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- New "Why this exists" post; masthead "founded" links to it
- Post template: serif headline + date in masthead, "Filed under {category}" in footer
- Drop counts from footer Collections list
- Masonry component for home + sources grid; source badges link to /sources/#slug
- Theme toggle (settings page + cog) with dark-mode-aware tokens
- Six new themed find lists; cluster-finds skill
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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 — capture run (Amazon-focused sweep)
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Sources scanned: 47 total — 8 hits, ~21 empty, 9 blocked/broken (WebFetch 403/500/empty body, redirect-only), 9 skipped (per sources.json `fetch: skip`).
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Productive sources: Tools and Toys (4), Six Colors (1), Recomendo (7), Cool Tools (1), One Thing Well (3), Web Curios (3), Kottke.org (1), r/macapps (4).
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Unproductive but live: MacStories (Apple Arcade week), Daring Fireball, Hacker News — Show HN, Product Hunt, Werd.com (listicles only), Carryology (insights essays, no products), Kikkerland (Juicy Jingles already captured; rest didn't qualify), Things Magazine (link roundups, no products), A Continuous Lean (newsletter/collab announcements), Put This On (eBay roundups), Standard & Strange Journal (Field Guides), Outlier (have URLs, skipped this run), Roadtrippers Magazine, The Outbound Collective, AFAR, Wallpaper* Travel, Boutique Homes, Uses This, Open Culture, Messy Nessy Chic, r/BuyItForLife (anecdotes, no clean product picks), Cool Material, StyleForum, Kevin Kelly thetechnium.
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Blocked or broken this run: Atlas Obscura (WebFetch 403; curl returned content but anchors were nav-only), This Is Why I'm Broke (WebFetch 404 on /new), Unusual Hotels of the World (empty body via curl), Snow Peak (nav-only via WebFetch), Uncommon Goods (empty fetch), MoMA Design Store (curl 1.2MB but anchor extraction got nav only).
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### Captured finds
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- felo-ergonic-screwdriver-set — Felo "Ergonic" Screwdriver Set — source: Tools and Toys
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- umoven-pop-up-bifold-wallet — umoven Pop-Up Bifold Wallet — source: Tools and Toys
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- ugreen-uno-magsafe-power-bank — UGREEN Uno MagSafe Power Bank — source: Tools and Toys
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- espro-p7-french-press — Espro P7 French Press — source: Tools and Toys
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- anker-nano-travel-adapter — Anker Nano Universal Travel Adapter — source: Six Colors
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- aootek-solar-fence-lights — Aootek Motion-Sensing Solar Fence Lights — source: Recomendo
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- birdfy-smart-bird-feeder — Birdfy AI Smart Bird Feeder — source: Recomendo
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- casabrews-cm5418-espresso-machine — Casabrews CM5418 Espresso Machine — source: Recomendo
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- skull-bluffing-card-game — Skull (Card Game) — source: Recomendo
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- toms-keys-spare-fob — Tom's Keys — source: Recomendo
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- stillgram — Stillgram — source: Recomendo
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- magnifiedsand — Magnified Sand — source: Recomendo
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- embassy-of-the-free-mind — Embassy of the Free Mind — source: Cool Tools
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- frogfind — FrogFind — source: One Thing Well
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- cilicon-ephemeral-vms — Cilicon — source: One Thing Well
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- companion-apps-for-apple-music — Companion Apps for Apple Music — source: One Thing Well
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- roll-disposable-camera — Roll: Disposable Camera — source: Web Curios
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- damnlines — Damnlines — source: Web Curios
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- magic-postcards — Penumbra Magic Postcards — source: Web Curios
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- unruly-play-archive — Unruly Play — source: Kottke.org
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- dockpops — DockPops — source: r/macapps
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- fluttertime — FlutterTime — source: r/macapps
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- refine-grammarly-alternative — Refine — source: r/macapps
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- notepad-plus-plus-mac — Notepad++ for Mac — source: r/macapps
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New source nominees: 0 this run — the standout finds linked to single products / single-developer GitHubs (Stillgram, Refine, Cilicon, Mario A. Guzman's iTunes recreations) rather than to publications worth tracking. Existing candidate-sources.md still has the gift-focused Amazon round queued for vetting.
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### Source maintenance for next pruning pass
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- **MoMA Design Store**: curl returns 1.2MB of HTML but the product grid is rendered via JS — only nav anchors are extractable. Would need a headless browser, or the storefront's collection JSON endpoint if Shopify exposes one. Same root cause as Snow Peak's "nav only" result.
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- **Atlas Obscura**: curl returns 503KB body and HTTP 200, but the anchor parser only extracted the global nav (Places/Foods/Stories) — likely because the Recently Added cards are rendered client-side too. Try fetching `/places/recent` via curl with the Safari UA, or the regional sitemap.
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- **This Is Why I'm Broke**: WebFetch on `/new` 404'd and the homepage HTML uses `{{entry.title}}` Mustache placeholders — the product feed is loaded client-side. Skip-mark for now or find their JSON endpoint.
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- **Unusual Hotels of the World**: curl returned 4KB and `<title>Uhotw</title>` — the site appears to be a thin SPA shell. Probably needs `fetch: skip` or a different fetchUrl.
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- **Uncommon Goods**: WebFetch returned empty for both `/new-arrivals` URLs tried — needs a fetchUrl override.
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- **Snow Peak**: nav-only response on `/collections/new-arrivals` — likely Shopify SPA. Look for a JSON product feed URL.
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- **r/BuyItForLife**: top-of-week is heavy on personal-anecdote photo posts ("My N64 still works after 30 years") rather than product picks. The signal-to-noise ratio is lower than the macapps subreddit; may want to filter on text posts only or pin a sub-filter URL.
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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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## 2026-05-03 — cluster run
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Wrote 6 superposts from the existing pool of 29 finds (single-virtue post already existed; not rewritten).
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Reuses across posts: 2 (cobak-composition-notebook-case → single-virtue + pocket-carry; bridge-city-chopstick-master → single-virtue + morning-kitchen-ritual). Within ~20% budget.
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Uncovered finds: none.
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Posts created:
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- 2026-05-03-pocket-carry: Pocket carry (5 items)
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- 2026-05-03-mac-apps-quietly-worth-it: Mac apps quietly worth the dock slot (6 items)
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- 2026-05-03-morning-kitchen-ritual: The morning kitchen ritual (3 items)
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- 2026-05-03-backyard-small-upgrades: Small upgrades for the backyard (3 items)
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- 2026-05-03-travel-as-attention: Travel as a kind of attention (5 items)
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- 2026-05-03-manufactured-delight: Manufactured delight (4 items)
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