Hi everyone it's Tasha with start of school crochet. Welcome to the jingle all the way crochet along live. This is my first time using StreamYard and streaming to a bunch of different platforms so I'm a little nervous and I've had anxiety about it all day but I'm going to jump right into it. So the jingle all the way crochet along is a four-week crochet along for this pattern which is a VW bus and I added some plaid to it. There are, hi there, there are three different versions of the bus pattern. There's one that has just a retro pink and then there's one that has a solid red classic VW bus. So this pattern is a free pattern on my blog and it's start of school crochet.com and I put all the links in so you can see them. Hello everybody. So what I'm going to talk about today is how to read a graph. I'm going to show you how to reduce from both sides. This is a rectangle and not a square so the last, hi Melissa, the last blanket I did was a complete square which is different. It's easy to reduce from both sides on a square one but not necessarily on a rectangle. So I'm just going to show you real quick how to do reducing from the corners when it's a rectangle and then I'm also going to play the basic C2C video that I created and it's on my YouTube channel. So the basic C2C is just going to teach you how to do C2C and reduce and decrease. So let's get well also before I get started on all that I wanted to tell you guys about the holiday bundle. If you haven't seen this one yet this is a 45 pattern bundle that's taking place right now and it ends on Friday. Okay. Melissa said the video is all the video we all need. Oh okay. Well this bundle ends Friday so if you guys haven't checked this out check it out. You can go to my blog and there's a post on there that will tell you everything about this bundle. So I'm going to jump right in then and show you guys a picture or show you guys what is in the C2C or the Jingle All the Way C2C blanket pattern and I'm going to here I am again. I'm so new to this. This is kind of cool. So this is basically how you do C2C. Your first step is to chain five and then you're going to double crochet into the third chain from the hook and then double crochet in the next two chains and then your row one is complete. So you have three double crochets. So after that for row two you kind of flip it up and then you work into the now let's get to watching the video. So I'm going to add this video to the stream. Hi everyone. Let me know if you guys can hear it or not. Today we're going to do a little tutorial for C2C in companion to my corner-to-corner calculator for how big your blanket size will be. So what this is a corner-to-corner is used as a graph and Tasha here from Stardust Gold Crochet. Today we're going to do a little tutorial for C2C in companion to my corner-to-corner calculator for how big your blanket size will be. So what this is a corner-to-corner is used as a graph and it works from one corner to another corner and it goes diagonally instead of working in rows. But you can obviously work a graph in rows too. But the corner-to-corner blanket works this way which is really interesting. You can create some really great patterns with it so for the tutorial I want to just give you an idea about what C2C is how to make some color chains and also how to do some decreasing and some increasing and what that means with corner-to-corner because it is it can be kind of confusing. So and also another question that a lot of people ask including myself is how big will my blanket be. So that's a universal question because everybody has a different tension and everybody is using a different hook size a different yarn size. So the calculator I made will help you determine how big your blanket will be according to how many squares you have in your graph as well as a swatch that you make. And I'll go into that the link will be down below for the other video on how to use the calculator. It's really simple not complicated at all so don't be scared. So let's get started on this little swatch pattern and I'll show you guys how to do some some C2C. Okay so what we're going to do first is I'm going to work we're going to work three squares using red and to start go ahead and grab your yarn. I'm using 24 seven cotton a four millimeter hook and so the first thing you do like with most crochet is we're going to go ahead and make a slipknot. I'm going to zoom just a little bit and so for corner to corner you can start out using six chains or five chains. The difference between those two will the six chains you'll have a little bit bigger square and the holes will be slightly bigger. I'm going to show you what I mean by that. The holes between each of the squares right here those tend to be really large when you use the um six method when you chain six and then chain three between each of the squares. I like to chain five and then chain two between each of the squares because it leaves a slightly smaller hole. You can see it's pretty can't really see holes that much but so for this tutorial I'm going to chain five one two three four and five and then with CTC we're going to work three double crochets into the very first three chains so you're going to start by counting down one two three and work into the third chain from the hook and do a double crochet and then go into this chain and do a double crochet then the third chain do a double crochet and there's your first square so we've made our first square now we're going to work our second square and a good indication of where you're started is where your tail is so that's going to be your square because your tail comes off and goes to the right so with CTC you kind of work a little backwards and forwards but so here we're going to do the next row technically that would be row one that we just worked which is right here and we worked it's going to lay this this way so now we're going to extend it and then work row two so the way you extend it is you're going to go ahead and chain five again and then work in the third chain from the hook again and do three double crochets in each chain until you reach the base part so there we have our extension and we've actually worked this square so we have this square and this square worked right now and it looks a little crazy and kind of confusing but what you do here is you want to bring up if they were side by side like this on your first square you want to flip it bring it up side by side like that and then work into the space of the last double crochet that you did sorry about that okay and then do a slip stitch and here we're going to make our next square which is going to be this one so we're not going to do an extension we're just going to chain two and then work three double crochets into that space two and three and there we've worked our first little section right there so for the next for the next row we're going to go ahead and change colors and we're going to work it in orange so how to change colors is fairly simple and it's the same that same method you use when you join using row to row crochet and what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and pull out the very top part of our last stitch reinsert your hook and of course you can you know before you even complete this stitch on the next one you can use a new color then add your new yarn to your hook and pull through to complete your your stitch so there we have our new color very easy and so with the pattern you can see we're going to extend off here so we're going to chain five over here and then work our way back up this way so we're going to chain five three four five and here we're going to work back down the chain into the third chain from the hook double crochets three of them in one in each chain the joins are always they always get a little bit loose just no big deal just tug on them if they get loose and so here we've made our first square of the new color and we want to do the same things we did before is join them so how we do that is you kind of you have to flip it and put it side by side and then go into that top double crochet space and then do a slip stitch and that joins them and then chain two three three more double crochets sometimes it's easy to fold this piece back to get it out of the way when you're working and so here we're going to do our join into the next double crochet space there slip stitch chain two three more double crochets and our row will be complete and I recommend marking the front of what would be the front of your project with a stitch marker or loop through a little piece of yarn or something so you know which direction you're facing it really helps when you're working a big graph so here we have our comparison and we've got our one two and three rows it's one two three so now let's go ahead and we'll make changing up the colors again to yellow just so you can get used to color changes so we'll do the next row in yellow so I think I'm going to interject now until everybody to go watch the rest of this video on my youtube channel um it'll be there for a long time but I didn't want to take too long because I want to show you guys how to reduce from um a rectangle version instead of just a square version so I'm going to take that off and so Ruthie Ruthie said Ruthie's on oh wrong one okay Ruthie said I can't read a pattern a written pattern are you going to post videos for the cow so I'm not going to post videos um showing you know crocheting this entire blanket mostly because it's a giant blanket and it would take me probably it took me a month to make my last blanket so um yeah that's probably not going to happen but what I will do is show you how to read a graph and um when you read a graph each square in the graph represents a stitch so when you start the pattern you start if you're a right-handed person from the bottom right hand corner of your graph and then you work diagonally so each stitch goes just like the video that we just saw goes diagonal like that and you work your rows and then when you reach your colors you add your color and then keep going and then you just if you're working from a graph you can cross off your stitches as you go but this pattern is going to is also a written pattern on the blog so what it means by written is it'll basically say a color times the number of squares you're going to uh crochet so for instance this would be the first one would be one square white times one square the second one would the second row would be white times two squares the third would be white times three squares and so on and then when it