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
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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.
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## 2026-05-03 — theme: single-virtue tools
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Sources scanned: 46 total — 23 hits, 5 empty, 17 blocked (Cloudflare 403 / 404 / timeout / dead domain), 1 skipped (paywalled).
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Productive sources: r/macapps, Hacker News — Show HN, Tools and Toys, Kikkerland.
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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).
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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).
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Skipped: The Browser (paid).
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### Today's candidates
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- **Klack 2** — https://tryklack.com/ — source: r/macapps
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- **WhatCable** — https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable — source: Hacker News — Show HN
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- **CoBak "Composition Notebook" Case** — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNX5587H — source: Tools and Toys
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- **Bridge City Chopstick Master Gen 2** — https://bridgecitytools.com/products/csmv2-chopstick-master-gen-2 — source: Tools and Toys
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- **Juicy Jingles Bike Bell** — https://kikkerland.com/products/juicy-jingles-bike-bell — source: Kikkerland
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New source nominees: 1 (see candidate-sources.md).
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### Source maintenance for next pruning pass
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- **uhotw.com**: domain expired and is now a gambling site. Update to `unusualhotelsoftheworld.com` or remove.
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- **Standard & Strange Journal**: `/blogs/journal` returned 404 — find current journal URL.
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- **Indie App Sunday**: Mastodon hashtag URL needs the right format (`https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieAppSunday` 404'd; try `.../tags/indieappsunday`).
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- **17 sources block WebFetch with 403** — likely Cloudflare. Many of these would work via `curl` with a browser User-Agent. Consider adding `fetch: curl` mode for a `--with-headers=browser` strategy, or accept that ~⅓ of sources need a different fetch path.
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