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Pete Lada

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design & eng @perplexity_ai . prev design @eco , @quora , @guidebook co-founder. @northeastern alum. Will write css for coffee. work:

Orinda, CA

https://t.co/jQASotn3wi

Joined July 2008

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@pklada

Pete Lada

6 months

Excited to share that I recently joined @perplexity_ai as a product designer / ui engineer, working alongside a phenomenal team (and @henrymodis , again!). AI-native search is just beginning to take flight and I’m happy to get to play a small part in its development. Let’s go!

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Pete Lada

6 months

Last week we shipped a small visual change to @perplexity_ai on web: a version of our logo which animates while a response is streaming.

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2 months

When I share my @figma docs

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This was a really fun (and massively challenging) project to work on. So excited to let people discover, curate, and share knowledge in a whole new way.

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Perplexity

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We're excited to roll out Perplexity Pages, a simple way to turn your research into visually appealing articles. With formatted images and sections, Pages lets you share in-depth knowledge on any topic. Available now for Pro users and rolling out to all users soon!

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@ikeadrift Yeah I thought this one in particular was really beautiful in some weird way

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Pete Lada

10 years

How to create animated and stateful toggle using only CSS (no Javascript!) http://t.co/QzGtGaEwfn

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Your moment of zen: we shipped updated weather widgets this week on @perplexity_ai , including a few subtle weather effect animations for night, rain, snow, and others. Really fun to build!

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6 months

To maintain high performance we couldn’t rely on (relatively) “heavy weight” runtimes like lottie or rive, and instead opted for a technique traditionally found in older games - a sprite sheet. Specifically we used an svg sprite sheet, which allows us to size and style the

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@williamallen @figma Just a big fan :)

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4 years

Can someone explain the meaning of this new emoji?? I love it.

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6 months

Another small detail: we didn’t want the spinner to pause instantly when streaming stopped, potentially at any random frame; we wanted the full animation cycle to complete before ending. This turned out to be non-trivial with css animations. We instead calculated the remaining

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Pete Lada

6 months

If you enjoy ui engineering challenges like this, we're hiring for a design engineer on our team. Come work with me! DM me or apply here:

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Pete Lada

8 months

Huge win for the hard-working @beam_eco team this morning from the @Optimism community. 🔥

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Eco

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Congrats to @beam_eco on being a recipient of @Optimism RPGF funding!

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Pete Lada

6 years

Guidebook turns 8 today! I’m deeply thankful for all the amazing individuals I’ve had the pleasure to work with over the years. Proud papa.

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2 years

Probably one of the most fun pull to refresh animations I’ve designed 😃 cc @eco

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Pete Lada

6 years

I wrote my first @framer X component! Yes, avatar components are a dime a dozen, but it was a fun way to learn the new tool, and familiarize myself with how components are distributed. I'm not sure its possible to link to a component yet, find it under "recents" in the store.

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Pete Lada

6 years

Excited to show off a new product release from @guidebook : cover pages! These are guide micro sites - a first step into providing a first-class web experience for guides. Also, the UI is written entirely using styled components! So much fun.

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5 years

@dburka Since the response is so close to 50/50 I suggest we all agree to randomize new/same tab on every external link click, therefore satisfying everyone.

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6 months

Claude 3 available now on Perplexity!

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4 years

WFH off to a great start!

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Pete Lada

4 years

We launched dark mode on @quora desktop this week! This was a huge effort involving a lot of designers, engineers, experiments, and moving parts—I'm really happy with how it turned out. Now to stop thinking about color contexts for a bit... 😅

Dark mode now on Quora for desktop and mobile web

Beginning today, you can enable dark mode on both Quora for desktop and mobile web. Dark mode has been a hugely requested feature, and we’re excited to extend the color scheme to those accessing the...

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6 months

This isn't all that novel of an approach - Twitter/X had a similar implementation with their like button animation earlier on, but it was still fun to build.

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3 months

@williamallen @figma Yep!

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Pete Lada

2 months

Big update to Pro Search - it's quite magical. Give it a try!

@perplexity_ai

Perplexity

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We’re excited to announce an updated version of our Pro Search that can perform deeper research on more complex queries with multi-step reasoning, Wolfram|Alpha, and code execution.

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9 years

Guidebook Engineering - Guidebook's Progress Button Open Sourced by @pklada @miketsprague via @guidebook

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Pete Lada

2 years

Thread on an egregious copy paste of @eco . As a designer you get used to more minor "inspiration" incidents, but I've never seen it at quite this scale.

