unique/sources.json

{
  "updated": "2026-05-03",
  "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",
      "notes": "Federico Viticci's site. Long-form, considered reviews of Apple-platform apps. Pair with their Club MacStories newsletter."
    },
    {
      "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",
      "notes": "Shawn Blanc's curated picks across software and physical objects. Strong taste, light volume."
    },
    {
      "name": "One Thing Well",
      "url": "https://onethingwell.org",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["macos-apps", "tools"],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "notes": "Tiny posts about software that does one thing well — heavy on indie utilities."
    },
    {
      "name": "Six Colors",
      "url": "https://sixcolors.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["macos-apps"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "notes": "Jason Snell + Dan Moren on Apple. Reviews mixed with industry coverage; scan for app posts."
    },
    {
      "name": "Daring Fireball — Linked List",
      "url": "https://daringfireball.net",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["macos-apps", "general-delight"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "notes": "Gruber's link blog often surfaces small Mac utilities and design-y oddities."
    },
    {
      "name": "r/macapps",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/",
      "type": "subreddit",
      "topics": ["macos-apps"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "curl",
      "fetchUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/top/.json?t=week&limit=25",
      "notes": "Noisy but high-recall — sort by Top of the week to filter for signal. Reddit blocks WebFetch; the skill scans the JSON endpoint via curl with a User-Agent header."
    },
    {
      "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",
      "notes": "Kevin Kelly's long-running catalog of physical and digital tools. The original source for this kind of taste."
    },
    {
      "name": "Recomendo",
      "url": "https://recomendo.com",
      "type": "newsletter",
      "topics": ["tools", "gifts", "travel", "general-delight"],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "curl",
      "fetchUrl": "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."
    },
    {
      "name": "Uses This",
      "url": "https://usesthis.com",
      "type": "interviews",
      "topics": ["tools", "macos-apps"],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "notes": "Interviews about the hardware and software people use. Good for triangulating what genuinely useful people pick."
    },
    {
      "name": "r/BuyItForLife",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/",
      "type": "subreddit",
      "topics": ["tools", "clothing", "gifts"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "curl",
      "fetchUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/top/.json?t=week&limit=25",
      "notes": "Durable goods recommendations. Filter for posts with provenance and long-term reports. Reddit blocks WebFetch; the skill scans the JSON endpoint via curl with a User-Agent header."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hacker News — Show HN",
      "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/show",
      "type": "aggregator",
      "topics": ["macos-apps", "tools"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "notes": "Devs surfacing what they built. High volume — scan top of week."
    },
    {
      "name": "Product Hunt",
      "url": "https://www.producthunt.com",
      "type": "aggregator",
      "topics": ["macos-apps", "tools"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "notes": "Marketing-heavy, but the daily top-5 often includes a Mac app or utility worth a closer look."
    },
    {
      "name": "Carryology",
      "url": "https://www.carryology.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["tools", "clothing", "gifts"],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "notes": "Bags, EDC, and well-made carry gear — overlaps clothing and tools."
    },
    {
      "name": "Uncommon Goods",
      "url": "https://www.uncommongoods.com",
      "type": "shop",
      "topics": ["gifts"],
      "cadence": "ongoing",
      "notes": "Curated marketplace heavy on small-batch / handmade gifts. Use the New Arrivals feed."
    },
    {
      "name": "This Is Why I'm Broke",
      "url": "https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com",
      "type": "aggregator",
      "topics": ["gifts"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "curl",
      "notes": "Internet-flotsam product aggregator. Quality varies wildly but the genuinely-novel finds are hard to get elsewhere. WebFetch hits 404; curl with Safari UA returns the homepage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cool Material",
      "url": "https://coolmaterial.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["gifts", "clothing", "tools"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "curl",
      "notes": "Men's-leaning lifestyle finds: gear, gifts, apparel. WebFetch hits a 500 — curl with Safari UA returns the homepage cleanly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Werd.com",
      "url": "https://werd.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["gifts", "clothing", "tools"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "notes": "Compact daily roundup of gear and gifts in a Tools-and-Toys vein."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gear Patrol",
      "url": "https://www.gearpatrol.com",
      "type": "magazine",
      "topics": ["gifts", "clothing", "tools"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "Cloudflare JS challenge — neither WebFetch nor curl with Safari UA gets past it.",
      "notes": "Editorial gift guides and product features. Skim seasonal guides for gift candidates."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Awesomer",
      "url": "https://theawesomer.com",
      "type": "aggregator",
      "topics": ["gifts", "general-delight"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "Cloudflare JS challenge — both WebFetch and curl with Safari UA are blocked.",
      "notes": "Quirky finds across products, art, and video — hits the 'delight' brief directly."
