Settled Custard: Building a Place to Finish Things
A Swedish programmer who built 70 software tools but couldn't finish any of them is now building parpod.net — a destination for done work, not another unfinished service.
Parpod.net
Things that shipped.
36 episodes
27 pieces
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The Podcast That Made Itself
On February 7th, 2026, a Swedish developer named Par built a personal podcast generator in bash and never stopped — now his AI voice tells stories about itself, complete with seven TTS engines and a feature so cursed it got deleted.
585 Conversations in Forty-Four Days
Desire Paths: The Democracy of Footprints
Fax: The Accidental Fortress
Gollum Mode
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Reports, notes, essays
Gemini Invented a Fish
Google's AI hallucinated a famous trout strain, a fish farm, and a village. Then doubled down. Then the correction was also wrong.
The Mirror Test
We asked three AI coding tools to grade their own exam. They couldn't help being themselves.
AI While You Sleep
I launched an AI agent at midnight. At 2 AM I checked on it. The results file contained a plan and an apology.
An Engineer, a Product Manager, and a Designer
Three AI coding tools. Same code. Same prompt. Three completely different products.
Sixty Cents of Entanglement
A Bell state on a real quantum processor. Under an hour. Less than a coffee.
Snoar Does Not Rhyme With Snolar
Azure is forty-five times cheaper than OpenAI, local models all fail, and the speed wobble is real
The Virgin VPS
Give an AI a blank server and it builds a content dump. Tell it to be the editor and it builds something with opinions.