{
  "updated": "2026-07-14",
  "topics": [
    "macos-apps",
    "apple-tips",
    "tools",
    "gifts",
    "clothing",
    "travel",
    "quotes",
    "dad-jokes",
    "general-delight"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "MacStories",
      "url": "https://www.macstories.net",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "macos-apps"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://www.macstories.net/feed/",
      "notes": "Federico Viticci's site. Long-form, considered reviews of Apple-platform apps. Pair with their Club MacStories newsletter. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (macstories.net/feed/)."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Sweet Setup",
      "url": "https://thesweetsetup.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "macos-apps",
        "tools"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "Cloudflare JS challenge — both WebFetch and curl with Safari UA are blocked. Only headless-browser scraping would work.",
      "notes": "App-of-the-week recommendations and workflow guides — opinionated picks rather than exhaustive roundups."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tools and Toys",
      "url": "https://toolsandtoys.net",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "macos-apps",
        "tools",
        "gifts"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "No 2026 content — the feed (toolsandtoys.net/feed/) confirms the newest entry is Sep 2024; site appears to be on indefinite hiatus.",
      "notes": "Shawn Blanc's curated picks across software and physical objects. Strong taste, light volume. Confirmed defunct 2026-07-03 via feed (newest entry Sep 2024, feed itself is live but stale)."
    },
    {
      "name": "One Thing Well",
      "url": "https://onethingwell.org",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "macos-apps",
        "tools"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "Feed (onethingwell.org/rss) confirms the newest post is Jan 2023 — site is defunct.",
      "notes": "Tiny posts about software that does one thing well — heavy on indie utilities. Confirmed defunct 2026-07-03 via feed (newest entry Jan 2023, feed itself is live but stale)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Six Colors",
      "url": "https://sixcolors.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "macos-apps"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "http://feedpress.me/sixcolors",
      "notes": "Jason Snell + Dan Moren on Apple. Reviews mixed with industry coverage; scan for app posts. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (feedpress.me/sixcolors)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Daring Fireball — Linked List",
      "url": "https://daringfireball.net",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "macos-apps",
        "general-delight"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://daringfireball.net/feeds/main",
      "notes": "Gruber's link blog often surfaces small Mac utilities and design-y oddities. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (daringfireball.net/feeds/main)."
    },
    {
      "name": "r/macapps",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/",
      "type": "subreddit",
      "topics": [
        "macos-apps"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/macapps/.rss",
      "notes": "Noisy but high-recall — sort by Top of the week to filter for signal. top/.json is now fully blocked (2026-06/07), and top.rss?t=week 429s too. The www .rss endpoint works but intermittently 429s (2026-07-04/05/06/07); switched feedUrl to old.reddit.com/.rss 2026-07-07 — identical Atom feed, no rate-limit observed. No OAuth needed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Indie App Sunday",
      "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieAppSunday",
      "type": "hashtag",
      "topics": [
        "macos-apps"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "mastodon.social returns 404 for hashtag pages and the .rss endpoint to non-authenticated requests. Need a logged-in Mastodon account or a different instance.",
      "notes": "Mastodon hashtag where indie devs surface their apps each Sunday — good for pre-launch / unknown finds."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cool Tools",
      "url": "https://kk.org/cooltools/",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "tools",
        "gifts"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://kk.org/cooltools/feed",
      "notes": "Kevin Kelly's long-running catalog of physical and digital tools. The original source for this kind of taste. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (kk.org/cooltools/feed)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Recomendo",
      "url": "https://recomendo.com",
      "type": "newsletter",
      "topics": [
        "tools",
        "gifts",
        "travel",
        "general-delight"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://recomendo.substack.com/feed",
      "notes": "Six recommendations a week from Kevin Kelly, Mark Frauenfelder, Claudia Dawson. Almost always includes one delightful object or app. Use the Substack RSS feed — full issue content is in the feed, the public site is locked down. Re-validated 2026-07-03; migrated from fetch:curl to fetch:feed (same URL)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Uses This",
      "url": "https://usesthis.com",
      "type": "interviews",
      "topics": [
        "tools",
        "macos-apps"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://usesthis.com/feed.atom",
      "notes": "Interviews about the hardware and software people use. Good for triangulating what genuinely useful people pick. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (usesthis.com/feed.atom)."
