01 Essay
Sunday morning, websites building
One Sunday morning to ship LAKAN and migrate Praktikal off Squarespace — what Astro, Keystatic, Cloudflare Pages, and Claude Code unlock for marketing.
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21 JUNE 2026 / Sydney, AU / Vol. I · No. 1
How to do tech things, practically — and a few books along the way.
A small, mostly-irregular publication by Joshua Pielago. Essays on building and shipping; reviews of fantasy and the occasional outlier.
Just shipped · Field tools
TaDa! — present any HTML like a deck. A small desktop app that turns AI-generated HTML into clean, client-ready presentations. Meet TaDa! →
§ I — Recent dispatches
All writing → 02 Essay
Raising Generation AI
My two-year-old loves Gemini and prefers it over ChatGPT and Claude — notes on raising a child whose normal already includes AI bedtime stories.
03 Essay
Birthdays
At 24, with my whole life ahead of me but feeling it was leading nowhere, I spent my birthday cooking pancakes and noodles in a deep Murakami mood.
04 Essay
I blame LitRPG
Early this year I resolved to read 100 books — then LitRPG quietly hijacked the whole project. Notes on a reading habit gone feral, and why I blame the genre.
05 Review
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is the rare novel I couldn't put down — a decades-spanning story of friendship, games, and creative work.
§ II — About the author
Joshua Pielago
Sydney, Australia
Manila → SG → SYD
I work at Uber and tinker at Lokal. My day job is product leadership; my night job is reading too much fantasy and occasionally writing about the gap between how technology is sold and how it is actually made useful.
Before Sydney I worked across product in Southeast Asian startups. I'm interested in customer-support technology, emerging tooling, and the small applied wins that make the larger story believable. Father; Timberwolves apologist.
§ III — From the library
All reviews → 01 Review
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is the rare novel I couldn't put down — a decades-spanning story of friendship, games, and creative work.
02 Review
Piranesi
In college, I read a book called Happy Endings. It was written by a UP alum named Luis Katigbak. He hadn’t won his Palanca yet. This was his first publication.
03 Review
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
It's almost a crime to write a long review of so short a book — notes on Naval Ravikant's lean wisdom on wealth, happiness, and leverage.
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