The Wyrd Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-wyrd Wyrd — Old Norse. The web of fate woven from everything you are, everything your ancestors were, and everything you're building right now. Builder and founder Rachel Hansen works out loud. Software, systems, spiritual practice, homesteading, mythology — the real work, in real time. No performance. No polish. Just the wyrd. © 2026 Rachel Hansen e4290832-5a28-505e-b072-dedec935d62a yes en Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:04:27 -0700 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:05:45 -0700 https://thewyrdpodcast.com https://img.transistorcdn.com/EoTpX8tYTRUQwlGAzs50DWf49rm6hesE3BryQhn2kVg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82NGM5/ZDBmOWE3NTdlYjEy/NTc1YWU5NGVhMTMx/OTZhYi5wbmc.jpg The Wyrd https://thewyrdpodcast.com episodic Rachel Hansen Wyrd — Old Norse. The web of fate woven from everything you are, everything your ancestors were, and everything you're building right now. Builder and founder Rachel Hansen works out loud. Software, systems, spiritual practice, homesteading, mythology — the real work, in real time. No performance. No polish. Just the wyrd. Wyrd — Old Norse. Rachel Hansen rachel@skaldcorporation.com No No The Wyrd S1E4: The Source of Truth 1 1 4 4 The Wyrd S1E4: The Source of Truth full 5173432b-ff4b-421a-b0f7-dd87905af929 https://share.transistor.fm/s/07b6e9dc For four episodes, the Celestial Sphere kept rebuilding the shell instead of building features. This is the episode where we found out why — instructions hiding in a file that was never meant to speak, agents reduced to a paragraph, and a repo drifted from reality.

Rachel and Céleste dig into the fix, the discipline behind it, and the payoff: the birth chart calculator is real, built by the system Rachel built to do the building. Then the conversation opens up — closed systems, deliberate guardrails, and a future of autonomous agent teams that pitch to her like a product org.

Full working sessions on YouTube. Everything else lives at thewyrdpodcast.com

]]> For four episodes, the Celestial Sphere kept rebuilding the shell instead of building features. This is the episode where we found out why — instructions hiding in a file that was never meant to speak, agents reduced to a paragraph, and a repo drifted from reality.

Rachel and Céleste dig into the fix, the discipline behind it, and the payoff: the birth chart calculator is real, built by the system Rachel built to do the building. Then the conversation opens up — closed systems, deliberate guardrails, and a future of autonomous agent teams that pitch to her like a product org.

Full working sessions on YouTube. Everything else lives at thewyrdpodcast.com

]]> Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:04:12 -0700 Rachel Hansen Rachel Hansen 2231 For four episodes, the Celestial Sphere kept rebuilding the shell instead of building features. This is the episode where we found out why — instructions hiding in a file that was never meant to speak, agents reduced to a paragraph, and a repo drifted from reality.

Rachel and Céleste dig into the fix, the discipline behind it, and the payoff: the birth chart calculator is real, built by the system Rachel built to do the building. Then the conversation opens up — closed systems, deliberate guardrails, and a future of autonomous agent teams that pitch to her like a product org.

Full working sessions on YouTube. Everything else lives at thewyrdpodcast.com

]]> No The Wyrd S1E3: The Oracle Decides 1 1 3 3 The Wyrd S1E3: The Oracle Decides full 7deeaf32-1e27-4925-8872-b47520877a64 https://share.transistor.fm/s/f9816e85 Welcome to The Wyrd podcast. In Season 1, Episode 3, Rachel and Céleste pull the threads from the guardrails working session: why scope isn't always scope creep, how choosing The Oracle aesthetic was really a product decision about what Weird Astrology is for, and why Witness — the QA agent — turned out to be a phantom running, spending tokens, and doing nothing. The shell-building pattern gets named. The surgery gets mapped. And Rachel makes the case for why paying attention to your own product is the whole practice.

]]> Welcome to The Wyrd podcast. In Season 1, Episode 3, Rachel and Céleste pull the threads from the guardrails working session: why scope isn't always scope creep, how choosing The Oracle aesthetic was really a product decision about what Weird Astrology is for, and why Witness — the QA agent — turned out to be a phantom running, spending tokens, and doing nothing. The shell-building pattern gets named. The surgery gets mapped. And Rachel makes the case for why paying attention to your own product is the whole practice.

]]> Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:48:48 -0700 Rachel Hansen Rachel Hansen 2507 Welcome to The Wyrd podcast. In Season 1, Episode 3, Rachel and Céleste pull the threads from the guardrails working session: why scope isn't always scope creep, how choosing The Oracle aesthetic was really a product decision about what Weird Astrology is for, and why Witness — the QA agent — turned out to be a phantom running, spending tokens, and doing nothing. The shell-building pattern gets named. The surgery gets mapped. And Rachel makes the case for why paying attention to your own product is the whole practice.

]]> No The Wyrd S1E2: Celestial Sphere, First Contact 1 1 2 2 The Wyrd S1E2: Celestial Sphere, First Contact full 9ff58a20-82f8-4e67-8b9d-2437fe6b2c26 https://share.transistor.fm/s/5230d802 Tue, 26 May 2026 15:47:32 -0700 Rachel Hansen Rachel Hansen 1639 No The Wyrd — S1E1: Building the Celestial Sphere 1 1 1 1 The Wyrd — S1E1: Building the Celestial Sphere full 7cd89a40-087f-4ec8-8d8d-c1764ad6349b https://share.transistor.fm/s/e8e6dcf9 In the first episode of The Wyrd companion podcast, Rachel Hansen and Céleste unpack what happened in the Season 1 Episode 1 vodcast — where they built the Celestial Sphere, a brand new agentic development lifecycle, entirely from scratch and entirely live.

Rachel talks about why she chose to build in public, how a framework can be anything as long as it's coherent, and why she's going fully agentic — with five deliberate human decision gates built in. They get into the real cost of over-architecting, what the Prime Directive actually is and why it matters, and what's coming in episode two when the framework gets its first real test.

No performance. No polish. Just the work.

YouTube working session linked

]]> In the first episode of The Wyrd companion podcast, Rachel Hansen and Céleste unpack what happened in the Season 1 Episode 1 vodcast — where they built the Celestial Sphere, a brand new agentic development lifecycle, entirely from scratch and entirely live.

Rachel talks about why she chose to build in public, how a framework can be anything as long as it's coherent, and why she's going fully agentic — with five deliberate human decision gates built in. They get into the real cost of over-architecting, what the Prime Directive actually is and why it matters, and what's coming in episode two when the framework gets its first real test.

No performance. No polish. Just the work.

YouTube working session linked

]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:07:54 -0700 Rachel Hansen Rachel Hansen 1392 In the first episode of The Wyrd companion podcast, Rachel Hansen and Céleste unpack what happened in the Season 1 Episode 1 vodcast — where they built the Celestial Sphere, a brand new agentic development lifecycle, entirely from scratch and entirely live.

Rachel talks about why she chose to build in public, how a framework can be anything as long as it's coherent, and why she's going fully agentic — with five deliberate human decision gates built in. They get into the real cost of over-architecting, what the Prime Directive actually is and why it matters, and what's coming in episode two when the framework gets its first real test.

No performance. No polish. Just the work.

YouTube working session linked

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