Thank you very much. Oh, please. Thank you. They don't give me too much time. Thank you very much. Blenus Tardis. And thank you all for being here and welcome to the White House, and I could say the Casablanco. And when I've said that, I've come about at the end of my linguistic ability to have to get back to my own language. I had an experience once, when I was president, when I was governor of California, to ask me to represent him on a mission to Mexico. And I made a speech and sat down to very scattered and unenthusiastic applause, which was kind of embarrassing, particularly when the next man up started speaking and was being warmly interrupted by applause every other sentence and to hide my embarrassment every time, every time. I started and applauded louder than anyone else until our ambassador leaned over and said to me, I wouldn't do that if I were you. He's interpreting your speech. But I know that you're going to be brief by members of the staff when I get out of here, so I'll try to make my remarks short. I hope that your presence here today assures you that we do not take the Hispanic community for granted. I'd be less than candid if I didn't admit that there's an election coming up and that we want to see the healthy bipartisan trend in the Hispanic community continue, but at the same time, I don't want anyone to get the idea that we've adopted the tactic used by the other party of just rediscovering blocks of voters every election year. That has not been and will not be our way. Americans of Hispanic descent have been playing a major role in this administration and have been doing so since day one. Recently at the United Nations, I talked about the need for deeds, not words. Well, the record shows that while we may not have matched the rhetoric of the other party, we've more than matched them when it comes to deeds. We've brought more Hispanic Americans into the executive branch at higher levels than any previous administration. By the end of our first year, there were 17 in policy-making positions requiring Senate confirmation. Now, that's almost twice as many as there were after the first year of the previous administration. Of course, we didn't stop at the end of the first year. We've gone right on. We've continued to make significant Hispanic appointments. Just recently, I was proud to nominate Everett Alvarez to be Deputy Administrator of the Veterans Administration. That name should be familiar to you, the man who served the longest as a POW in Vietnam. And I was very proud and happy to meet him upon his first arrival home in California. Elizabeth Flores, Burkhart, when confirmed by the Senate will be a member of the National Credit Union Administration. Antoni Gallegos has been confirmed as a Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Closer to home, we've also brought Hispanic Americans onto the White House staff as never before. Some of you may already know this. News has a way of leaking out around here. I sometimes think that I just start talking to the chandeliers and see how quickly I'll find it in the paper. But I'm appointing a new special assistant to the President for Public Liaison to be our outreach person to the Hispanic community. And his name is Henry Zuniga who has been doing a fine job. And I have the utmost confidence and evidently you do too that he'll continue to be an indispensable link between us, bringing your concerns and ideas into the inner circle of the White House as well as taking some of our concerns out to you. I don't want to belabor this point, but there are many fine Hispanic Americans throughout the Executive Branch and on the White House staff. Velma Montoya was appointed just a few weeks ago to a major policy administration position in the White House. Many of you know Rafael Capo who's one of Vice President Bush's closest advisors. And two weeks ago, Susan Alvarado was made Vice President Bush's Chief Assistant for Legislative Affairs. And certainly you're all aware of Diana Lozano who plays a major role coordinating our outreach program not only to Hispanics, but to other groups of citizens with special concerns. Women's organizations, veterans groups, other minorities and conservative groups. But let me point out, these Hispanic members of the administration are not picked because of their ethnic background.  They just happen to be the best people for the jobs that we ask them to do. Perhaps that's one difference between our approach and that of the other side. They talk about equality, equality, but we believe in it. Now, tough battle's going to be fought in the Hispanic community this election year.  So today, assuming that you were on our side, I thought I'd give you some ammunition for the coming months. First, it's widely recognized that the basic values that we spoke about in the last campaign and long before that are values identified closely with Americans of Hispanic descent. With this in mind, our political compatibility on many issues is more than just a coincidence. We seek to reaffirm basic institutions which, during the last decade, have come under a severe attack. You have strong family ties and an admirable sense of community, and we share those concerns. Knowing this, we believe, for example, our tuition tax credit plan should have a natural appeal to you who feel so strongly about the moral values maintained by this country's religious school systems. Already, many Hispanics send their children to these independent schools in great numbers, and our plan will give them some relief from the double taxation of supporting both private and public schools. Speaking of moral and religious values, it seems to me that many who have children in public schools should support our efforts to permit voluntary prayer in those schools. We have no reason to hang our heads on issues that may be of special concern to your community. Perhaps you can remind others that this administration did support the Voting Rights Bill. We've developed a new rapport with Mexico, a rapport that's based on mutual respect that is better than at any time in the history of our two proud nations. The issues I've talked about are, of course, concern to all Americans. The fact that they may have particular appeal to Hispanics only suggests that you're darn good Americans, and we should never forget it. This has been no secret in the military, where Hispanic Americans have served with exceptional courage and valor, as I mentioned with connection with Commander Alvarez a moment ago. And they've achieved a memorable record for courage. Just last year, I was honored to present Roy Benavides with this country's highest military award for his service in Vietnam, the Congressional Medal of Honor. I don't know why there had been such a delay in his receiving that medal. But when we discovered that it had not been awarded, and I think maybe some of you might like to hear why that medal is only given for service above and beyond the call of duty. This former farm boy from down in Texas was working at headquarters when some helicopters came in all shot up, their crews wounded, from trying to rescue an American patrol surrounded totally by the Viet Cong. And he, just on his own, climbed in one of the outgoing helicopters that was to go out and make another attempt to rescue these men. He dropped from the first helicopter that came in before it touched the ground, made his way 75 yards under fire to the location of the surrounded patrol. There were only eight of them left alive, all wounded. One by one, he picked them up and under fire continued to carry them out to the helicopters that would come in and land to get them. At one point, he had men on a helicopter and the pilot of the helicopter was killed as it started to take off and crashed back to Earth. He took them out of that helicopter into another helicopter. He was shot four times while he was doing all this, finally bringing out the eighth man with four bullet wounds in himself. He was attacked hand to hand by a Vietnamese with a rifle and bayonet.  But in the meantime, he told me that they're told how to ward off a bayonet with their arm if they can, but he said, you don't really think about that, so he grabbed the other man's bayonet under his arm. And his arm is totally disabled now from the sawing the man did trying to get that bayonet out. But when he told me about this particular incident on our way over to the medal presentation, Roy said to me, he said, that's when I got mad. And he did. And he finished off his assailant and picked up the wounded man and made it out. And then at the presentation over at the Pentagon, we had brought back as many of the eight men as we could get that he had rescued to be present as guest at that ceremony. And you would have puddled up as I did to stand there beside him and see those men when they came to him in the receiving line to see them throw their arms around him to see their tears and to see them thank him for saving their lives. And then they turned to me some of them and tell me what their life was like and how much they owed to Roy Benavides, master sergeant. He is back now on part-time and military duty working as a recruiting officer. So I just thought you might like to hear about him. I could go on all day about this, but I know you've got a full schedule ahead of you. And they have some other things for me to do. So I want to just thank you again for being here and for representing a proud part of our American culture and heritage. God bless you all. Thank you.


