Nice! Just took a look. It seems we are attacking the same beast (newsletter fatigue) but maybe with different flavors.
I went down the route of using Gemini 3 specifically to generate 'strategic briefs' rather than just a feed. Curious what stack/models you're running for Hidden Signal?
It’s Django with a similar custom email that you can forward emails to or sign up through that email. And then uses open AI mini for summarization and nano for categorization. Then it sends you a digest with the summaries on your schedule.
I'm working on a newsletter digest platform to collect your newsletters and give them back to you, summarized, in a daily (or multiple times a day) digest.
I've been using it myself for a few weeks and it's helped me actually read newsletters instead of ignoring them in my inbox.
I don't! It doesn't access your email account at all. You choose what to forward, and you have a separate login to Hidden Signal (unless you reuse your password of course, but I can't stop that!)
Edit on your edit: That's a great idea! I'll look into that. But, I promise, I don't want access to your email. You just auto-forward via filter or manually forward to HiddenSignal, or use the forwarding email I give you and sign up for things that way. Easy peasy, no access to your email account.
I love playing queens (and tango) on LinkedIn every morning. It’s doing its job and bringing me back every day.
How is your version different than the one on LinkedIn? I played one game on yours and it seems the same but maybe I missed something.
Also, the crown is really hard to see for me with some color blindness. I ended up clicking crown squares to mark them a few times without realizing they already had a crown there.
Hey! Thank you so much for playing my game and for taking the time to write such thoughtful feedback. I truly appreciate it!
That's an excellent question, and you're right that the first few levels are designed to feel very familiar to ease players in. The main differences in Enhanced Queens Game really start to shine on the more complex boards:
The Colored Regions: My version adds a third, crucial rule – you must have only one queen per colored region, in addition to one per row and column. This introduces a new layer of spatial reasoning that completely changes the strategy.
The Adjacency Rule: Queens cannot be placed in any of the 8 squares immediately surrounding another queen (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally).
And thank you especially for the feedback on the crown's visibility for players with color blindness. This is incredibly helpful and something I hadn't fully considered. Accessibility is very important, and I will definitely work on a fix to improve the contrast or add a more distinct visual indicator for the queens. I've logged this as a high-priority task.
Thanks again for the fantastic feedback! It's invaluable for a solo developer like me. I hope you'll give some of the later levels a try and see the new mechanics in full action!
You can still manage packages, but it's similar to pip list in that it shows all the dependencies, so it can get cumbersome.
Additionally, the context it gives you when you're trying to read release notes isn't great, and it tries to upgrade to the absolute latest release, even if it's only a release candidate.
I recommend Bobiverse all the time as a good sci fi intro or just a solid trilogy to crush in a weekend. And I always recommend reading it on kindle as he drops astrophysics terms with no context or explanation. It’s nice to touch the word and learn along the way. I didn’t know what a Lagrange Point was before, but now I do and it’s so cool!
I read everything on this blog. This post made me realize how absolutely miserable I was running a company I had started, and led me down a path that resulted in selling my part of my company, taking time to be a stay at home dad, and getting back into tech. It also caused me to go off the deep end into 80000hours.org and read that whole site and associated books, and only apply for jobs with social impact.
