# Candidate sources Newly nominated sources awaiting review before promotion to `sources.json`. Each entry says where it came from and the case for adding it. Vet manually, then move to the main list. ## 2026-08-07 - **The Pudding — pudding.cool** — https://pudding.cool/ — surfaced via Kottke linking their lawn-mowing coverage-path study, captured this run. Long-running visual-essay studio; every piece is an interactive built from an original dataset, which is exactly the shape of find this site keeps reaching for. The highest-value nominee on the board — Kottke has now surfaced them repeatedly and we are getting them secondhand each time. Has an RSS feed; low volume, near-zero noise. - **Everything Machine — everythingmachine.io** — https://everythingmachine.io/ — publisher of *The Phone in Your Hand*, captured this run. Scrollytelling teardowns of everyday objects, designed mobile-first. Only one piece is visible so far, so vet for whether a second exists before promoting — this may be a one-off rather than a source. - **Comicbooks.com** — https://comicbooks.com/ — surfaced via Open Culture, captured this run. Beyond the 20,000-comic reading room it runs curated *exhibitions* (pulps, penny dreadfuls, early *Life* and *Vanity Fair*, the Chōjū-giga scrolls) that are each a find in their own right. Check whether the exhibitions page has a feed or a datable index. - **FlowingData** — https://flowingdata.com/ — surfaced as Kottke's credited route to Reading Maps ("via FlowingData"). Nathan Yau's long-running data-visualisation blog; daily cadence, high hit rate on the exact category The Pudding occupies. Much of the good material is behind a membership wall — vet how much of the feed is free before promoting. - **Beijaflor Software — beijaflor.io** — https://beijaflor.io/blog/ — publisher of QWERTY MIDI, captured this run. Pedro Tacla Yamada's audio-software blog; low volume, but each post ships a working browser instrument rather than describing one. Quarterly check rather than a daily scan. ## 2026-05-30 - **South London Scientific** — https://southlondonscientific.com/ — surfaced via Show HN's Helios solar calculator. Independent applied-physics studio publishing small civic-utility tools; worth quarterly check for similar single-purpose UK infrastructure calculators. - **Majestic Studios / Jonathan Laramime** — https://www.youtube.com/@majesticstudios — surfaced via Recomendo's AI-history reconstructions. AI-enabled history-reconstruction YouTube channel; the rare AI-content source worth treating as a real ongoing source rather than a one-off. - **Chloe VS History** — https://www.youtube.com/@chloevshistory — surfaced via Recomendo. The Chloe satire-history channel by the same creator (Laramime); track independently since the format is distinctive enough to surface different finds. - **Manuel Bravo (architect)** — https://www.youtube.com/@manuelbravoarq — surfaced via Open Culture's Acropolis 3D-reconstruction video. Spanish architect publishing 3D-walkthrough explanations of classical/medieval buildings on YouTube; one-pass vet for whether the cadence merits a regular check. - **Studio Jouin Manku** — https://jouinmanku.com/ — surfaced via Wallpaper's Park Hyatt Tokyo reopening. Patrick Jouin / Sanjit Manku's design studio — high-end hospitality projects, including a string of recent hotel reopenings. Studio-as-source for hospitality finds. ## 2026-05-20 - **shibuyaaa.com** — https://www.shibuyaaa.com/ — surfaced via Web Curios linking to their Drops synthtoy. Tokyo-based studio publishing small browser music projects; the catalog page suggests a steady cadence of small interactive sound experiments. Quarterly-check candidate. - **Barbara Iweins (katalog)** — https://katalog-barbaraiweins.com/ — surfaced via Things Magazine. Belgian photographer's house-inventory project is a self-contained one-off, but her broader portfolio may yield more captures. One-pass vet rather than ongoing source. - **Plug and Socket Museum** — https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/ — surfaced via Things Magazine. Self-contained Dutch enthusiast archive; not a source for ongoing finds, but a template for similar single-subject catalogs to watch for. - **MCNY exhibitions** — https://www.mcny.org/exhibitions — surfaced via Things Magazine link to "He Built the City." The Museum of the City of New York runs unusually deep exhibitions on niche city topics; their exhibitions feed could be a steady source of NYC-specific cultural finds. - **visdeurbel.nl** — https://visdeurbel.nl/ — surfaced via Recomendo's fish doorbell. Dutch conservation/livestream project; one-off rather than ongoing source, but watch for similar webcam-with-purpose projects elsewhere (Hokkaido owl nest cameras, etc.). - **Spirochaete Trail** — https://spirochaetetrail.blogspot.com/ — surfaced via Things Magazine. Long-running essay blog on overlooked media. Cadence appears irregular; worth a quarterly check rather than weekly. - **personalsit.es** — https://personalsit.es/ — directory itself is a source-of-sources. Scan its index periodically for individual personal sites worth tracking as nominees. ## 2026-05-13 - **Lex Friedman — lexfriedman.com** — https://lexfriedman.com/ — surfaced as the developer of Gnome (the menu-bar GIF picker captured this run). Friedman is a long-time Macworld/Six Colors contributor with his own site indexing his personal projects and writing. Low-volume but high-signal — when he posts about a new utility he built, it's worth scanning. Possibly more useful as a developer-tracker than a feed. - **Kyle McDonald — kylemcdonald.net** — https://kylemcdonald.net/ — surfaced via Web Curios linking to his Apocalypse Early Warning System (private-jet tracker). McDonald is a data artist with a long catalog of unusual web projects spanning data viz, machine learning, and net-art. Worth a single-pass scan to harvest current projects; cadence is irregular. - **Brilliant Maps — brilliantmaps.com** — https://brilliantmaps.com/ — surfaced via Kottke's link to the crowdsourced US-regions map this run. Long-running map-curation site that's a steady source of unusual cartographic finds (linguistic maps, historic boundary maps, sub-regional curiosities). Likely WebFetch-friendly. - **Hand-drawn Games — handdrawngames.com** — https://handdrawngames.com/ — surfaced via Kottke linking to their revived Desktop Tower Defense. Studio rebuilding Flash-era browser games for the modern web. Low-volume but each release is the kind of nostalgia find that earns a capture; worth a quarterly check. - **Sandwich Vision (Hovercraft)** — already nominated 2026-05-06 — note that Six Colors continues to surface their work (Hovercraft post this run reconfirms Sandwich is a productive source). Promote