what a joy it is not only to be together all weekend for defending the faith, but to be here for the 30th time. Now I realize there are a lot of first timers, but I sure hope that you plan on coming back for the next 30 years. I'm serious. I tell you, this place is flourishing more and more in the power of the Holy Spirit. And I wanna thank Father Dave Ivanka, our president also for his faithfulness to the calling of the Lord and to the power of the Holy Spirit. I'd like to focus my remarks this evening on the idea of holiness, but not just the idea. What I wanna do is to take that notion of holiness and make it something that we deeply desire. What is the one thing you want more than any other thing? What is the one thing that is most important to you? Now, we know that people around us would say, well, good health, lots of wealth, popularity, but we all know how transitory and superficial those things are. And so the obvious answer to all of us is holiness. But how do we go about attaining it? That's what I'd like to talk about. But the way I wanna address this is by situating it within your own life story, as well as mine. One of my own personal heroes is a Scottish-American philosopher by the name of Alistair McIntyre. Back in the 60s, he was one of the world's most influential atheist Marxist philosophers. He had been teaching at Brandeis and Vanderbilt, but he was intellectually honest and open to the pursuit of truth. And so in the 70s, when I was an undergraduate, gradually he came to believe in God. And then in the 80s, when I was making my way into the Catholic Church, he was too, much to the shock of many of his colleagues at Vanderbilt and Duke and wherever else he taught. He wrote a book called After Virtue. And I know that all of you here got to hear Dr. Edward Sree last night speak about virtue. And what Dr. Sree was doing was distilling the breakthrough wisdom that you find in Alistair McIntyre's classic work, After Virtue, that came out in 1981. There are so many quotable quotes in there, but there was one thing that really stood out over the years for me. And that is the single most important question is what is the purpose of my life? What am I to do? The problem is we can't answer that, as McIntyre points out, until we address another question of what story do I find myself apart? And so we've got to figure out where we fit in the story that goes beyond my own biography, that goes beyond my own family, that goes beyond our own country. McIntyre also points out after decades of research and study of human nature, human philosophy, he says that I quote, man is essentially a story telling animal. And that builds on what Curtis Martin was talking about last night. And so what we've got to do is we've got to find our story because in a certain sense we've lost it, or very nearly. And the next generation of Catholics coming up have got to be reminded of the story of salvation history. McIntyre clarifies this though, it's not just like the Wizard of Oz. It really is a teller of stories that aspire to truth. And so this is what points us back to Sacred Scripture. Without embarrassment, this is the word of God. And even though it isn't impolished Greek or refined Latin, but in a kind of primitive Hebrew and Coine Greek, nevertheless, when the word who created the universe became flesh, he was in a manger and he wound up on a cross. And so get ready for our pride to be snubbed as we discovered that God has scripted a story that only makes sense in the light of Jesus Christ, crucified, risen and ascended into heaven. Sacred Scripture is central, valuable, important. What else do you expect to hear from me? But if you think I slightly overvalue the importance of Scripture, let me remind you of what Jesus did on his first day back from the dead. I won't go into this at length like I would love to do, but here is Jesus abandoned, betrayed, denied, tortured, crucified on Good Friday, in the tomb on Holy Saturday, and finally on Easter Sunday, he gets back from the dead. And if you were going to decide what to do on your first day back from the dead, what would you do? I would drop in on Pontius Pilate. I would stop by Caiaphas and hover over the Sanhedrin. I would probably pay a house call to my tortures, my executioners, and give them a chance to repent. I might gather my disciples and divide Jerusalem up into neighborhood districts, and just say, okay, let's go on a tour. But there is one thing that I know I wouldn't put on my list. And that was what was at the top of Jesus' list. And what was it? To spend most of Easter Sunday morning and afternoon walking on that long road that leads from Jerusalem to Emmaus with two apparent nobodies, Clovis and his companion, leading this amazing Bible study to two guys who don't even recognize the rabbi. We had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. And only when they arrive at Emmaus, when he's there at the table, when he takes blesses, breaks, and gives them this sacred mystery that we call the Eucharist are their eyes open. And just as suddenly he vanishes. And not because he's playing hard to get or hide and go seek, but because that is what is meant to be the object of our faith. And so when they turned around and walked all the way back, by the time they got to the upper room Easter Sunday late afternoon, who was there to meet them besides the 11? Our Lord himself. For what purpose? To have a brief meal with them, but also to have an extensive scripture study. So if the Lord of Lords raised from the dead on his first day back from his descendant to Hades, decides to do that, either we must conclude that he has misplaced priorities or else we ought to be open to the possibility that we do. But Clovis and his companion and the 11 apostles were not ignorant of sacred scripture. They knew the law and the prophets or at least they thought they did. But apart from Jesus Christ crucified and resurrected, it's just not the case that you understand it right. As I like to say the Old Testament read on its own is like a story in search of an ending. Whereas for most Christians, they read the New Testament which is practically unintelligible apart from the old because you're hearing all about the fulfillment of promises and prophecies and covenants about which we don't know very much. And so in order to address this question, what is the purpose of my life? We need to also answer the question of what story do I find myself apart? And as much as I love Tolkien's trilogy or the Narnia Chronicles, those stories aspire to truth but this is salvation history and sacred scripture gives us the truth into which our own lives now fit and not just in different scripts. By the time we get home to heaven and we see the face of the father and we look around in our resurrected bodies and see each other with resurrected eyes, we're going to recognize brothers and sisters in Christ in this heavenly homecoming that will surpass the best siblings we ever had on earth. And we're gonna realize that, okay, we've got some time on our hands couple million years to start with. So I think the father will encourage us to share our stories and we'll realize that there weren't all these different stories, there's only one. And it was divinely scripted from a father on high who sent his son as the word made flesh to give us the Holy Spirit. This is the story of our lives and this is what makes holiness possible. And ultimately this is the purpose of who we were created to be. Now last century, a book was written that's become something of a favorite of mine, Dom Chautard has written a book called The Soul of the Apostolate. And if you haven't read it, I strongly encourage you to do so. It's described as a spiritual classic by many for good reasons. He describes something that is like the spiritual law of causality. And what is that? To quote from him, if the priest is a saint, then his people will be fervent. Whereas if the priest is fervent, then his people will be pious. Whereas if the priest is pious, then the people will be decent and upright. Whereas if the priest is merely decent and upright, then his people will be godless. And that's the truth. And that is why we need to pray not only for our priests, but also for more young men here at Franciscan and everywhere else to respond to the calling of holy orders. And this is also why we give thanks for what happened 15 months ago when our son Jeremiah became our sacramental father, Father Jeremiah. And we're grateful to God for the prodigy of his priesthood, but even more for how he has become the instrument of sanctification for others. And why? Because we were made for the purpose of becoming saints, to be holy. But saints don't happen by chance. They happen by choice. And not just one choice, but a lifetime of choices made every day saying yes from the heart. And I think back 50 years ago when I was 14, coming off a retreat for a whole weekend like this one. And I found Christ. He found me and I was basking in the afterglow of grace. And then when I got back home, reality struck. And my friends began to figure out what had happened. And I wonder went a rejection. In the first week, I thought it was temporary. A month later, I had not been invited to a party which was probably not a bad thing. But that fear of rejection that I had to confront was also a passage through which I had to go in order to follow Jesus. And I should say too that 40 years ago since Kimberly already referred to our courtship and our marriage and our discovery of the Catholic Church's teaching and openness to life, it was 40 years ago that I became a father for the first time. And suddenly I began to look upon God in a different way. Without going into the details of the story, Kimberly's labor was over 30 hours. She was 10 days late. I was fighting sleep while she was fighting intense pain. It was four days later after she was recovering from surgery that we came home together. And I think it was the first or second night that I decided that I would try to burp our baby boy for the first time around 3 a.m. After she had nursed him, she handed him off and she fell into bed and fell fast asleep. I'm walking down the hall into the moonlit baby room burping him and I hear him burp and I'm like, yes. And then I heard something else and then I felt something warm and suddenly I realized that baby vomit was going down my back. That was a little awkward and I pulled him off my shoulder. I looked into his eyes and he obviously felt much better. And at that moment, that's all that mattered. And instead of just laying him down, I sat in the rocking chair beside his crib and just began to rock him. Looking into the eyes of the only person on the planet who's ever vomited on me. And if you had asked me a year earlier, as someone who wants to be holy, has anybody ever thrown up on you? No, how do you think you'll feel the first time? Well, I'll fight anger, maybe frustration, perhaps even rage, but that night I'm looking into the eyes of the only person who's ever done such a thing, feeling such love welling up within me. I don't know how to describe it except that it was a grace of conversion.  