gets to the changing of the colors it'll say let's say um one two three it'll say white six gray one and then white however many left so it's really easy to work and read um C2C graph gain patterns it's super easy so for Ruthie I think you'll have a I think you'll be okay with this one I don't think it'll have um you'll have much of a problem with it um and so for those who know how to do C2C and want to learn how to reduce from one side and not the other side because this is a rectangle pattern so we're going to be reducing like when we get up to here we're going to be reducing from one side but still increasing on the other side so how that works is I've created a little slot here you're always going to mark the right side of your pattern and inside the pattern um it's denoted with WS or RS right side or wrong side so this will be the right side and so I'm going to do this little spot here and we're just going to decrease from the right side only so that means when it's facing you you'll decrease on that side and then continue increasing on the other side so I've already done this part I'm just going to go through and start decreasing from the right side so the way you decrease is you just it's going to be kind of weird to do it like this um you slip stitch through like that and then you you turn your work I'm going to show you like this and then you slip stitch through all three of the top double crochets that are there like that and I also slip stitch through the chain okay so there that's my decrease that's how you do a decrease and then you chain two just like normal and you do your three double crochets into the next one and that right there is your first stitch of your next row and then you work down just like normal I didn't do this swatch too big because I figured it would be really kind of oh you know so I'm just going to crochet this up super quick and then we're going to increase on the other side and then decrease again when we get back to the other side so if anybody has any questions let me know um somebody said just coming just coming how many rows are you on now before just before December I'm not really sure what that means so far we've posted 68 rows and um there's a rows one through 68 are up and then every Monday through the entire month I'm going to post all the rows and I kind of sectioned them out so that when the larger rows like these rows here are 85 um stitches each so you'll have fewer rows um on week three than you will on week one and week four so so you don't feel overwhelmed because it's going to be a lot um okay so oh thanks Melissa she said I wish I found you and your channel years ago thank you okay so I just finished doing that um that one row and you see we decreased on this side and then we did another increase well we're going we're about to do an increase here so this is going to be an increase so you're increasing when you add five chains and then when we get back to the other side we'll do a decrease and then you set up I've been somebody asked if where were you here years ago I started doing my blog in 2017 so I've been here a while I just did it wrong so I did it wrong to start and what happens when you do it wrong is not a lot of people see you so I've learned how to do it right now and I'm trying to um be more visible I guess I've always had social anxiety so this is kind of a stepping out of my comfort zone right now really bad but I don't mind doing tutorials where just my hands are on camera okay so now I'm back to this part here and so we're going to decrease again from that side so we're creating a straight line over here and we're still increasing on this side so I'm slip stitching turning and then I'm going back through and slip stitching along the edge and that's basically how you decrease in c2c I hope you guys can see this okay thanks Melissa I appreciate that so you can see it's turning into a rectangle so once you once you get to the point where you where it's in the pattern where it says decrease from wrong side then you're going to start decreasing from the other side too it'll it'll denote it in the written pattern you'll see it when when you come across it it'll say decrease from right side or decrease from wrong side and just remember you want to decrease from the side where your stitch marker is and that's it so that's pretty easy I hope you guys get it if not I'll post another video in the crochet along group and oh thanks it just says Facebook user so I don't know who said that but thank you because um yeah it's a lot of social anxiety um I never knew that what anxiety was until I ended up in the hospital one time and um with the entire right side of my body numb or left side of my body and um my heart was racing I didn't know what was going on and the doctors when I left I looked at the paper and it said diagnosis anxiety and I was like I don't have anxiety but of course I know what it is now and I know I did have it but anyway um well I appreciate you guys being here please check out all the videos if you have any questions let me know um I don't see any on here that let's see wait somebody said do you have any left-handed directions um well the thing about c2c for left-handed let's see okay there it is I put it on the screen um c2c is reversible but so it doesn't really matter which way you crochet it um if you're going by the graph I can probably do a written um from left to right written pattern from left to right but if you were to crochet this from corner to corner either corner to corner whichever corner to corner you're going to get the same pattern you would just you know when you lay it on your couch you would just flip it over and it would be the the words would say the right thing so it's the same on the front as it is on the back and there really is no difference between that so you're good on that if you're a left-handed user or a left-handed crocheter um okay let's see crystal says where's crystal crystal there she oh that's the wrong one thank you crystal I appreciate you too where is it okay so somebody said what size crochet hook do you suggest I'm using a 5.5 millimeter crochet hook with the worsted weight yarn from impeccable um and this this suggests to use a uh let's see I think it's yarn suggestion is 5 millimeter but I went up by a 0.5 because and that's an H hook it's i9 sorry 5.5 is an i9 but it says to use an H hook but I went up one thing so um I like it because it creates a looser looser stitch and so wait crystal um it's very easy if you know how to do double crochets you can do C to C what I would do is just practice on um a swatch just create a solid swatch like this and just the only difficult part I could think about it would be to flip it and that's the flipping part I'm going to add this to my stream um kind of strange at first but once you do it I think you'll you'll do fine you just flip it up like with your thumb watch the C2C basics video and I think you I think you'll get it it'll be just fine so let's see but not the picture words and pics coming out backwards wait somebody wrote but not the picture words and pics out comes out backwards hmm I don't know about that I'll have to look into more left-handed C2C and see what the difference is I don't see how it would make a difference because you would just oh I think I know it wouldn't make a difference I don't think I'll have to talk to my crochet buddies about that for lefties okay well I'm going to check it out for lefties and see what there is I know that I can reverse the pattern for you so maybe I'll try reversing the pattern and see if that would that work for a left-handed user to reverse reverse it um this pattern is from right to left so I could do a from left to right pattern perhaps but really I think that if you were to crochet it any way and then just flip your blanket I don't think that the words would come out backwards but maybe they would I'll have to ask my crochet community okay oh thank you somebody wrote for Dora okay well if anybody has any more questions let me know um and if anybody knows about lefties the C2C for lefties please let me know because I'm not really sure who wrote who wrote the comment because it just says Facebook user but I would be really curious to know um what you do if you're a left-handed crochet or who does C2C and I think I think that's all um so in the book it has these sectioned out patterns which I need to actually add to the blog post because I hadn't done that yet but oh Melissa said I wish I knew too I'm a lefty too well guess what I'm gonna figure that out because there has to I don't I'm gonna do so I'll test it I'm gonna do a test I'll create a little swatch of something with a word and then crochet it up and see what happens oh decreasing yeah decreasing is is not as hard as I thought it was going to be um somebody asked if I'm doing the cowl on here and no I'm I'm actually the cowl it takes place on my blog that's where the written pattern is um I pop into the crochet along group and that's where everybody posts stuff and then I come in and do tutorials sometimes or just come in and do a live and crochet and see you know what everybody's working on and stuff like that that's about it I'm gonna rip this back though because this is this is um this this gray color is not this is the true gray I don't know that I like it very much it's kind of scratchy but okay well all right you guys I'm gonna get off here and if you guys have any questions leave them below on the replay just do hashtag replay so that I know you're commenting if you're watching it on the replay and don't forget to check out the winter bundle this is 45 patterns plus you get three free patterns of mine and then watch the c2c video I put all the links down below in the comments so you guys have a happy crocheting and let me know if you need anything from me just leave a comment and I really appreciate you guys being here and all the comments you guys left and the support and everything so I hope you guys are good when are we doing this again um you mean alive I'm gonna come on I'm gonna try to do lives on Wednesdays and Fridays for the crochet along so all the way up through December I just got stream yard so I'm still learning this and what I was gonna do tonight was have two cameras set up and actually do a live demonstration but it was a mess and then there was this echo and it was like and I was like oh my god no I'm not doing this right now so I'm gonna have to learn this and then um what I think my friend Lynette Lynette who did the crochet along for you guys a couple weeks ago she she kind of gave me some pointers thank you Lynette because it really helped um so what I've discovered or what she she would not what I discovered what she told me I could do is upload videos so what I can do is upload a tutorial video and then just upload it and play it during the live and so it'll be just like I'm actually doing it but better lighting because I hate this lighting daylight savings in its nighttime um right in Memphis I'm in Memphis and it's um what time is it it's 8 30 in Memphis so is this a good time for everybody 8 30 good night Diane oh thank you Lynette uh nerve wracking thank god this is not high definition that's for sure I put it on earlier and I was like whoof okay now I need to put on some makeup or something I'm just too self-conscious y'all way too self-conscious all right well let me know if you have any questions and I will see you guys soon bye happy crocheting


