shortcuts and similar workflow graduates — none of the existing
review categories fit). Hero registered in src/lib/hero.ts so the
grid card renders. Find marked `promotedTo: smartmover-shortcut`.
Also: HERO_SLUG bumped from superkey → monitorcontrol on the home
page (today's pick).
Captured 27 finds from the daily sweep across 15 sources (Daring
Fireball, HN Show HN, Kottke, Wallpaper, Outbound, Uncommon Goods,
Kikkerland, BIFL, Quote Investigator, Marginalian, r/dadjokes,
icanhazdadjoke, r/shortcuts, Recomendo, Messy Nessy) plus one user-
suggested find (valchoose-barf-bags) and 11 additional reader-
suggestion finds (appcleaner, blip, cleanmykeyboard, clocker,
daisydisk, ia-writer, launchos, macfolio, mos, vivid, wallspace).
New reviews: monitorcontrol (graduated from today's reader
suggestion, category interface) and blip (graduated from today's
reader suggestion, category indie). Both registered in hero.ts.
Site tooling: new dev-only POST /api/set-pick middleware that
rewrites HERO_SLUG in src/pages/index.astro for the Make today's
pick action. EditConfirm reworked to support a non-copy "set-pick"
mode; EditAction takes action and slug props; the reviews template
switches the toolbar button over to the new wiring.
Log + candidate-sources updated. Two new candidates: Routinehub.co
and Moss & Fog.
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