He's fast asleep, but I'm not ready to lay him down just yet. Why? Because I am not just the proud father of this big bundle of baby boy, but I have found the love of my life, the fruit of our love. The two became one and the one we became was so real that we had to come up with a name, Michael Scott Hahn. And he was the incarnation of our communion and I just was thinking about all of this when suddenly I felt the presence of God in that room. And I didn't see a face or hear a voice, but if I had it, it wouldn't have made it more real, but I felt like he was trying to get something across to me and I wasn't picking up on it until finally I realized it was just a simple question.  And I'm like, God, words don't begin to describe the love that I have for this baby boy. Thank you, but there was something else and I didn't pick up on it. And then after about a minute or so, I began to realize that the follow-up question that our Lord was really asking me was, do you think it's possible that you love your child more than I love my children? And I'm like, well, no, I mean, theologically that's inept, that's absurd. I'm a first-time dad, you're the eternal father. And then I realized that it wasn't a pop quiz at 3.30 a.m., he was speaking to my heart. And I'm like, wait a second, you don't mean to say that you love me like I love him only more? But of course that's exactly what he was trying to say and all I could think of was the countless occasions when I had vomited on our Lord by sitting and acting selfishly in my marriage and with other people, just assuming that thereby I caused him to love me less and less when in fact, I'm looking at the only person who's ever thrown up on me and I cannot express in words the love that was still welling up. That was a conversion, that was a transformation, not just finding Christ, but finding the Father. And I discovered that Jesus has this passionate desire today as he did back in the first century to show us the face of God, the Father that we will no longer be afraid Well, I mean the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and perfect love casts out all fear and our love isn't perfect yet, it's being perfected but at the same time God wants to reveal himself to us as the only perfect Father there ever was and will be. And this is why we're here, this is who we are. And this is why we have to kind of blow off the dust from the doctrine that we believe, we profess when we say I believe in God, the Father almighty or else these will become just Catholic talking points when in fact when we blow off the dust we can see what amazing graces all of these sacred mysteries are. But what I'd like to do is point out the fact that if your priest is not a saint, if he's not fervent, if he's not pious, if he's only decent you don't have an excuse not to become a saint. And so we can't point our fingers at the clergy or at our own parents or at our own teachers and catechists for how they might have failed us because the fact is holiness for us is still a choice that we can make to pursue the Lord. Now, in case you haven't noticed, the sacraments are essential for becoming holy but the sacraments don't make it easy, much less automatic. We're not robots. We're prodigal sons and daughters who've got to make it all the way home. But in the process we're gonna discover that God is love but it's not spelled L-U-V like it was when I was a kid back in the early 70s as a new convert. I mean, the Beatles, all you need is love and it was love, like peace, love and wood stock. And I'll be honest, I just began to tune that kind of message out. And as a new convert in high school reading through the Bible from beginning to end I discovered in the writings and the teachings of a local theologian by the name of Dr. R. C. Sproul the holiness of God, the holiness of God, his awe, his majesty, that would inspire us but it would also cause us to tremble. And that was for me something essential and I would propose that it is still something essential. But what do we mean by holiness? Well, when you look at the book of Genesis the foundation for the Bible you can see that in the opening chapters God creates in six days in order to consecrate the seventh day which of course is the Sabbath, the sign of the covenant which he hallows. Literally, Kodesh in Hebrew, he sanctifies it's the only time the word Kodesh holiness occurs in all 50 chapters of Genesis. And so it's set apart. And what we have to see is that God has already written a code into creation to give us a clue as to why he made us, what the real goal is. It's not just a work a day lifestyle for six days it's to enter into the holiness of the Sabbath which our first parents failed to do just turn the page and you'll see them fall and forfeit sanctifying grace so that the word holiness doesn't occur anywhere else in the rest of Genesis not until the Exodus event not until the book of Exodus where suddenly there's an explosion of that Hebrew term Kodesh in all of its variants 98 times in the book of Exodus which is only 40 chapters long and in the opening chapters it starts with Moses tending the flock and he sees a bush that is consumed now a bush is something flammable but a bush is not something that will continue to burn without being consumed and yet this one was and then the divine voice that came with it Moses, Moses, here am I take off your shoes for the ground that you stand on is holy ground and he turns away the great professor Rudolf Otto wrote a book called the idea of the holy and he describes this mysterious tremendous fashinans which is this mystery that causes us to tremble and yet we find ourselves fascinated and enthralled it's like wanting to look and then wanting to look away the holiness of God and so this is where God announces his purpose to renew the covenant to bring them out through the Passover to liberate them from bondage which he then proceeds to do and he brings them out to Sinai and you have the holy tent you've got the Ark of the Covenant you've got that term holiness being applied to the vestments to the altar to the feasts to the sacrifices but as you finish off the book of Exodus you find that holiness is applied to everything but it's never applied to anyone no one is called a saint or a holy one in all of Exodus not even Moses and as you continue reading of course you discover why the golden calf the transgression the rebellion and then you read Leviticus and it's all about be holy for the Lord your God is holy but it's a call it's an invitation it's a challenge but it always implies be holy as opposed to what you've been now for the last few years for 40 years it was a friend of mine Rabbi Berman who pointed out to me years ago and other readers too that as you read the law and the prophets as you read the Hebrew Bible you discover holiness just used all over the place but it's used with respect to God primarily for you alone are holy and then when certain created objects are consecrated they are holy too but nowhere in the law and the prophets and the writings that to knock this Hebrew rabbi pointed out is anybody ever referred to as a saint and I had read through the Old Testament many times I just never noticed but when you do you begin to realize okay so salvation history is taking place in a very gradual way and no wonder because God is eternal and for the Lord God a thousand years or as a day and a day like a thousand years and so in order to understand the real purpose you've got to understand well I mean with the great philosopher Aristotle once observed that what is first in intention is what? Last in execution so the first thing that you intend to accomplish is generally the last thing that you do you accomplished it and so if you're building a mansion for months there might be a pile of lumber there might be all kinds of mounds of dirt like we're building here Jesus the teacher center or if an artist wants to paint a masterpiece you'll look at that canvas and just see all of these collars and not until the end do you see what was really intended from the beginning so the end is already there in the beginning so what is first in intention is last in execution but even when you finish the mansion you expect to move in you want to live there you want to enjoy it you want to have people over likewise when you finish your masterpiece you want people to contemplate it and appreciate that so what is the goal of creation well that's the purpose of the narrative to show us that the Sabbath the seventh day the only time holiness occurs this is the sign that is why this whole weekend has been devoted to what topic what theme the jubilee so you have the seventh day and then you have the seven feasts in the liturgical calendar of Leviticus 23 and then in Leviticus 23 you have the sabbatical year and then in Leviticus 25 you have the series of the Shemitah the seven sabbaticals the 50th year is the great jubilee debts are forgiven slaves are set free and everybody gets to go back to their ancestral inheritance this is what God has commanded our fulfillment, our happiness and not just our workload and yet at the same time you recognize that it takes place gradually in stages the catechism is especially clear and helpful on this in paragraph 684 we hear about how it was that God's fatherhood was being revealed in the patriarchal period through the patriarchs but ultimately then the revelation of the son is what occurs in the incarnation anticipated in the law and the prophets but the spirit the Holy Spirit is the last of the persons of the Holy Trinity to be revealed quoting the great Cappadocian St. Gregory he explains this in terms of God's fatherly plan his pedagogy the way he teaches through stooping down to the level of his children in order to raise them up and make them saints and make them holy St. Gregory writes the Old Testament proclaimed the father clearly but the son more obscurely the New Testament revealed the son and gave us a glimpse of the Holy Spirit by advancing and progressing from glory to glory the light of the Trinity will shine in us forever more brilliant rays so you know I think back to 50 years and what is that going all the way back to creation 50 years ago I found Christ 40 years ago I discovered the face of God the Father 30 years ago almost exactly I kissed the face of my earthly father I was alone with him in his last hour with labored breathing slipping into a coma and when he breathed his last I was alone with him I closed his eyes I knelt down I thanked the Lord God Almighty for the gift of a father who for most of his life never found faith until he was suffering in the final months from this terminal illness and we had gotten to pray together he'd asked me to read the Psalms with him and so I knelt down and thanked God for the gift of a natural father who became like a little brother in Christ and I realized in the silence that for the first time in my life I had no other father but God and I asked him to continue fathering me as his son as a husband as a father and now as a grandfather Papa, that's the term that melts my heart like butter on a skillet in fact during the first verse of holy, holy, holy I slipped out just to send a video to Joseph Pio for his eighth birthday and Maggie who we hope comes here for her 14th birthday 21 grandkids how good can it get and yet at the same time what God is doing is fathering a family that is so much more immense than my own or yours and so this is who we are this is why we're gathered this is what we are to discover again and again and allow it to convert our hearts so Jesus really has two passionate desires he longs to show us