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Okay, let's start. So great to see so many people here for day two. I was going to ask how the after party went, but I guess it's fairly clear that it went really well for quite a lot of people. I'm sure they'll turn up later, bleary-eyed. So we're, you know, they're missing out on a treat by not being here because we've got a pretty exciting start to the day. A core panel, everyone here on stage, is part of building WordPress, which is a pretty special position to be in. So we're very excited to be hearing from them and I think equally, if not even more excited to have Mike Liddle, the co-founder of WordPress, here chairing the panel. So we've got Mike Liddle chair, we've got Konstantin Obenland, sat here, and we've got Pascal Burtcher, and then we have John Blackburn, and on the end, Tammy Lister, so that's our panel. So I'm going to hand over to Mike and he's going to kick the panel off. And we're hoping for lots of questions from you guys and girls. So if you've got pressing questions, you want to know how to become a core contributor, you want to know how WordPress is made, then get ready to ask those questions. So here we go, Mike. Thank you. So the first thing I'd like to do, actually, is ask the panel to just introduce themselves and perhaps just mention a little bit about the perhaps their specialisms within core and what they do. So over to you, Konstantin. Thanks. My name is Konstantin. I have been working with WordPress just over half a decade now. I specialize in themes API, I would say. I added or like I was responsible for custom logo now in 4.5 coming out side icon in 4.3. I'll let the 4.3 release. I'm currently working on rewriting the plugin directory for WordPress and do a lot of other WordPress.org meta work. So I'm Pascal. I've been using WordPress for about 10 years now and I've been responsible for the embeds feature in WordPress 4.4 and probably some bugs here and there. Morning, everyone. I'm John. I was a release lead for WordPress 4.1 last year. Recently been doing some work on better support for HTTPS and O embed and things like that. Generally work behind the scenes on creating bugs and fixing bugs in WordPress. Hi, I'm Tammy. I worked, helped get 2016 released. My focus is kind of themes and also design, particularly focusing on UX. And I've been in some user research recently. Before that, I was also working on the body press project. So I've kind of written both WordPress and body press. Thank you. So I've got some pre-prepared questions that were asked earlier through various channels. And I think it'd be a good idea to perhaps just to kick off with some of these to just get you used to the idea and then get everybody warmed up, get their jaws warmed up, as we say, first thing in the morning. So one of the questions I think is probably one that would have come from the audience setting, but it will get hopefully quickly out of the way. And that is when will we drop PHP 5.2 support and when are we going to upgrade the minimum PHP requirement? So who thinks it's best to answer that? Yeah, so this topic comes up quite a lot. I'm pretty sure it's come up in every Q&A session we've done for about the last nine or 10 years, actually. So as many of you know, hopefully WordPress is a very user-oriented piece of software. It means that if we are to increase the PHP version requirement, then we have to fix the usability aspect of that for the end user. A lot of people who use WordPress don't even know what WordPress is, so there's no kind of expectation that they would know what PHP is or what a web server is or how they can even go about increasing the version of PHP that they've got on their server. So if we were to increase the minimum version of PHP, we would really need to look at the way that we can communicate that to the end user without completely baffling them. It's the same thing for plug-in dependencies and dependency management and things like that. These are all actually fairly simple things to fix on a technical level, but the end user needs to have a good way to handle that kind of upgrade, and these are requirements that we're going to be imposing on them. So, yeah, we just wanted to get that out of the way. It's a topic that's on everyone's minds. Some of the other issues there are whether we even get any value from increasing the minimum version of PHP. For example, if we jump to PHP 5.3 as a minimum, are there actually enough features and things in there that are going to benefit the WordPress project to benefit the WordPress project in order for us to be able to say, right, we're going to drop PHP 5.2 support? So, yeah, basically it comes down to user experience and putting the user first. Unfortunately, sometimes that is at the cost of keeping developers happy. So that's about it. Thank you for that. Anyone else has got anything else to pitch in on that? I think that was a pretty good story. Next one, more interesting. What recent and upcoming features about WordPress are each of you excited about? So, start with me constantly. Are you the nearest? Well, since I'm first in line here, I'm just going to say REST API. And as you guys think about something else. So, as you probably know, the REST API infrastructure was introduced in 4.4. We're still waiting for the endpoints to be added. So, I'm really excited about the infrastructure and I'm looking forward to the endpoints. Is that a valid answer? So, Constantine already mentioned the REST API. I could say shiny updates, because that's the feature plugin he's been working on, which is an awesome thing because you can just update your plugins or your themes or even your site without refreshing the page and it gives you a better user experience. Yeah, way faster too. Sneaky. So, slightly different. I'm excited in this release. I'm excited we've removed the word submit from the password protect form. It just had a button that said submit by it. So, we've actually got something that's a bit more human and I'm really excited about more human language and interactions in WordPress, which is kind of the next level of a project. And I'm also really excited about the future project focus and that's going to be really research driven and kind of having UX as a big focus of what we do. That makes me very excited. How do you feel? So, one of the things I'm excited about recently is the localisation of the plugin and theme directories on WordPress.org. So, it's not quite part of core itself, but it connects the whole kind of ecosystem together. It's really interesting. If you speak, for example, Hebrew, you can actually find out about WordPress, go to WordPress.org, download and install WordPress and install some plugins and themes without having to know any English now. The whole process is completely translated and that's the same for a lot of languages and a lot more are in progress. So, the whole translation thing for me is really exciting. I think we've had some stats yesterday, which says that it's only about 40% of sites now that are running in English. So, that means 60% of the sites which aren't running in English don't even need to see English in order to be able to install and use WordPress. Cool. Thank you. That was good and enlightening. I'm going to do one more from this list. And in fact, well, no, I'm going to do that one because you've kind of mentioned it already which was about plugin and theme dependencies. But here's one, one I'm particularly interested in myself. What workflow will help ensure that all commits going forward are WCAG 2AA accessible? So, that's been more accessible. So, what workflow will help ensure that all commits going forward are accessible? Because we've had a mention that that's the desire. So, how is that going to be achieved? Do you want to take that one or who wants to take that one? So, we just had a good chat with Graham about this. He's a resident accessibility expert. Just to clarify the question there, it's about the web content accessibility guidelines. WordPress now requires that all changes to WordPress meet the AA requirements, which is quite a subjective set of requirements. And it's all fairly simple as well. It's about keeping your navigation menus standard, making sure you're not using title attributes and you've got alt tags, like really, really simple stuff. Ensuring that WordPress complies to those standards means that we can use a few automated tools. Graham there was telling me about some tools that Joe Dolson has written. Oh, that's right. He's written a plug-in, sorry, which you can install on your site and it will run your site through the accessibility tests. It's something maybe we need to look at for core, hooking up to Tenon, which is a web content accessibility guidelines tester. But there's also the awareness in general that developers should be aware of, which is a general awareness of accessibility. In Graham's talk yesterday he mentioned that a great way to get a long way into accessibility is to make sure that the site or the administration area of WordPress rather works with the keyboard. So it means getting developers used to hitting that tab key and tabbing through all of the elements in the admin area to make sure they're accessible, make sure that the tab focus is visible. So maybe we need to have a bit of a think about how we can bring that all together into a workflow. So when we make large kind of visual changes to the admin area in WordPress, that is taken into consideration. So something I'd like to add on that, which kind of goes beyond the focus on purely accessibility, I think, is user testing. And testing all users, no matter what ability