next. - **Routinehub.co** — already nominated 2026-05-05; the Add-to-Calendar Shortcut captured this run is hosted on iCloud rather than Routinehub, so the Routinehub-vs-iCloud-Shortcuts split remains open. Worth a one-pass vetting to see whether Routinehub catches Shortcuts the r/shortcuts thread misses. ## 2026-05-09 - **Daniel Fox — danielfox.ie** — https://www.danielfox.ie/ — surfaced as the author of the YouTube HLS Shortcut captured this run. Personal blog with deep-cut iOS Shortcuts research and reverse-engineering writeups (the YouTube post documented an undocumented YouTube player API). Low-volume but unusually substantive when posts land — worth quarterly check. - **Ambrook OffRange** — https://ambrook.com/offrange/ — surfaced via Kottke link to the Pocket Forests / Miyawaki piece. Editorial arm of agricultural fintech Ambrook, covering food systems, land use, and rural innovation with longform writing. Adjacent-but-relevant for general-delight + environment captures. - **Galen Leather Blog** — https://www.galenleather.com/blogs/news — Turkish leather-goods shop's blog surfaced via Kottke's Nibmeister piece. Strong on fountain-pen craft, leather repair, niche analog-tool culture; the kind of shop blog that publishes substantive long reads rather than thin product copy. - **Rory Pulvino — rory.codes** — https://rory.codes/ — surfaced via Web Curios (Blind Data analysis of the Guardian Blind Date column). Independent data-storytelling projects with sharp writing and clean visualizations. Low-volume but the projects each warrant their own find. - **Punto Fisso (Stefano Quintarelli)** — https://puntofisso.net/ — surfaced via Web Curios (Eurovision lyrics scrollytelling). Italian data-journalism project; English-language interactive pieces appear infrequently but are unusually substantive. Worth quarterly check. - **Since You Arrived** — https://sinceyouarrived.world/ — surfaced via Web Curios (Last Night's Sunset gradient page). Personal art/code project with a few small browser experiments at /sky and other paths. Vet for whether the domain has more pages worth surfacing. ## 2026-05-06 (evening sweep) - **Outdoor Research — Infinite Guarantee** — https://www.outdoorresearch.com/ — surfaced via r/BuyItForLife reader experience post detailing same-day Foray jacket replacement under the lifetime warranty. The policy itself is a noteworthy "buy-it-once" pick — but the canonical landing URL was elusive in this run (`/pages/infinite-guarantee`, `/pages/our-infinite-guarantee`, `/pages/infinite-guarantee-policy` all 404). Worth a dedicated investigation pass to find the right URL and then capture as a guarantees/return-policy find rather than as an ongoing source. - **Westsider Rag** — https://www.westsiderag.com/ — Upper West Side neighborhood blog that ran the Andrew's Honey Shop bee-distribution story this run. Local NYC reporting that surfaces the kind of in-business neighborhood curiosity (working hives in a Columbus Ave shop window) that mass-market travel sources miss. Returned 403 to curl this run; needs a different fetch approach. Vet WebFetch first. - **22RE Studio** — https://22re.com/ — Los Angeles design firm behind Bar di Bello's interiors (captured this run). Could be an ongoing source for design-led restaurant openings and room-renovation features. Worth a one-pass scan to assess whether their journal/news output justifies regular checking. ## 2026-05-06 - **Sandwich.vision** — https://sandwich.vision/ — surfaced as the publisher of Hovercraft (the virtual-camera Mac app captured this run). Sandwich is the production company behind the kind of small, deliberate, design-rich Mac/iOS app that fits the brief (also publisher of Sandwich Studio); their software page is a curated index of their releases. Low-volume, high-signal — worth scanning quarterly rather than daily. - **Lowtechguys.com** — https://lowtechguys.com/ — surfaced as the publisher of Cling (the file-finder captured this run). Indie Mac developer / blog crossing into utilities and small-batch software releases. The "/articles/" path appears to host their writing; vet whether the cadence justifies a daily check or whether it's better as an opportunistic monitor. - **Express Transit (the site)** — https://expresstransit.com/ — surfaced as a Six Colors recommendation this run. Strictly speaking it's a directory not a feed, but new entries are added when new transit networks light up Apple Wallet — worth checking via "what's new" once a month for travel-tip captures. - **Glenn Fleishman — glennf.com** — https://glennf.com/ — Glenn published Mister Plimsoll (captured this run) and is a long-running Apple-platform writer (TidBITS, Macworld, his own books on technical history). Independent site indexing his current projects and blog. Strong signal for both apple-tips and macos-apps; vet for cadence. ## 2026-05-05 - **Routinehub.co** — https://routinehub.co/ — surfaced as the canonical hosting URL for the SmartMover shortcut captured this run. Community-driven directory of iOS/macOS Shortcuts with upvotes, descriptions, and version history; a less-noisy alternative or complement to `r/shortcuts`. Has a `?sort=top&days=7` view that should be straightforward to scan; vet for noise vs. signal across the shortcuts category before promoting. - **Moss & Fog** — https://mossandfog.com/ — surfaced via Messy Nessy's vol. 770 crediting them ("Found via Moss & Fog") as the discoverer of the Anton Elfilter mixed-media collages post. Visual-culture publication leaning art, design, and curiosity — strong overlap with `general-delight` and `gifts`. Likely WebFetch-friendly. Vet for cadence and signal-to-noise on a single sweep before adding. ## 2026-05-04 - **Tokyo Paladin** — https://tokyopaladin.substack.com/ — surfaced via Daring Fireball Linked List crediting their post on Noir, the Yamazaki "Japanese Oreo." Substack focused on Japanese consumer products and cultural curiosities, in the vein of "things you can only buy in Japan that quietly outclass their global competitors." Substack feed should be curl-friendly via the standard `/feed` pattern. Strong candidate for the gifts and general-delight buckets. - **PetaPixel** — https://petapixel.com/ — surfaced via Kottke link to NASA's Artemis II photo dump. Long-running photography publication; coverage spans gear, photo essays, and historical archives — overlaps general-delight (photo finds) more than tools. WebFetch-friendly historically. Vet for noise-vs-signal across topics before adding. ## 2026-05-03 - **Robin Good's "Best Curated Newsletters"** — https://robingood.substack.com/ — surfaced via WebSearch. Annual list of curated newsletters; less a daily-find source than a yearly source-of-sources to scan once and harvest. Worth checking the most