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A small Astro + MDX blog for delightful, daily-use finds. The architecture separates capture from publication and supports reuse: - find/ captured items, hidden from indexes - finds/ editorial superposts referencing find slugs in a grid - reviews/ full-length writeups; can graduate from a find via fromFind - posts/ regular essays Three project-local skills under .claude/skills/ drive the pipeline: daily-finds (capture-only sweep across sources.json), build-finds (draft a thematic superpost), build-review (graduate a find). sources.json carries 47 curated feeds with per-source fetch strategy (webfetch / curl / skip) so Cloudflare-blocked sites and Reddit JSON endpoints are handled deterministically. /sources renders a 3-column card stream with a "Recent finds" cross-reference per source. Seeds: 17 reviews and one superpost referencing 5 finds.
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Daily finds — log
Running record of every candidate surfaced by /daily-finds. The chosen pick of the day is prepended with [chosen]. Source attribution per candidate lets us track which sources produce winners over time.
2026-05-03 — theme: single-virtue tools
Sources scanned: 46 total — 23 hits, 5 empty, 17 blocked (Cloudflare 403 / 404 / timeout / dead domain), 1 skipped (paywalled). Productive sources: r/macapps, Hacker News — Show HN, Tools and Toys, Kikkerland. Unproductive but live: MacStories (gaming-heavy week), Six Colors, Daring Fireball, One Thing Well, Outlier, Snow Peak, Put This On, A Continuous Lean, Roadtrippers, AFAR, Wallpaper*, Boutique Homes, Things Magazine, Open Culture, Messy Nessy Chic, The Outbound, Uncommon Goods, Werd.com, Cool Tools, Carryology, Kottke.org, Recomendo (Substack archive empty). Blocked or broken: The Sweet Setup (403), Cool Material (500), Gear Patrol (403), The Awesomer (403), MoMA Design Store (no scraped content), Permanent Style (403), Heddels (403), Standard & Strange (404 — URL needs fixing), Mr Porter Journal (timeout), StyleForum (403), Atlas Obscura (403), Spotted by Locals (403), Unusual Hotels of the World (uhotw.com is now a gambling site — domain lost), This Is Why I'm Broke (404), Indie App Sunday (Mastodon hashtag URL 404), Web Curios (only newsletter index), Kevin Kelly kk.org (homepage doesn't list posts). Skipped: The Browser (paid).
Today's candidates
- Klack 2 — https://tryklack.com/ — source: r/macapps
- WhatCable — https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable — source: Hacker News — Show HN
- CoBak "Composition Notebook" Case — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNX5587H — source: Tools and Toys
- Bridge City Chopstick Master Gen 2 — https://bridgecitytools.com/products/csmv2-chopstick-master-gen-2 — source: Tools and Toys
- Juicy Jingles Bike Bell — https://kikkerland.com/products/juicy-jingles-bike-bell — source: Kikkerland
New source nominees: 1 (see candidate-sources.md).
Source maintenance for next pruning pass
- uhotw.com: domain expired and is now a gambling site. Update to
unusualhotelsoftheworld.comor remove. - Standard & Strange Journal:
/blogs/journalreturned 404 — find current journal URL. - Indie App Sunday: Mastodon hashtag URL needs the right format (
https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieAppSunday404'd; try.../tags/indieappsunday). - 17 sources block WebFetch with 403 — likely Cloudflare. Many of these would work via
curlwith a browser User-Agent. Consider addingfetch: curlmode for a--with-headers=browserstrategy, or accept that ~⅓ of sources need a different fetch path.