they have, not just focusing on one particular group or one everything. So I think part of what we can also do in our workflow is user test everything and widely user test everything. And it's a chance for more people to get involved in the project, who maybe aren't developers, because user testing is such a useful thing that we can have. At contribution days, I would love to see user testing be a first class citizen and part of that, and actually a group, so. Okay, let's take our first question from the audience. So if you'd raised your hand, you've got a question to ask the panel. Generally, or an individual must have some questions. Come on, raise your hands. Okay, so just wait for a mic to get to you, and then let's chat with her. Hi, everyone. Oh, it's quite loud. So I'm contributing a lot to WordPress Moly Sight. And in 2013, I think it was Nathan wrote sort of a roadmap for that, what that would look like. So I was trying to contribute work towards that roadmap. And then I got a lot of my tickets closed saying, well, that's not what we're doing with this anymore. My point is if you're going to have a roadmap and it changes, should you be updating that? And I think, you know, would you guys think about having a roadmap for stuff, just putting a blog post out saying this is where we want to go with it, and then if it changes, updating it? Okay, so does anybody want to take that? Come on, John, you're going to say that? Yeah, if you want, nobody else is going to say it. Oh, God, thank you. I'm not going to necessarily be able to speak on that exact thing, but I think on a human level, if we publish something, or if I publish a roadmap and I've done things like that, and it changes, then absolutely we should iterate on that. And I think part of the future projects is probably going to see that happening more. There's like a fortnightly check-in on things now. So I think there's probably going to be more of that. I just think if something changes, communication is important. We have to make blogs, so definitely communicating that would be important. So the post that you're talking about was published by one of the lead developers called Andy Nason, and he's not so involved in the project at the moment because he's gone off and he's working for the US government, doing some interesting digital things there. So he's sort of been a bit out of the frame at the moment, so he's not been able to really kind of push that forward. But yeah, you're absolutely right if we're going to change roadmaps, which is perfectly fine to have a roadmap and then to change your mind later on date. Yeah, then communication there is really important, yeah. So yeah, maybe it's time for us to have an updated multi-site roadmap. We have been doing a bunch of work on multi-site lately, but yeah, maybe we should have a new roadmap for the next 18 months or so. It's not just multi-site, there's generally all features. We should have a goal that we're all trying to work towards, and you're right, if it changes, it's fine, but it felt like it changed behind closed doors and was never updated. Somebody had a slack conversation somewhere and it changed, and I was trying to work towards that roadmap and it's frustrating for me because I'm wasting my time writing patches. Sure, sometimes these things change organically as well. They just sort of evolve a little bit and then nobody really realises that what we're actually aiming for now isn't what we'd originally decided to aim for. Yeah, communication, we have a similar question last year and it was that we need to make sure that we're always on top of communication and it's not just the core team, that's all of the teams involved and the particular feature leads and the component leads. Is it worth doing a yearly, like here's what we're going to do in 2016, for all the different areas? Yes, I think it is. That was a topic I touched on at a WordCamp last week, which is about goals of WordPress. Have you got anything you want to say on this, by the way, because I'll just carry on, if not. So WordPress has never really had much of a focus, it's never really had long-term goals. If you go on the archive.org website and go back on the way back machine and look at WordPress.org from like seven years ago, the description of WordPress is almost the same as it is today. It says WordPress is publishing software that you can use to create a beautiful website, blog or app. And the only change that was made was the addition of that or app on the end of it from like seven years ago, it's the same. So it's never really had a sort of a focus that people can go on to WordPress.org and find out, what is WordPress really doing? Is it going to stay as a blogging platform? Is it going to be an enterprise piece of software that powers biggest websites in the world? Is it going to be a sort of a headless app platform using REST API? It's never really had this direction. So I think WordPress, this lack of direction has caused WordPress to kind of go here and there, a bit back and forth on a lot of features. The project is really in need of some long-term goals, like you say there. Maybe if we start thinking about some goals for maybe a year or two years or five years, but then if we've got some goals, we can then say, right, what are the short-term goals? What do we want to do with multi-site? What do we want to do with the import and export functionality? How do we want to get new users on board much easier? I really do think that long-term goals are the way forward for the platform, definitely. Thank you. Thanks for that. More questions from anyone? Yep. Let's jump over here. Oh, we've got one here, and then we'll take the one on the back. Thank you. Sorry. I'm very new to the world of WordPress, so I'm learning a lot right now, and this is a great opportunity to do that. So where do you see WordPress going in terms of user experience? I'm not a developer. I'm more concerned about how people come and use WordPress. So what are some of the key things that are going to help them have a better experience with websites overall and better interactions? OK. Who would like to take something on that? Tami? Yep. So first of all, welcome. And if your background is user experience, I'm really excited that you're interested in contributing to WordPress because that's something that's very dear to my heart, and I think we need in WordPress. And I think part of what we can do is... I said it earlier, but actually watch users. Something that's happened on Flow, which is going to become Test, I think it's going to be renamed, is there's been a lot of flows which is like going through the processes on different devices, going through the processes of different sections. That's a big thing because half of user experience is data and making things obvious. Because if things are obvious, you can't ignore them. You can very easily ignore and accept a user experience if you use it all the time. But if it's brought to your attention, you're just like, oh, yeah, that's really bad. We should fix that and fixes will happen. And I think people championing that, doing that, and then just being really annoying core developers about it and saying this needs fixing. And I feel there's a great lot of voices starting to do that and I'm really excited about that. The feature projects is one way you can get involved. Every fortnight, isn't it? Do you want to say when the meeting is? Because I'm trying to remember when it is. So the way that features were developed for WordPress over the last two years or so, has been via feature plug-ins, which is where we build a feature as a plug-in first. And then only once we decide that it's ready will it sort of be proposed to go into WordPress. But that's changing slightly now. We're going to call them feature projects instead. And the idea is that the whole product design workflow will be considered for the project. So that's like research, design, spec-ing, user testing and stuff before you get to the implementation part of it. So our first chat was last Tuesday, and they're going to be fortnightly for the next, I don't know, a few months probably, until we sort of get into how that workflow works. And the meetings are held in Slack in the core channel. So you can just go on there. So I'm fairly sure they're going to be fortnightly in the core channel on Tuesday evenings. Sorry. I just wanted to add one more thing. We also have on track at WordCampUS. We actually have a report for UX feedback, which made me so excited. So people can tag that, and we can go in the ticket and just comment and test things and give opinions. And that to me means that the project's moved a lot more in that direction. So I'm really excited about that, because it means that we can start making it usable for all users, no matter what your ability is, no matter what device you're using on, no matter what country you're in, and I think that's how WordPress becomes a really usable project. Myself want to add just a couple of things. Following on from one of the things that Tami said, yes, do pressure the right people to do things, but always with respect and always politely. Because still, most of the people work on this stuff are volunteers, so it's always best to always be respectful and polite. But also I want to perhaps bring in Pascal because your experience of getting into WordPress core was via a feature plugin as it was. So are you looking forward to the change of this workflow in the feature stuff? Yeah, absolutely. I'm looking forward to that. Because when I got involved with that, there was a chat about feature plugin, about your embeds. I had an existing plugin, so I haven't had done any user testing before or research really. And I think it's great that now you're kind of getting forced to do that. Well, maybe I have another idea for a feature plugin in the future. I don't know. Constan, have you got anything to add to this one? How Pascal became a committer through a feature plugin? No, just generally on the usability and so on. No, I would have said the same thing. All right. Okay, so I think we had another asker at the back if he had raised your hand. Yeah? Can somebody get your mic? Okay, thank you. Hi, so I'm mostly a user. I'm learning the movement, but I can see lots of people in Facebook group and all around me being really overwhelmed when they arrive on WordPress. Is there anything in the pipeline about better onboarding for people who are a bit tech-adverse? Okay, so... And is that something I can help with? Sure, so yeah, so the question was, is there