Hi Pak. Welcome back. Welcome to 2024. I'm loving it. Hope you're all having a great year so far. I hope you've enjoyed your holidays and the very beginning few weeks to the new year. We've missed you. It's been so long, but we're very happy to see you in the new year. And we also want to start by saying thank you for a wonderful 2023. We love our community so much and we had such a great year with all of you. We hope you enjoy coming along for our journey. This year is going to be super fun. We're making this video to tell you how we're doing. Recap the year and get you excited about what's to come for this year ahead. We have some big changes on the horizon. Also, yeah, we are just on a random island. And we're not the cabin. And when we go through all of what we want to talk to you about, all of this will make sense of where we are and why we're here and everything. And this is kind of a hint as to why we're doing this video because you probably didn't expect this. So expect the unexpected and we have a lot to share with you. The conversation we're about to have with all of you is something that Crystal and I are having probably every single day for the last year. Yes, you're going to get in our heads for a couple of minutes here and get right into everything we're thinking about and get amped up for the year just as we are 2023. It was an amazing year. We don't want to just skip ahead and start talking about 2024 right off the hop. Let's just go back and reflect on so much of what happened last year. It really was a transformational year, especially at the cabin. This past year was the year the cabin was no longer a construction zone and it truly became a home somewhere where we actually could recharge our batteries and not look at a million and one projects. And yes, I know the beams aren't finished everyone, but that is much more relaxing than figuring out how I'm going to get power, water, or heat. I get honestly emotional even just saying that I allowed the cabin and home in the same sentence.  And I know it has a nice place in all of your hearts as well because we're constantly getting that comment that you've really transformed a hunt camp to a home now girls. Home. Home on the range. I want to hit you with the numbers and the facts because once we actually realized and reflected, which felt really good because it hit me. I had no idea. We've posted 43 videos on the van lives main channel and 12 videos on the pack chat podcast channel. We'll talk about the pack chat soon. Don't worry. So just a reminder, there are 52 weeks in a year and we posted 55 weeks of content. That's a lot. It's more than a video week. And I'm so happy we did it. I love it. I feel like we were able to really show all of you who we are with the pack chat because we're sitting down talking for an hour and in our videos more than ever before as well, showing the real ups and the real downs and bringing you along for so many different pieces of our life this past year and connecting with you on a whole new level. Yeah. From just having coffee together to Bella and Izzy going to surgery from building huge projects this year and just hanging out.  We also dropped the pack merch, which is so exciting and even more exciting because all of you are getting it right now and we love receiving the photos and the videos of you all wearing it and hearing that you are super impressed with the quality and the design. So thank you all for supporting us from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you. We have bullet points right now everyone. So we don't miss anything because we really want you to be in on the convo. You know, I think it's just going to make more sense if you're in on it. Yes, it's a good way to start the year. So much of what 2023 was and all of what 2024 will be is because of everything we experienced in the last few years at the cabin. When we first got to the cabin, the first year or two, we honestly really had blinders and we were so focused on getting to the point where we could be comfortable and have things like electricity and water. Yeah. So it's like just the point perspective, blinders. All I saw was cabin built, built, built, built, built, built, built, built, built, built, built, not a science guy. Which was so good and so important. A huge thank you to the sponsor of this week's video, BetterHelp. This year a lot like last year, we are focusing on communication as individuals and in our relationship and we are working on balance. So much of that goal is possible because of therapy.  It has made me a better person, more patient and less reactionary. Reactive. Reactive. You don't match with your therapist right away at the beginning and that's what's so great about BetterHelp is you can constantly change your therapist until you find the fit because there's nothing better than feeling safe in a therapy session. You can do video, you can just do a phone call, whatever you're comfortable with and also messaging your therapist works as well. It's that simple. So there's three ways. Whatever is comfortable for you? I personally like video. I did start out as a phone call though. I think it's easier. It's obviously very intimidating going into your first therapy session, but it's 100% worth it. I think that's the hardest part. If you're scared to start therapy, we were also scared. I feel like each and every year therapy becomes more a topic of conversation and becomes more relevant in everyone's lives and BetterHelp is offering 10% to our viewers. You can click the link in the description or head to betterhelp.com forward slash van wise for 10% off your first month of therapy. But last year finally achieving... Wait, wait, wait. You're skipping ahead. We've been there for three years. Year two. Okay, Blunder. So I'm a very visual person. Yes. Year one, year two. We opened up a bit and we were able to see beyond the cabin just a little bit and that was very nice. And probably very healthy for our own relationship and just overall, yeah, way better for your mental health when you just aren't so fixated on one thing, you know? Balance. We started to reintroduce balance into our life and then this third year, 2023, we opened up and we were able to see... We were flying away. I just spit. We were able to see the world again. We had such balance. I feel like we spent time with our friends and family. We were able to produce better videos. We were able to get more creative and we were able to do bigger and better projects because we could see more clearly. Yeah, it's wild. What modern-day amenities will give you, even though they're off-grid modern-day amenities, they still gave us just a little bit more comfort so we could do other things, you know? It gave us a little bit of security, a little bit of stability and peace of mind. And I can't begin to explain how thankful we are for all of the knowledge and all of the help all of you have given us. We've learned so much from you. We've said this before, but everything that you comment really helped us get to where we are today. We've learned an immense amount of skills from you all. So thank you. 2023 is the year of home. Finding home. A place to recharge. How many times have we said home in this video so far? Home. Home on the range. Little update on how we're doing as individuals. How are all you doing as well? How are you doing? Let us know in the comments. Let us know, yes. How are you today? How is your year? What are you looking forward to in 2024? I know like New Year's can be like a little, you know, people make goals and stuff. It's a lot of pressure sometimes. Yeah. Or like New Year's resolutions. I don't do that. I just kind of make like an intention of like how I want to be as a human being on this earth, you know? Yeah. And like what we want to do. We're not very, I don't have a resolution. We're not very goal people. Goal. Goal oriented. Goal. Yeah. I think it's just like to do your best every day and do who you are and do what makes you happy. And just being honest. So we're going to be honest with how we're doing. Vulnerability. Yeah. So how is this year for you, Crystal? This past year I had the most balance I've had in my life in a long time. And I think that's something that we both actively tried to work towards each day. I don't think we always achieved it. And that's a good reminder for all of you.  But overall, when I look back, I feel like we did this. Yeah. And I think that's important. I think if you fix it on every single day or just week by week, you'll never really see the bigger picture. But by looking at it over a year, I think that's when you really like you see something and it all kind of makes sense more instead of just focusing on day by day. I think when we are working, working, working, working, working at the cabin, I didn't even think about the end goal sometimes because I was so in the moment of like just go, go, go, go, go. And now it's like you look and you're like, wow, we have a beautiful place to rest our heads at night and a place to wake up and make coffee and that's special place to host people, which is unreal. And I love it. I feel like also our relationship is thriving. I feel like we're doing better than we ever have because of that balance, because of that communication, because of therapy, because of all the things that we've been working towards. And yeah, I just am so proud. I know you're hot, but you're getting a hug. No, it's fine. I'm sweating, but I love you. I love you too. Yeah. And it's not to say it's always perfect. You know, we have ups and downs. Absolutely not. We're on year seven now everyone. And I feel like year seven is just a lucky number. You know, I don't know. I feel like year seven, you really, you really get to know a person by then. I'm sure if you've been married for 40 years, you're going to laugh at me. But you know what I'm saying? You know, I would also say we're very, very happy and grateful for our job, for our YouTube channel. We love this space. We love sharing. I know a lot of people have been really concerned where, where we took off to for a few weeks. You watched the end of the video though, everyone, our last video, we said, we'll see you in the new year. Sometime in the new year. And the reason we didn't give a date is because we honestly didn't know a date. We've been on a lot of adventures the past few weeks where when we haven't been online and everyone's been like, where are you? We have no service. Are you coming back? Did you abandon the channel? Never. We will always talk to you and be open with you. And that's part of the reason why we had to make this video. We are not abandoning the channel. We're not disappearing. We're not abandoning the cabin. We're not abandoning anything. We will always come back and we signed and sealed y'all. We always take a break if you're new around here at this time of year in between the holidays at the beginning of January for a few weeks, not only to recalibrate, to reflect, but to plan all of the most amazing, exciting things for the year ahead. But most importantly, also to spend time with friends and family because we live 18 hours away from them. And what we've learned more than ever is rest equals creativity. And we've really had a great few weeks to plan. And although everything's very loose and we're not big planners, it is very important to have some sort of idea of what we want to be doing this year. And I cannot wait to talk to you all about that. But thank you for being patient with us and we're happy to be back. I have to like actually I think I might have to read this because I get crazy. There was a lot that happened in 2023. We broke this into categories basically of what happened this year. We basically finished the interior of the cabin. The walls have been all shiplapped. We learned how to drywall, micro cement. We now have a kitchen. We have a living room. We stayed our first ever winter at the cabin, experienced a polar vortex. A big thing that we are really proud of is that we tried new things. That meaning we went hot tent camping and truck camping, as well as all the new things that we learned with building. We met up with ambition strikes. And although we didn't try roofing for the first time, we did it again.  