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Andy Bromberg

2 years

Copycats are usually subtle. But Eco has one that isn’t. Imagine a company spent all day copy-and-pasting *everything*... ...while raising from investors like Y Combinator and Eniac Ventures (who I bet have no idea) Well, we tracked it all. I’ve never seen anything like it 👇

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Pete Lada

4 months

🚀🚀🚀

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Aravind Srinivas

4 months

Excited to announce we've raised 62.7M$ at 1.04B$ valuation, led by Daniel Gross, along with Stan Druckenmiller, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, Tobi Lutke, Garry Tan, Andrej Karpathy, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, IVP, NEA, Jakob Uszkoreit, Naval Ravikant, Brad Gerstner, and Lip-Bu

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Pete Lada

4 years

Guidebook MVP was built ~10 years ago. Fun to see the evolution of the UI since then. Much of the basic functionality is still in tact today.

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Pete Lada

5 years

“Is this an original costume?” (No because a coworker went as the same meme, what are the odds??)

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Pete Lada

4 years

I gotta say, running a small business that specifically supports the event industry doesn’t exactly feel fantastic given the circumstances.

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4 months

Answer Machine

@SquawkCNBC

Squawk Box

4 months

Investor Stanley Druckenmiller talks about his investment in AI platform Perplexity and says, "It's unbelievable. It's an answer machine. Nothing like I've ever seen."

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Pete Lada

6 years

I’m extremely excited to show off a major update to @guidebook ’s schedule feature that we’ve been hard at work on for the past few months. This is phase 1 of the update, but its a big one! Day picker/calendar updates, new filter bottom sheet UI, and more!

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Pete Lada

6 years

@TheOnion This is the worst Moana sequel ever!

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Pete Lada

5 years

. @sketch any plans to allow named colors which share the same underlying color to be distinct? Often in themes two theme colors may be different keys, but share the same value. This isn't useful for devs to grok which theme color we want here. /cc @pieteromvlee

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Pete Lada

8 months

Nice shout out of @beam_eco here as one of consumer crypto’s recent break out payment apps.

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Consumer Crypto’s Breakout Cycle

In 2018, Dani Grant and Nick Grossman of Union Square Ventures published The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase. In that seminal piece, the pair argue that apps inspire infrastructure, and in turn…

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Pete Lada

6 years

Spent the last few days re-creating some Guidebook UI for a new page we're working on in react + styled components (🙏) ... I'm in love! I should have jumped on the styled components bandwagon earlier... what a pleasant way to write ui.

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Pete Lada

4 years

Spent some time yesterday updating the menu toggle on our website to be context aware—it can tell what color backdrop its being rendered over and adjust its own theme accordingly. Details matter!

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4 months

🦙

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Phi Hoang

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🦙🦙🦙 now on

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8 years

Great post on space (padding/margin) in design systems & naming conventions. This stuff is important to get correct!

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Pete Lada

8 years

My mom still struggling to comprehend secret santa

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Pete Lada

7 years

We're 7!

@guidebook

Guidebook

7 years

We're celebrating our 7th birthday today! Huge thanks to our customers, colleagues, and friends for all your support through the years. 💙

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5 years

😏

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4 years

Let’s do this, America. Vote!

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8 years

👇

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11 months

I have joined the bento bros 🍱 (this was really fun to build)

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Pete Lada

3 months

@venturetwins SF’s demise was overstated

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Pete Lada

5 months

Is there a more low effort ui than uploading a video to a github pr? I love how you can just start editing the "status" text too while the video is uploading lol. Does that affect the upload, or the resolved link? who knows!

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Pete Lada

24 days

Opportunity to be a part of a stellar brand team!

@henrymodis

Henry Modisett

24 days

Happy to share that I'm hiring another brand designer to our team. You will get to make stuff all day, have a lot of creative ownership, move quickly, and help us build a brand around knowledge, discovery, and curiosity.

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Pete Lada

5 years

Excited to launch Session Verification for @guidebook , which allows event managers to control attendance for individual sessions in their guide. This was many months in the making, and a true cross-functional project. Feels good to see it live! 🚀 More:

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Pete Lada

3 years

The team has been grinding for over a year on this - lots of tricky product challenges to solve. Excited to finally ship it! 🚀🚀

@TechCrunch

TechCrunch

3 years

Creators can now monetize their expertise on Quora by @asilbwrites

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Pete Lada

5 years

What a journey.

@guidebook

Guidebook

5 years

It's Guidebook's birthday! We are celebrating with some of our employee favorites -- cupcakes! Cheers to 9 years and counting 🎉🎂

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7 months

thought this toggle turned out pretty fun

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Pete Lada

6 years

PAX feedback. #feelsgoodman

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Pete Lada

6 years

Guidebook office doggo portraits!

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5 years

{{ insert witty quip here }}

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6 years

3rd place 10k finish! I’ll take it. 🏃🏻‍♂️

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Pete Lada

5 years

Seems legit

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7 years

Shamelessly stealing this joke: tomorrow’s apple conference is going to be top notch!

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Pete Lada

2 years

. @eco 's new website is featured on - lot's of hard work went into this site by a lot of talented folks. ❤️ cc @workandco @AristideBenoist

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Pete Lada

8 years

Guidebook's office 6 years ago to the day. 5 of us at the time (~100 now) Quite a journey!