anything in the pipeline for better onboarding of people who want to get involved, who are perhaps tech-averse and used to the environment? Cos it's a mature environment that if you're in it, there's lots of things you know and you know where to start and where to go. So other things in the pipeline or what's the best way that people can at least perhaps self-help to get onboarding? I think this is an ongoing process for the project as a whole. One of the ways that we try to make it easier for people to contribute to WordPress is certainly contributor days like the one we had on Friday. Where John led a group of people and kind of gave them an introductory to how to contribute to WordPress just to lower that barrier of entry for a lot of people. So that is one of the things another tool that we use to get people started contributing code specifically for WordPress Core is a tag on track that we use which is good first bugs. These are tickets that are fairly self-contained fairly small people have an easier time grasping the problem there and just get an opportunity to practice creating a subversion diff and uploading that to track. Things like that. And then also developer Q&As like this one where we share chat times chat channels and my people to join us for these chats and she's not happy with that answer. Sorry, I was talking about users people who arrive in the dashboard and freak out lots of new apps now they've got a welcome suit of things to make you understand the bits in it so proper onboarding for people who are going to use the software for their own site. So there was a project a while ago called the new user experience project and the aim of that was to make it easier for people to get into using WordPress which I think is what you meant rather than a developer side of things and one of the things that came out of that was when you first install WordPress and you land on the dashboard there's now a big welcome message which says welcome to WordPress get started here you can install plugins install themes click here to preview a site it was a fairly small change but it was a thing that we hadn't had in the past basically prior to that you would land on the WordPress dashboard and you would sort of go where do I start there's a bunch of menu items on the left hand side but there's a whole bunch of stuff that could be done so Helen who's one of the lead developers of WordPress has put a lot of focus into this lately and I think one of the things that Helen wants to do is to let you preview your entire site like all of the customisations and things in the WordPress customiser from the outset so you sort of maybe even when you first install WordPress you land on the customiser instead of landing in the dashboard and from there you can change your title you can browse themes you can change your theme around you know do all of the customisation that you might want to do before your site even goes live or that's the first thing that's presented to you I'm not sure whether that is really in progress at the moment or whether it's a bit on the back burner but that would be one of the ways of making it much easier for users to not have such a roadblock when they first land on the dashboard in WordPress I think that came up in the future projects chat and I think it's deaf I don't want to say definitely but I think it's happening because of that so I would expect that I think you sound quite passionate about it so I would encourage you to come and join that project and I think I learn an awful lot from I'm going back to it but user testing and seeing that so just I think by listening to new people and listening to people that aren't we we have certain models of behaviour and patterns that we do because we're used to WordPress so we're blind to things but having people come and remind us like you just did I think is super important and I think that the NUC's focus will really see gains in that and see a lot more stuff become obvious through that I just want to add something to that actually if I may because I run beginner courses in WordPress and yeah from people absolutely beginners don't even know what WordPress is and there's just a whole lot of upfront explanation that I have to do to explain to people what these things are so anything that can improve that I think would be a great thing and sometimes it is just about the human words and the terminology and trying to remove some of the more technical terms so I'm looking forward to any project that will help bring that forward as well anybody else got anything on that one or should we take another question we're running okay if we've got another question please so somebody at the back yeah oh Jenny you can go first oh right I develop plugins some of which are on WordPress.org and like most plugin developers I use Git and obviously WordPress doesn't so I was just wondering if there's any tools, plans to help people who develop on Git sort of use WordPress as well so the question was really so lots of developers are working on Git now and are there any plans to help developers who work on Git make more contributions to Core to Core or to plugins because you mentioned plugins both yes so you're going to have to go at the state of the word Matt mentioned how it certainly is a goal of the core team to get people more involved through Git and give them that opportunity to contribute to it that way so far we have not made a lot of progress in that direction but it is on our roadmap and in the backs of our minds for plugins I'm currently working on rewriting the plugin directory where any contribution is welcome by the way so if you guys want to help me to do that that would be great and one of the things that a lot of people ask is hey when can I use Git with the plugin repository this will probably not happen within this year but currently with feature plugins what we do is we have a kind of like a sync tool between GitHub and so opening that one up to other plugins not just feature plugins could be something that could happen sooner rather than later so just you know making it easier for you to develop your plugin on GitHub and you know keeping it up to date on the .org side as well I think we've certainly got time for one more question who else do we have Jenny we'll see how quick it is actually so I wanted to ask since you are all lead developers and I know some of you have been there for a while and some of you have been there quite recently what is the best thing that you've seen happen as a lead developer in the WordPress in like your time working on the WordPress.org and what is the worst time and I want to announce it from all of you okay so to perhaps start with some of these experiences in the US Pascal good question I can't think of like the worst thing yeah it happened but a good thing actually is that the barrier for entering for contributing to core has lowered so it's easier, there's better documentation because when I started contributing to core or reading about it there was no no real good documentation so it's definitely made easier but let me think about the bad part first I think we should clarify the term lead developer first none of us is actually a lead developer John is a permanent committer and the rest of us three we are guest committers to WordPress so I received commit access three weeks into leading WordPress 4.3 so that weighs very heavily on memory like I remember that part of my life very clearly and one of the things that I wish didn't really happen was the outcry of people we started talking about adding menus to the customizer mostly on WP Tavern where they felt like we ran features down their throats did not don't consider user needs it got pretty ugly to be honest I wish it wouldn't have gotten that far other than that I was really proud that we got to actually the ship menus in the customizer in 4.3 and that we were able to pull off another feature which was a site I can fairly short notice in 4.3 so those are probably my high and low lights I think the best thing that happened recently is when Matt Mullardwick dyed his hair grey at WP US last year it's green now oh yeah it went green last week didn't it I think I agree with Pascal the documentation drive that's happened over the last 18 months has been a huge boon to the whole project so the inline documentation in the code of WordPress now powers the developer site so there's no duplication of effort there and we're gradually getting rid of the codex function references in the codex and replacing that with automatically generated documentation that's a huge thing documentation is really important to open source projects so that's probably my best thing that's happened recently so I'm just going to focus on the best thing because I'm going to be quick and wrap it up which for me is going back to the fact that the user experience is becoming so important and the people are asking this release I was asked to user test something and that to me just gave me such delight that it was happening and also seeing two committers who are designers get commit access that just gave me the hapies so seeing the focus not just being on pure developers and embracing everyone in the project because then that means we're going to embrace everybody who uses WordPress as well so we're just about out of time so I'd like to thank everyone who contributed a question and for coming so early this morning but I'd like to ask you to join me in a round of applause for our panel