And I have to say I want to put them under the tried new things because they honestly, with talking with them, opened up a horizon of different things to do. It just was super nice to connect. Yeah. It was a very inspiring experience. And I hope that this year can bring, you know, new people into our lives. It was a great time. Yeah. I love to- Wappy baby Oliver. My favorite baby. Story of family and friends. We opened up the most in a Q&A and I'll link it right here if you want to know all of our dirty little secrets. Good for you for talking about that. I might cry now. And in our podcast, we got electricity. We also feel like a lot of the big jobs that we finish were because all of our beloved Clementine. Oh my darling. Oh my darling Clementine. Without Clem, I don't think half the things would have got done due to the fact of Clementine speeding up everything from just moving materials to I just love Clementine. That's all I gotta say. Now let's go speed round here. Huge, these are the huge projects everyone. Ready? Go. Window installation, siding, the spa, the outdoor shower, drainage for the whole yard. We landscaped, started the greenhouse and the garden. We found three ways to heat. We built a woodshed and we gave the garage a makeover. And that's how everything came together. 20, 24. That's the title of this part.  What's to come? What is to come? Nailed it. All right. Well, first of all, we're going to tell you everything that we wish for this year. First of all, health, happiness, all those beautiful things for everyone. I think that's number one priority. The number one thing, of course. Because without it, we're not here. Yes. But we do have big plans for the year. We are so excited to tell you a little bit of what we have going on. I don't want to give it all away. First of all, take everything we say the grain of salt. We're sitting here on this beach. We weren't planning to be here. This was not planned. And here we are. Our slogan for this year is what, Crystal? What? You said it and you don't want to show. That's why I can't say it. Expect it, expect it. Oh yeah. Expect the unexpected. And once you said that to me, I said, Crystal, did you watch Big Brother? Because that is their slogan. So we're not taking it. Don't want us to feel like I'm ripping it off. But honestly, I've never watched it. She's never watched it. That's the best way to describe this year is we just want you all to expect the unexpected. And we might be at the cabin, we might be at the bandit cabin, or we might be somewhere in the world. We are starting something new, a huge project. Hint, hint, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. We are excited to do a little bit of everything. We plan to spend a lot of time at the cabin. We plan to spend a lot of time in new places with new people, challenging ourselves to do new things. And we want to prepare you for that. So you know that if we're not at the cabin, it doesn't mean we've sold it. It doesn't mean we're not coming back. We will always be at the cabin. We love the cabin. We built it with our own two hands, as you know. And we just love alternative living. We want to get back to our roots too. You know, long before cabin life, we were living in a van. Long before van life, we were living in a car. Honda. And a long before car life, we were living in a tent. So I think we just want to... We are more than just the cabin girls or the van life girls. We are a spectrum of things, just like all of you are. And we really want to just dive into those passion projects. No matter what we do in life, no matter where we go, we are bringing you with us. And we want you to know that. And that is so special. And I cannot wait to show you what we've been out to. And I think it's even more exciting for all of you because you're not even going to know what's going to happen. Every week you're going to be like, wow, what are the girls doing now? Yes. I think that's quite fun. And I think... I like surprise boxes as a kid. Begs. I like surprise bags too. We want to get started at the abandoned cabin, whether that's building a new cabin for it or something up in a tree or... On a lake. So we have these ideas that are spring in our heads. That's the type of stuff you're going to experience. And a little bit of this. And a little bit of that. And a little bit of that. And a little bit of this cabin. And it's just going to be exciting. Let's get into the weekly schedule, everyone. We have been weekly since we started YouTube, which was... Four years ago. Four years we've been posting weekly content. Yes. Hello, everyone. I'm Crystal. I'm Jazz. We are The Van Wives. And it's been the best experience. And I still want to do it. And we're still going to do weekly. However... Some months you may see us for weeks. Sometimes you may see us for three weeks. And that is because simply and what we discovered last year is our projects are getting bigger. And sometimes building an entire woodshed, trying to film it and do all of the background work and produce that in one week. And just drinking water. We can have water in the week. It can be a lot for one week. So sometimes when we have larger projects... Like building a complete woodshed. We would probably try to do that in two weeks. And we may be able to do it better. And we may be able to do things. I don't know. That woodshed's perf. Yeah. But I'm just saying like... Other projects. Yeah. We may be able to get more creative. And we may be able to do even better things or more exciting things. Or just have a little bit more time for rest. Who knows. But our goal is to work at a more realistic pace. If we have a big project. Give ourselves time to do it. So that way we actually can experience that. Like if we want to do something really cool down at the lake. I want to be able to fully capture it and make it feel like you're there with us. And not be scrambling just to like finish it just because the Sunday is coming up. And we're telling you all of this so you don't worry where we're at. Just know we will always show up Sunday for you all. Of course. You know what I mean? Our philosophy on... I don't know if that's a thing. But our philosophy on our channel is that we like quality over quantity. I think that's one of the most important things. I want to be proud of what I'm putting out. And I can say I was actually very proud of all the videos. Mine is the siding videos. I feel like that was just a... I'm just kidding. You didn't laugh at that. So I'm not putting that in. No I was laughing. Okay guys. It was funny. Mine is the siding videos you know. Like that was just a... I was a headache. And that's what I reflect on. I would have actually done the siding and made a video about it. Like two to three videos. Not six. It did take us so long to get through. It was harder. And part of the stress of like the blue skin like behind the scenes now. Part of the stress of the blue skin like wasn't sticking is because we were like Sundays coming up. We've literally put on one piece of blue skin. I can't just put up this video. All I know is that after that experience we really did reflect and said to ourselves like we were kind of rushing to get it out and we could have just taken our time. And I think that's important. Yeah. So that's all I have to say. That's what we've learned about balance. And what Krista was saying how our videos are different now is we're no longer just shooting our van life morning routine in Mexico. And our videos now take five days to film and do the actual project which is construction. It's hard on our bodies. Like that doesn't account for picking up the material doing the research before of how to build it. We like to build things proper. When it came to like our morning routine in Mexico we were chopping up a pie jumping in the ocean and going for a walk maybe seeing a waterfall now. No not a waterfall. That's that's even stretching it. Whatever. That's a day in the life. But like nowadays we will always include those things. We still want to show our morning you know show what we're doing in between projects. But the reality is now is there is a bigger workload than there ever has been before. And we want to keep it that way because we enjoy that. It's not just it's cutting papaya or making coffee but also building a word chat. But also building a word chat. Right it's double. Yeah. Yeah I just think 40 like however many videos we posted in this year just on the main channel I really think shows like how dedicated we are. And another thing that I've been thinking about and I've talked to other YouTubers about is sometimes when YouTubers go down in videos it's because tragedy has happened. And I just don't want the reason that I have to like how do I say this. We don't want the reason that we slow down or that we stop making videos is because we get to the point of burnout or we get to the point where it becomes hard or we don't want to produce as many videos. We're resenting things. That's simply not the case right now and we are one so grateful for that. But two we do really just want to we are really focusing on balance. And we are doing that now before it's too late or before it does get to a point where it's too hard. You're like why did I why did I do all of this and like not you know like not do this or not take care of yourself or not spend time with your Grammy or not do this or this or this. Life is very short it is very precious and we don't want to forget that. And I feel like this year I had one goal and that was to reconnect with my friends and my family and I've spent more time. No it's good I'm gonna cry too. It's like that's why I think this year is like one of the best years of my life is because I was able to see my friends my family 10 times more. Yeah and that is such an amazing feeling and I am so so grateful I was able to reconnect with so many. These are happy tears by the way. My friends and my family so I want to continue on that path because it's so important. Yeah I just think it would it just brought me so much happiness seeing so many people so many times. My grandma was out here for the first time at the not here at the cabin for the first time and I honestly think that weekend like made my life so yeah. Anyways happy tears. Always see your loved ones it's the most important thing in life. Oh what is this helping with this word? It's um help me. It's like what do you why you take