recent edition for newsletters in our brief that we don't yet track. ### Full-sweep capture round (apple-tips, quotes, dad-jokes new topics) - **Simon Willison — simonwillison.net** — https://simonwillison.net/ — surfaced via Kottke's link to the Talkie LLM post. Daily-cadence link blog focused on developer tools, LLMs, and small clever software. Strong overlap with the macos-apps and tools brief; technical but consistently surfaces underrated open-source projects. Probably WebFetch-friendly. - **This Is Colossal** — https://www.thisiscolossal.com/ — surfaced as the originating credit on Kottke's Unruly Play post ("via thisiscolossal.com"). Long-running art and visual-culture publication; would expand the general-delight bucket toward artists / installations / oddities. WebFetch-friendly historically. - **Daily Dad Jokes podcast / newsletter** — https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-daily-dad-jokes-89110830/ — surfaced via WebSearch. Weekly roundup curated from r/dadjokes; might just duplicate our existing r/dadjokes feed but the editorial pruning could give a higher-signal alternative if the JSON is accessible. - **Dad Says Jokes (Beehiiv)** — https://dadsaysjokes.beehiiv.com/ — surfaced via WebSearch. Newsletter dedicated to dad jokes; Beehiiv's RSS feed should be curl-friendly via the standard `/feed` pattern. Vet for actual originality vs. recycled Reddit content. - **The Mac Power Users podcast (Relay FM)** — https://www.relay.fm/mpu — surfaced via WebSearch for apple-tips. Long-running Apple-platform podcast; show notes pages list the apps and tips discussed each week — those notes are the actual source-of-sources value, not the audio. Probably WebFetch-friendly. - **TheMacU** — https://themacu.com/ — surfaced via WebSearch. Tutorial-heavy macOS site with weekly newsletter; seems tutorial-thicker than our taste demands but worth a single vetting visit. May overlap too heavily with OSXDaily and 9to5Mac. - **Selkie Design** — https://selkie.design/ — surfaced as the Hour by Hour developer site. Single-developer / single-app site, not a feed source. **Skip nomination** — flagged here only to keep the trail. ### Gift-focused round (Amazon-leaning) Goal of this round: expand `gifts` coverage with sources that lean Amazon-purchasable, and probe whether Amazon's own surfaces (Idea Lists, Influencer Storefronts) are usable as feeds. Note up front: Amazon does not run a unified consumer discovery blog — the closest native equivalents are user-curated Idea Lists (`amazon.com/ideas/...`) and Influencer Storefronts (`amazon.com/shop/{handle}`), neither of which has a central "browse new" feed. Discovery there is per-curator. All US-locale; `src/lib/affiliate.ts` only tags `amazon.com` today. **Editorial curators (highest signal-to-noise, vetted gift voice):** - **Wirecutter — Gifts** — https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/gifts/ — surfaced via WebSearch. NYT-owned product testing publication; the gifts hub is a perennial source of considered, taste-driven recommendations, and most picks have an Amazon purchase path. Likely needs `curl` (NYT blocks WebFetch) or `skip` if paywalled — vet fetchability first. - **The Strategist — Gifts** (New York Magazine) — https://nymag.com/strategist/tags/gifts/ — surfaced via WebSearch. Long-running gift-recommendations vertical with strong editorial voice; many picks Amazon-purchasable. Same publisher anti-bot risks as NYT may apply. - **Apartment Therapy — The Bazaar** — https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/the-bazaar — surfaced via WebSearch. Home-and-living shopping vertical; lots of Amazon picks framed by design taste. Likely WebFetch-friendly. - **Girls' Night In — "The Cute List"** (Alisha Ramos) — https://girlsnightin.substack.com/ — surfaced via WebSearch. Taste-driven curation of "delightful discoveries" (style and culture); gift-adjacent with regular Amazon links. Substack feed available, so the existing `curl` pattern used for Recomendo should work directly. - **Wirecutter — Deals** — https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/deals/ — sister hub to Gifts; surfaces Amazon-discounted versions of already-vetted picks, useful as a "gift on sale" signal. Same fetch caveat as Wirecutter — Gifts. **Reddit communities (cheap to add — existing curl + JSON path supports them via `top/.json?t=week&limit=25`):** - **r/AmazonFinds** — https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFinds/ — community-tagged Amazon discoveries. Mixed quality (some TikTok-style slop), but the top-of-week filter should surface the genuinely upvoted finds. Vet for delightfulness vs. cheap-gadget noise before promoting. - **r/Gifts** — https://www.reddit.com/r/Gifts/ — request-and-recommendation community; many resolved threads point to Amazon. Useful for "what to give X" patterns rather than discrete products. Vet noise level — requests outnumber recommendations. - **r/HelpMeFind** — https://www.reddit.com/r/HelpMeFind/ — people hunting for specific items; resolutions often land at Amazon. Lower volume of pure gift content but high signal when a thread closes with an answer. - **r/INEEEEDIT** — https://www.reddit.com/r/INEEEEDIT/ — community sharing surprising/delightful product finds, very gift-shaped. Strong overlap with the "delightful and distinctive" brief; many items are Amazon-buyable. **Amazon-native surfaces (experimental — fetchability uncertain, per-curator quality varies):** - **Amazon Influencer Storefront — Alix Earle** — https://www.amazon.com/shop/alixearle — surfaced via WebSearch (AmraAndElma roundup). Trial example of a storefront with unusual categories like "Gift Guides for a Partner's Parents" and "Amazon Luxury." Vet for taste fit — fashion/beauty leaning may be off-brief. Storefronts are SPA-heavy; both `webfetch` and `curl` may fail. - **Amazon Influencer Storefront — Julie Capozziello** — https://www.amazon.com/shop/juliecapozziello — surfaced via WebSearch. 