7/6/2026 at 1:06:21 AM
by walz
7/6/2026 at 6:54:28 PM
Picture of a lost iPhone, with a message to call the owner at a phone number. Guess taking pictures was in the job description, and returning lost property wasn't.by axus
7/6/2026 at 6:07:12 PM
Walzr's stuff is a fun portal into an earlier era of lighthearted fun internet projects. Keep it up buddy. Bop Spotter is probably still my favorite.by RankingMember
7/6/2026 at 7:23:38 PM
He's right up there with Neal Agarwal (neal.fun) and Nolen Royalty (eieio.games) for me. I recently got to interview Nolen on keeping the internet fun and creative for my blog: https://digitalseams.com/blog/nolen-royalty-on-making-thingsby bobbiechen
7/6/2026 at 2:28:59 AM
scraped from....where? The Lost & Found systems are all public? Sorry I haven't had to dig something out of a lost & found that wasn't a cardboard box under a front desk or whatever...by ChrisArchitect
7/6/2026 at 3:33:15 PM
It is scraped from Pixit. They sell lost/found, evidence + seized item management systems. [1] The listings are public; it was cool OP turned this into a mini art piece.by spelk
7/6/2026 at 2:29:15 PM
>Hundreds of places use one software tool for managing lost items, and I scraped their archivesAm I not understanding your question? It's one system - and either their archives are public on purpose, or their endpoints are simply unsecured.
by happytoexplain
7/6/2026 at 2:26:25 PM
I was thinking this was directory "lost+found", but it is about "lost and found" at places like airports.by jmclnx
7/6/2026 at 3:29:09 PM
Go ahead and cut a notch out of my expertise card, but in all my years playing with UNIX, I’ve never used that directory.by russfink
7/6/2026 at 4:36:11 PM
You don’t use it, the system might in edge casesby stevewodil
7/6/2026 at 7:31:12 PM
I have had items put there a few time on an fsck. Not often but it has happened.by jmclnx