    },
    {
      "name": "MoMA Design Store",
      "url": "https://store.moma.org",
      "type": "shop",
      "topics": ["gifts"],
      "cadence": "ongoing",
      "fetch": "curl",
      "fetchUrl": "https://store.moma.org/collections/new",
      "notes": "Museum-curated objects. New Arrivals reliably includes one beautifully-designed daily-use thing. WebFetch returns nav-only — curl with Safari UA returns the full product grid."
    },
    {
      "name": "Kikkerland",
      "url": "https://www.kikkerland.com",
      "type": "shop",
      "topics": ["gifts"],
      "cadence": "ongoing",
      "notes": "Affordable design gifts; small clever objects."
    },
    {
      "name": "A Continuous Lean",
      "url": "https://www.acontinuouslean.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["clothing"],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "notes": "Michael Williams on Americana, heritage menswear, and the makers behind it."
    },
    {
      "name": "Put This On",
      "url": "https://putthison.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["clothing"],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "notes": "Long-running menswear blog. Strong on classic tailoring + rotating sale roundups."
    },
    {
      "name": "Permanent Style",
      "url": "https://www.permanentstyle.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["clothing"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "Cloudflare JS challenge — body returns 152kb but body is the challenge page, not content.",
      "notes": "Simon Crompton on craft tailoring and permanent-wardrobe pieces. Deep, evidence-led reviews."
    },
    {
      "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",
      "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."
    },
    {
      "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": "ongoing",
      "notes": "Japanese outdoors brand whose apparel and titanium kit reliably qualify as 'delightful daily-use.'"
    },
    {
      "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": "daily",
      "fetch": "curl",
      "notes": "Long threads (some 1000+ pages) where subject-matter obsessives compare specific brands — best for deep dives, not browsing. WebFetch hits 403; curl with Safari UA returns the full forum index."
    },
    {
      "name": "Atlas Obscura",
      "url": "https://www.atlasobscura.com",
      "type": "site",
      "topics": ["travel", "general-delight"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "curl",
      "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."
    },
    {
      "name": "Roadtrippers Magazine",
      "url": "https://roadtrippers.com/magazine",
      "type": "magazine",
      "topics": ["travel"],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "notes": "North-America-leaning road trip routes and stops, often hitting roadside oddities."
    },
    {
      "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",
      "notes": "'13 Things I Found on the Internet' weekly roundup; lots of obscure travel + cultural curiosities."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Outbound Collective",
      "url": "https://www.theoutbound.com",
      "type": "site",
      "topics": ["travel"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "notes": "User-submitted outdoor adventures with photos — useful for trail/landscape destinations specifically."
    },
    {
      "name": "Unusual Hotels of the World",
      "url": "https://www.unusualhotelsoftheworld.com",
      "type": "site",
      "topics": ["travel"],
      "cadence": "ongoing",
      "fetch": "curl",
      "notes": "Catalog of architecturally unusual stays — treehouses, ice hotels, repurposed structures. Earlier sources.json had wrong domain (uhotw.com — now a gambling site)."
    },
    {
      "name": "AFAR",
      "url": "https://www.afar.com",
      "type": "magazine",
      "topics": ["travel"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "notes": "Editorial travel mag; 'experiential' coverage that surfaces more idiosyncratic destinations than typical glossies."
    },
    {
      "name": "Wallpaper* Travel",
      "url": "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel",
      "type": "magazine",
      "topics": ["travel"],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "notes": "Design-forward stays and destinations — overlaps with architectural delight."
    },
    {
      "name": "Boutique Homes",
      "url": "https://www.boutique-homes.com",
      "type": "shop",
      "topics": ["travel"],
      "cadence": "ongoing",
      "notes": "Hand-picked architectural rentals worldwide — useful as a 'destination via the building' source."