the face of God the father but he also longs every bit as much to send us the power and the gifts of the Holy Spirit what's troubling you right now what is it that is weighing on your heart like a burden you don't have to speak up but I think you can speak to our Lord and you'll discover that he already knows that and as you open up your heart and ask him to prove his fatherly love and if you open up your heart even more and just ask Christ to come in and to let his fullness fill your emptiness let his perfection make up for all of our imperfections he's not going to hear that prayer and say I'll think about it he'll answer that prayer and then he'll show you where that prayer originated and it wasn't my heart or yours it was his he loves us more than we love ourselves and he wants us to get home and so we've got to beware of when it is we find ourselves our hands are so full and our hearts are so full of things that we can't really receive what it is that God the Father has to give us and as we've been hearing in different ways all weekend what displeases God the Father the most is when we don't trust him when we settle for the appetizers when we settle for the pocket change the finite goods that he has lavished upon us when in fact the only thing he really longs to give is the gift of himself to us this is what explains this is the only thing explains why a God who loves us will allow us to lose all of the finite goods even the finite life that we have in our bodies so what is first in intention is last in execution and this is the paradox of holiness for each and every one of us because as you'll discover in the lives of the saints there are all kinds of different personalities the irascible Saint Jerome who had a temper that puts mind to shame and yet it takes all kinds to make a heaven and you'll also find other saints too with all kinds of temperaments and personalities and yet you're gonna discover that God is calling us to bring ourselves with all of our weaknesses and that this is gonna be gradual none of these saints were canonizable before the hour of their death but the paradox of holiness is that those who have holiness are the ones who can't see it think of Saint Francis of Assisi he was the one who became more and more aware of his own weakness, his own waywardness as he became holier manifestly so in front of his friars it's also true for Saint Paul in his earliest epistles he describes himself as the least of the apostles in his final writings he describes himself as the chief of sinners not that he was but that he is and so the paradox is that the more you have it the less you see it or know it and so if you see it and you think you know you're a saint chances are you're not but the fact is nobody is until the hour of death did you ever wonder why Catholics have this morbid fascination with that moment in time I can't tell you but I suspect it's at least tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of times I have spoken of the hour of our death, amen and why because that is the moment that matters more than all of the others but it's also the moment that makes all of the other matters all of the other moments matter more than we can imagine and so what is first an intention in God's heart is less than execution in our lives and in history but it's a curious thing because what is first in importance is often the last thing that we discover we've been talking about virtue we've been talking about how it is that we're not just keeping commandments we are really striving to achieve virtue when Ted Street was talking about that last night I was reminded of what Alistair McIntyre taught me years ago that what muscles are to the body virtues are to the soul and so when we might identify the four cardinal virtues that he spoke of last night we realized that there were three theological virtues the seven gifts of the spirit but there's a whole lot more just like we have three primary muscle groups the simple the cardiac and the skeletal muscle groups but there are over 600 muscles in your body and mine and I daresay most of us couldn't name 95% of them and so it isn't the case that each day we've got to work out with one muscle then another and get to 600 no the life of health is nutrition, exercise and all of the rest but what's true of the body is every bit is true for the soul and so we have to do the good over and again until it becomes a habit I think she did it first then I did it so if we do the good it inhabits our soul it becomes a habit so that we can do it more consistently more easily, more joyfully as Dr. Sree was saying and you know muscles are interesting because doctors speak about muscle memory what is muscle memory? Well a couple of nights ago Bob Rice was in the room where we have our team dinners and he was putting down his Taylor guitar and so I picked it up it's been probably 30 years since I played Van Morrison's Domino on the guitar but there I see my fingers doing it and then tower of power this time is real and then the Doobie brothers listen to the music it's like my hand, my fingers remember the chords there's a kind of muscle memory in our bodies but there's also a moral muscle memory that's what virtue instills faith, hope, love and prudence, temperance, fortitude and justice but when you look closely at Saint Thomas just as there are three muscle groups there are three virtue groups but there are literally over a hundred different virtues our soul has all of these muscles that need to be exercised but for that purpose we need to recognize the fact that memory, a kind of moral muscle memory is necessary and so remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy not only is the Sabbath command the longest of the 10 commandments it's the only one where the term holiness occurs and it occurs twice looking back on how God created in six days and then sanctified he made holy the seventh day and so you are to make it holy by what? Remembering, what does it mean to remember? It means a car, an amnesis it means more than just recalling it means commemorating, it means celebrating it's what happened to me just before I got up while we were singing holy, holy, holy I remember it's Joseph Pio's birthday so I cut out and sent him a video and likewise it was Maggie's birthday and so I sent her a video got back here in time for the last two verses I almost forgot but it's not just recalling it's celebrating, it's commemorating and so this is true for us as infants and children this is true for us as youth, as adolescents it's also true for us as adults there are certain things that have happened to us in our lives, momentous occasions and you might not necessarily have a conscious memory how many of you remember what it was like to be born? Well doesn't that make you wonder whether you were not? Obviously not, but I remember it was really crushing I mean, it was slow, it was so painful and I had been breathing amniotic fluid for months and then suddenly I'm gasping for what? I don't even know am I the only one? No, do I remember?  No? So maybe you didn't, of course you did but this is mortal muscle memory for little infants likewise at four and a half months our firstborn spoke his first words trained by his mother and she was like da-da, da-da, da-da I know it should have been mama but that's how selfless Kimberly is all six of our kids first word was da-da, da-da God bless Kimberly it melted my heart, oh my goodness it still does by just remembering it but you melted your parents' hearts, don't you recall? No, so maybe you haven't learned to talk but of course we have and don't even get rid of it with potty training you remember that? You don't? Well, I hope I can assume that all of you have been and so it is that all of these events that cause us to grow life is what's happening to us it's not simply reducible to the choices that we make but we still have to make choices we've gotta confront our fears we've gotta recognize that just as the body grows naturally from infancy through childhood to young adulthood through adolescence when all of a sudden these hormones are surging through us and we can no longer just act like children on the basis of impulse or imagination we've gotta use our reason to do what is true we've gotta choose with our wills what is good and it's hard and we make mistakes and the moral muscle memories are not only the virtues but the vices as well and so we've got to be honest and admit our failings because those can linger as well and stand in need of God's mercy but what is true of the body as we pass through adolescence into adulthood is also true for the soul as we mature and as we grow in knowledge as we grow in goodness as we also become aware that we're made for something more than what this world offers and what is it? We don't know yet. We're breathing air but it might as well be amniotic fluid because on the other side of the veil is something that is very different than what we have here but all we can remember all that we think about is what is here and so God the Father sent His Son for the purpose of giving us the Holy Spirit but not just giving you the Spirit giving me the Spirit, giving each and every one of us but all of us, this mystical body of Christ shows us that the body of Christ was not just resuscitated it was transfigured, His humanity was divinized it didn't add anything to the glory that He already had as the eternal Son but it's the means by which He downloads all of that glory and gives us holiness because in the Old Testament God alone is holy there's the holy tent, the holy tablets, the holy vestments the holy sacrifices but nobody's called holy there is one exception to that for in the writings in Daniel chapter seven you actually do find somewhere in the Hebrew Bible people being referred to as saints and who are they? We don't know yet because they're not named because in Daniel chapter seven verse 13 we read about this figure by the name of the Son of Man and how He's coming to the ancient of days riding in this heavenly cloud of glory so that to Him the Father can present to the Son of Man all of the kingdoms and dominions of all of the nations so that all people shall serve Him did you ever wonder why Jesus calls Himself the Son of Man more than all of the other titles put together? Nobody else calls Him the Son of Man it's Daniel 713 after enduring the suffering of the cross after His resurrection and ascension He is coming to the Father on the clouds of glory but wait, keep reading because the second half of Daniel's vision is what is so often forgotten or overlooked because the Son of Man doesn't get any more glory than He had in eternity so why does He go to all of the trouble? In order to entrust the kingdom to the quote, saints of the most high the saints of the most high, yeah who are they? Well, they're not here yet and they won't arrive until the Son of Man suffers, dies and rises and ascends into heaven and suddenly there is this breakthrough as we move from the Old Testament to the new where you alone are holy and then the power of the most high shall overshadow you and the child that will be born shall be called the Holy One of God so the incarnation brings about an explosion of holiness such that the Blessed Virgin Mary is Holy Mary and then when you discover at Pentecost the Holy Spirit is poured out upon the 120 and then the 3000 who are baptized and then the