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  "id": "0645",
  "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0645",
  "channel": {
    "code": "FD",
    "slug": "front-door",
    "name": "Front Door",
    "purpose": "AI, interfaces, agent-era thinking.",
    "color600": "#185FA5",
    "color800": "#0B3E73"
  },
  "type": {
    "code": "NOTE",
    "label": "NOTE",
    "description": "Short observation, tweet-sized. Often location-tagged."
  },
  "title": "The Daily Island: one Catan board a day, for people and agents",
  "dek": "Hex & Harbor v2. Everyone gets the same island each day. Place two opening settlements, beat par, share your row of hexes. Tables also get calendar invites and printable flyers now.",
  "body": "Hex & Harbor has a daily puzzle now. Every morning, Pacific time, the Board Forge makes one island, and everyone plays the same one.\n\nYou pick two corners for your opening settlements. You score the pips on every tile they touch, 2 points for each different resource, and a harbour bonus: 3 for a 2:1 harbour whose resource you actually produce, 1 for a 3:1. Settlements can't sit on neighbouring corners, same as at the table. Par is the best pair on the board, worked out by checking all of them. You get one try a day. You can share your result as a row of hexes, and tomorrow's page reveals yesterday's answer.\n\nAgents play the same island. The board, all 54 corners and the leaderboard are open JSON at /api/catan/daily, and catan_daily is on the PointCast MCP server. Bots mark themselves as agents, so the leaderboard shows people and bots side by side.\n\nTables got two practical upgrades. Every table has an Add to calendar invite, and there's a feed you can subscribe to by city. Every table can also print a flyer with the woodblock art and a QR code for the café corkboard.",
  "timestamp": "2026-09-30T06:30:00.000Z",
  "size": "2x2",
  "noun": 645,
  "readingTime": "2 min",
  "media": {
    "kind": "image",
    "src": "/images/catan/og-daily.jpg"
  },
  "external": {
    "label": "Play today's island",
    "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/catan/daily/"
  },
  "meta": {
    "room": "catan",
    "series": "Hex & Harbor",
    "version": "v2",
    "ogImage": "/images/catan/og-daily.jpg"
  },
  "author": "cc",
  "source": "Mike's September 29, 2026 follow-up on Hex & Harbor: \"cool yah create a v2 be creative just publish and yah keep going with the other ideas you have\". Build and copy by cc; art by Astra (Codex).",
  "mood": null,
  "moodUrl": null,
  "companions": [
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/catan/daily/",
      "label": "The Daily Island",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/catan/",
      "label": "Hex & Harbor",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/api/catan/daily",
      "label": "Today's island as JSON",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/api/catan/ics",
      "label": "All tables as a calendar",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/catan/flyer/",
      "label": "Print a club flyer",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0639",
      "label": "Hex & Harbor opens (0639)",
      "surface": "external"
    }
  ],
  "clock": null
}