Well, good morning, I am just leaving boot camp it is 602 a.m. I have to say right off the bat It was so nice that it was only 72 this morning at boot camp It's been at least 10 degrees hotter all summer even more than that sometimes So it was a nice little bit of reprieve from a really hot muggy morning So it was a fantastic workout lots of abs lots of squats really just a good full body workout But man my body speaking of bodies is really really tired after this weekend I if you're in my Facebook group or follow me on Instagram, you know that I had an incredibly active weekend I actually went to boot camp on Friday morning and then Saturday I went and played pickleball for over two hours and then I went to my first ever Zumba class right after pickleball for another hour Height to Mamak Mountain on Sunday. It was just an active weekend My body is just a little tired grateful. I'm grateful that tomorrow Tuesday is my rest day So that's gonna be much much much needed, but I'm sweaty. I'm gonna go home I'm gonna shower get ready for the day finish my protein coffee I did drink about half of it as usual before I came to boot camp So I'm gonna go home and finish up my protein coffee and make some breakfast after breakfast We are gonna sit down and talk about food Food changes changes coming to my channel changes that I'm implementing We're gonna talk all about changes off to the shower off to finish my protein coffee off to get ready for the day And then off to breakfast and it's time for some breakfast. I am so incredibly hungry I actually just finished my protein coffee. So I'm going to make a breakfast sandwich So I'm going to use one of the Western bagel alternative bagels. These are the wheat ones I really like these for a breakfast sandwich. There are 120 calories and they have seven grams of protein and Ten grams of fiber. So I mean could you get a better bagel than this? So I'm going to toast up one of the Western bagels. I do have a 10% discount for Western bagel I'll link it down below We're going to put one egg on the breakfast sandwich a slice of the reduced fat pepper jack cheese I absolutely am obsessed with this cheese and then a couple slices of Bacon and we're going to pair that on the side with some fresh blackberries So we're going to have a protein packed fiber filled breakfast Which is in my opinion one of the best ways to start the day. So here is my breakfast So I went ahead and made my breakfast sandwich with the bagel One egg two slices of bacon one slice of cheese and then I have 75 grams Little foggy there from the heat with 75 grams of blackberry. So that is going to be breakfast Are you ready for your treat? You ready for your treats? There you go Somebody doesn't like mornings and doesn't want to get off the chair. Oh, did you venture over a little bit for your treat? There you go bud All right So I just finished breakfast and I wanted to sit down and have a conversation with you guys about Some changes here on my channel as well as some different things that I'm doing With my eating and kind of where I am with my weight loss journey and kind of what I'm doing moving forward so I just mixed up my Motivate recovery the strawberry kiwi. I mean literally we're down to the bare bones I think I have maybe one scoop left. This is so fantastic after a workout I also got a few questions when I did my protein Supplement video I'll link that down below if you missed it. I talked all about the protein supplements I take for weight loss and lie. I got a few questions on when do you take this? So the optimal time for recovery is pre workout post workout or even before bed Because all of the bcaa's in there will really just help you recover while you sleep It is something I utilize after my workouts. I just mixed it up in my lulu lemon bottle So I'll link Motivate down below for you guys with a 20 discount. So let's let's let's talk some update I still continue every friday to do a weigh-in video. I share my weigh-in with you. We talk about my week We talk about the weight watchers workshop topic And I've been saying for the last several months that really my goal right now is to maintain my Weight I have about three months post-op plastic surgery Like I also like I've mentioned a few times as well The true results of my procedures will take about six months It'll take that long for everything to be fully healed For the implants to fluff and drop into place for the swelling to go away So until I hit that six month mark I haven't wanted to Click declare that I'm at maintenance because I don't know what's going to happen Over the next few months of recovery as of right now. I am maintaining my weight Of course, I have weight fluctuations. Sometimes it goes up. Sometimes it goes down Right now I'm well within my maintenance window, which is about 185 pounds to 190 pounds I'm falling like right in that window, which is perfect for me. This is a very healthy weight for me I have very very little if any excess fat. I am full on into building lean muscle mode That's where I'm at is really just building muscle and when we build lean muscle, whatever fat we have Is replaced with lean muscle. So the fat goes away, which is winner winner chicken dinner And then it's replaced with lean muscle. So the scale is not going to change The weight of the fat is replaced with the weight of the lean muscle. Therefore the scale stays the same So that's kind of where I'm at. I really want to see changes in my measurements Changes in how my clothes fit changes in pictures changes in my body Without even being at all concerned about the weight on the scale. So as of right now, I am not declaring maintenance I am still eating in a slight calorie deficit Not an extreme calorie deficit a very slight one to see if I am able to shed any excess fat that I may have On my body while I'm building that lean muscle and toning up. So as of right now I'm still I guess officially in weight loss mode, but also in kind of maintenance mode kind of in limbo When it comes to my weight. So I've been getting a lot of questions on are you at maintenance? What are you doing? So that's kind of where I'm at. I'll continue to share my weight with you We will continue to do weigh-in and once I do fully recover at that six month mark Which I think is november made of june june to july july to august august september Yes, november mid november Then I'll give you guys more of an update on where I am maintenance wise Weight watchers, that's another thing I've been getting lots and lots of questions on are you still on weight watchers? Are you counting calories and macros which one works better? I Shared quite a while ago my how I've lost a hundred pounds video So literally like 40 pounds ago shared in there that I track my weight watchers points one time per week And that is when I film my what I eat in a day I don't care how many weight watcher points I eat what I care about is how many calories I eat If I'm hitting my protein goal and where my carbs and fats are falling because that is how I've lost weight That's how I've maintained my weight loss That is sustainable for me following weight watchers is not sustainable for me, especially when I get into maintenance As you know if you're on their maintenance program It's certainly not the best and they don't give you enough points to give you enough calories to really truly maintain And it's just not a road. I want to go down. I have worked really hard on my relationship with food I've worked really hard on my metabolism and I don't want that ruined by following the really severe deficit that weight watchers puts you in So that is my plan moving forward. I will be sharing Weight watcher points in my what I eat in a day in my grocery haul in my meal prep I have the weight watchers app. I don't pay for the weight watchers app They have a referral program where if you refer somebody then you get weight watcher You get a month of weight watchers for free and they get a month of weight watchers for free Over the last several years. I've referred so many people that I have the weight watchers app for free for about 10 more years So I don't pay for it if I had to pay for it I probably wouldn't but since I don't pay for it I can still share points with you guys and like I said I do count weight watcher points in my what I eat in a day But my heavy focus is macros and calories because that is what has really led to my weight loss That's how I lost 90 pounds last year had nothing to do with weight watchers. It was all about calories and macros So that is where I am with weight watchers are w w Lastly food update first water break With me being in limbo on my goal weight with me really wanting to focus on building lean muscle With me being more active than I've ever been. I mean you guys I am more active now than I was pre-surgery I'm playing pickleball. I'm hiking to my mock. I'm working out more than once a day on some days And I'm really getting in a lot of activity because that's what's going to get me to that goal Of replacing any fat with lean muscle scales staying the same But my body changing me building lean muscle my clothes changing all of that leads is resulting from My physical activity as well as my nutrition now nutrition is 80 90 80 to 90 percent of weight loss weight maintenance You can't out exercise a bad diet. So I still focus on nutrition But I'm also more active really than I've ever Been and in order for me to get the fitness results that I want I have to work on my nutrition now when I was in weight loss mode in 2022 when I lost the 90 pounds All I cared about was nutrition. I didn't even exercise for the first half of that year I really just focused on nutrition because that's what leads to weight loss That's also what leads to weight maintenance and that's also what leads to building lean muscles So I am changing up my food Pretty drastically. I'm really going to be focusing on a whole food Diet now that's going to look different to everybody. I can't eat a clean I can't eat 100 whole food or a clean diet. It's it's really impossible even frozen fruits and vegetables are processed So eliminating processed foods altogether for me number one isn't realistic number two isn't sustainable and number three does not sound very fun So I'm still going to be eating Processed foods, but I'm going to be focusing on a whole food approach. I want to start implementing more whole foods into my diet I want to utilize those superfoods like hemp seeds and chia seeds and pumpkin seeds I really want to focus on having nuts in my diet even more than I do I also want to continue focusing on the carbohydrate sources that I'm eating at least 80 percent of those Being whole grains that have some fiber and some protein and just really focusing on making sure That I'm utilizing those whole real foods for about 80 to 90 percent of the foods that I'm consuming Now I have a protein coffee every morning. The protein shake is processed. That's not changing That is how I get in my protein. I have a second protein supplement every day Any protein supplement is processed. So I'm automatically having those two things every day that fall into that Process category, but I want to eat more fruits and vegetables. I want to change out my yogurt bowl to include some of those superfoods I want to make Things in my meal prep like I did this last week with those no bake workout bars Those are incredible and it is 100 whole real food And this is where it goes back to weight watchers not really being healthy and sustainable for me You're really penalized on a lot of these whole foods dates chia seeds hemp seeds Full fat cheese full fat dairy real butter