Real work. Real decisions. Software, systems, spiritual practice, homesteading, and deep thinking — in real time, out loud.
This is not a show about life-hacks, morning routines, or the performance of productivity. It's a record of someone actually doing the work — and thinking about it as it happens.
No polish. No performance. The real thing in progress.
Thinking out loud, often with AI as a thinking partner.
Live work on software, systems, and products — narrated while it happens. What's breaking, what's being decided, what the trade-offs actually are.
Long-form essays on craft, practice, spirit, and the shape of a life worth building. Written slowly. Published when they're ready.
Notes from the homestead, the altar, and the edge of what a modern practice can look like when it's taken seriously.
Multi-agent development. Product architecture. The tools that actually work when you're building something real, at your own scale.
Founder. Builder. Practitioner. Systems thinker. Homesteader.
Rachel runs Skald and is the builder behind Vor, a premium tarot PWA, and Yggdrasil, a multi-agent development system powering the rest of the work.
Based in San Antonio, Texas. Writes from the intersection of software engineering, Norse practice, and the slow work of actually becoming what you say you want to be.
The audience here is narrow on purpose: builders, founders, deep thinkers, and practitioners who are done fighting what they actually are — and ready to walk the road.
The Wyrd is the thread. These are what it runs through.
Essays and sessions, delivered as they're finished. No schedule. No filler. Just the work.