like your vitamin stuff it's a preventative. I try to be preventative so other things don't happen. Prevent burnout. Prevent obviously you can't prevent everything in life like life could have a completely different ball they're gonna throw us this this year but I think with rest and I think with balance you're able to react to these things that ball and catch that ball you know and with the back so anyway she's fired up. Yeah so thank you all so much for being a part of the pack and showing up every Sunday. Without you yeah it just wouldn't be possible. It still blows my mind that we have all of you you know like I just yeah wow Sundays are like absolute favorite and cabin life would not be the same without all of you. No not at all life wouldn't be the same without all of you. No so thank you for being in it. Thank you. We really appreciate all of you I hope you're as excited as I was as a nine-year-old kid going into the convenience store and getting a surprise bag. Expect the unexpected. Boom love y'all. Hit it Bella love you all bye back ciao. Our podcast we almost forgot entirely to address the fact that we posted 12 episodes and it was a place for us to open up and share with you on a whole new level which we loved everyone's wondering where did it go is it coming back one day absolutely. We really enjoyed doing the last 12 episodes I feel like it was such a gift to open up and be so vulnerable and let you know certain things about us that we just don't share on our YouTube channel. One episode was taking many many hours each week. Probably over 10 hours just like the behind the scenes it's not just like you sit there record and it gets offloaded it is like a 10 hour a week I would say for one episode yeah we're saying that not because we're complaining because it was honestly such an amazing thing and I still wanted podcast one day I just think it will look a little bit differently it's that it was taking away from our main channel and our building and also which is our main focus yeah van wise will always be our main focus I think like you just have to nurture your first baby which is van wives forever and that's what allows us to have a podcast is this channel so and when we have the time and the passion to start it back up we will and you will know if you're subscribed to the channel and you hit the bell you'll know we'll also announce it on our main channel or leave it in the pin comment always check the pin comment and it'll come back one day just not right now and YouTube is something I want to do until I'm 90 if you all want to still watch me and I just think that YouTube is a marathon not a sprint and the more we fill our cups up just like anyone the more time you fill up your cups the longer you can do something and that's my overall goal yeah also it can look different maybe it won't be weekly maybe it'll be a different schedule there's yeah there's a way to figure it out or there's a way to make it that's less structured we can find yeah formula that works for us it was fun yeah it was a lot of fun and it just is going to look different no matter where it is I don't want to give too much away we have some ideas on how it's going to look and I'm really excited to share that but just know the pack chat channel will not be going anywhere anyways we're over now we're constantly brainstorming and thinking on how to do it


Welcome to CSS Podcast, where we cover all things CSS from accessibility to Z-index. Since we last talked about color in episode 6 and the future of web color in episode 7, there's been a few changes to the next level color specs, and we want to update you all on where they're at. So we'll talk about expanded color spaces and color functions in this episode. Some you can try out in tech previews, some are more experimental, but all of them are super exciting for the web platform. Yes, those episodes were two years ago, which we all know in tech years. It's like a decade, and we don't want you to be left behind in the 5% lightness. Get the joke, it's a CSS joke. Anyway, it's totally worth a review if it's been a minute for you. You know, and go check those out. They're all about color perception and syntax. So let's start with what we shared in those episodes that has been changed. What did we get wrong or share too early, Yuna? Well, two new color spaces have been added since. There is now OK Lab and OK LCH. These color spaces are pretty much 95% the same as Lab and LCH, but they've been created with special adjustments to the blue spaces so that gradients and interpolations inside these spaces stay within the perceptual hue better. Or one could say that LCH and Lab poorly transition from blue to white. They kind of go purple in the middle. So these new color functions OK Lab and OK LCH, they don't. They transition a bit more true to perceptual color from blue to white. Yep, excellent recap. Gray has also been removed. So there was a function called gray, G-R-A-Y. You'd pass a percentage inside of there, and it was essentially a convenience function for accessing grays from a perceptually linear space like LCH. And the way forward is just use LCH, like LCH, open parentheses, 50%. I feel like perceptual is one of those words like specificity that's hard to say. Perceptually linear. What reminds me of Point Pleasant Police Department? Have you seen that skit? No. Oh, they just exclusively. Excited to be after. I will. They talk in all words to start the letter P and they do it while they're eating food and they're just like spitting on each other while they talk about things and it's very funny. It's an SNL skit. Nice. Worth the time. OK, well, let's talk about color manipulation now. There's been some stabilization around color functions and color manipulation that's really exciting and can even be tried in browsers like you know saying with some experimental flags turned on or poly-filled with preprocessors. What's the first one you want to talk about here, Yuna? Well, let's talk about color mix. Color mix is awesome for mixing colors together just like it sounds. You can mix in black and white if you like, or you can mix two colors together like hot pink and Rebecca purple. It works as simply as using the color mix function and the imprentices stating the colors that you want to mix. So color mix, it's color dash mix and the imprentices white comma red would equally mix white and red together in the LCH color space. It could also be written explicitly without shorthands or default parameters clearly articulating the color space that the function should keep 50% of the white in and 50% of the red in the mix. So you could write color mix and then imprentices in LCH comma white 50% comma red space 50% and then close parentheses. So you could also state the color space and you have flexibility there with the available color spaces. Nice, and color mix can also scale up to complex cases like mixing colors with alpha, mixing colors in custom color spaces and much more. And as a final syntax tip with this color mix function, we've mentioned the percentages that can be passed with each color. This percentage says how dominant that color should be while mixing or rather how much of this color should make its way into the final result. And you don't have to specify the percentage for both colors. If you emit the percentage for one of the colors, it'll automatically be assigned the remainder of the weight. So here's an example of that with color dash mix open up parentheses white space 25% comma red. Now the mixed result is more red than white because we said that white is 20% of the mix. Red is then assigned 75% to total the two mixed colors to 100%. So here's another example kind of reversing it. We have color dash mix open up parentheses white comma red space 25%. Now the mixed result is more white as it's now 75% of the mix. Nice. So there's also a function called color adjust. And if you've been reading early versions of the spec, it's worth noting that this function color adjust has been removed. However, there is the relative color syntax that has all of the same features and even more. So the relative color syntax isn't a function, but it is a way to create a color from another one, which when it comes down to it is pretty similar to adjusting colors. So the basic syntax is say you wanted to work in the LCH color space, you can say LCH and then parentheses from space red space L space C space H. This creates a new color in the LCH space from red and returns the LC and H values for use in calc if you wanted to make any adjustments. Yes. So here's a relative change to the lightness of red using the relative color syntax. We say LCH open up parentheses from space red space calc L minus 20% space C space H. So this returns a new red color that's 20% lighter where the lightness adjustment was done in the perceptually linear space of LCH. So it's relative change because we took the current lightness, which is stashed in that L value and subtracted 20% using a calc. So here's another example, though, that's an absolute change where we're not going to use calc. We're just going to change one of the channel values. So I'll say LCH open parentheses from space red space 20% space C space H. This creates a new dark red color by setting lightness to 20%. It's not a calculation. It's just a reassignment, which is what makes this an absolute change to the color and not a relative one. Nice. So speaking of reassignment, so far we've only worked inside of LCH. But there is a classic use case when working with color and CSS, and that is somebody wanting to add alpha transparency to an existing color value. You might have a color value in your theme colors, and now you want to add some opacity to it and not have to use the opacity property for the entire element. Because that doesn't always make sense. You often want it just on the color value. So you can use this relative color syntax to do that. And let's do an RGB example since we've been working on LCH. Say you want to do RGB. You would have RGB and then parentheses from space red. That's the color that you're working in. And then you would specify RGB with spaces in between. And then you would add a slash and 50% and then close the parentheses. So this would create a new 50% transparent red from that hex color. And it creates a new color that gives an initially opaque value, this initially opaque red color, some transparency to that 50% red. So that use case is solved by using this syntax. Yep, I cannot wait for that. That is going to be really nice because it seems like we always get opaque colors from a design system. And there's always these edge cases where you're like, oh, but I want it 25% here. Maybe I want it in a box shadow and boom, relative color syntax for the win. Yes. There is so much more to talk about in this syntax. But here's another fun use case before we go. I'm going to work in LCH again. So I'll say LCH, open parentheses from space blue. So remember where we're saying blue here can be any color in any format. The starting function that we call LCH is the type of color that we're going to return. But we can work with any color inside of there. So we can pull a color from those. Anyway, so I want to say LCH from blue, calc L plus 60% space C space H. So this creates a new light blue color that's 60% lighter, where 60% is a