numbers keep growing as the church keeps expanding this is called the mystical body of Christ it's not just a figure of speech it is an invisible mystical reality it is the single largest spiritual organism on the planet it's living, it's breathing but it's not just on the planet, it's also in heaven it's a lot like what Professor Burton Barnes discovered back in the 60s when he laid claim to finding the single largest physical organism and the single largest, the oldest physical organism have you ever been out to Colorado to see the aspen groves? They're beautiful, sometimes you have thousands of trees but in Utah you have the pando grove and what is that? Well pando comes from the Latin I spread because the pando grove curiously has turned out to be a single root system that stretches from the end to end and when they tabulated in the 80s the length of the root system it was 12,427 miles or roughly half the earth's circumference 47,000 aspen trees but actually the 47,000 aspen trees in these 106 acres are not separate trees they're one organism and when they have done the research what they have concluded is that this organism is at least 14,000 years old at the least and possibly as old as 80,000 years old and I would propose to you that who we are as members of the mystical body of Christ which is not a metaphor or a figure of speech it is a reality that is not yet manifest but just because it's invisible doesn't make it less real and so what I would propose to you is that we should look around and realize that in our mortal bodies we have been united through the sacraments by the Holy Spirit to become something that we were made to be but something that we cannot make ourselves apart from the Holy Spirit so the Father patiently waited until the fullness of time when the Son was sent and then the Son tells the apostles it is to your advantage that I go back to the Father for unless I do the paraclete the spirit of truth, the spirit of power won't come but if he comes, guess what? You'll not only be led into all truth but all holiness and so what you never find in the Old Testament is what you find on practically every page of the new and yet I never noticed it because it was hiding in plain view Paul is continually referring to the saints at Corinth in Ephesus and Galatia and elsewhere because we have something of the Holy Spirit and so just as that pando grove subsisted for thousands of years almost exclusively underground where the root system was so the souls of the faithful departed of the Old Testament were there until the death, the resurrection and the ascension remember that odd passage in Matthew 27 that when Jesus was raised from the dead all of these tombs in Jerusalem were open and people saw the bodies of the saints where'd they go? He took them up with him to heaven and all the visions of heaven that you read about in the Old Testament who do you see surrounding the throne of God? Angels, the seraphim, the cherubim like in Isaiah 6 holy, holy, holy, sing the seraphim. Are there any humans? Not a single one but in Revelation chapter 4 when John has his vision of heaven you have the 24 elders, you have the martyrs you have the vast multitude of the saints surrounding the throne of the Lamb singing what? Holy, holy, holy alongside of the angels because with the ascension of Christ heaven has been repopulated by the saints this isn't pious fiction this isn't religious rhetoric this is a reality that we profess by faith because we haven't seen it yet but this is the only thing for which we were made this weekend is an awesome reunion for me and for many of you but it's a garbage dump compared to the reunion that awaits us when we get home to see the face of God the Father and realize that the whole purpose of the incarnation was that the son of man would give him the saints of the most high a kingdom that will go on for billions and trillions of years 10 trillion years from now you look at your watch it'll be the first minute of eternity and we'll wonder why it seems so long in the anodic sack of earthly life these sacred mysteries are not something that will ever master with our intellects but this is what is the food for the heart this is what we need to not only profess but meditate upon to move from spiritual childhood into spiritual adolescence into holiness so that we are children greatly loved by God though we want to be younger brothers and sisters with Christ but ultimately only through the power of the Holy Spirit not by chance but by our choice but even more by his choice shall we become not just children not just brothers and sisters but saints of the most high and nothing less this is who we are this is why he came this is why you came in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit Almighty God our Father in heaven we thank you for the good news we ask you in the name of Jesus for you to pour out the Holy Spirit upon us that we will begin to see just how good it is that we will not take this grace for granted any longer that we will lay hold of it for ourselves and for our loved ones for spouses for our children for our siblings for our God children and our grandchildren as well we ask you now to make us living members of the mystical body that we will continue to grow and spread as the single largest spiritual organism that fills the heavens and the earth hear us then as we pray our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil amen Hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus Holy Mary mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit amen


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Okay. She's chill right now. Oh my god. Okay, so this is the road to 10k episode 5 Where we actually? Achieve the goal we hit the 10k, but we'll talk about that later first I want to enter this video by asking for help can someone please help us Tell us how to party train a puppy Because we just got this puppy. This is not Stevie This kind of looks like Stevie. This is our second dog.  Her name is missy.  Someone help us comment down below. How do you potty train a puppy? I want to put this down. Yeah, look, okay. We just said like this Okay, has literally shot on the floor twice just yesterday.    Don't go anywhere a puddle of piss.  No, it's not Frickin crazy puppy Well, let's go in here and talk a little bit about ACS All right, so like we said we achieved the road to 10k milestone I'm absolutely insane in five months. We did it in five months. Yes So let's take a look at exactly how much we made this month well last month, which was January And let's go through the month-by-month progression from when we first started We placed our first book order in August so that's an 18 Okay, and then August and September they were being written and being narrated because it can take like eight to ten weeks To take your audiobook from not existing to existing and on the market-making sales So the first sale we made was in October So that was our first income report that we can like document from ACX October was like $170 in royalties something like that and then November 2018 was we jumped up to 3700 big jump then December 2018 was 8300 something like so we're making big like $3,000 a month jumps right now. So that was December and then now in January. Let's open it up and show you the proof opening up live and There's not even ten thousand eleven thousand eleven thousand one hundred twenty nine dollars and seven cents achieved So from when the first book was made January it took five months it took five months from the first book order was made Yeah, so that shows how quickly you could actually build like a big source of income online Oh, but didn't you guys put in a vest a lot of money? Yes? Yes, we did We invested a lot of money and that's why we were able to scale the speed. Okay, so let's say how much money did we invest? I think it's about twenty five thousand about twenty five thousand about twenty five thousand dollars to make eleven thousand dollars in one month And we've already we just invested eight thousand dollars more in book orders Yeah, so I just have a quick thing that I want to say on that regarding the twenty five thousand that I said we invested That is twenty five thousand in like a whole bunch of books many of which are still being written and recorded now So they're not up for sale in January. We had only twenty seven audiobooks So we made eleven thousand from just twenty seven audiobooks and from those twenty seven audiobooks the total investment was probably around Fifteen thousand so not the full twenty five just so you know just want to say that okay back in the video So that was January and I know in February we'll get the income report a month from now But we did even more than eleven thousand slightly more we got a few more sales and fewer bounties But not much more yeah because February was a short month and now we didn't have any new books come out Which is annoying yeah, and then we're up to twenty two thousand two months like my point is yeah We put in twenty five thousand dollars to make eleven thousand as business, baby. That's how it works Yeah, that's why we're the ones waiting a lot of money because we're out here willing to invest Heaps into the business and then in a long run this Audiobook business will be making hundreds of thousands. Yeah multiple six figures for us So yeah profit in the long run. Okay, so as I was saying that but we do have quickly look really quickly is just our sales dashboard 27 total audiobooks and There's some English ones. There's some Spanish ones in here because we translate some of our audiobooks into Spanish Yeah, 27 titles. We made 11.1 on 27. Yeah, so 2700 sales 10 bounties January 1st to January 31st, so it's 19. There's the proof. There you go I turn off this and then let's let's not talk about us anymore. Let's talk about Someone else who achieved the exact same feed as us so in the same span of time We have a winner for the road to 10k challenge and let's announce him right now We're the road to 10k challenge for people that don't know we got a lot of new viewers This is basically what we've been documenting But we had everyone else in our in our course audiobooking come Academy do the same thing and to take zero to 10k In road to is in one month as fast as possible and there's a prize that is to get flown out to Bali And just kind of pay out with us for one week and we'll treat you to like some really cool shit Yeah, and we have a winner. We have a winner. We did an interview with him last video previous video His name is pure Luigi from Italy. I Cannot believe like it's so amazing that he did it in the same span as us and actually he made Quite a lot more than us. Yeah, right So he made oh, it's put a screenshot on the on the screen right now $14,100 from audiobooks in January and it's not just us. It's not just us So he public he started his business a bit before us like a month He made his first book owner in July and the contest has to start only books that are published September 7th and later So we had to subtract everything from before and we did and that came out like 600 sound hundred dollars So like 13,000 so when I started the same time with us He still made 13,000 something in January No, and we did 11.1 and I thought we did we did the best we could yeah, we invest a lot of money So like I'm just insanely impressed by what you did But now we're always learning and we're forever getting better at this publishing shit Oh, yeah, it'll just go faster. We'll be more efficient and needed 14k from audio but from his full Publishing business 19. Yeah, he did 5,000 extra from his e-books and his paperbacks Yeah, so we will be flying pure Luigi out to Bali Hanging out with them for a week documenting the whole thing What's gonna say with us into this final thing that we can talk about we will be able to document the whole thing because we finally have hired a Full-time video guy.   