    },
    {
      "name": "r/BuyItForLife",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/",
      "type": "subreddit",
      "topics": [
        "tools",
        "clothing",
        "gifts"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/.rss",
      "notes": "Durable goods recommendations. Filter for posts with provenance and long-term reports. top/.json is now fully blocked (2026-06/07), and top.rss?t=week 429s too. The www .rss endpoint works but intermittently 429s (429'd again 2026-07-07); switched feedUrl to old.reddit.com/.rss 2026-07-07 — identical Atom feed, no rate-limit observed. No OAuth needed. 2026-07-14: old.reddit.com/.rss returned HTTP 429 this run (first occurrence since the 07-07 switch). r/macapps and r/dadjokes on the same domain succeeded in the same run, so this reads as intermittent rate-limiting, not a block — no change yet; if it 429s on 3 consecutive runs, probe OAuth."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hacker News — Show HN",
      "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/show",
      "type": "aggregator",
      "topics": [
        "macos-apps",
        "tools"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/showrss",
      "notes": "Devs surfacing what they built. High volume — scan top of week. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (news.ycombinator.com/showrss) — official Show HN RSS, replaces homepage scraping."
    },
    {
      "name": "Product Hunt",
      "url": "https://www.producthunt.com",
      "type": "aggregator",
      "topics": [
        "macos-apps",
        "tools"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://www.producthunt.com/feed",
      "notes": "Marketing-heavy, but the daily top-5 often includes a Mac app or utility worth a closer look. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (producthunt.com/feed)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Carryology",
      "url": "https://www.carryology.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "tools",
        "clothing",
        "gifts"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://www.carryology.com/feed/",
      "notes": "Bags, EDC, and well-made carry gear — overlaps clothing and tools. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (carryology.com/feed/)."
    },
    {
      "name": "This Is Why I'm Broke",
      "url": "https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com",
      "type": "aggregator",
      "topics": [
        "gifts"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/feed",
      "notes": "Internet-flotsam product aggregator. Quality varies wildly but the genuinely-novel finds are hard to get elsewhere. WebFetch and curl both hit an empty Angular SPA shell as of 2026-06-21, but /feed returns a full, fresh RSS feed — validated 2026-07-03; switched to fetch:feed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cool Material",
      "url": "https://coolmaterial.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "gifts",
        "clothing",
        "tools"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "Full Cloudflare JS challenge on all URLs (homepage, /feed, /rss) — regressed from previously curl-friendly; no bypass found as of 2026-07-03.",
      "notes": "Men's-leaning lifestyle finds: gear, gifts, apparel. Previously curl-friendly; now a full Cloudflare JS challenge on all URLs including /feed and /rss (403) — no working bypass found as of 2026-07-03."
    },
    {
      "name": "Werd.com",
      "url": "https://werd.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "gifts",
        "clothing",
        "tools"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "HTTP 403 to curl and WebFetch on homepage and all guessed feed paths (/feed, /rss) — no working bypass found as of 2026-07-03.",
      "notes": "Compact daily roundup of gear and gifts in a Tools-and-Toys vein. Blocked as of 2026-06-21 and reconfirmed 2026-07-03 (403 on homepage, /feed, /rss)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gear Patrol",
      "url": "https://www.gearpatrol.com",
      "type": "magazine",
      "topics": [
        "gifts",
        "clothing",
        "tools"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://www.gearpatrol.com/feed/",
      "notes": "Editorial gift guides and product features. Skim seasonal guides for gift candidates. Feed bypasses the Cloudflare challenge entirely — validated 2026-07-03 (gearpatrol.com/feed/); switched from fetch:skip to fetch:feed."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Awesomer",
      "url": "https://theawesomer.com",
      "type": "aggregator",
      "topics": [
        "gifts",
        "general-delight"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://theawesomer.com/feed/",
      "notes": "Quirky finds across products, art, and video — hits the 'delight' brief directly. Feed bypasses the Cloudflare challenge — validated 2026-07-03 (theawesomer.com/feed/, trailing slash required); switched from fetch:skip to fetch:feed."