healthy average amount of perceptual lightness change to pass Wicked2. So you can use this like a pseudo color contrast function. Speaking of which, Yuna, tell us about the color contrast function. Someone say color contrast? The color contrast function was in the color level 5 spec. But due to some concerns with the Wicked2 algorithm and changes, it has been moved to color level 6. So for now, since it's not stable and Adam's been working on a couple of adjustments to it, we'll just share with you the high level features that this is going for, so you can know that it's on the horizon. In fact, you can try out an early version of this function in Safari Tech Preview by enabling flags in Safari TP. And Adam's made a few demos with it, which we will include as links in the show notes. So color contrast wants to help authors meet accessibility criteria without having to analyze every single color decision themselves. It does that for you. And this could be around text legibility, like ensuring double A or triple A contrast ratios are met. And there are even more contrast algorithms that it could potentially adapt to. But it's also helping interfaces adapt to user preferences or just create color schemes with appropriate contrast more easily. And usage will look something like this. This isn't the final syntax, but it's just the general intent. So it might look like contrast color or color contrast. We've been discussing what the name would be. So say it's contrast color and then in parentheses, you would have a color value versus a color list. So that might be white versus blue, comma dark blue, comma light blue. And now you're specifying what you're contrasting against. So that first color would be the parameter and it could be like a background. Depending on where you're using this, you might be using it on text, you might be using it on a background. You state the color value and then the color list. It is also in the spec right now an option to include the contrast ratio. So you could set the actual ratio that you wanna contrast it by, that might change, there might be auto values. Again, this is very much a work in progress, a lot of discussion about it right now, but the intent is for the browser to really give you the user an easier way to set contrast ratios, to set accessible colors and to build your interfaces to be accessible by default. Yep, and it has, it's gone through a few phases and I think it's super cool and I can't wait for it, but I appreciate the amount of churn that's happening on it right now. But it has a couple of features to figure out before it's ready to prototype with again. And one feature is there's a WCAG3 color contrast requirement that's getting worked on. Maybe you've heard a bit before. And so there's competing more modern methods for what is color contrast. Like for example, WCAG2 doesn't do anything with opacity. You can pass in and compare two colors that are 0.1 opaque. So they're like hardly visible colors and the color contrast of WCAG2.0 just compares those colors as if they had no opacity. So it's not necessarily trustworthy in those scenarios. And it's unlikely, but maybe this function could work with gradients too. Like if you pass a gradient as the background color, could it find what color passes the target ratio on top of that gradient? So we have like contrast strategies. We have opacity and we have gradients and probably a couple other little things in there to work out before this function really is hardened and ready for production. Yeah, that was a lot of color talk, but thank you for sticking with us. It is some really exciting stuff coming down the pipeline on the horizon for CSS. And I'm really excited about it. We will keep you informed as things change and as things land. Absolutely, I'm stoked on it too. And if you have any questions about color or color functions, we'd love to hear what they are and answer them on the show. Just tweet us with the hashtag, CSS podcast. Follow us online for more about color as things are changing, more info, more demos, more landings. You can find me at yuna at UNA on the Twitters. I'm on Twitter at argilink, A-R-G-Y-L-E-I-N-K. Your question, it could help a lot of people. And if you liked this show, follow along. Give us a review on whatever podcast app you're using or share our podcast with a friend or coworker. 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أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسب الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة وسلام على أشرف الأنبياء وعز المرسلين حبيب إله العالمين أب القاسم المصطفى محمد وعلى البيته الطيبين الطاهرين المنتجبين واللعن الدائم على أعدائهم أجمعين من الآن إلى قيام يوم الدين آمين رب العالمين قد الله تعالى في محكم كتابه الكريم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وعبد ربك حتى يأتيك اليقين صدق الله العلي العظيم أبدأ في نام الله أخبار المرسل أي���ه الأ formulas being to him everlasting and the omniscient years I begin in his sacred an exalted and glorified name. And I begin by sending also my peace and blessings upon Muhammad and his holy household and the everlasting damnation upon the enemies of Muhammad. And other Muhammad Ameen رب العالمين العالمين. And then I begin by sending my greetings upon you, my dear brothers and sisters from wherever you may be watching us today. And I congratulate you all and I congratulate the entire Islamic Umm as a whole on the auspicious occasion that marks the birth of Sahiba الأمر أمام الزمان المهدي المنتظر الموعود حجة الله على خلقه الخليفة الشرعيه the Imam the 12th rightly guided Imam the 12th rightly guided خليفة كالف peace and blessings be upon him I congratulate you all on the birth of his Eminence المهدي و ابن الحسن العسكري فاطمي العلوي the sacred night of شعبان on the 15th of شعبان to be exact was when الله سبحانه وتعالى final خليفة the ninth from the children of Hussein ابن علي peace and blessings be upon him was born on a day like the 15th of شعبان and I pray that all of you in شاء الله were able to revive the عمل of شعبان were able to revive the عمل and the deeds of the sacred day and may Allah سبحانه وتعالى keep us in شاء الله for next year so that we may be able to revive these sacred nights with our family and friends and may we be granted the visitation of the Imam in this world and the hereafter his intercession in the hereafter my dear brothers and sisters I begin by quoting the verse in صورة الحج verse 99 الله سبحانه وتعالى said and worship your lord until you attain the يقين the certainty صدق الله العلي العظيم my dear brothers and sisters today's topic of discussion شاء الله depending on our enemy which is time but in a not of course time is not an enemy because time is a مخلوق it is created by Allah سبحانه وتعالى but in the case of when it comes to these topics we are very limited when it comes to our time and we want to be able to get to you to get to the fruits of our discussion in شاء الله tonight's topic is deemed and is called the traditions concerning the مهدي amongst the Muslims we'll be looking at a couple of things إن شاء الله we'll be looking for example depending on our time of course the عقيدة of المهدي in the books of the Muslims و بالخصوص explicitly looking at the عقيدة of the مهدي in what in the books of اهد الخلاف the non-شيعة because amongst us the شيعة there is a consensus amongst our شيعة 12 or شيعة concerning المهدي المنتظر the majority of all the شيعة there's not a single 12 or شيعي today we'll tell you that we do not have belief in المهدي المنتظر and that he was born and that he is in غيبة and that he will appear everything that the شيعة believe in is مطابق it is parallel to what the Prophet صلى الله عليه و أعالي prophesies and the Quran spoke of we will be looking at the traditions of the Muslims as a whole the عقيدة of the مهدي is it an عقيدة or not we will discover that the حديث concerning the مهدي are more than what i can even begin to narrate begin to explain begin to fathom and we will discover some some testimonies for example from some of the most staunch scholars of اهل السن اهل الخلاف concerning how the عقيدة can be taken from the the the صحيح حديث even if the صحيح حديث is not متواتر and we will discuss briefly what تواتر means as well the definition of تواتر because today some people come and they begin to say well you believe in the مهدي it's not in the Quran how can you believe in the مهدي and unfortunately because we lack the discussion because we lack the background we tend to cower and and either walk away or use the wrong argument for our brothers and sisters of the other schools of thought my dear brothers and sisters the basis that i began and i wanted to begin this topic my انتودي is the ayah and the Quran and i will refer to it insha'Allah my dear brothers and sisters there is a topic when in islam there's a discussion in islam concerning what is called استقرار النافس استقرار النافس which is can be which can be translated استقرار is is the stability استقرار in english is referred to as stability or when you say استقر الماء مثلا على طاولة for example we say the water has subsided and has remained still on the table so pretend for example that you were pouring water on the table until the water began to overfill and the water began to fall over the table until the water reached a point of standstill where it no longer is falling over the edges and it has reached his capacity it has taken up the volume of the table or the surface area of the table the water has reached a point of استقرار and نفس as you know is usually referred to as the self or the soul استقرار why is استقرار النافس very important my dear brothers and sisters as we live in a world which there is many turmoil we live in a world where there is turmoil we live in a world where there is terrorism we live in a world where we are dealt affliction and trials pains and suffering and recently of course we have been been tested by this affliction and this trial which is this virus that is plaguing our homes a microscopic entity that the naked eye cannot see is bringing about fear and anxiety and other feelings and emotions to man to the human being استقرار النافس is a goal in which all of us wish to attain استقرار النافس means the stability of the self and استقرار النافس the stability of your very soul not just your physical soul by the way when we speak about استقرار النافس yes the definition we say the stability of the self or the stability of the soul it could be pertaining to for example the inner soul but no استقرار النافس deals with the physical and the metaphysical it deals with your physical body your embodiment and the spirit because when there is an equilibrium between your body and between your soul and your body and soul have stability then when trials are dealt trials are dealt in a different way why do i say this استقرار النافس means this it means that excuse me استقرار النافس means for example i have some examples here for you that when let's say you are dealt with troubles an affliction loss maybe wealth for example you were hit or in case of our loved ones for example now being afflicted and our friends and family and neighbors استقرار النافس means that when that news that usually could shake your very core having that يقين and that stability and that عقيدة when your عقيدة is strong when things come your way it will not shake your very core you'll remain stable because