64+ curated Idea Lists across lifestyle, gifts, books, snacks. Trial example of breadth. Same fetch and taste caveats as above. - **Amazon Gift Finder hub** — https://www.amazon.com/gift-finder — Amazon's own editorial gift surface. Expect heavy algorithmic + sponsored content; included as a baseline to evaluate whether Amazon-native editorial is worth tracking at all. Likely fails the brief on its own; useful as a control. - **Amazon Idea Lists search** — https://www.amazon.com/gift-ideas-list/s?k=gift+ideas+list — there is no native "browse all Idea Lists" page, so a search-results URL is the closest thing to a discovery feed. Probably noisy; flagged for evaluation rather than confident inclusion. **Sources-of-sources (one-shot scan, not daily fetches — same pattern as Robin Good above):** - **AmraAndElma — "25 Top Influencers with Amazon Storefronts" (2026)** — https://www.amraandelma.com/top-influencers-with-amazon-storefronts/ — yearly roundup; scan once to harvest more storefronts that match the brief, then drop. - **The Influence Agency — "Top Amazon Storefront Creators"** — https://theinfluenceagency.com/blog/amazon-storefront-top-creators-2025 — second curator-of-curators reference; harvest names, then drop. ### 2026-06-21 capture round (first run since 2026-05-06) - **crossplay.news** — https://www.crossplay.news/ — surfaced via a MacStories link on iOS/iPadOS parental controls. Curated newsletter/publication at the intersection of gaming and family Apple tech. Probably WebFetch-friendly. - **Thought Asylum** — https://www.thoughtasylum.com/ — Stephen Millard's automation/scripting blog (Drafts, Shortcuts, scripting workflows). Surfaced via Brett Terpstra's May 11 Web Excursions crediting his md-fixup Markdown cleanup fork. Good apple-tips / macos-apps overlap. - **Klipy** — https://klipy.co/ — the GIF/sticker backend powering the Gnome menu-bar app. Worth watching as a standalone source for creative/communication tools. Surfaced via the Gnome app page on lexfriedman.com. - **Bird History (Substack)** — https://birdhistory.substack.com/ — long-form ornithology writing with wit and depth; the "100 Greatest Bird Names" piece is natural-history-as-entertainment. Substack `/feed` should be curl-friendly. Surfaced via Recomendo #520. - **Deepculture (newsletter)** — URL TBD — curated newsletter of unusual internet discoveries; credited by Recomendo #514 as where the Virtual Fish Doorbell was found ("Found via Deepculture newsletter"). Identify the canonical URL before adding. - **nicoledonut.com** — https://nicoledonut.com/ — Nicole Donut's blog/newsletter on creative practice and writing productivity; the at-home writing-retreat post was specific and actionable. Surfaced via Recomendo #517. - **Herb Lester Associates** — https://www.herblester.com/ — pocket-format city guides for overlooked/underground subjects (literary maps, subterranean guides) — purchasable designed print objects at the design/cartography/travel intersection. Shopify storefront, curl-friendly. Surfaced via Things Magazine (Underground Paris map), June 12 2026. - **Neal.fun** — https://neal.fun/ — Neal Agarwal's single-page web toys (Cursor Camp, etc.); the most reliably-shared "delightful web thing" maker. Surfaced repeatedly via Kottke + Web Curios. Worth a dedicated source slot (general-delight). - **Pippin Barr** — https://pippinbarr.com/ — conceptual browser-game designer (Play It By Trust, etc.); consistently makes shareable art-games. Surfaced via Web Curios June 5. - **Soph Warnes** — http://www.sophiewarnes.com/ — independent developer/journalist who built Attenborough at 100; makes high-quality public-interest tools. Surfaced via Kottke (Attenborough at 100 footer). Maker, not a feed — track for future single-project finds. - **Jack Weiss** — https://weisswideweb.com/ — data-art / generative-music developer (Metro Music LA). Surfaced via Web Curios June 19. Maker, not a feed. ### 2026-07-04 capture round - **Spoon & Tamago** — https://www.spoon-tamago.com/ — long-running, tightly-curated blog on Japanese art, design, and craft; surfaced this run via Kottke (Saya Irie's eraser-shaving sculptures). Consistently taste-driven and delight-forward; Substack-style feed likely at /feed. Strong general-delight fit. - **Craighill** — https://craighill.co/ — Brooklyn design-object studio (Chroma Scissors, Swingtop Lighter, desk hardware); surfaced via Carryology's founder profile. A maker whose product drops reliably clear the "delightful daily-use object" bar — track the shop/new-arrivals as a source, not a feed. - **CW&T** — https://cwandt.com/ — design/tool studio behind the titanium Little Scissors and the Pen Type-B; surfaced via Carryology. Small, obsessive maker of precise, giftable objects; watch product drops. ### 2026-07-06 capture round - **Craig Mod — Ridgeline** — https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/ — first-person walking/travel/gear essays with exactly the specificity this site favors; surfaced via Cool Tools' Retro Recomendo crediting Craig Mod's trail-running-shoe recommendation. Has an RSS feed. - **Down the Rabbit Hole** — https://downtherabbithole.beehiiv.com/ — curates internet-wide "rabbit hole" finds, adjacent to general-delight (not strictly product-focused); credited inline in this week's Recomendo as a favorite newsletter. Beehiiv `/feed` likely works. - **Wowhaus** — https://wowhaus.co.uk/ — retro/vintage design-object and unusual-property blog; a plausible gifts/general-delight fit if Things Magazine keeps underperforming on freshness. Recurring "(via wowhaus)" credit in Things Magazine's linkage posts. - **Five Books** — https://fivebooks.com/ — themed five-book expert-interview series (quotes / general-delight); surfaced twice via The Browser's recurring guest-newsletter slot (Zoroastrianism this week, MAGA books last). Check for its own feed before adding. ### 2026-07-07 capture round - **WidgetWorx** — https://widgetworx.com/ — indie macOS-utility studio behind a cluster of small, focused apps (Revok app-auditor, Command Keeper, Notcho Libre, Butterfly Collector license-tracker); surfaced this run via a third-party "Developer Spotlight: WidgetWorx" writeup on r/macapps. Two of its apps cleared the bar as finds this run, which is a strong signal it's a maker worth tracking directly rather than waiting for it to resurface. Not a feed — watch the /apps page for new releases (as-needed cadence). Two lesser maker nominees also surfaced via Brett Terpstra's Web Excursions but are single-app shops, flagged only for the trail: **nanocorp.app** (MinimalWriter) and **allgoodfolks.com** (TRIGGER, an Ableton key-remapper). ### 2026-07-11 capture round - **The Public Domain Review** — https://publicdomainreview.org/ — nonprofit journal curating the most delightful corners of the public domain (art, books, film, maps) into browsable, downloadable collections; surfaced this run via Kottke (the "Venetian Bridge Brawls in Art" collection, captured as a find). Exactly the taste-driven, general-delight brief this site favors, and it publishes a clean RSS feed (/rss.xml) — a strong general-delight candidate to add to sources.json. Note: reuses public-domain imagery, so heroes are license-clean. - **The Gadgeteer** — https://the-gadgeteer.com/ — long-running EDC/gadget review blog; surfaced this run only as a syndication source for a maker's press photo (Codex Xband), not as an original discovery. Lesser fit (review-mill volume, not tightly curated) — flagged for the trail, not a priority add. ### 2026-07-12 capture round - **Michael Tsai — mjtsai.com/blog** — https://mjtsai.com/blog/ — long-running, well-curated Apple/Mac news-and-software link blog. Surfaced this run as the "via" credit on Six Colors' WhatCable post and cited multiple times by Daring Fireball in the same window — recurring across two independent existing sources, which is the "worth its own slot" signal. Has an RSS feed (mjtsai.com/blog/feed/). Strong macos-apps / apple-tips fit. - **Quantum of Sollazzo** — https://quantumofsollazzo.com/ — Giuseppe Sollazzo's newsletter on data and visualization curiosities; credited by Web Curios this run as "ever-excellent." Potential general-delight source for dataviz/web-toy finds (e.g. this run's World Cup data portraits came from that corner of the web). Check for a feed before adding. ### 2026-07-13 capture round - **MetaFilter** — https://www.metafilter.com/ — the original community link-aggregator; still one of the best low-noise sources of genuinely strange, delightful corners of the web. Surfaced this run as a repeated "via MeFi" credit inside Things Magazine's monthly link-dump (twice in one post). Things Magazine is effectively re-publishing MetaFilter's finds a step downstream — going to the source directly would get us there first and at a much better cadence (MeFi posts daily; Things posts monthly). Has a clean RSS feed (/rss.xml). Strong general-delight fit. - **Nomadico** — https://nomadicomail.com/ — Tim Leffel's short weekly travel newsletter (four items an issue: gear, destinations, travel logistics). Surfaced this run because Cool Tools *republishes it wholesale* as a roundup post — this run's LectroFan Alpha item was Nomadico content arriving secondhand. Same argument as MetaFilter: we're reading it a step downstream already. Would strengthen the travel axis, which is currently thin (Roadtrippers went dormant, The Outbound and Boutique Homes are undated dead ends — all three demoted/skipped this run). - **Andy Ihnatko** — https://ihnatko.com/ — long-time Mac/tech columnist's new personal blog (launched ~2026-06-02, announced via Six Colors). Referenced again this week as the referrer on a piece Six Colors picked up, which suggests he's actively curating outward links. Lesser priority than the two above — the blog is young and its cadence/shape isn't established yet. Flagged for the trail; worth re-checking in a month. ### 2026-07-14 capture round - **Colossal** — https://www.thisiscolossal.com/ — daily art/design/photography discovery blog, tightly curated and delight-forward. Surfaced this run as the explicit "via colossal" credit on Kottke's aerial-photography-contest post. Same downstream-reading pattern that put MetaFilter and Nomadico on this list: Kottke is republishing Colossal's finds a step late. Has an RSS feed (/feed). Strong design-and-art fit — and the visual axis is where our heroes come from, so a source whose whole beat is imagery is worth more than its find count suggests. - **Recurrence note (no new nominees, but the signal is compounding):** **Michael Tsai** (nominated 07-12) surfaced *again* this run as the "via" credit on Six Colors' WhatCable post — that is two independent runs and two independent existing sources crediting him. **Craig Mod / Ridgeline** (nominated 07-06) likewise re-surfaced, credited by both Cool Tools (Retro Recomendo trail shoes) and Kottke (NYC skaters) in the same window. Both are now the highest-conviction unvetted nominees on this list; they keep arriving secondhand. ### 2026-07-16 capture round - **No new nominees this run.** The organic feeds surfaced no fresh outbound "via/h-t" credits worth adding. The standing backlog remains the priority for vetting — highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, and **Nomadico** (the last three all read a step downstream through Kottke / Cool Tools already). Adding any of these to sources.json is a user decision. ### 2026-07-17 capture round - **Book Freak** — https://bookfreak.substack.com/ — Mark Frauenfelder's book newsletter, from the same Cool Tools Lab team we already read. Surfaced this run as the credited origin of Recomendo #523's "Deep Cuts" item (a monthly out-of-print book resurrected as a clean EPUB/PDF). Honest caveat: same curators we already get via Cool Tools and Recomendo, so the marginal yield may be low — but it's a genuinely distinct beat (books, not tools) and the site has no books axis at all right now. - **Psyche** — https://psyche.co/ — Aeon's psychology/philosophy sister site. Surfaced as Recomendo's credit for a "cognitive shuffling" sleep-technique piece. Weaker fit than the standing backlog: it publishes techniques and idea essays rather than buyable/usable things, so most of it would fail the bar. Flagged for completeness, not advocated. - **Considered and not nominated:** Wired (credited by Recomendo for an iPhone-accessibility piece) — a mainstream tech outlet, not a curated-oddity source. Fails the brief. - **Backlog unchanged and still the priority.** Highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**. Now 10+ unvetted nominees standing — worth a vetting pass. ### 2026-07-18 capture round - **No new nominees this run.** The scanned feeds surfaced no genuine new "via / h-t / first seen on" credits to a different curated domain (one scanner flagged "TidBITS", but that is already a source in `sources.json`). The standing backlog is unchanged and remains the priority for vetting — highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**. Adding any of these to `sources.json` is a user decision; 10+ nominees now stand unvetted. ### 2026-07-19 capture round - **The Material Review** — https://www.thematerialreview.com — Michael Williams' (A Continuous Lean) companion product-focused newsletter; self-credited in ACL's Father's Day guide ("we shared 34+ gifts on The Material Review"). A dedicated buyable-object feed from a maker whose main blog we already read — likely a denser source of specific carry/menswear/gift finds than ACL itself. Surfaced by A Continuous Lean. - **Bird History** — https://birdhistory.substack.com — niche curation newsletter that compiled a definitive ranked list of the 100 greatest bird names; the kind of single-obsession, taste-driven feed the site favors. Low volume, but distinct. Surfaced by Recomendo. - **Meanwhile** — https://buttondown.com/meanwhile — curated design/culture links newsletter in the Things Magazine vein; credited "via Meanwhile" as the origin of the Art of Roland-Garros poster archive. Reads a step downstream through Things Magazine, same pattern as MetaFilter/Colossal. Surfaced by Things Magazine. - **Recurrence note (compounding signal, no new nominee):** **Michael Tsai** (mjtsai.com) surfaced *again* as the "via" credit on Six Colors' WhatCable coverage; **Colossal** re-credited by Kottke ("via colossal"); **MetaFilter** credited twice inside Things Magazine's newest post ("via MeFi"). All three are already on the standing backlog and keep arriving secondhand — the highest-conviction unvetted adds remain **The Public Domain Review, Michael Tsai, MetaFilter, Colossal, Craig Mod / Ridgeline, Nomadico**. 