    },
    {
      "name": "MoMA Design Store",
      "url": "https://store.moma.org",
      "type": "shop",
      "topics": [
        "gifts"
      ],
      "cadence": "ongoing",
      "fetch": "curl",
      "fetchUrl": "https://store.moma.org/collections/new/products.json",
      "notes": "Museum-curated objects. New Arrivals reliably includes one beautifully-designed daily-use thing. WebFetch and the plain collection URL both return nav-only Shopify SPA shells — /collections/new/products.json returns the full product grid instead; fetchUrl updated 2026-07-03 (still 30 products, re-validated)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Kikkerland",
      "url": "https://www.kikkerland.com",
      "type": "shop",
      "topics": [
        "gifts"
      ],
      "cadence": "as-needed",
      "fetch": "curl",
      "fetchUrl": "https://www.kikkerland.com/collections/new/products.json",
      "notes": "Affordable design gifts; small clever objects. HTML collection pages are a Shopify SPA (nav-only) — /collections/new/products.json returns the full grid instead; fetch:curl + fetchUrl added 2026-07-03 (30 products validated). Demoted ongoing → as-needed 2026-07-13: the endpoint still works, but every product in the 'new' grid is dated 2026-03-11..24 — the grid has not refreshed since March, and essentially all 30 are already captured. Re-check when a seasonal drop lands rather than scanning every run."
    },
    {
      "name": "A Continuous Lean",
      "url": "https://www.acontinuouslean.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "clothing"
      ],
      "cadence": "as-needed",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://www.acontinuouslean.com/feed/",
      "notes": "Michael Williams on Americana, heritage menswear, and the makers behind it. Cadence is quarterly/seasonal rather than dead — the feed shows a Jun 9 2026 'Father's Day Gift Guide' post after a Dec 2025 gap; the earlier 'dormant since Dec 2025' assessment was a stale snapshot, not a dead site. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (acontinuouslean.com/feed/); switched to fetch:feed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Put This On",
      "url": "https://putthison.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "clothing"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://putthison.com/feed/",
      "notes": "Long-running menswear blog. Strong on classic tailoring + rotating sale roundups. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (putthison.com/feed/)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Permanent Style",
      "url": "https://www.permanentstyle.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "clothing"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://www.permanentstyle.com/feed",
      "notes": "Simon Crompton on craft tailoring and permanent-wardrobe pieces. Deep, evidence-led reviews. Feed bypasses the Cloudflare challenge — validated 2026-07-03 (permanentstyle.com/feed); switched from fetch:skip to fetch:feed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Heddels",
      "url": "https://www.heddels.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "clothing"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "Cloudflare JS challenge — both WebFetch and curl with Safari UA are blocked.",
      "notes": "Raw denim, workwear, and 'fades' culture. Strong on construction details."
    },
    {
      "name": "Standard & Strange Journal",
      "url": "https://www.standardandstrange.com/blogs/standard-strange-stories",
      "type": "shop-blog",
      "topics": [
        "clothing"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://www.standardandstrange.com/blogs/standard-strange-stories.atom",
      "notes": "Bay Area shop's editorial — small-batch workwear and Japanese makers, with substantive notes per piece. The journal lives at /blogs/standard-strange-stories. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (standardandstrange.com/blogs/standard-strange-stories.atom)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Outlier",
      "url": "https://outlier.nyc",
      "type": "shop",
      "topics": [
        "clothing"
      ],
      "cadence": "ongoing",
      "notes": "Technical fabric clothing for daily use — the brand itself is a source. Watch product drops + the Out of Office blog."