you have you have a connection with الله سبحانه وتعالى you have a strong connection with الله سبحانه وتعالى and all that comes from your way from to you you have توقل الله سبحانه وتعالى you have said الحمد لله for whatever may come your way we see i have here written having يقين in all its definition possessing توقل توقل perfect trust in الله and only when man will feel that she or he is victorious is in this matter when you are dealt with a مصيبة you say الحمد لله you say الحمد لله thank god and you do not begin to blame god for your trials and afflictions this is my dear brothers and sisters what استقرار النافس is and استقرار النافس is deeply intertwined and deeply connected with يقين and in order to reach يقين we find that معرفة for example constant knowledge prayer supplication دعاء all of these positive traits of man all of those which can be classified as جنود العقل the soldiers of the intellect which are completely opposite of جنود الجهل the soldiers of ignorance in which يم عليهم السلام peace be upon them in كتاب الكافي for example go back to الكتاب العقل والجهل the beginning before كتاب العلم and كتاب الكافي you'll find the Imam less these جنود these soldiers traits like الإحسان for example being good and showing favor traits like الخير being being somebody who gives خير and who does خير prayer and supplication and all these other things anything that brings us closer to الله سبحانه وتعالى is a way for us to what to branch and to sorry it is a way for us to to ascend towards a higher level of يقين and the higher our يقين is the better our استقرار is we reach a point of equilibrium we reach a point where for example you can take an irregular heart beat as an example an irregular heart beat is one that does not have استقرار and slowly as the heartbeat begins to come and the intervals which I believe they're called the HRV the HRV which is a very today for example they say that your HRV is a better indication of your health than your heart rate is the intervals between the wavelengths when they become when they become larger and your heart rate slows down you have that stability you begin to see that stability in your heart and that is to constant other supplication إحسان towards your parents friends and family إحسان towards your neighbors giving charity all of these look at استقرار as a giant tree which is the foundation that you wish to seek and then look at all these characteristics as branches of this استقرار and look at the fruits that grow on these branches as nourishment nourishment for your soul because استقرار is your goal this is the tree that you wish to you be able to have a strong foundation this tree is your foundation these branches and then the more branches you have and the more nourishment you get the more healthy this tree becomes and the more healthy you become and why is استقرار connected to the Iqeen and this goes back to our verse in the Holy Quran the verse in the Holy Quran which we mentioned in Surat al-Hijj verse 99 وعبود وعبود وعبود ربك حتى يأتيك اليقين and worship your lord excuse me until you reach يقين and we know from the narrations that عبادة عبادة by itself is like an empty bubble عبادة by itself without معرفة is no عبادة at all that is why the عرف the one who has knowledge the one who has understanding that worship Allah is one who is greater in his reward and connection with Allah and why is يقين connected to استقرار this also goes back to the fact that يقين in the Arabic language means استقرار ثبوت الشيء that when something becomes concrete and stable it is يقين that's why when the arab say يقين الماء في الحفرة and the water has stabilized in what in that crevice in the earth and that is where the word يقين or the derivatives of يقين come from and that is why we say that if it's important that your connection with Allah is stronger than that means that in order for you to reach a closer connection with Allah in order for you to reach a استقرار in your نفس it means that your connection with رسول الله صلى الله عليه و آله as well will have to be strong and again your connection with your Imam and the ام and the اهل البيت عليهم السلام why because the prophethood is a median for us to reach Allah سبحانه و تعالى without the prophet there is no means for us to reach Allah the prophet teaches us the methodologies and the ways the sunnah which is from Allah سبحانه و تعالى the prayer the supplication the اعمال and then the imams عليهم السلام هو ما هو the treasures حفاظ السنة they are the protectors of the sunnah they are the ones who know the sunnah from inside and out they are the ones who will lead us to the prophet and then to Allah سبحانه و تعالى which is why in this period my dear bells and sisters in order for us to have the stability of the نفس the stability of the heart the stability of the soul a connection with the imam of our time is very important and the belief in the imam of our time is even of utmost importance which is why the عقيدة of the مهدي is an obligation من ضروريات الدين from the obligation of the religion and you will find inshallah in my message today is from my dear brothers and sisters of the other school of islam who is the imam of your time this is a message of love by the way this is not a message of hatred this is a message of love to all of you out there who is the imam of your time do you not wish to have a stability a stability of the soul stability of the نفس do you not wish to reach a closer connection to Allah سبحانه و تعالى in order that the afflictions that come your way you say الحمد لله which is why the عقيدة my dear brothers and sisters ان المهدي عقلا عقلا the logical point of view the intellect itself the عقل tells us that we have to connect with he who is the medium to Allah سبحانه و تعالى in this time period now if you're in the time period of جعفر بدا محمد الصادق then جعفر بدا محمد الصادق would be that individual and we will see insha'Allah at the end of this conclusion of this بحث that ان الأرض لا تخلو من الحجة the earth the earth at any period in time and any period in the continuum continuum of time and space will not be void of a حجة قائم بالله قائم للله عفوة and it's from that bob my dear brothers and sisters that we wish to speak of the عقيدة of the مهدي and this is from this introduction we wish to begin which is the topic of today the Muslim the مهدي and the traditions of the Muslims so all my dear brothers and sisters know that the obligation the عقيدة is an obligation and it's not something that i made up yes there are differences when it comes to the مهدي we'll find that there are possibly three school three views when it comes to the مهدي in the عقائد of اهد الخلاف one of them being that he is not born yet and he will be born yet and when he is born he is not even sure if he is the مهدي and suddenly he becomes the مهدي that's one عقيدة a second عقيدة from اهد الخلاف is that he was born and he died this is very very limited school of people who actually believe this عقيدة and there are so is a minority from علماء that are not شيع by the way there are من اهل السنة who believe he was born and he is a son of الحسن العسكري and he will come out اخر الزمان the same مهدي that we believe in the son of علماء حسن العسكري عليه السلام so there are differences yes but first we want to prove the عقيدة بالمهدي and we'll look at some of the narrations inshallah for example some of the narrations we have for you today the first حديث being in جامعة ترمديو book 33 حديث 73 go to www.sunna.com and you will find the following حديث in جامعة ترمديو قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه و آله لا تذهب الدنيا حتى يملك العربة رجل من اهل بيتي يواطئ اسمه اسمي يا وابوهير قال هذا حديث هذا حديث حسن صحيح i think i believe that the the grading of these حاديث are from الشيخ الالباني it says عبد الله narrated that the messenger of Allah peace be upon him they say peace be upon him we say peace be upon him and his family said the world shall not pass until a man from the people of my family rules the Arabs whose name is akin to mine whose name is like mine ميم حق the name that we are told to not mention according to our حاديث we should not mention the name of the imam المهدي صاحب العصي والزمان from the حاديث of the imam the imam they tell us to not mention his name and this حاديث of course is also found reported in the musland of احمد ابن حنبل the imam of the حنابلة and again another report found in صحيح ترمدي volume 2 page 46 which has a different content the method is different the content of the حاديث is different from Abu Harairah who said and if only one day is left in the دنيا الله will prolong that day until he arrives it says the حاديث is حسن another حاديث these these these narrations and these references take take them into account and write them down insha'Allah and if you can't currently then after insha'Allah these are very important all of these are very important to have at your disposal in سنة الابداوت book 38 حاديث number four the prophet again says if only one day of this world remained Allah would lengthen that day that's according to the version of زائد till he raised up in it a man who belongs to me or my family whose father's name is the same as my father's who will fill the earth with equity and justice as it has been filled with oppression and tyranny this is according to the version of الفط صفيان's version of the حاديث which is the version of امران ابو بكر as well which says the world will not pass before the عرصة بيرود با يمان of my family whose name will be the same as mine we will find by the way that حاديث اهل بيت يواطئ اسمه اسمه اسمه ابيه اسمه ابي you will find that this version of the حاديث is actually one of the fabrications and that the حاديث that is متواتر and the حاديث that is known that صحيح amongst اهل الخلاف is the one who merely says that that the عرصة بيرود با يمان who who man of family whose name will be the same as mine يواطئ اسمه اسمه اسمه that's it that زيادة at the end and we're not even discussing this it's a different discussion is an addition and you'll find that there is some political reasoning behind this which was during the time of المهدي and his father and so on and so forth مهدي العباسي عليهم والعان الله of course the حاديث of the مهدي here are some of the صحابة that have narrated the حاديث of the مهدي as an example علي ابن ابي طالب الحسين ابن علي اثمان ابن عفان ام مسلمة طلح ابن عبدالله ام حبيبة عبدالله ابن عباس عبدالله ابن مسعود عبدالله ابن عمر ابو سعيد للنخدري ابو هريره جابر ابن عبدالله الانصاري وانا سبنة مالك وانا أخي فما صحابة who have narrated the حاديث this is just some of the names and then again some of the books that have reported narrations of the مهدي مسند احمد ابن حنبل has narrated by himself over 200 حاديث of the امام المهدي المتضرة from different versions of the حاديث those who have been saying he is from the sons of فاطمة those who say he is from my household from the sons of فاطمة those who say he is the ninth and so on and so forth الترمدي in his جامع انه سابوري in his مستدرك البخوي in his مصابح السنة ابن العذر in his نهاية ابن تيميه in his منهاج السنة as well as reported the حاديث of the مهدي and you'll see that even ابن تيميه has not disregarded the belief of the مهدي اخر الزمان الذهبي انه تلخيس المستدرك التفتزاري ان شرح المقاصد الهيثمي ان مجمع الزوائد and others the حاديث concerning the مهدي are more than what we can begin to narrate to you my dear brothers and sisters