    },
    {
      "name": "Kottke.org",
      "url": "https://kottke.org",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["general-delight"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "notes": "Jason Kottke's link blog. The single best low-noise feed for cross-disciplinary delight."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Browser",
      "url": "https://thebrowser.com",
      "type": "newsletter",
      "topics": ["general-delight"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "skip",
      "skipReason": "Paid newsletter, no public daily picks page. Manual review only.",
      "notes": "Five hand-picked articles per day. Paid; the picks are unusually consistent."
    },
    {
      "name": "Web Curios",
      "url": "https://webcurios.co.uk",
      "type": "newsletter",
      "topics": ["general-delight"],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "curl",
      "fetchUrl": "https://webcurios.co.uk/all-curios/",
      "notes": "Matt Muir's enormous Friday roundup of internet curios. High volume, idiosyncratic taste. Use /all-curios/ — the homepage only lists newsletter titles."
    },
    {
      "name": "Things Magazine",
      "url": "https://www.thingsmagazine.net",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["general-delight", "gifts"],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "notes": "Quiet, image-heavy notes on objects, architecture, and obscure design corners."
    },
    {
      "name": "Open Culture",
      "url": "https://www.openculture.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["general-delight"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "notes": "Free cultural & educational media — adjacent to the brief but a steady source of unusual-thing stories."
    },
    {
      "name": "Kevin Kelly — kk.org",
      "url": "https://kk.org",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["tools", "general-delight"],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "fetch": "curl",
      "fetchUrl": "https://kk.org/thetechnium/",
      "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."
    },
    {
      "name": "TidBITS",
      "url": "https://tidbits.com",
      "type": "magazine",
      "topics": ["apple-tips", "macos-apps"],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "notes": "Adam Engst's long-running Apple-platform publication. Tip-rich, technically careful, never reckless — a steady source of considered advice."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Eclectic Light Company",
      "url": "https://eclecticlight.co",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["apple-tips"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "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."
    },
    {
      "name": "Brett Terpstra",
      "url": "https://brettterpstra.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["apple-tips", "macos-apps"],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "notes": "Power-user Mac scripts, automation, and small utilities from the author of TextExpander/Marked — generous with workflow snippets and 'web excursions' link roundups."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr. Drang — leancrew.com",
      "url": "https://leancrew.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["apple-tips"],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "notes": "And now it's all this — engineer's perspective on macOS automation, command-line tricks, and Shortcuts. Quiet authority."
    },
    {
      "name": "9to5Mac — Guides",
      "url": "https://9to5mac.com/guides/",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["apple-tips"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "notes": "Tip and how-to guides across iOS/macOS/iPadOS. Volume is high; scan for the discovery-flavored posts rather than the SEO-bait ones."
    },
    {
      "name": "r/shortcuts",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/",
      "type": "subreddit",
      "topics": ["apple-tips"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "curl",
      "fetchUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/top/.json?t=week&limit=25",
      "notes": "iOS/macOS Shortcuts community — sort by Top of the week to surface the cleverest automations. Reddit blocks WebFetch; use the JSON endpoint via curl with a UA header."
    },
    {
      "name": "OSXDaily",
      "url": "https://osxdaily.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["apple-tips"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "notes": "Long-running daily Mac/iOS tip site. Signal is mixed but it surfaces obscure things others miss — good for the occasional gem."
    },
    {
      "name": "Quote Investigator",
      "url": "https://quoteinvestigator.com",
      "type": "blog",
      "topics": ["quotes"],
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "notes": "Garson O'Toole's research-driven investigation of quote provenance — debunks misattributions and lands on the actual source. The gold standard."
    },
    {
      "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",
      "notes": "Maria Popova's literary essays, dense with sourced quotations from books worth tracking down. Formerly Brain Pickings."
    },
    {
      "name": "A.Word.A.Day",
      "url": "https://wordsmith.org/awad/",
      "type": "newsletter",
      "topics": ["quotes"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "notes": "Anu Garg's daily word arrives with a 'Thought for Today' quotation — a reliable trickle of well-chosen lines."
    },
    {
      "name": "r/dadjokes",
      "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/",
      "type": "subreddit",
      "topics": ["dad-jokes"],
      "cadence": "daily",
      "fetch": "curl",
      "fetchUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/top/.json?t=week&limit=25",
      "notes": "Heavily moderated for original groaners. Sort by Top of the week to filter out the recycled ones."
    },
    {
      "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",
      "notes": "Listicle-format joke roundups; the dad-joke pages are reliable for fresh, family-friendly batches."
    }
  ]
}