    },
    {
      "name": "Snow Peak",
      "url": "https://www.snowpeak.com",
      "type": "shop",
      "topics": [
        "clothing",
        "tools"
      ],
      "cadence": "as-needed",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://www.snowpeak.com/blogs/news.atom",
      "notes": "Japanese outdoors brand whose apparel and titanium kit reliably qualify as 'delightful daily-use.' Product grid is JS-rendered and not scrapable; the Journal/news feed works but is quiet. Demoted ongoing → as-needed 2026-07-13: newest feed post is 'Snow Peak Seattle Grand Opening' (2026-05-16), nothing since, and the feed carries store/event news rather than product drops — the gear that would actually qualify never appears in it."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr Porter Journal",
      "url": "https://www.mrporter.com/en-us/journal",
      "type": "magazine",
      "topics": [
        "clothing",
        "gifts"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "Active anti-bot — both WebFetch and curl time out indefinitely (status 000) even with browser UA.",
      "notes": "Glossy but often surfaces small makers and well-photographed individual pieces."
    },
    {
      "name": "StyleForum",
      "url": "https://www.styleforum.net",
      "type": "forum",
      "topics": [
        "clothing"
      ],
      "cadence": "as-needed",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://www.styleforum.net/forums/-/index.rss",
      "notes": "Long threads (some 1000+ pages) where subject-matter obsessives compare specific brands — best for deep dives, not browsing. Forum-wide 'recent posts' RSS validated 2026-07-03. Demoted daily → as-needed 2026-07-13: the feed is technically live but its signal has collapsed — all 49 items on 2026-07-13 were Temu/Insta360/wellness coupon-code spam threads, zero legitimate style content, and it has produced no finds across many runs. Not blocked, just worthless as a daily scan. Revisit if the forum cleans up its spam."
    },
    {
      "name": "Atlas Obscura",
      "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com",
      "type": "site",
      "topics": [
        "travel",
        "general-delight"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://www.atlasobscura.com/feeds/latest",
      "notes": "The definitive catalog of unusual places. Use the 'Places' filter for destinations; the editorial covers oddities globally. Quirk: returns HTTP 403 status with real HTML body — the skill should ignore the status code when the body parses as content. Feed at /feeds/latest fully bypasses the Cloudflare block — validated 2026-07-03, 27 items all dated within the last week; switched from fetch:curl to fetch:feed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Roadtrippers Magazine",
      "url": "https://roadtrippers.com/magazine",
      "type": "magazine",
      "topics": [
        "travel"
      ],
      "cadence": "as-needed",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://roadtrippers.com/feed",
      "notes": "North-America-leaning road trip routes and stops, often hitting roadside oddities. Feed validated 2026-07-03. Demoted weekly → as-needed 2026-07-13: live but dormant — newest feed item is 2026-06-09 (5+ weeks), and it has produced nothing across 3+ consecutive runs; what it does publish is round-up/listicle content ('20 National Park lodges'), not the single specific places this site captures."
    },
    {
      "name": "Spotted by Locals",
      "url": "https://www.spottedbylocals.com",
      "type": "blog-network",
      "topics": [
        "travel"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "Cloudflare JS challenge — both WebFetch and curl with Safari UA are blocked.",
      "notes": "Resident-written tips for ~80 cities — better signal than algorithmic 'top 10' lists."
    },
    {
      "name": "Messy Nessy Chic",
      "url": "https://www.messynessychic.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "travel",
        "general-delight"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://www.messynessychic.com/feed/",
      "notes": "'13 Things I Found on the Internet' weekly roundup; lots of obscure travel + cultural curiosities. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (messynessychic.com/feed/)."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Outbound Collective",
      "url": "https://www.theoutbound.com",
      "type": "site",
      "topics": [
        "travel"
      ],
      "cadence": "as-needed",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "No recency signal (probed 2026-07-13). /feed and /rss both return a real 404; WebFetch on the homepage does return genuine trail/place cards, but the site carries NO publish dates anywhere — it's an evergreen trail database, not a chronological feed, so a daily pipeline cannot tell new from years-old. Not blocked, just undateable.",
      "notes": "User-submitted outdoor adventures with photos — useful for trail/landscape destinations specifically. Would be usable again if a dated 'new adventures' endpoint is ever found; the places themselves (The Narrows, Diamond Fork Hot Springs, Sunset Cliffs cave) do clear the bar and several were captured in earlier runs."