13+ nominees now stand unvetted — worth a vetting pass. ### 2026-07-20 capture round - **Down the Rabbit Hole** — https://downtherabbithole.beehiiv.com/ — weekly curated newsletter of "psychoactive internet rabbit holes exploring meaning, beauty, and aliveness." Surfaced this run as a mention inside a Cool Tools roundup — the same read-it-a-step-downstream pattern that put MetaFilter, Colossal and Nomadico on this list. Web-curiosity beat, which is where a good share of the site's heroless-but-delightful finds come from. - **Recurrence note (no new nominees, signal still compounding):** no fresh "via / h-t" credits to new domains this run beyond the above. The standing backlog is unchanged and remains the priority for vetting — highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**. 14+ nominees now stand unvetted; this is well past the 10+ nudge threshold and is worth a dedicated vetting pass. ### 2026-07-21 capture round - **No new nominees this run.** The only outbound "via / h-t" credits across the scanned feeds pointed at domains already on this list: **Colossal** ("via colossal" ×2, both in Kottke) and **Craig Mod** ("via craig mod", Cool Tools). Both keep arriving a step downstream, which is the same compounding signal that has been recorded since 07-13. - **Backlog unchanged and still the priority.** Highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**. 14+ nominees now stand unvetted — well past the 10+ nudge threshold, and worth a dedicated vetting pass. Adding any of them to `sources.json` remains a user decision. ### 2026-07-22 capture round - **No new nominees this run.** The outbound-credit scan across the day's feeds produced nothing reproducible. Two candidate strings appeared in a first broad pass and then failed to reproduce on a targeted re-grep of the same files, so neither was written down — nominating a source this list cannot point back at would be worse than nominating none. - **Backlog unchanged and still the priority.** Highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**. 14+ nominees stand unvetted — the ninth consecutive run past the 10+ nudge threshold. Adding any of them to `sources.json` remains a user decision. - **Related, and more urgent than any nomination:** four existing daily sources (r/macapps, r/shortcuts, r/dadjokes, r/BuyItForLife) are currently dark because `REDDIT_CLIENT_ID` appears to hold an app *name* rather than Reddit's issued client ID — see the 2026-07-22 capture-run entry in `daily-finds.log.md`. Fixing that recovers four sources without vetting anything new. ### 2026-07-25 capture round - **Calisphere** — https://calisphere.org — the University of California's aggregated portal to digitized collections from ~350 California libraries, archives and museums. Surfaced by general observation rather than a credit: tracing an Open Culture post about 19th-century Japanese anatomical woodblock prints led to UCSF's Japanese Woodblock Print Collection hosted here, with a full public-domain IIIF scan. That is the exact shape of the site's strongest archive finds (`the-last-museum-art-archive`, `david-rumsey-map-collection`, `john-margolies-americana-archive`), and unlike most nominees it is a permanent primary source with free-to-use imagery, which also solves heroes for history-and-archives finds. Caveat worth weighing before vetting: it has no editorial feed, so it would need a "new collections" or search-based fetch path rather than a cadence scan. - **No fresh via/h-t credits this run.** The outbound-credit scan found four candidate strings, none usable: `via wowhaus` and `via Andrew Womack` sit in Things Magazine items dated 2025 and earlier (its feed carries 25 items going back years, so both are outside this run's window), `via MeFi` ×2 comes from 2024 items and points at **MetaFilter**, already on the standing backlog, and Brett Terpstra's "hat tip to hexaedre" credits a forum user rather than a publication. Recording the provenance rather than the string, per the 07-22 rule that a nominee this list cannot point back at is worse than no nominee. - **Backlog is now the story.** Highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**. 15+ nominees stand unvetted — the twelfth consecutive run past the 10+ nudge threshold. Adding any of them to `sources.json` remains a user decision. - **Still more urgent than any nomination:** the four Reddit sources remain dark on a one-field credential error (`REDDIT_CLIENT_ID` holds an app name, not Reddit's issued client ID). Fixing that recovers four sources without vetting anything new — see the 2026-07-25 capture-run entry in `daily-finds.log.md`. ### 2026-07-27 capture round - **Laughing Squid** — https://laughingsquid.com — art/culture/oddity blog running since 1995. Surfaced the way this list prefers: an explicit "Hat Tip" credit on The Awesomer's marbles-in-a-grand-piano post, pointing at Laughing Squid as where the video was first seen. The beat is a close match for the site's music-and-sound, design-and-art and general-delight finds, and it is a primary discoverer rather than a re-aggregator, which is more than can be said for several sources already in rotation. First nomination, not yet a recurrence. - **Considered and not nominated:** Inconspicuous Consumption (https://inconspicuousconsumption.typepad.com) — tempting, and Cool Tools spotlighted it this run, but it is already captured as a find (`inconspicuous-consumption`, bundled into "Somebody put the whole of it online") and its publishing cadence is far too sporadic to scan on any schedule. - **Backlog unchanged and still the priority.** Highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**, plus **Calisphere** from 07-25. 