the عقيدة of the مهدي is found charged within all of the books of the Muslims especially the حاديث concerning a man from my household في آخر الزمان سيخرج سيظهر سيقوم that he will arrive or he will rise he will come from my family his name is akin to my name and he will fill the earth and he will share justice and peace and he will fill it after he has been filled with tyranny and injustice these حاديث my dear brothers and sisters are متواتر they are متواتر meaning they have been narrated to the point in which we have attained يقين certainty they have been reported by several narrators and they have been reported by several narrators meaning the gist of the حاديث in the معنى meaning that if you were to paraphrase the main message of the حاديث التمهدي في آخر الزمان كده وكده وكده this there is تواتر in this not تواتر in لفضي meaning the actual level of the حاديث the actual content no but the actual content in terms of the actual message behind the حاديث تواتر معنوية and there are many who have said there is تواتر in this and those who have disregarded this in fact some of them have called them as people who are not they have no علم they have no knowledge here i found this from some of the researchers online where they have just as an idea of of look of how many narrations there are concerning each specific chapter or each specific chapter concerning the معنى المهدي and how the حاديث were narrated for example traditions that speak about his ضهور 657 traditions that speak that he will fill the world with justice 123 traditions that speak that he is from the أهل البيت 389 those that speak he is from the sons of امير المؤمنين 214 sons of فاطمة 192 sons of حسين 185 sons the 9th son of حسين 148 and so on and so on and so on and so forth some of the narrations we have as well across schools some of them yes some of them are weak some of them are good some of them are reliable but there are a حاديث in the thousands it's not a matter of it's شاد or حاديث أحاد when narrated by one person no the matter of the عقيدة of the مهدي is instilled in the books of the muslims here is for example one of the who we have here محمد ابن أحمد السفاريني died in the year 1188 after after the head of the prophet a h he is a محاديث أحافظ أفقيه أصولي in his book لوامعو لوامعو أنوار البهيه he says the following and the traditions that have reached the point of تواتر المعنوي again تواتر المعنوي it's reported an account that is reported numerously by different narrators and through various chains of transmission in a way that substantiates that it's authentic and that is يقين that is certain he says in معنوي meaning the the معنة behind it the message behind the حاديث is found in all these narrations not تلافظ meaning the content itself like و اسمه اسمه أبي و أو رواطة ايه اسمه see those two are maybe narrated differently but they have the same message all that has been reported provides us with the outmost certainty for the belief in the coming of the مهدي is obligatory and it has been stated by the people of knowledge and transcribed in the عقائد of the أهل السنة he says it is a belief meaning what meaning if you are to what any who anybody from the muslims today who's comes and he looks at the sheehan said you believe in the مهدي it's your علماء your predecessors have all stated that تعقيد أبل مهدي is an obligation it has been written in the books of حديث it has been written in the books of عقائد another example الإمام الشوكاني death 1250 after hijrah أفقيه أموشتهد one of the grand scholars of yemen he also says son of Mary peace be upon him have reached the point of تواتر and there is no doubt in them other examples and my dear brothers and sisters several several several more of these testimonies and there's no time to narrate all of them there is so much to say there is so much to say the أحاديث concerning the مهدي are are found even the أحاديث concerning the مهدي that he's from the sons of فاطمة sons of حسين from the house of محمد from قريش they are found in the books of the muslims and my dear brothers and sisters now i have some my time my time is at 30 right now let me give you some references only that state he is from the son of فاطمة it's basically from the son of فاطمة i have here بخاري in his تاريخ الكبير volume h page 406 حديث 3497 سنن أبي داوود chapter المهدي volume 2 page 310 حديث 3735 the coming of the مهدي in the سنن الابن ماجع chapter the coming of the مهدي حديث 4076 التباراني المعجم الكبير chapter اليا حديث 18261 and so on and so forth my dear brothers and sisters the حديث of the مهدي is obligatory even if it's not in the قرآن and next time somebody tells you in the قرآن give them that these are علماء who have told us that what they have told us that the عقيدة of the مهدي is واجب and let's say for example that there is no indication no although there is indication no قرآن المهدي we have we have قرآن اك ورسس يظهره على الدين كله and other ones for example in صورة التوبة i believe صورة التوبة chapter verse 55 it memorizes me correctly there are indications of the final hours and the fact that this religion of الله سبحانه وتعالى will be مجموعة من all other faiths and religions in the world but here for the sake of argument let's see what ابن تيمية says in منهاج السنة or مجموعة فتاوة من هاج السنة we have here he says in مجموعة فتاوة ابن تيمية a book where i was collected that has all the فتاوة ابن تيمية الحراني volume four page 160 he tells us and he is from the سلف according to them he is fake all islam سلف الصالح look at the منهاج of ابن تيمية concerning the عقيدة where can the عقيدة be taken from he says واجب اعتقاده وكذلك ما يثبت في الأحاديث الصحيحة مثل صحيح البخاري ومسلم he says to them the عقيدة is not taken from me nor though he who is greater than me the عقيدة is taken from الله from the messenger of الله and the سلفة لأمة as they referred the سلف الصالح the precesses of the umma the صحابة and so on and in some cases even the تابعين there are some اقاعد that are built even on the تابعين and so whatever is in the قرآن فما كان في القرآن واجب اعتقاده it is obligatory for you to believe in اذا وكذلك ما في الأحاديث الصحيحة مثل الصحيح البخاري ومسلم and this صحيح أحاديث that is found in مخاري المسلم meaning even ابن تيمي here what understood from his words is that even the احاديث رأى احاديث درد خبر واحد صحيح one transmitter but صحيح you can build upon تأقيدة there you go my jibals and sisters تأقيدة بالمهدي صحيحه obligatory upon all the Muslims yes the characteristics of the مهدي there is a difference of opinion is he born is he not born and this brings us to the end of our discussion concerning is he born is he not born yes the majority might have said or they claim that he is not born though we have narrations we have testimonies even from اهلو الانساب those who deal with with the specificities of lineage and genealogy who have narrated that there is in حسن العسكر he had a son and his name was ميم حا ميم داد المهدي المطرع جلاله تعالى فرجه الشريف لاسم المقدس and we have sources and we have testimonies from سمع علماء yes some of these علماء they might not be taken as حجة but my my job is to give you these names and my and then your job is to go and leave the rest to you i'm not here the only thing that i wish for you to take from today is one thing and we'll look at the end the last thing later which is the first thing is the عقيدة of the مهدي is an obligation that an Imam an individual who will come in the end of time who will be aided by الله سبحانه وتعالى who will fill this earth with justice and peace after has filled with tyranny and injustice he is from the family of the Prophet from the sons of فاطمة from the sons of حسين and yes i didn't have time to go through all the حادث but you'll find that these are حادث that are relied upon at the least from the sons of فاطمة are many of them as well this is the number one belief that your number one lesson you have to take from today and then we'll look at the other lesson later but first let me narrate to you some of these علماء these are not شيع by the way whoever says they're not شيع it's very clear from their wordings and from their language that they're not شيع أبو سالم كمال الدين محمد ابنو طلحة ابنو محمد الشافعي القرشي دائد in the year 652 after hijrah a sunni scholar شافعي in his book مطالب السؤول in the book in chapter 12 he says أبو القاسم صن أف الحسن الخالس and he begins to say that this is the Imam and he was taken into hiding because of the Abbas's emperor at the time and so on and so forth yes he doesn't believe in the imma the 12 imams but he believes in this imam the same imam that we believe in a شيع and as a quick biography of the heavy of the heavy in his سير علام النبلاء he says العلمة الأوحد كمال الدين أبو سالم محمد ابنو طلحة ابنو محمد ابنو حسن القرشي العدوية النصيبي الشافعي وورد سنة اثنتين وثمانين وخمسة ومائة وبرع في المدهر واصوله وشاركة في فنون ولكنه دخل فيه هذا يعني علم الحروف وتزهد وقد ترسل عن الملوق وولية وزارة دميشق يوم اذن وتركها وكان ذا جلالة وكان ذا جلالة and i i think وحشما or وحشما i forgot i remember it but i don't have it written my my bad but in English it says the علامة محمد ابنو طلحة الشافعي he excelled in the creed and its أصول and participated in different science but he entered in the delirious science of the letters he became a ظاهد meaning he led an aesthetic life an aesthetic life he acted with the rulers in their governments and was given governance of Damascus Dimash for two days which then he left he was honorable and modest and this is his testimony other of these names and yes some of these names maybe some staunch مخالفين today say no these people are not all i know is that they're sorry they're not they're not maybe because you have a different understanding of the sunni you have today maybe you're too much of you is made of and you haven't looked at your predecessors from the scholars for example but there are people that say this the fact is there is an argument that there are people that say he was born الكندي الشافعي died 658 after هجرة they deemed him he also says that there is an existence of المهدي from the sons of حسن العسكري though this person as well he they claimed that he is not sunni because he wrote books in فضائل of ال البيت the fact is this man was killed in the umayid mosque because of a book that he wrote with the مناقف علي ابن ابيطان and there are many many more of these evidences concerning or i think we have i mean i have this book here زام الناصب and مزام الناصب i believe then there's around 35 40 that just this author here narrates but i'm pretty sure there is more if one wishes to go and research the fact is we want to conclude with the even stronger evidence concerning المهدي which is this my dear brothers and sisters two points we want to conclude all of the حادث and now we're reaching the 40 minute mark inshallah soon so i will try to end this around 42 45 and that's it all of the narrations concerning المهدي they have been narrated as متواتر as مستفيد استفاضة they have been narrated in the books of the muslim concerning يخرج في آخر الزمان يظهر في آخر الزمان صلى علام محمد وعلي محمد excuse me you're talking you talk for so much and you forget to even breathe الله علام محمد وعلي محمد الله صلى الله عليه وسلم coffee is better than water the حادث all speak to us that the imam will appear the imam will rise all of these indicates for the arabic speaker that the prophet is talking about an individual who is born