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5 years

I’m ready

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5 years

When your company becomes a meme

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Otakon

5 years

Waiting for Guidebook like...

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Pete Lada

6 years

Finally finished “org design for design orgs” today. I confess it’s a book I should have read long ago. Interesting to know what we’ve been doing correctly (and what we haven’t). Recommended for design managers and contributors alike.

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Pete Lada

5 years

Today I got my hair cut. When the cut was complete, the barber casually mentions that my hair now looks like that of Donald Trump, Jr. Honestly not sure how to come back from this.

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Pete Lada

7 years

PAX! 🙌

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7 years

Made it to Hawaii 😍🌴

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6 years

. @Conservatives can I introduce you to @guidebook ? 😄

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Pete Lada

2 months

@henrymodis They didn’t just bake, they cooked

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3 months

🤔

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9 years

#Cenlar (mortgage loan processor) has got to be the worst company I've ever had the displeasure of working with. Horrendous customer support

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Pete Lada

8 years

Apple TV screensaver and chill?

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Pete Lada

6 years

Guys, for someone who commutes to sf every day, autopilot is the real deal. Feels like the future. I can finally eat my egg white delight with two hands! Also, the ux for activating it is really elegant.

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Pete Lada

8 years

@studentactivism @brentcouchman heyo!

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Pete Lada

5 years

Beautiful afternoon in Santa Barbara 😎

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Pete Lada

5 years

The #pax badges are 🔥 this year #PAXWest2019

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Pete Lada

6 years

Oh my god!

@SirPatStew

Patrick Stewart

6 years

It is an unexpected but delightful surprise to find myself excited and invigorated to be returning to Jean-Luc Picard and to explore new dimensions within him. Read my full statement in the photo. #StarTrek @cbsallaccess Photo: @shervinfoto

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Pete Lada

8 months

Big launch for Beam this week to close out the year - 2 new ways to deposit funds: @coinbase Pay and @kado_money . Really impressed with the velocity of the team going into 2024! 🚀

@bend_eco

Bend

8 months

Just launched: new ways to deposit into Beam! 🏦 🎄 For the holidays, we're running a week-long contest. Two simple steps: 1. Deposit using Coinbase or Kado 2. Reply to this post with your Beam Name or address Next Friday, we'll award some lucky winners 🎁👀

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Pete Lada

4 years

It's true you know

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Pete Lada

5 years

This doesn’t seem well thought out

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Pete Lada

5 years

Haha—that was fast. The joy of competition. This looks great!

@figma

Figma

5 years

Since many of you have asked, we thought we should let the cat out of the bag…

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Pete Lada

7 years

Hmm where have I seen these designs before? 🤔

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@RypeArts

Ryan Putnam

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Pete Lada

6 years

This week’s Economist cover is fantastic.

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Pete Lada

6 years

Please vote!

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Pete Lada

6 years

Spent some time this weekend applying a matte black vinyl wrap to the center console in the model 3. I think it turned out nicely! Leagues better than the fingerprint-magnet piano black stock coating. Surprisingly easy to install too. #needtovaccuum

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Pete Lada

6 years

I almost never tweet about vidya games anymore, but damn me if Red Dead Redemption 2 isn't a work of art. Simply astonishing world crafting. Surprised how well it runs on old hardware too. What an achievement, feller.

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Pete Lada

7 years

Homemade pickles from cucumbers from the garden. 😍

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6 years

@benjsperry Love this!

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7 years

How lucky I am to be alive right now

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Pete Lada

3 years

If you’re on a ride and don’t try to bike through the gaps like so for each bicycle man what are you even doing?

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Pete Lada

8 years

@jw IMO, beyond job security it's important to note that, on balance, better products result from teams where designers can & do implement.

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Pete Lada

6 years

When I choose my outfit in the morning

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Pete Lada

6 years

It’s happening.gif

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6 years

This is the exact opposite of how I use slack 😬

@FastCompany

Fast Company

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. @JanelleMonae loves Slack: “Email used to stress me out. Now I can organize every conversation, and I go into the channel when I need to—I don’t check it every hour. Like, when I get up, the first thing I do is not look at my phone."

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Pete Lada

7 years

Conference room illustrations for @guidebook :

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Pete Lada

8 years

Finally got into the beta of @goabstract . So excited 😍

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Pete Lada

7 years

Excited to announce Guidebook Spaces! Fully branded and themeable guide collections within the @guidebook container app. Coming later this month!

Custom Spaces | Guidebook

Multiple guides? No problem. Create your own branded Space within the Guidebook app to keep them all organized and accessible to your users. Managing a mobile app has never been easier.

www.guidebook.com

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Pete Lada

10 years

My @framerjs prototype was added to their examples page, along with a bunch of new excellent ones. Check it out! http://t.co/bXkh7894co

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Pete Lada

2 months

This is my favorite session on the citadel #Config2024

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9 years

Setting up my new Apple TV like

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