nuts nut butter all of those things are really high in points But all of those are really really healthy foods and that's what I want to focus on I really want to focus on 80 to 90 percent whole foods. Obviously my protein supplements being Process still having some other processed foods. I'm still eating dessert every day I'm still going to have chips or crackers with my meal. I'm still going to have low carb wraps I'm going to have all those things But I really want to put an emphasis on eating the foods that my body needs to reach my Goals and that's what we should all be doing whether our goal is weight loss related or fitness related We should be focusing on the foods that help us get to our goals So that's my plan like I would rather focus on the quality of the foods that I'm eating Then the points and really even the calories. I mean, obviously I watch my calories I stay in a deficit. I stay at maintenance But what's in my food is really what I want to focus on So you're going to see a lot more whole real food throughout my what I eat in a days Things that I'm buying at the grocery store in my meal prep You're really going to be seeing me kind of shift my focus away from really heavily processed foods to more minimally processed foods And lots and lots of whole real foods So I hope you're excited for that again As always with any of the recipes that I share make modifications If you're on weight watchers and seven points for a bar is too much for you Make modifications that fit into how you eat. We all should be eating for what's best for us What's sustainable for us what helps us reach our goals? So I'm excited I'm excited to see what different recipes I can find that are more whole food based I'm just I'm excited to see if that Helps me finish out this weight loss journey that's been a long time coming and really helped me get to the goals Fitness related fat loss related lean muscle building related that are my true focus right now Let me know down below if you have any questions for me on weight watchers on the foods that I'm eating Or if there's any clarification that you need definitely leave me a comment Also, let me know if you're excited for all of these whole foods And I'm hoping that you guys can take this same strategy and these recipes and these foods And implement them into your life as well. So those are pretty much all of my updates So I'm in my spare bedroom. My friend Michelle just moved to the u.s. Well, hi palmer Palmer's also here from sydney australia. She moved to atlanta and back in november when she was visiting She left a suitcase in our Closet in our spare room just so she had less to haul over from australia when she moved to the u.s Well, she's officially here and she's coming to visit me and pick up her suitcase here in about a week and a half So I was kind of getting the spare bedroom ready for her. This is our guest bedroom in our home And it is still super hot here in arizona. Hi nineties over 100 degrees. I anticipate that continuing No, no, no, you should know why Through the end of august even into a good part of september So I wanted to make sure when she's here. She's comfortable So I was making up the bed washing up all the bedding and I decided to buy off of amazon a cooling blanket And some cooling pillowcases for her I thought that way she would again be a little bit more comfortable while she was here So first is the cooling blanket. I got the throw size. It actually is sold up to a king size So if you are interested in having one for your bed for your master bedroom for yourself For on your couch really anywhere where you could use a good cooling blanket They did have multiple sizes multiple colors. So again, I picked up the throw size So one side of the blanket is the cool side. So it gives you that Ultimate cooling. I mean just touching it is nice and cool And then the other side is a little bit more of a cotton material, which is great for the colder month So it's actually a perfect blanket year round cooling side non cooling side So I'm going to go ahead and fold this up and put this On the spare bed here for her so she has the option to have a cooling blanket And then I also like I said got cooling pillowcases Same company same philosophy one side of the pillowcases cooling One side is a little bit more of a cotton material for the colder months. These are amazing Troy and I have these on our bed We absolutely love them and I thought again just help her be a little bit more comfortable in the hot Arizona heat Obviously we have air conditioning in our house. I remember when she was here visiting in november She was saying she was a hot sleeper. So I wanted to really make her as comfortable as possible I just bought these right off of amazon super super affordable Really great reviews and I purchased some other cooling blankets and pillowcases in the past And these are much much much better quality and I love that there's the cooling side and the non cooling side So I will link them down below for you with a discount again right off of amazon great for yourself Great for your guest room and again great for these hot summer months and then flip it over for the cooler months Get him lola get Palmer Get him This is a multiple times a day at our house. They love to play together And he's like super submissive of her. He'll roll over for her Yeah, you get him lola get Palmer. Are you gonna get her? So for morning snack, it's gonna be a yogurt bowl no surprise to anybody But based on like changing up my food a little bit. I'm changing up my yogurt bowl a little bit as well Not a lot just a little bit So I'm going to start as always with my chobani zero sugar yogurt. This is in strawberry cheesecake You can use any yogurt. You guys know, I just really like the chobani zero sugar I am going to top it with some blueberries Just because this is one of the fruits that I have on hand that I need to use up I'm going to use granola. This is something I always put on my yogurt bowl And I'm going to use chia smash another thing that always goes on my yogurt bowl I buy these off of amazon. I'll link the variety packet down below for you It's basically fruit lemon juice chia seeds I mean nice clean ingredients no added sugar and it gives that jam texture to your yogurt bowl And then what I'm adding are some superfoods So I'm going to add some hemp seeds and some pumpkin seeds to my yogurt bowl as well So I'm gonna prepare it so you guys can see how I do what I weight everything out on my food scale And then I'll show you the completed snack. I'm going to start with my yogurt I do go ahead and add the entire yogurt to the bottom of my bowl I'm going to weigh out 50 grams of blueberries 10 grams of granola Five grams of hemp seeds and then probably five grams of pumpkin seeds as well There's five grand or yeah, there's five grams. Let's do 10 grams of pumpkin seeds 10 grams of pumpkin seeds and then I just do one tablespoon of chia smash And there's my yogurt bowl. So it is It's so good. I use less granola today because I added the crunch of the hemp seeds and the pumpkin seeds This is such a fantastic snack. There's protein. There's healthy fat. There's fiber. You could also use chia seeds That's another thing. Sometimes I'll swap out the pumpkin seeds for some chia seeds I mean the possibilities are endless. You could add whipped cream to this I mean really so many different varieties of a healthy yogurt bowl So I'll go ahead and put points calories macros here on the screen for you This is the teletroji shoe washing Bay you guys I'm so excited about these you actually get two bags and two adjustable shoe trees These have a hidden durable zipper. They're reusable shoe laundry bags for your gym shoes They come in white and in yellow I did go ahead and pick mine up in white and I'll tell you my husband's shoes even fit into these shoe washing bags They have fluffy fibers that keep 360 degree wrap around your shoes So it offers 10 000 chenille microfibers that deeply and gently clean your shoes in the washer So unlike normal mesh shoe washing bags these texture fluffy fibers effectively wash away stains from the surface of your shoes Ensuring a comprehensive cleaning experience. You can use the shoe tree or not I always like to use the shoe tree just to hold the shape of the shoe Put them in the bag zip them up and place them into your washing machine. There's a convenient hanger for drying I usually just set my shoes outside. I live in arizona. So it's hot and a dry rather quickly They're really the perfect solution for shoe washing care. They help you remove dirt Eliminate smell while extending the life of your shoes You can also use these laundry bags as travel shoe bags, which is really nice just to keep your shoes separate While traveling if you have smaller shoes like sandals and flip flops You can actually fit both shoes in one bag the bag is big enough for men or women's shoes And again, the two different shoe trees are fully adjustable. You can pick these up right off of amazon I will link them down below with a special discount for you It's lunchtime and I want to try out The flat outs that I bought in my grocery haul. These are the flat out carb down Olive oil and sea salt for net carbs. We don't care about net carbs 9 grams of fiber 4 grams of protein 45 calories, so I'm going to use this as my bread or my wrap and then I did buy some pre-sliced rotisserie chicken From walmart when I did my grocery shopping So I'm going to add some of that and then a slice of yarlsburg light cheese Avocado and then I think we're going to pair that with some cucumbers I was thinking cucumbers and dip but I think I'm just going to have cucumbers Yeah, I'm just going to have cucumbers. So let me put together my lunch and I'll show you exactly what we're having So here's lunch. I did end up adding one tablespoon of light mayo to my little Wrap look at how good this looks though I'm excited. Let's test it out. Like I said, I've never tried these flat out wraps. I've had other flat out wraps Just not this particular one Really good. I don't taste olive oil and sea salt. I also have a lot inside my wrap as far as flavor goes, but It's really soft. It's the perfect size perfect vessel Really happy I picked those up So we have the house to ourselves for a little bit today and I'm going to go ahead and make myself an iced chai latte I've been loving my mud water. I've been sharing. I shared with this with you guys in last week's What I eat in a day. I did a big post giveaway on my facebook group for mud water. This is amazing I've been utilizing