not a person that will be born you will not find and this is a question that i asked my dear is there or will you are you able to find a حادث about the imam صاحب العصري والزمان المهدي in your books either fabricated or weak that tell us or inform us that say you let في آخر الزمان he will be born in the final the end of times no my dear bells and sisters the fact is there is no narrations either fabrication or weak that say the imam will be born which is something for you to think about why is there no narrations like this why are all the narrations talking about his rise or he will rise in the final and the end of times this is that this is a very important question to ask yourselves my dear bells and sisters no matter where you are no matter where you are watching this or if you speak to brothers from اهد الخلاف you tell them this تعقيدة بالمهدي دائم without تعقيدة بالمهدي without the bayah allegiance to the imam of your time means dying a death of ignorance من ما تبني يعرف إمام الزمانه ما تهمية جاهدية ما دي بلدن سيستر why is it that you have an issue with the long life of المهدي when you see the unseen you believe in the angels you believe in satan's life so somebody like satan who has been living all these years has a prolonged life but المهدي who's from the prophet's family you have doubt in why is it that your حاديث narrates narrations in the جال there are honestly like fairy tales there are honestly like fairy tales that the جال has been born since the time of the prophet for a thousand years and he has miracles and can do things he can tell the sky to to bring down water and the sky brings down water and begins to rain he can tell the earth to begin to nourish and grow and then the earth begins to my dear brothers and sisters the عقيدة المهدي is important you believe in the جال but you can't believe it that the مهدي has a prolonged life this brings us to the end of our discussion as we have only five minutes left inshallah الامت من بعدي اثنان عشر the imams after me are 12 the حديثة اثقلين the قرآن and the اهل البيت لم يفترقى حتى يرد علي الحال the قرآن and the اهل البيت will not separate until they meet me at the pond of kawthar من ما تولم يعرف امامة زماني امامة تميتة جاهلية whoever died without knowing the imam of their time has died a death of ignorance and the narrations that we have تخذو الارض من حجة the earth is not void of حجة and i conclude with some of the علماء of the مخالفين who have testified in this same belief that we carry اشيعة go to كتاب الكافي your finest belief ان شرح صحيح البخاري فتح الباري ابنو حجر الاسقلاني comment on حديث 3 2 6 5 where abu haraira says قال رسول الله كيف انتم ادنزل ابنو مريم and so on and so forth how are you the son of Mary descends and then a man will lead him in prayer and so on and so on منكم تابعه he says في صلاة عيسا خلف رجل من هذه الأمة مع كونه في آخر الزمان this is evidence that this evidence right here that with the fact that عيسا is praying behind a man from this nation is evidence to the authentic sayings that say that the earth is not void of an individual who was قائم بالله قائم لله بحجة one who was out there who was guided by Allah as a حجة الله سبحانه وتعالى so it's not just us that we share this حديث in our books when it comes to لا تخلو الأرض من الحجة which is and also an ابنو ميطيمين مجمع الفتاة وويوم 25 page 12 also state this and there's are many many other evidences we have approximately two minutes two minutes i'll try to two minutes so my dear brothers and sisters the fact that they're there that the earth is not void of a حجة the fact that the imams must be 12 and the fact that you ought to do give بيعة to the imam of your time and the fact that القرآن and the holy bait will not separate i'll leave the rest to you what does this mean does this mean that there is a should not there is not somebody on earth today who was قائم لله بحجة who was a حجة of الله and the quran and the يهل البيت have not separated yet and connected with the حديث of اثنة عشره اماما مين what does this mean who is the 12 امام i mean if you want to تقويل that's up to you you don't tell me you can't do tell me if something there is محكم there is clear that is my message behind you who is the امام of your time my dear brothers and sisters from a broken heart from a loving heart i ask you من هو اماما زماني كومي الله سبحانه وتعالى make it parent and clear for all of us who the imam is at least the شيع اثنة عشره are the consensus that the imam is born and we all have given our بيعة من شاء الله now my message goes out to you because you are all dear to me every single one of you is dear to me the عقيدة بالمهدي is an obligation and he is amongst us today يا اهل الاسلام and by that note we conclude by saying the recitation we say يا الله يا الله يا الله وبعلها وبنها والسر المستودع فيها يا الله عافي وشافي جميع المرضى يا الله الا هي بحق فاطمة الزهراء سيد الدنيسال العالمين وبحق مريض كرب لا عافي وشافي جميع المرضى يا الله إله من كان غريب رده إلى وطنه بحق علي ابن موسى الغريب إله بحق رسول الله by the right of محمد صلى الله عليه وآله رحمة للعالمين محمد the mercy of mankind أسأل الله أن يجب أن نحن this affliction and its balaa from us all and raise it from upon us and protect the believers and protect humanity insha'Allah and protect our elders and our loved ones and rid us of this trial insha'Allah this affliction بإذن الله تعالى إن شاء الله سكسيد as well in this trial and we say تعموا عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته


Is that the first time off the tee? Yeah, first time taking swings off the tee. So hopefully ramp it up here in the next couple of days and be back out there soon. Did you feel it at all? Do you feel your wrist when you swung today? Not really. No, that was a good sign. I really didn't feel too much of anything. It's still broken, so there is some soreness that comes with that. But for the most part, I'm feeling great. So it's a good sign. I'm glad I'm able to start swinging and then kind of ramp it up here and hopefully get me back on the field here in a week or two. We'll see. Never know.


Sekarang kita akan mempunyai software yang sangat muda. Software yang sangat muda. Software yang sangat muda. Belajar. Nama dia Wu Hui Ren. Jadi, kata-kata mengubah penggunaan software yang sangat muda. Dan idea stereotipik untuk memperkenalkan software yang sangat muda. Jadi, Wu Hui Ren adalah pelajar di Nilem Poly, memulai IT. He is also a Fedora Ambassador. So... Okay. Other people are coming in. So, don't worry.  So, I'll let him do his thing. Alright. Hai, everyone. Good to see you at 4th year today. Really great to see you guys at 4th Asia today at Singapore Science Centre. So, the Singapore Science Centre is a memorable place actually. It's a memorable place for Harish. And it's also a memorable place for me. Because when I was young, I was a kid. My dad brought me here to the Singapore Science Centre. And I was a kid. I'm a very playful kid. So, I went to play hide and seek with my dad. So, I got lost in the Singapore Science Centre. A lot of people got lost in the Singapore Science Centre as well. Yesterday, a lot of people got lost. So, I started crying in front of strangers. So, I was like, Where is my dad? So, just at the moment when I started crying, my dad appeared. So, he has always been talking about this incident since then whenever the topic of Science Centre is brought up. So, very cringey. Very strong memory relation for me at the Singapore Science Centre. Alright. So, my topic is about opening up yourself. I came out, I changed the title a little bit. Now, it's Understanding Open Source. But the main thing is still there is about Open Source Software. So, a lot of us here are all Open Source advocates. We know what Open Source is. But do we truly know and understand what Open Source is? Do we really, really understand the roots of Open Source? Alright. So, before I continue on, you might be wondering who am I? What is this kid doing up here? He's talking to you during Force Asia. So, let me put it in a very simple form. Alright. So, amazing slide ammunition. So, I'm a student studying at Nian Polytechnic. So, studying information technology. I'm a Fedora Ambassador as well. Contributing to the Fedora Project. And finally, I'm a developer as well. So, just doing some full-state development. Nothing much. So, let's go on to the agenda for my talk. So, first thing I'm going to talk about is what is proprietary software? In order to understand what Open Source Software is, we need to know what is proprietary software. Ya. So, and why Open Source? Why Open Source? Next thing, choosing Open Source. And finally, the most important point, contributing to Open Source Software. A lot of us use Open Source Software. But the amount of people contributing to it, very little. So, give me a raise of hand if you use proprietary software. Just a raise of hand, who uses proprietary software? Ya, see. A lot of us here uses proprietary software. Ya. As long as we have the flagged software on our phone, we are using proprietary software. So, I'm guilty of using proprietary software as well. Ya. So, I'm guilty of that. Even though I'm a Fedora Ambassador, even though I come from forced Asia, guilty of using proprietary software. So, let me tell you what proprietary software really is. So, right here, you got a picture of BMW. I cited the source down there. Okay, so, it's a BMW car right here. Really nice, really cool. If you have the money, you would buy it. And okay, so, proprietary software essentially is that you can't open the hood of the BMW car. You can't open the hood of the BMW car. That is proprietary software. You can't open it up. You can't look at what is walking underneath the layer. You don't know what's happening underneath the layer. And the thing is you wouldn't buy this car anymore if you can't look under the hood. So, you wouldn't really want to use proprietary software. But most of us still uses proprietary software anyway. So, let me talk, let me switch a little bit to open source. So, why you should use open source software? Why what's so good about open source anyway? So, open source software is the opposite of not being able to open the hood and looking underneath. Open source is about true knowledge. True knowledge. You can look underneath. You can see what is happening underneath the hood. You know what's happening. You know exactly what code is operating. You know what's going on essentially. And next thing I want to bring up is that it gives you true security. It's not just any security. What do I mean by true security? Okay, so let me give you a really quick example. Community versus proprietary security auditors.  