    },
    {
      "name": "Unusual Hotels of the World",
      "url": "https://www.unusualhotelsoftheworld.com",
      "type": "site",
      "topics": [
        "travel"
      ],
      "cadence": "ongoing",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "SPA shell (~4KB, JS-rendered) with no server-rendered content — confirmed 2026-06-21 and 2026-07-03; /feed and /rss.xml guesses return the same empty shell, not real feeds.",
      "notes": "Catalog of architecturally unusual stays — treehouses, ice hotels, repurposed structures. Earlier sources.json had wrong domain (uhotw.com — now a gambling site). Confirmed dead end 2026-07-03 — no working feed; switched to fetch:skip."
    },
    {
      "name": "AFAR",
      "url": "https://www.afar.com",
      "type": "magazine",
      "topics": [
        "travel"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "webfetch",
      "notes": "Editorial travel mag; 'experiential' coverage that surfaces more idiosyncratic destinations than typical glossies. Feed probe 2026-07-13: NO RSS exists — /feed, /rss and /magazine/rss all return a real HTTP 404 (not a challenge page). WebFetch on the homepage works and returns dated article listings, so fetch:webfetch is recorded explicitly as the only working path. Signal is thin (heavy on 'best hotels in X' listicles, which fail the bar) — demoted daily → weekly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wallpaper* Travel",
      "url": "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel",
      "type": "magazine",
      "topics": [
        "travel"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://www.wallpaper.com/feeds/tag/travel",
      "notes": "Design-forward stays and destinations — overlaps with architectural delight. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (wallpaper.com/feeds/tag/travel) — travel-tag-specific, fresher and more targeted than the site-wide feeds.xml."
    },
    {
      "name": "Boutique Homes",
      "url": "https://www.boutique-homes.com",
      "type": "shop",
      "topics": [
        "travel"
      ],
      "cadence": "as-needed",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "No recency signal (probed 2026-07-13). /feed returns 404; the sitemap exists (2,180 URLs) but every single entry carries an identical placeholder lastmod of 2024-12-19, so it is useless for freshness. WebFetch returns real property listings but they are presented as an undated evergreen 'City List' — no way to tell new from old.",
      "notes": "Hand-picked architectural rentals worldwide — useful as a 'destination via the building' source. Its properties do clear the bar (Casa Siza, CasaCau, 34 Rue Louise-Emilie were all captured in earlier runs) — the blocker is purely that nothing on the site is dated. Re-probe if a 'new listings' endpoint appears."
    },
    {
      "name": "Kottke.org",
      "url": "https://kottke.org",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "general-delight"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://feeds.kottke.org/main",
      "notes": "Jason Kottke's link blog. The single best low-noise feed for cross-disciplinary delight. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (feeds.kottke.org/main)."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Browser",
      "url": "https://thebrowser.com",
      "type": "newsletter",
      "topics": [
        "general-delight"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://thebrowser.com/free/rss/",
      "notes": "Five hand-picked articles per day. Paid; the picks are unusually consistent. Correction 2026-07-03: the /free/rss/ feed is public and unauthenticated, delivering all ~5 daily picks with full summaries — no login needed. The 'no public picks page' assumption was wrong; switched from fetch:skip to fetch:feed. 2026-07-14: the free RSS tier now exposes only 2 of the 5 daily picks (the rest are paywalled), so coverage from this source is inherently partial — its own daily word game (Nomido) is the reliably linkable artifact."
