Robin Malau

Claude Thinks. Codex Builds. I Ship.

Robin — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:14:25 +0000

Every startup I have ever run was bootstrapped. Soda Music. Musikator. Konserama. All of them. No VC money, no seed round, no fancy office with a ping pong table. Just a problem, a budget that made me nervous, and the stubborn belief that the right tool beats the expensive tool every time. That instinct didn’t […]

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Introducing Malau Digital

Robin — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:13:07 +0000

So, malaudigital.com launched today. It’s a WordPress design agency serving small businesses in the San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County. I’ve been building in the digital space for about twenty years. My first website went up in 2006. By 2008 I was taking on client work in Bali, and within a few years I had […]

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The Best of Both Worlds: Codex and Claude Code

Robin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:20:06 +0000

A few weeks ago, I switched from ChatGPT to Claude for day-to-day LLM use. I’d been thinking about it for a while. Claude has been shipping features aggressively. Someone on Threads counted over 50 new features in just a few months. It gets good reviews from developers, marketers, founders. People actually using it for work. […]

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Language ≠ Code

Robin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:01:22 +0000

Some instructions at work are written in programmer logic: “If you see result X, then the opposite is true.“ My brain doesn’t work that way. I read linearly. I follow the thread, build a picture, and arrive at a judgment. When I hit an instruction written in that logic, my first instinct is to ask […]

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Twenty Years of Blogging, One Necessary Overhaul

Robin — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:00:27 +0000

The number that finally made me do something was 68. That’s how many categories this blog had. Not 68 active, organized categories. Sixty-eight fossil categories, most of them empty, some holding one post from 2011 that probably shouldn’t exist either. There were also 1,038 total posts, a lot of them in Indonesian, and a theme […]

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Six Questions from France

Robin — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:40:46 +0000

A few weeks after I published my essay arguing that musicians don’t need to endorse political candidates to be political, I got a comment from Louise, a senior student from France. Louise was preparing a final exam project on the impact of the music industry on American elections, had read the essay, understood the argument, […]

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How to Create a Simple YouTube Intro in DaVinci Resolve

Robin — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:11:41 +0000

I’ve been putting off making a proper YouTube intro for longer than I’d like to admit. Nothing fancy. Just a logo, some text, done. Turns out DaVinci Resolve makes this pretty straightforward once you know where things are. Here’s exactly what I did. Step 1 — Set up your project Open DaVinci Resolve and create […]

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I Switched from ChatGPT to Claude After 3 Years, Here’s How I Did It

Robin — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:20:49 +0000

I’ve been using ChatGPT since it launched in 2022. Three+ years. That’s longer than some of my side projects have lasted and I’ve had a lot of those. It was the first AI I ever used. At some point it became part of how I work: writing, brainstorming, editing, research. I had memories stored, a […]

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The Ghost Ritual I Almost Missed

Robin — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:50:31 +0000

A few months ago, I was thrilled to find out that one of my favorite bands, Ghost, released their sixth studio album, Skeletá. The first three singles rocked like never before. I’ve watched their shows — fans call them “rituals” — twice before. The first was in 2013 at Download Festival in the UK. My […]

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Complete Guide: Migrate Your Site from Ghost to WordPress

Robin — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:40:49 +0000

My podcast website has been on Ghost for about two years using the Pro plan, which cost around $11 a month. When I first started, I wanted a managed hosting platform with built-in newsletter features. So it basically came down to Substack or Ghost. I tried Substack first. As I mentioned in this post, it […]

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