Writing about AI, technology and commercial growth: what worked, what failed, and what helped me move from pilot to production.
Nathan Petralia
I have spent two decades leading digital and commercial programs across APAC. Today I build AI products and leverage AI across consulting, practice building, go-to-market, commercials, delivery governance, and operational leadership.
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Recent Posts
A complete walkthrough of every Lighthouse bottleneck on a Next.js 16 Vercel site — TBT from 3,020ms to 20ms, LCP from 3.0s to 1.7s — including the config options that don't exist in Next.js 16 and will silently break your build.
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A practical way to move from writing in Obsidian to publishing on a live site without copy-paste, manual uploads, or brittle one-off scripts.
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WordPress was slowing down the actual writing. Here's why I rebuilt petralian.com on Next.js, how Obsidian now sits at the center of my publishing workflow, and why I decided to open source the whole thing.
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GitHub Copilot's new token-based pricing changes everything. Here's what it actually costs compared to OpenRouter and third-party relays when you code extensively.
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The why was clean. The how had corners. A ground-level account of building petralian.com — the masonry layout that fought back, a 404 page with a working Asteroids game, the TinaCMS newline problem nobody warns you about, and how AI wrote most of it.
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I had a moment a few months ago that I suspect a lot of people in leadership positions will recognize. I was preparing for a client meeting, and I knew I had…
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I wanted a clean weekly digest for petralian.com without paying for RSS automations. This is the exact architecture we implemented, the issues we hit, and the code patterns that made it reliable.
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CSS column-count creates a masonry layout in one line. It also silently breaks left-to-right reading order. Here is what is actually happening in the DOM, and a reliable fix that holds up under variable card heights.
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Every AI session starts from scratch. Four tools are racing to solve the AI memory problem - OpenClaw, Hermes, Karpathy's LLM wiki, and a plain Obsidian vault. Here's how they differ and which approach actually survives tool churn.
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