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.
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The site talking about itself. Podcasts about podcasts. That sort of thing.
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.
Maximum creative freedom produces minimum creative output
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.
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