It's also a short video But I just want to say congratulations to Peter Luigi and I'm just super impressed and proud of you And we need to talk dates one works for you It should definitely be after our video guy comes out so we can document the whole thing But that's all there is to say I'll say so we did this is episode 5 I believe of the road to 10k series we're gonna end it now because we will be taking our accounts like 20 30k That's the goal, but I don't want to document it like this because honestly these videos are boring and repetitive It's just income reports we can give income updates But I don't want to make more road to 10k episodes because all we do is say hi look at how much we made This is how many audiobooks we had this is how many sales we made okay moving on by people love to watch the videos But like because like all the information all the useful information there's it's not a useful video No, you don't learn from it all the useful information. It's inspiring. It can be inspiring. Yes So but all the useful videos that you could learn from like how to actually make money from publishing These road to 10k videos don't do that But like all our YouTube videos we have bunch of YouTube videos and then the free training but and then the course Like that's and I again, it's the same message in every video That's why I don't want to make it anymore.  It's easy. Just get into it I like I don't want to talk more about it other than tell people to do it I mean, there's when it makes sense. Yeah, when they're cuz the potion There's nothing more to say information wise to help you make I say the same thing I say how simple it is so easy it is how anyone can do it how you should start doing it It's not one thing I recommend for beginners. It's the same spiel if we keep on making these videos Will it help us?  I hope that makes sense for viewers So let's end the video on that. Let's get the puppy over here. Missy. Come here. Come here. Come on Let's actually why you she's very chill right now. Okay, very chill right now Let's just end it here with the magic emoji of the video The little puppy emoji She pisses everywhere, but she's so super cute. Okay. Bye. Bye. See you in the next video


Hi everyone, I'm incredibly excited to be here. My name is Meil and today we're going to talk a bit about Frontine Infrastructure, which is something I've worked on for the past few years. More specifically, we'll start by discussing what it actually is, then go over its core parts, and finally, we'll get a more abstract discussion about how to be efficient when you're part of a Frontine Infrastructure team, which can be surprisingly tricky. My hope is that by the end of this talk, we'll have a better idea of how to improve the tooling you actually use every day. So the first question we should ask ourselves before going further is what is actually Frontine infrastructure? We all have this picture of infrastructure being maintaining networked edges, Kubernetes clouds, sometimes data centers. So what does it mean in the context of Frontine? Frontine infrastructure is about building the platform that will leverage your developer's strength. It's about giving them the tools to focus on the core proposition of your project. Frontine infrastructure is made up of two equally important pieces, perhaps even three, but we'll come to that later in the abstract part. The first piece is developer experience. How do we make it so that engineers don't have to spend their time tweaking the tooling that we use, be it Webpack, ESlin, Babel, TypeScript, Jest, or any other tool we fancy? How can we let them fix bugs and develop new features as fast as they can? So that's the first piece, but it's not the whole story. An equally important part lies in stability. How can we make sure that Frontine developers don't have to worry about their changes? How can we be confident that the next deploy will work just as well as the previous one? You need to have strong answers to both of these questions because otherwise we'll eventually run into a wall, which is never a great experience. First, let's talk about the developer experience. There's a lot to say about it, but today we are going to focus on three core axes.  Automation is about decreasing the cognitive complexity of developers turning a project, making it very approachable, be it an open source project which often needs external contributors to survive, or a company product which onboardes new developers every year per a single month or weeks, automating processes decreases the amount of knowledge that one has to have before being productive and makes it much easier to evolve procedures over time. To reach this perfect onboarding state, the first rule is to make sure that workflows only require to run as few commands as possible. If installing a repository requires to first set up the database, import the fixtures, build the templates, and finally start the dev server, then why not abstract it under a single init and start command? You can even have a good visual interface to see the various steps that the script is playing out if you want to. The point is it needs to be that simple. There's just no reason nowadays to get working on the product behind the technical implementation of your infrastructure. You shouldn't assume that people will know how to use it. The second rule of automation is that your infra needs to be the source of truth. We have so many great tools today, we should use them. We can enforce a common formatting with pressure, we can validate the semantics of your code with time script, we can check for dangerous patterns with ESLint. My point is that we can and we should automate as much as possible the detection of most problems. First, it makes sure that whatever lands in master is right by your standards, but it also makes it much easier for any new contributor to jump into the code knowing that if anything's wrong, the system will catch it. This slide is an example of what we do in Yarn. We have a dedicated GitHub action that simply runs all the sanity tests we can think of. Some are fairly basic, some are more complex, some are more security checks, some are more linting. Not all of them run every time, only if they are actually relevant to the changes. But in general, the idea is that they can catch a good deal of the problems you might head into while working on your pull requests. And on top of that, they also indicate to you how to feed them. No, that's only the first iteration and we are still working on it. So the next evolution will be to automatically fix the problem as much as possible. For example, in case of conflicts, it might be to run Yarn itself in order to automatically merge them or to automatically fix them. Or it can be to run ESLint to apply the fixes. Anyway, let's continue with Claude and Go. So I used this term to express that we want developers to be able to just jump to the project and be immediately productive. As you can see, it's a direct follow-up to what we discussed with automation, but it definitely goes farther. Where automation means that we want to execute code without user interaction, Claude and Go means that we don't actually want to execute code at home. The ideal project should allow you to start running basic command like build and test as soon as you see into it. And if somebody is missing, it should explicitly tell you how to fix it without you having to read the 10-foot long internal documentation that got outdated three weeks after being written. Interestingly, Claude and Go goes even farther than the code itself because the exact same thing can be said about the editor tooling. Of course, everyone in your company has their favorite editor, but usually you can find a top three and PRP's even the top one in certain cases. Most of those ideas now offer the ability to store project settings directly within the repository. And by leveraging this, you can be sure that everyone's on the same page. Whether you use editor config, creator, ESLint, all those extensions critical to the developer experience can now be configured the same for everyone. Of course, you won't want to store a user settings here like the font of the editor theme, but offer everything absolutely required for a good developer experience. It really makes sense to ship it out of the box. Finally, Claude and Go is something we really took into account when designing YON2. In the past, the workflow when switching from a JavaScript project branch to another was to run YON install to make sure the dependencies were up to date. The problem is that this has a cognitive cost. You don't really want the engineers to have to remember to do this. At the same time, you can't really run it automatically because it's just too slow. Even the fastest installs of a few seconds will still make it a pain to work with it in anything but the simplest workflows. You don't have a few seconds to spare when you're check-outing a new branch. YON2 comes with a solution to this, so I won't get too deep into the specifics here, but the idea that by mirroring your dependencies archives into your repository, you never have to worry about running YON install ever again, even when switching branches. I expect this kind of integrations to become more and more important in the future because something we noticed in computer science is that to make things faster, we sometimes had to make them run in parallel. The same is actually true for developers working on features because by giving them the ability to jump between branches by removing the context switch cost then your developers can capitalize their time efficiently and produce more. Finally, a good developer experience is a lot about the feedback look when it comes to the development itself. How can developers see if their challenges work? You will often be tempted to use pre-commit hooks to run various sanity checks, but if I can give you an advice, do it sparingly. We recently had to disable TypeScript on pre-commit inside our own codebase because it was causing unnecessary slowdowns that prompted engineers to entirely disable pre-commit. Keeping it light makes it actually more likely that early mistakes will be spotted, especially since ideas are now so good at surfacing type errors. As far as the product development goes, I found very important to make sure that the ultra-lowed story works. If product engineers have to refresh the page between each change, they will lose momentum retrieving the state. Speaking of this, the React team unveiled a few months ago a project called React Refresh, which aims to fix most of the long-standing flaws in previous incarnations of ultra-lowed. Next year, integrated it in their offering not too long ago, and the generic webpack plugin is now almost stable, so now is probably a good time to start looking into that. Once the development