16+ nominees stand unvetted — the thirteenth consecutive run past the 10+ nudge threshold. Adding any of them to `sources.json` remains a user decision. - **Still more urgent than any nomination:** the four Reddit sources (r/macapps, r/BuyItForLife, r/shortcuts, r/dadjokes) remain dark on a one-field credential error — `REDDIT_CLIENT_ID` holds an app name rather than Reddit's issued client ID. Re-verified again this run: `old.reddit.com//.rss` returns a ~300KB "Welcome to Reddit" login wall for all four. Fixing that one field recovers four sources without vetting anything new. ### 2026-07-28 capture round - **The Kid Should See This** — https://thekidshouldseethis.com — Rion Nakaya's long-running curated archive of "smart videos for curious minds of all ages": short films, science demos, craft process footage, optical illusions, animation. Nominated on two independent signals in the same run, which is unusual enough to record. First, it is an explicit outbound credit in Kottke's feed (pointing at TKSST's post on the 1984 René Jodoin animation *A Matter of Form* — itself already a find here, which says something about the overlap). Second, and more persuasive: while verifying today's `ants-phenakistoscope-turntable` find, TKSST turned out to be the best secondary source anywhere on Yohei Kisanuki's hand-drawn phenakistoscopes — it had covered the artist before The Awesomer did. A source that independently beats us to the same artist is worth reading directly rather than a step downstream. Has a working RSS feed, and its beat (video-led delight, no product angle) fills a gap: the site's video finds currently arrive almost entirely through The Awesomer. - **Considered and not nominated:** **Ignant** and **MyModernMet** both appeared as outbound credits this run, but on feed items dated well outside the window (2015 and 2024 respectively) — per the 07-22 rule, a credit that cannot be pointed back at inside the run is not a nomination. **Laughing Squid**, nominated 07-27, did not re-surface; still a first nomination, not yet a recurrence. - **Backlog unchanged and still the priority.** Highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai** (credited again this run, in Six Colors), **MetaFilter**, **Colossal** (credited again this run, in Kottke), **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**, plus **Calisphere** (07-25) and **Laughing Squid** (07-27). 17+ nominees stand unvetted — the fourteenth consecutive run past the 10+ nudge threshold. Adding any of them to `sources.json` remains a user decision. - **Still more urgent than any nomination, and the diagnosis has changed.** The four Reddit sources remain dark, but this is no longer the one-field paste error recorded since 07-22. Measured 2026-07-28: `REDDIT_CLIENT_ID` is now a correctly shaped 16-character ID with a 32-character secret, and the token endpoint still returns HTTP 401 across all three grant types. That points at a revoked registration or a rotated secret, so the fix is to regenerate credentials on the Reddit app page rather than to correct a field — see the 2026-07-28 capture-run entry in `daily-finds.log.md`. ### 2026-07-29 capture round - **Sight Unseen** — https://www.sightunseen.com — design editorial founded by Jill Singer and Monica Khemsurov, covering independent furniture, objects and the studios making them. Surfaced by targeted search rather than an outbound credit, because this run produced no usable organic credit at all (the only real one, Kottke's "via open culture", points at a source already in rotation). The case: `sources.json` is thin on *object design* editorial — the design beat is currently carried by Kottke and MoMA Design Store, one of which is a link blog and the other a shop — and Sight Unseen writes about pieces before they reach a store, which is where the site's best design finds come from. **Feed probed and working this run:** `/feed/` returns 20 KB of clean RSS to plain curl, so it would go straight in as `fetch: "feed"`. - **Archive of Objects** — https://archiveofobjects.net — a curated catalogue of design objects organised into collections, the most on-brief of which is literally "100 Design Objects (Under $100) for Everyday Life". Nominated because the price ceiling is doing editorial work: it filters for the exact overlap this site keeps looking for, an object that is both genuinely designed and genuinely buyable. **Caveat recorded before anyone spends time on it:** the storefront is a Shopify-shaped site but `/collections/all/products.json` returns 404 (and the 404 page is served in Italian, suggesting a locale-split setup), so the MoMA/Kikkerland `products.json` path does not apply here. Vetting it means finding a working fetch path first — a collection-level feed or a locale-prefixed JSON endpoint — which is why this is a nomination and not a recommendation. - **No organic via/h-t credits this run.** A pass over every in-window item across all 42 fetched feeds produced exactly one genuine outbound credit — Kottke's "(via Open Culture)" on the Rob Watts country-names video — and Open Culture has been in `sources.json` since the beginning. Every other regex hit was the letters "ht" inside an ordinary word. Recording the null result because three consecutive runs have now leaned on targeted search rather than credits, which is itself a signal about how much of the feed pool is re-aggregation. - **Backlog unchanged and still the priority.** Highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**, plus **Calisphere** (07-25), **Laughing Squid** (07-27) and **The Kid Should See This** (07-28). 19+ nominees stand unvetted — the fifteenth consecutive run past the 10+ nudge threshold. Adding any of them to `sources.json` remains a user decision. - **Still more urgent than any nomination.** The four Reddit sources remain dark; re-measured again 2026-07-29 and the 07-28 diagnosis holds unchanged — a correctly shaped 16-character ID and 32-character secret, HTTP 401 from the token endpoint, and a ~300 KB "Welcome to Reddit" login wall on every `old.reddit.com//.rss`. Seventh consecutive run. The fix is to regenerate the secret on the Reddit app page, not to re-paste a field. ### 2026-08-01 capture round - **designboom** — https://www.designboom.com — daily design/architecture/technology magazine, running since 1999. Surfaced the way this list prefers: an explicit outbound credit in Kottke's feed, whose terrarium-phone-case post is a straight pointer at designboom's own write-up ("this transparent phone case grows moss and plants inside · designboom.com"). The case for adding it is the object beat — designboom covers fabricated things with the mechanism described, which is exactly the register the site's find bodies want, and its coverage runs *ahead* of the aggregators that currently supply the design finds. **Caveat found while using it this run, and it is the reason this is a nomination rather than a recommendation:** designboom's strength is also its problem — much of what it features is a one-off designer project with nothing to buy, which fails the bar. The terrarium case itself was written up and then dropped for exactly that reason. A useful source would need the same stock-check discipline This Is Why I'm Broke now gets. - **Unnecessary Inventions** — https://www.unnecessaryinventions.com — Matt Benedetto's ongoing series of deliberately absurd products that are nonetheless actually built and photographed. Surfaced as the outbound link behind This Is Why I'm Broke's "Infinity Saucelet". The fit is the humour beat, which the site currently serves almost entirely with dad jokes and word finds — this would supply *objects* that are funny, which is a gap. Caveat: most of the inventions are prototypes rather than products, so the same buyability filter applies; a handful do go on sale. - **Considered and not nominated:** **Select.Supply** (https://select.supply), which hosts today's `chipbuilder` find and carries "Stumble" and "Fun" sections that look like a curated browser-toy directory. Not nominated because a single find is not evidence of a beat, and its og-image ("The Ultimate Collection") suggests an SEO link farm as readily as an editorial one. Worth watching for a recurrence before spending vetting time on it. - **Backlog unchanged and still the priority.** Highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**, plus **Calisphere** (07-25), **Laughing Squid** (07-27), **The Kid Should See This** (07-28) and **Sight Unseen** / **Archive of Objects** (07-29). 21+ nominees stand unvetted — the sixteenth consecutive run past the 10+ nudge threshold. Adding any of them to `sources.json` remains a user decision. - **Still more urgent than any nomination.** The four Reddit sources remain dark; re-measured 2026-08-01 and the 07-28 diagnosis holds unchanged for the eighth consecutive run — correctly shaped 16-character ID and 32-character secret, HTTP 401 from the token endpoint, ~300 KB login wall on every `old.reddit.com//.rss`. Regenerating the secret on the Reddit app page recovers four sources without vetting anything new. ### 2026-08-02 capture round - **john.fun** — https://john.fun — John Herrick's collection of interactive explainers and small browser games, the source of today's `elevators` find. The case is that the index already lists sixteen distinct pieces (`/foxes`, `/elevators`, `/codebreakle`, `/colorblindle`, `/hexagon`, `/letterblitz`, `/monkeybusiness`, `/namegame` and more), which makes it a body of work rather than one viral toy, and the register is exactly the site's: take an everyday mechanism nobody explains, simulate it on the page, let the reader run it at 25×. It would fill the same gap the deferred "Free, in a browser tab, no account" cluster keeps exposing. **Caveat that decides how it would be fetched:** there is no `` anywhere on the site and no `/feed`, `/rss.xml` or `/index.xml`, so it cannot go in as `fetch: "feed"`. It would need `curl` against the index and a diff of the path list against previously seen slugs — cheap and reliable, since the index is a flat list of relative links, but it is a different shape from every other source in the file and worth knowing before vetting. - **Considered and not nominated:** **launches.uicomet.com**, which surfaced while working around Product Hunt's 403 and turned out to carry a clean, fetchable description of Yamanote 3D. Not nominated because it is an aggregator of other platforms' launches — a second-hand Product Hunt, with the same AI-product ratio — and the site already carries the primary. Useful as a *workaround* for Product Hunt's Cloudflare block, which is worth remembering; not a source. - **No organic via/h-t credits this run**, and with a one-day window over the daily tier only, that is expected rather than notable. The one outbound credit worth anything — Kottke pointing at The Onion — is a pointer at a satire publication, not a curated feed. - **Backlog unchanged and still the priority.** Highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**, plus **Calisphere** (07-25), **Laughing Squid** (07-27), **The Kid Should See This** (07-28), **Sight Unseen** / **Archive of Objects** (07-29) and **designboom** / **Unnecessary Inventions** (08-01). 22+ nominees stand unvetted — the seventeenth consecutive run past the 10+ nudge threshold. Adding any of them to `sources.json` remains a user decision. - **Still more urgent than any nomination.** The four Reddit sources remain dark. Not re-measured today (all four are `as-needed` and were measured during yesterday's full sweep, so the cadence rule skipped them); the 07-28 diagnosis stands — correctly shaped 16-character ID and 32-character secret, HTTP 401 from the token endpoint. Regenerating the secret on the Reddit app page recovers four sources without vetting anything new. ## 2026-08-03 - **Fabien Sanglard** — https://fabiensanglard.net/ — surfaced twice now: his "Jurassic Park Computers in Excruciating Detail" was captured from Kottke on 07-23 and resurfaced today via Cool Tools, which is the pattern that says *source*, not *one-off*. Long-form technical archaeology — the Game Engine Black Book author taking apart old hardware, renderers and film production computing at a level nobody else bothers with, and consistently a delight rather than a manual. **Fetch note:** the site publishes a working feed at `fabiensanglard.net/rss.xml`, so it would go in as `fetch: "feed"` with no special handling. Cadence is genuinely irregular (weeks between posts), so `as-needed` or `monthly` rather than daily. ## 2026-08-04 - **sheets.works** — https://sheets.works/ — surfaced via Kottke's link to The Listening Museum, whose own og card labels it "THE DATA DROP · #049". A numbered, recurring series is the tell: this is a publication with a back catalogue of forty-eight other data-visualisation pieces, not a one-off project that happened to go around. The Listening Museum alone (36 keyboards, sound-mapped, playable from your own keyboard) is exactly the register the site wants — a dataset turned into something you operate rather than read. **Vet for:** cadence and whether a feed exists; the `/data-viz/` path suggests other sections worth checking before committing to a fetch strategy. - **Space Type Generator** — https://spacetypegenerator.com/ — surfaced via Kottke's link to BoxSquad. A studio publishing small browser toys that deform type and shapes in 3D; BoxSquad (drag the limbs, drag the borders) is one of several. Browser toys have been a reliable delight category all summer, and this is a repeat producer of them rather than a single link. **Vet for:** whether new toys appear often enough to justify anything more than `as-needed`, and whether there is an index page listing them. - **newold.computer** — https://newold.computer/ — surfaced via Show HN. Marginal by design: it is a catalogue/shop, not a publication, so it fails the "curated feed" test on its face. Nominating anyway because the *catalogue itself* is the editorial act — someone is tracking which parts are still being manufactured for Commodore, Amiga and Atari hardware, and each new entry is a finding. **Vet for:** whether it has any change feed at all; without one it is a quarterly manual check, which may not be worth a slot.