    },
    {
      "name": "Web Curios",
      "url": "https://webcurios.co.uk",
      "type": "newsletter",
      "topics": [
        "general-delight"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://webcurios.co.uk/feed/",
      "notes": "Matt Muir's enormous Friday roundup of internet curios. High volume, idiosyncratic taste. Use /all-curios/ — the homepage only lists newsletter titles. The 2026-06-21 homepage ECONNREFUSED was transient — site and /feed/ both validated live 2026-07-03 (weekly cadence, latest dated today); switched from fetch:curl (/all-curios/) to fetch:feed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Things Magazine",
      "url": "https://www.thingsmagazine.net",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "general-delight",
        "gifts"
      ],
      "cadence": "monthly",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://www.thingsmagazine.net/feed/",
      "notes": "Quiet, image-heavy notes on objects, architecture, and obscure design corners. Feed validated 2026-07-03. Cadence corrected weekly → monthly 2026-07-13: it is NOT dormant — it publishes dense link-dump posts roughly monthly, and the 2026-06-12 post alone yielded 3 finds this run. Scanning it weekly just re-reads the same post; check it monthly and mine the whole link-dump when it lands."
    },
    {
      "name": "Open Culture",
      "url": "https://www.openculture.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "general-delight"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://www.openculture.com/feed",
      "notes": "Free cultural & educational media — adjacent to the brief but a steady source of unusual-thing stories. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (openculture.com/feed)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Kevin Kelly — kk.org",
      "url": "https://kk.org",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "tools",
        "general-delight"
      ],
      "cadence": "as-needed",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://kk.org/thetechnium/feed",
      "notes": "Kelly's main site — the '68 Bits of Advice' / Excellent Advice posts often link out to delightful tools and books. Posts live at /thetechnium/; the homepage is a static about page. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (kk.org/thetechnium/feed); switched from fetch:curl to fetch:feed. Demoted weekly → as-needed 2026-07-14: the Technium is pure long-form essay — live and updating, but structurally it never names a buyable/usable thing (2 posts in the 07-05..07-14 window, 0 candidates). KK's product taste already reaches us through Cool Tools."
    },
    {
      "name": "TidBITS",
      "url": "https://tidbits.com",
      "type": "magazine",
      "topics": [
        "apple-tips",
        "macos-apps"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://tidbits.com/feed/",
      "notes": "Adam Engst's long-running Apple-platform publication. Tip-rich, technically careful, never reckless — a steady source of considered advice. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (tidbits.com/feed/) — sidesteps the earlier 403-to-WebFetch issue entirely."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Eclectic Light Company",
      "url": "https://eclecticlight.co",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "apple-tips"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://eclecticlight.co/feed/",
      "notes": "Howard Oakley's deep dives into macOS internals, system maintenance, and forgotten corners of the OS — endlessly delightful for anyone who likes pulling threads. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (eclecticlight.co/feed/)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Brett Terpstra",
      "url": "https://brettterpstra.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "apple-tips",
        "macos-apps"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "http://brett.trpstra.net/brettterpstra",
      "notes": "Power-user Mac scripts, automation, and small utilities from the author of TextExpander/Marked — generous with workflow snippets and 'web excursions' link roundups. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (the site's own declared feed URL, brett.trpstra.net/brettterpstra)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr. Drang — leancrew.com",
      "url": "https://leancrew.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "apple-tips"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://leancrew.com/all-this/feed/",
      "notes": "And now it's all this — engineer's perspective on macOS automation, command-line tricks, and Shortcuts. Quiet authority. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (leancrew.com/all-this/feed/)."
    },
    {
      "name": "r/shortcuts",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/",
      "type": "subreddit",
      "topics": [
        "apple-tips"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/.rss",
      "notes": "iOS/macOS Shortcuts community — sort by Top of the week to surface the cleverest automations. top/.json is now fully blocked (2026-06/07), and top.rss?t=week 429s too. The www .rss endpoint 429'd 3+ consecutive runs (2026-07-04/05/06); switched feedUrl to old.reddit.com/.rss 2026-07-07 — identical Atom feed, no rate-limit observed. No OAuth needed. 2026-07-14: old.reddit.com/.rss returned HTTP 429 this run (first occurrence since the 07-07 switch). r/macapps and r/dadjokes on the same domain succeeded in the same run, so this reads as intermittent rate-limiting, not a block — no change yet; if it 429s on 3 consecutive runs, probe OAuth."