is done, you will want to see the changes in production before actually deploying them. We want to share it with your project manager, or designers, or cloud maintainers. To do that, you will need a deployment service that supports deploying any branch repeatedly. Thankfully, most providers, like Virtual or Netlify, no support this kind of workflow out of the box. But even if you have your own deployment pipeline, you can still easily implement this kind of logic. The only thing you really need is a way to tell your backend to load the assets based on the branch name. Ashing the name and storing it into a dynamic subdomain is more than enough in most cases without need for more complex stuff. I think we'll stop there for the developer experience part. There are a lot of other areas of improvements we could list, but my goal here was to highlight the main one and show you some easy wins that often go unnoticed. Before we move on to the next point, one last thing I want you to note is that the principles we've discussed here are as important for open-source projects as they are for the company. As maintainers, our role isn't necessarily to write all the pull requests, but rather to put our contributors, which often includes ourselves, in a position where they can easily work on the project without being burdened by all the maintenance aspects of things. Sometimes it can be as simple as just making sure that running yarn tests will actually run the tests. Anyway, let's keep going and discuss about the second pillar of frontend infrastructure, stability. Stability is critical. Its goal is to make you confident. It leads to faster bug fixing because you know that your infrastructure isn't responsible for them, and it makes you sleep easier at night knowing that your fellow teams won't need to page you just because something unexpectedly broke and deploys don't go through anymore. But how do we get there? The first step for a stable infra is a very simple one. Control your dependencies. Don't rely on external ones that can change at any time, and I don't only mean JavaScript dependencies. Take the network. The network is a dependency like any other. If you suddenly lose access to it, your deployments will stop. If your registry loses access to it, same thing. Of course, you can just stop relying on the network, not when so many of our deployments occur in the cloud, but we certainly can decrease its surface. In particular, don't install your packages from external registries. That's a bad idea. They often go down, and when they do, they completely block you unless you are prepared for it. Thankfully, solutions exist. Yarn has this concept of offline mirror to shield against this class of issues, but even if you use something else, you can still use the like of Verdatio to set up a local registry. There's actually a talk about Verdatio at this very conference, and I really recommend you to check it out. So that's for the network. But installs in general are tricky. By Murphy's law, any code that you need to run is a code that will eventually fail. So to be really safe, you need to cut down the amount of code that needs to run. Cutting down installs is a fairly new concept, so there isn't a lot of support yet. Yarn supports it with this zero install mode we talked about, but that's pretty much it at the moment. Still, it's really something you should consider. For production settings where installs are responsible for so much of the CIA time, removing installs altogether brings very significant improvements, both in terms of speed and user experience. And finally, one last piece of advice about dependencies. Don't use native dependencies or any dependencies with post-install scripts, really. Post-install scripts outside of the security aspect of running external code have a high tendency to fail. Sometimes it's a remote URL that gets really limited that actually happened in one of my pipeline not too long ago. Sometimes it's a local library that isn't there. Sometimes it's literally just a Monday and the post-install script isn't made to work on Monday. That's the true story. I talked about how code that runs is a code that fails. This is especially true for post-install scripts that you don't control at all. So be mindful of what you use, try to prefer WebAssembly packages instead of native ones, since they are pre-compiled, and avoid packages with post-install scripts. Stable infrastructure aren't only about deployments. You also need to be sure that your tool chain works, and writing it in TypeScript is a very good way to help in this rigor. It's funny because TypeScript is often found in front-end code nowadays, but I still find a lot of infra scripts written in JS. I don't know if it's because the scripts don't deserve the same level of attention, but I find that too bad, because they're quite critical to the code that we are writing to the product. Something to realize is that you don't actually need to transpile TypeScript into JavaScript before being able to run it. You might have heard about Dino lately, but even going as far, we can already have pretty good solutions in Node World. Babel can add support for executing TypeScript files directly into Node. TSNode can do that as well. And together with the official TypeScript compiler that can type check without transpiling the sources, I think we have all we need to make sure that the code we write for our tool chain doesn't suffer from typos, wrong argument types, missing a ways, and all this class of errors that are already fixed for front-end code. So we talked a lot about specific points we can improve in the infrastructure of many projects. But now we're going to discuss something slightly different, but just as important. How do you know what matters? How do you know what to prioritize? I could go on and on and keep telling you particular pain points that are often true today, but the fact is that the impact of those changes will vary from one project to another. So rather than keep enumerating a fixed list, I think we should now check out how to find our own additional items. And with that, we enter a more abstract part of this talk called monitoring. The idea is simple. There's only so much time in the day and only so many resources to spend on an infrastructure, right? So how do you pick the task that will have the most impact for your team? You also need to measure whether your project actually improved things so that you can iterate and refine your approach of a time. One problem is that infrastructure is hard to measure, really hard. As we previously saw, a good part of the front-end infrastructure is the developer experience. And the developer experience is driven by a loose concept of happiness. And how do you measure happiness? There are a few tricks for that. The first strategy is called passive, because you're waiting to see the data. You aggregate all kinds of objective data points and look for trends that emerge. Two good tools for that are Yarn and Webpack, which both offer hooks allowing you to retrieve accurate usage metrics of a time. The second strategy is active. This time, you directly go to your users and ask them what they think. You can do this as a mass sweep with company-wide points, or you can schedule one-one with your colleague, but the point is you need to go to them. Finally, the first approach is to be reachable. It won't be enough to get your peers' feedback one every bloomin'. You will need to make sure they have the proper channels to share their own ideas. By experience, something that works quite well are GitHub issues. Infrastructure tasks are often long-lived and it can become hard to track progress. Good old-fashioned issues are a good way to let everyone share their problems, avoid them a recurring one, and subscribe to progress on the one they don't care about. I'd like to go over the passive strategy a bit more. What you can see on screen is the number and duration of the type check command runs in the time datalog or every day. We have a Yarn plugin that collects this kind of information and sends it straight to our dashboards. Through this, we get a good sense of what problems the engineers may face, quickly detect regressions, and try edge feedback. We do this together many metrics, which scripts are used, what's the size of the code base, how many ESLIM disabled are there, what's the size of the build, what's its duration. All these automated information gathering helps paint a kind of real-life time picture of our work. So we have found ways to gather metrics, but now there's an important question that we need to answer. Which of them matter? That's a question between you and your users. See, metrics are an insight. They give you a snapshot of data, but the way you will interpret them will be impacted by your users' perception of that. For example, you might think that, let's say, the deploy time is too high because it appears so when you look at the graphs, but when talking to the engineers, you might find out that none of them really see a benefit to bring it down, perhaps because they are doing something else in parallel. And since infrastructure is about making your developer's dream come true, you will have to take it into account into your plan. That's actually what front-end infrastructure is, a repeated cycle of interpret, validate, track. First, you find candidate problems, then you validate them with your users, and then you find a metric that will be impacted by the fix, and you can finally track them. The key is to validate, because without it, you run the risk of working on an idea that you will find useful, but that won't be perceived as such by the people it was supposed to help, which isn't good for anyone. Okay, so I talked a lot, and there are so many things about front-end infrastructure. I think this is only the first of many dyes we could make into the subject. To recap, by investing on developer experience and stability, you get to have a multiplying effect of the teams you support. To do that efficiently, you will need to plan your work ahead. You will need to have a longer vision, while still saying flexible enough to be able to adapt for new OKRs that could appear in your radar. Finally, you will need to make sure that everyone's aware of the value your work will bring once completed. If they aren't, it may be the sign that you haven't communicated well enough, or perhaps that the value just isn't there. It happens, and it's not a big deal. The key is to use that to find out more about what you could do that would have more impact on your users. I hope you like this talk. I've experimented a new approach and first designed the plan using Excalidra, a platform allowing to build graphs with an emphasis on the content rather than the visuals. I will share the plan on Twitter after the talk, so if you forgot to take notes, feel free to join me there. Finally, here are some links that you can look into to find more information about various topics we discussed. I will leave it here for a few seconds so that you can take a screenshot like right now, for example. Yeah, now is the time. I will join you for a Q&A right after, so please feel free to share what you thought of this talk. It's the first time I've done it, so I'm kind of in uncharted territories there, so I would really appreciate having your input. Thanks everyone for listening. Have a great day!


