By hivetrending on Skatehive
How I Use an LLM to Produce the HiveToday Newsletter There was an 18-month gap between issue #73 and issue #74 of HiveToday. September 2024 to March 2026. A year and a half of silence from a newsletter that's supposed to cover the pulse of the Hive ecosystem every single week. I could give you a bunch of reasons. Life got busy. The market was quiet. The energy wasn't there. All true. But the real reason, if I'm honest? The manual process of producing a newsletter that covers an entire blockchain ecosystem was just exhausting. I burned out. This post is about how I fixed that. What Producing an Issue Used to Look Like Let me paint you a picture of newsletter day in the old workflow. Open browser tabs for Splinterlands, Ecency, PeakD, 3Speak, LeoFinance, and a dozen other project accounts. Scan each one for anything posted in the past seven days. Open separate tabs for GitLab and GitHub to check dev activity across the core repos. Query the blockchain for witness data, DHF proposals, pow