All of them, they are part of this big, giant community of security auditing. So, open source software is out. The open source code is out there. So, every single one of you. Even you can look at the open source software. You can audit the code. So, let's say there's thousands of security auditors looking at the code versus a small group of proprietary software auditors. Which one do you think will do better job at finding out security issues? What do you think will resolve security issues faster? Obviously, it's a community. The community, there's so many people looking at it. There's so many professional working full-time just to look at open source and audit the open source code. So, community, security, it gives you true security. That's what I mean by true security. You can't get it in proprietary software. Proprietary software doesn't grant you that true security. You need for enterprise software, personal projects for anything at all. And finally, I want to talk about this. This is something very important. It also grants you true power. So, what do I mean by true power? We all have power. We all have power. Politicians, they love power. If you're a politician, you must be wanting A, I want more votes. I want more power and things like that. So, all of us want power as well. So, and the good thing about it is that open source software grants you this true power you can't get from proprietary software. Proprietary software will never give you this true power. So, this power although they are very simple they are very powerful. What are the powers I mean? First one would be power to modify. So, let's say you have your set of code. You have a set of software. Let's give you the proprietary example. You have a proprietary software. You can't modify the code. If you want to make changes to it. Let's say Hey, I want to make some changes. Your boss tells you to make changes to this software. You can't do it in proprietary software. You can't do it. You don't have the power to modify it.  And the next thing is that it gives you the power to fix. Power to fix is very important. If you're running enterprise software, you're running a big company and then the software suddenly stop working. You want to fix it. In proprietary context you will need to file a bug report and wait for a few days before they actually entertain your request and they go and fix it. Take their own sweet time to fix it. Whereas in open source you can either file a bug. You can file a bug report and wait for other people to fix it or you can fix it yourself and make a pull request to let others have this fix as well. So you have the power to fix software which you can't get from proprietary software. Proprietary don't give you that power. It doesn't grant you the three things that I mentioned earlier on. True knowledge, true security, true power. But you might be wanting to switch from proprietary to open source software by now. Maybe you might want to do that by now. But I'm telling you it's not easy. Common sense tells everyone it's not easy to switch from proprietary to open source. Because people who make proprietary code they do it on purpose. They make your life difficult. They're not going to make it easy for you to switch to open source software. Never, never. There's no standardization of data. You can't just transfer. It's not just a one click migration and you switch over from proprietary to open source. They're going to make you start to proprietary software. But I'm telling you that you have a choice. We all have choices in life. We can all make choices. Okay? We can all make choices soon. Let's say your company wants a chat software for their own company for themselves. Well, you've got Slack or you could choose something like Rocket Chat which is a free open source software. It has video. It has audio as well. Really brilliant open source software. Brilliant Slack alternatives. Back in the days few years ago when I started using open source software it's terrible because a lot of software the UI is very challenging and honestly it kind of suck. And I don't know how to fix it. Okay? I don't want to make pull request at that time. So back in those days it was very hard to use open source software. There were no drop-in replacements.  But right now you got a lot of developers contributing to open source. You got brilliant nice Rocket Chat here. The UI is really brilliant. It's comparable to Slack. When you have a choice I'm telling you that you should choose open source software because of the three things I've mentioned earlier and most importantly when you choose open source you're supporting open source. You're supporting a group of community developers. You're not supporting people who just only want to develop proprietary software. You're not supporting people who don't want to share their code. You're supporting people who wants to share their code. You're supporting people who wants to make the world a better place. So you're doing an excellent thing when you choose open source software. And finally we need to talk about this really important topic right here. Contributing to open source. Alright, I know a lot of us here don't have the time. But if you use the software there are some bugs it's foul issues and if you're a designer you can design graphics you can contribute graphic designs you can contribute some parts of your time to open source because we really need designers we really need people if you can speak please attend to these conferences like Force Asia go for meetups talk to people about open source software all of us here in the room we all can do our part even if it's just a few minutes just talk to some people that's contributing to open source that's contributing to open source if you're a developer please if you have some time do contribute to open source and if your company is using open source software all the more they should contribute to open source software because they themselves are using open source software we all use open source software on a daily basis almost everything we use are all based on open source technology we've got Android phones we've got iPhones Objective-C they are all open source code so yeah we should all contribute to open source and play our part if we can and we all can we all should so right now it's gonna be a bit interesting I've got a quiz I've got a quiz for you guys it's just a single question but you get to walk away with the Adreno I think it's an Adreno Adreno set here Adreno startup kit I've never touched it before because I don't do C programming I suck at C so I can't really do Adreno okay but if you can answer the question okay so just a very interesting story about this Adreno set I got it for free I attended a Microsoft training event so they had a lucky draw at the end and then my name was picked so no guarantees there wouldn't be any spying software maybe Microsoft might have they might have planted something inside I don't know what's inside here's one question you can use your phone and Google prepare to Google if you raise your hand and I point to you you answer correctly I'll give you the Adreno set it's expensive as well I got it for free from Microsoft anyway so here's the question if you have a computer with no memory and only two registers you can change register A with register B and all you have are Boolean operators how do you do that you can use your phone and search for the answer right now anyone any takers? Adreno set I killed my friends it was the last night yeah alright you don't use exclusive or exclusive or swap you can have this Adreno set give a round of applause fantastic thank you okay so this question was a very interesting question brought up by one McAfee John McAfee he showed me this he showed this question to the public I couldn't solve it I couldn't solve it I'm a developer but I can't solve this question I just quite surprised that one of you guys actually know the answer it was an exclusive or swap it's really simple just swap A swap B and you get your answer alright so that's it for my end of the talk since I'm representing Fedora follow us on twitter Instagram fedora.sg okay we have a red hat booth Fedora booth downstairs and the red hat they are giving away raspberry pie they have a lucky draw same as Microsoft they have lucky draws they had a raspberry pie maybe your name is on it go check it out if you have won a raspberry pie visit us at the booth you can come to the booth I've got Fedora DVDs they've got stickers so do drop by the booth downstairs at exhibition hall A if you see something red that's the red hat booth with the Fedora there alright thank you very much for your time thank you for listening hope to see you guys contribute more open source alright thank you so what are your personal plans in open source alright I intend to go towards more towards the Singapore open source community there's a lot of people actually in Singapore that are trying to contribute to open source so a Harish over there he's pushing for this open source government's platform so I'm trying to help help him develop some of the codes as well so I'm using some of my free time as a student to try to develop some software and I'll try to my plan is to go for more min-ups as well talk to more people about open source software tell them the real benefits of open source software pretty much that's it for my open source plans next question so there have been people who have said you are going to deploy your own staff that is based on open source software responsible to get the code yourself to make sure it's also secure a lot of us run for instance in Linux and in the Linux kernel you have millions of lines of code in it and a lot of us not a lot of us because the technical expertise will even go through all the nice code even if there are security probabilities we might not know them ourselves and then you know it's a lot you know the Linux kernel project is a very big project so there are people working full-time like at Google working at Red Hat there are security auditors who look through all these codes as a full-time job so even though there might be secure there's no secure software definitely there's no secure software one day we find a bug we got to resolve it at the end of the day open source they find a bug they find a security exploit they have to resolve it not all of us here can look we can't look through an entire Linux project kernel it's based on trust on Red Hat but you don't place complete trust on just these few companies don't just depend on them fully if you want if you have a free time you can look through the Linux project to look at the source code but then again not all of us have the time so we got to place some trust in these big companies who are willing to help out in the open source project but this is a very interesting issue because versus proportionally software which you don't have the source code so there's even lesser people with access to the source code okay there might be security issues pressing security issues on proprietary software that are not being resolved I know people they sell security exploits on certain forums they do do do that but for open source if you try to sell that it's probably going to get fixed in a few days because they are going to be so-called open source spies buying this security exploits and then and most importantly open source projects they have security bounties as well so if you are a security researcher you are working as a security researcher you can get paid if you report these security issues in the rightful way alright so these are some of the ways which security is done at open source it's good I didn't know half or one actually I didn't know anything at this age I didn't know anything no way I could stop the fan still in front of the audience and talk about what he has just done time change oh by the way all these slides are done using library office so it's a replacement for power points Microsoft power points although the UI is a bit challenging but it gets the job done okay no questions