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Right guys, what have we got here top five top five on the list of the NFL's top 100 players in 2022 Jonathan Taylor He's a fan favorite. He's a channel favorite. He's a running back for the Colts He's been in the league for two short years, and he's already top five on the list Absolutely ridiculous need we say more we will don't you worry, but let's get into the video one hour. I have Yeah, Rodgers Jonathan Taylor JT. Uh-uh. I got a I want to I want to redo that. I want to redo that. I want to go with Jonathan Taylor Look, he took his high school statistics straight into college took those statistics and that performance that type of performance straight into the pros and I knew he would I knew he would They wouldn't put a running back no one probably not it's probably be a quarterback, you know But which I'll ask me my pics are picked Jonathan Taylor number one. Hey, I love thing with NFL film Like who your MVP or number one on the NFL top one Gotta get respect to my running back now JT is a complete monster All the culture gonna do is get the ball to number 28 because he was the best in league this year Jonathan Taylor had 1,811 rushing yards over 550 yards more than the next closest player He even scored five touchdowns in one game Yeah, I recall that Is that a record Oh He wasn't meant to get there he wasn't meant to get there, but he did because he's JT He's Jonathan Taylor not to be confused with Jonathan Thurston in the NRL of Australian rugby league, but Certainly, you know making a claim to be just as much of a legend either way. Let's have a look at his stats Born in 1999 how ridiculous is that January 19th 1999 age 23 5 foot 10 26 pounds Wisconsin from 2017 to 19 Where he I'm pretty sure he scored 2,000 yards in a season Might be even more. Let's have a look round number two pick number 41 of the 2020 draft drop down the the ranks a wee bit A wee bit far to be honest. He's a bit like DK Metcalfe the year prior in my opinion Just my opinion He's been at the Colt first team all pro selection in 2021 Pro Bowl selection 2021 NFL rushing yards leader in 2021 NFL rushing touchdowns leader in 2021 the Burt Bella Ward. What on earth is that the wall consists of a trophy? presented to The NFL player of the year by the Maxwell football club established in 1935 to promote safety in the game of American football Okay, look at these stats guys. Oh my god three. Oh, I Remember this three years in Wisconsin 17 he scored 1977 yards 13 touchdowns 18 2194 yards in 16 touchdowns 2019 Just three short years ago 2003 yards and 21 touchdowns That brings us total in 41 career games for Wisconsin to 6174 yards 926 attempts that's averaging 6.7 yards per attempt 50 rushing touchdowns average yards per game 152.1 And he had a few receptions there as well Look guys the only player that comes to mind that has had that kind of career pre NFL is Derek Henry So he came into the league running a 439 40 yard dash, which is absolutely ridiculous 5 foot 10 226 pounds pretty much, you know, I'm gonna say perfect Perfect as a running back 36 inches in the vertical 10 foot 3 on the broad jump 17 reps on the bench. He's Look, I mean look at that speed 439. That's You don't see that often At all. He's played 32 career games in the NFL 2,980 yards in two seasons 29 rushing touchdowns. He's had 76 receptions for 659 total career receiving yards and three receiving touchdowns in 564 rushing attempts. He's fumbled the ball five times. That's less than one in 100 We don't need to worry about that As we heard he led the league in not only attempts with 332 But 1800 and 11 rushing yards and when he has when he has, you know, 250 300 attempts per year You just think you just think, you know, I guess only time will tell how how well his body will will hold up over the next few seasons But he certainly Thrust himself into the spotlight. He has thrust himself into the top five players in the league and and uh, look Five touchdowns in one game. Was that a record? Right. Well, he's got one record at least from weeks four to 11 He compiled 100 plus scrimmage yards and and at least one rushing touchdown in eight consecutive games Which tied for the longest streak in NFL history The only other NFL athlete to do that being ladanian tomlinson and Lydell Mitchell I want to see these five rushing touchdowns in a game In week 11 against the bills here 204 total yards Including 185 rushing yards on 32 attempts It's about six per attempt And five total touchdowns for rushing one receiving in the colts 41 15 win in doing so He broke the colts franchise record for rushing touchdowns in a game as well as total touchdowns in a game So it's a franchise record. It's not an NFL record Let's have a look at that And the record six gale says Of the chicago bears scored six touchdowns during a single game against the san francisco 49ers At chicago's wriggly field Tying the NFL record for most touchdowns in a single game. Now. I do believe gale sears was a was a an olympic athlete I may be wrong, but actually come to think of it elvin kimara did Break the record. I watched that game. I watched it live So him gale sears and dub jones of cleveland Uh are the NFL record holders now We do have an equal fourth between jonathan taylor jamaal charles clinton poor Portis clinton portis. Yep I'm aware of that guy shorn alexander james stewart jerry rice callan winslow paul horning cookie gilch gilchrist It's an interesting name billy canon abner hens jim brown and bob shore. So he's up there with with the absolute Best to be honest and his photo is right there Right there fourth equal on five And then we go down to uh 17th equal And leading the list is none other than lended four net and obviously there'll be a fair few more players with four in a game in fact, there's probably in fact There's over a hundred over a hundred guys have scored at least four touchdowns in a game But only 17 with five or more and jonathan taylor is one. All right Jonathan taylor jumps over the pile This is just marvellous play Jonathan taylor starts out left side cuts up at the five step hard his way into the end zone So he can cut off his left off his right you can do it falls forward He's got the complete package. You got the speed They got great feet and they got the power to run you over He's one of three in the history of pro football To have eight consecutive games of at least one rushing touchdown and a hundred scrimmage yards Hey, boss, you're different.  He's gonna have the speed. Of course he is Look that might be jc jackson, but making that cut I guess two he don't run a four three nine forty out there. It was all we needed to see Bang Latest in the hole Latest the Taylor just makes a miss It's like he wasn't even running full speed like I think like a lot of people don't really understand How fast he really is then he's looking at the sideline to see if he want to go down or not And a guy's on the full speed trying to catch him. He's look like he's barely running He got a lot of speed that I did not know of He was playing the Patriots. They said he reached like 21 22 miles an hour or something. I didn't know he was that fast Kind of work played against us it was I think it was like the first play. He just broke away and I was like, oh gosh I feel like it's gonna be a long day He is so quick He's like it's hard to tackle as Derek Henry is Super big and can run through arm tackles But he has four three speeds crazy Once he gets to the second level, he's gone and now we definitely saw that first hand like I think like the first play We didn't expect him to be Shoot that gap as fast as he did and he did Hands off the Taylor right side full head of steam lowers his shoulder He's down to the two yard line with Nelson pushing him towards the goal line and he's in there You know now I'm not I'm no ironstein, right? I'm no Stephen Hawking, but I'm I'm led to believe that speed equals power You know what I mean at least to a level and look if you've got that kind of speed running at holes with You know arm tackles as they say it they're they're just not going to work He's just going to absolutely blast right through them. I had to play him twice a year To do what he's doing now to having those explosive runs every game is just is this crazy Oh Bit of a stop and go I'm not sure about his his stiff arm. I'm not sure if his I'm not quite sure if his stiff arm is going to be at the level of Derek Henry, but his His ability. Well, is it unmatched in the league? Oh could well be It doesn't go down on first contact Basically sake one isn't it it's sake one a year later We need sake one to be healthy for an entire year And then we'll see then we'll see who's the top running back. That's all I'm going to say So Jonathan Taylor he became my favorite kind of fad You can't give him an opening or else he's going to take it I mean, there was a couple points in that game where we think we got him bottled up And he kind of just slips and slides and it makes it through He almost got through on a touchdown run like near the red zone Just kind of cut using using the field cutting back making it to The of the end zone. I think this year what you're really seeing them is, you know, really good patience Through the whole Leonard open up. I really felt like slowing that that down, but I I won't I mean, there was a lot of footwork there. There was a lot to a sort of um unpack but Maybe next time Jonathan Taylor Oh, he hits it right He's got a clinical Running style too, you know, I I'd love to know what he ran a hundred meter dash in and in fact just before we finish. Let's Let's just check that. I feel like I've seen it before But let's see it again He was an accomplished performer in track and field in his early years He won two state titles in the hundred meter dash the best time being 10.49 seconds now that is at high school 10.49 in high school Is he a 10-2 guy? Is he faster than DK Metcalf?  That's one thing I can say that he got better at You know, he's his vision got better his cuts got better and he's just working on his game 24-7 And that's why he's you know, got a the russian title and you know, hopefully for the years to come they continue to have that I reckon he's gonna be in Yeah, with a pretty good chance to do that Darius or should I say uh, Shaquille either ways guys That was fun in the next one. I did see it before we will confirm Cooper cup that time he had it There he is Cooper cup Number four on the list saving guards leader Super Bowl winner Super Bowl MVP. The list goes on Cooper cup Your next mate. Thank you so much for watching guys head down into the description box below to check out various ways He can support the channel This is fun for me But it is a mission and at the end of the day a like goes a hell of a long way So like the video if you have enjoyed it. Um And uh, yeah What else is there to say Cooper cup?