    },
    {
      "name": "OSXDaily",
      "url": "https://osxdaily.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "apple-tips"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://osxdaily.com/feed/",
      "notes": "Long-running daily Mac/iOS tip site. Signal is mixed but it surfaces obscure things others miss — good for the occasional gem. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (osxdaily.com/feed/)."
    },
    {
      "name": "Quote Investigator",
      "url": "https://quoteinvestigator.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "quotes"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://quoteinvestigator.com/feed/",
      "notes": "Garson O'Toole's research-driven investigation of quote provenance — debunks misattributions and lands on the actual source. The gold standard. Feed discovered and validated 2026-07-13 (trailing slash required; /feed 301s to /feed/); switched from webfetch to fetch:feed. GOTCHA: Cloudflare serves this feed pre-compressed with Brotli (content-encoding: br) from cache regardless of the client's Accept-Encoding, and the system curl (8.7.1) has no Brotli support — it returns HTTP 200 with undecodable binary and no error signal. Pipe through `brotli -d` (or use a Brotli-aware client) when parsing."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wikiquote",
      "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org",
      "type": "wiki",
      "topics": [
        "quotes"
      ],
      "cadence": "as-needed",
      "notes": "Wikipedia's sister project. Citation-disciplined and wide-ranging — the place to verify a half-remembered line before passing it on."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Marginalian",
      "url": "https://www.themarginalian.org",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": [
        "quotes",
        "general-delight"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/brainpickings/rss",
      "notes": "Maria Popova's literary essays, dense with sourced quotations from books worth tracking down. Formerly Brain Pickings. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (feeds.feedburner.com/brainpickings/rss)."
    },
    {
      "name": "A.Word.A.Day",
      "url": "https://wordsmith.org/awad/",
      "type": "newsletter",
      "topics": [
        "quotes"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://wordsmith.org/awad/rss1.xml",
      "notes": "Anu Garg's daily word arrives with a 'Thought for Today' quotation — a reliable trickle of well-chosen lines. Feed validated 2026-07-03 (wordsmith.org/awad/rss1.xml) — single daily item, matching the site's one-word-a-day cadence."
    },
    {
      "name": "r/dadjokes",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/",
      "type": "subreddit",
      "topics": [
        "dad-jokes"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "feed",
      "feedUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/.rss",
      "notes": "Heavily moderated for original groaners. top/.json is now fully blocked (2026-06/07), and top.rss?t=week 429s too. The www .rss endpoint works but intermittently 429s (429'd again 2026-07-07); switched feedUrl to old.reddit.com/.rss 2026-07-07 — identical Atom feed, no rate-limit observed. No OAuth needed."
    },
    {
      "name": "icanhazdadjoke",
      "url": "https://icanhazdadjoke.com",
      "type": "api",
      "topics": [
        "dad-jokes"
      ],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "notes": "Curated dad-joke service with a clean JSON API (Accept: application/json). Quality is consistent; jokes do recycle, so dedupe by text."
    },
    {
      "name": "Reader's Digest — Jokes",
      "url": "https://www.rd.com/jokes/",
      "type": "site",
      "topics": [
        "dad-jokes"
      ],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "No fresh joke feed exists (probed 2026-07-13). /jokes/ 301s to /list/short-jokes/, an evergreen listicle last updated Jun 2024 (over a year stale) whose jokes are well-worn chestnuts; /feed/ is RD's general site feed (travel/health/lifestyle), not jokes. Nothing rotates day to day — a dead end for a daily-dedupe pipeline.",
      "notes": "Listicle-format joke roundups. Curl reaches the page fine (server-rendered, no JS needed) — the problem is staleness, not access. icanhazdadjoke and r/dadjokes cover this topic with actually-fresh content."
    }
  ]
}