this as a little mid-morning early afternoon pick me up in lieu of a second coffee Only because this has a lot of health benefits in it a lot less caffeine But still gives me the energy boost the focus that I need mid-morning early afternoon for that pick me up Really nice clean ingredients and it's a great way for me to skip all the extra calories and points in my second coffee All I add to this is some non-fat fair life milk and I make myself an iced chai at home What mud water is is basically if chai and cocoa had a baby it would be mud water It actually has cacao in it. So it has a little bit of a chocolate flavor very mild definitely more of a chai flavor So if you love chai you're going to love it lion's mane, cordyceps, chaga, reishi, cinnamon, turmeric and Himalayan pink salt. It is seriously so good I mean absolutely delicious chore and I both love this So if you love chai tea if you want something that's going to give you that little bit of a pick me up There's only 35 milligrams of caffeine Which is about a third of what's in a simple cup of coffee But yet I feel like it just gives me more energy even than having a second coffee So I'm going to whip this up. I'll show you how I make a chai latte at home So I use a 32 ounce mason jar or a 32 ounce glass of your choice. We're going to put in one tablespoon of mud water It's over half gone. That's how much train I have been loving this over the last few weeks over the last couple of weeks And then I like to add in about a tablespoon of sugar-free vanilla syrup The mud water has no sugar zero sugar added. So this is going to give me that little bit of sweetness You can also use honey or agave whatever you have on hand I've been liking the addition of the vanilla So I added in a cup of hot water in with the mud water using the frother that came With my mud water starter kit the starter kit is actually $20 off So you get the mud water the frother all of the of a sample of all of the other mud water products They have matcha they have turmeric everything is so amazing. You get it all for $20 off I'll link it down below with all the information, but I mixed up the mud water. I'm obsessed with this frother It's usb chargeable and it's literally the best frother I've ever used And then I'm going to add three quarters of a cup of my non-fat fair life milk Right in with the mud water and then I top it off with lots and lots of iced I get a nice chai latte at home with about 10 grams of protein All the amazing superfoods that's in the mud water That's another reason I wanted to switch over to mud waters because it's nice clean ingredient superfoods It is so good.  It's 20 calories. It's delicious. And I love all the extra protein from the fair life So I just sat down on the couch with my mud water I'm gonna hang out with the dogs for a little bit We're gonna watch the show and just kind of relax while we have the house to ourselves So mr. Clayton here mr. Palmer Clayton. He's got his ball, of course by me and then miss Lola Little miss Lola say I go to the doctor tomorrow for my blood work makes her I'm good. She's been doing amazing Of course, I check her lymph nodes like 10 times a day But we're gonna see what her blood work shows at the oncologist tomorrow, but she's doing really really good Look at that big smile on your face. Yeah, it's a big smile So for my afternoon snack, I'm gonna have one of my workout bars. I made a meal prep They are very good. They're very peanut buttery Chocolate chip you get the crunch of the chia seed then the raisins give it just a really nice sweetness They're absolutely addition. They're absolutely delicious. Nice clean whole food Super super super super filling. So this is going to be afternoon snack For dinner tonight. I am making mango chicken pasta. So let me show you what's in the recipe You're going to need minced garlic. No sugar added ketchup of your choice. The primal kitchen is my favorite The recipe called for white vinegar. I'm going to use apple cider vinegar because I don't have white vinegar We're going to use Lakonto golden. This is a brown sugar substitute I do have a 15 off discount site live for Lakonto. I'll link it down below for you Soy sauce corn starch salt and pepper. You'll need some cooked chicken breast This again is just the pre-cooked shredded white meat from sprouts Mango I had cut up some mango earlier in the week. So we're going to use that fresh cilantro Half of an onion half of the bell pepper and then pasta of your choice. I'm doing the bonza So I have a skillet over medium heat sprayed it with some non-stick cooking spray I diced up my onion and my bell pepper We're going to add them to the skillet and allow them to soften and then right here I'm going to start some water for the pasta Now I'm going to add in some minced garlic and allow it to get fragrant And then I'm going to add in my chicken. It's just going to be warm through And then a little bit of salt and pepper So I went ahead and removed the chicken from the heat set it aside and in a saucepan I'm adding one cup of water quarter cup of Lakonto golden quarter cup of vinegar About a tablespoon of minced garlic tablespoon of soy sauce tablespoon of ketchup tablespoon of fresh cilantro Give that a stir. We're going to allow that to come to a boil And we're going to add in four tablespoons of cornstarch into the sauce Stir that in and then lastly we're adding in the mango Then we're adding in one mango diced up and allow that to cook in with the sauce until thickened So I'm going to head and added the cooked pasta in with the chicken and the bell pepper I do have my burner on low heat just to kind of keep things Warm i'm going to mix that all together and then we'll add in the sauce And then stir that sauce in really good with the pasta and the chicken And it's ready. So it's a very very quick and simple pasta recipe Let me go ahead and plate this up and I'll be back to share points calories and macros So here is the mango chicken pasta The recipe only makes four servings. So you get a really good amount for the points and calories You're getting some protein in the pasta. You've got protein in the chicken And then that vinegar and mango should do kind of a sweet and sour sauce So let me go ahead and put all the information here on the screen for you. It is the end of the night I'm going to make my dessert have my second protein supplement of the day We're making it easy by the way dinner 10 out of 10 out of 10 super good So i'm going to make a protein shake using the fair life chocolate milk I use one cup of this or eight ounces And then as always i'm using my clean simple eats today. We're doing cookies and cream This combo one of my favorites I top it with a little bit of whipped cream and it's literally like i'm having a cookies and cream milkshake But i'm getting in 33 34 33 grams of protein and it's so good It's like a dessert But again, we're we're rolling in the dough with the protein I do have a discount for clean simple eats. I'll link it down below for you And let's make dessert. Thank you for joining me for today's what I eat in a day on I hope you enjoyed coming along with me today Seeing all the good food that I ate enjoyed all of the updates I really am excited to share with you guys how my Change in my diet really affects my overall Goals, so I'll definitely of course keep you guys updated Don't forget about the shoe washers the cooling blanket everything will be linked down below for you Along with nutrition coaching links and discounts to my favorite things my recipe website for tonight's dinner recipe And of course come join my facebook group. 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So you might have just got a Steam Deck for Christmas. Or maybe you're thinking about buying one with all that cold hard cash you got in your cards from Grandma and Grandpa this year. Well, wait! Because this is the Aeonia II and it's better than the Steam Deck in some ways. I had no idea that I was getting this. I also had no idea I'd be opening it with this. This is Bob and Bob Wolf. Also... Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait. Before this video continues, there are two things you need to know. One, I show a lot of footage of playing Call of Duty Warzone 2 on this thing. Don't do it! I was actually very surprised with how well it ran. Like, I was excited to start playing this game portably. But my account got banned because I violated terms of service. I think it's something about the way the pads work with the game. It thinks I'm trying to use a mouse, but with auto aim assist, I don't know.  Although something you can do if you want some, you know, free drinks. 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It's free.  Just click the link down below and you'll have free drinks straight to your house. Worldwide, too. You could live in, where's a random place, Kim? Bulgaria? I love Game of Subs. The best part is there's no lead. All right, let's go back to the video. I got a lot to talk about. Okay, bye. Bob Wolf also takes a look at a lot of these fancy wacky controllers. Can I be honest about this? I've done a couple of Eye Nios. They got too much. They got too much. They got to stop, too much. They sent me this for free and I appreciate it a lot. Thank you, but this is not sponsored and I can say whatever I want and I'm gonna start with, you're doing too much. Yes. There was like four you made last year. The quality of this gets better and better and the packaging, the design, the actual product itself, everything feels more and more legit. I liked the air. I loved the air. I actually really liked the air. The gifts get better and better and this time there's a whole friggin' gift box. I've never got gifts. Well, I got the keyboard. The keyboard was cool. Yeah, you did. I got it in the arm room. I'm gonna touch the clock today. Ooh, ooh, it's cute. Oh my God. It looks like they actually finally sent a dock. Every time they've ever sent me one of these consoles, they always say, we have a dock. We didn't send it though. So let's take a look at the dock. It's called the Aeonir Multi-Station because you can wiggle and jiggle the little connector point around here and the reason why they did that, Aeonir has made many friggin' consoles this year alone. My tally right now is up to four and each one is a different form factor. So I guess they decided the best thing to do is just make a dock that's universal. You can jiggle it around to fit whatever Aeonir you have. Comparing it to the Steam Deck dock, I mean they both serve their purpose but I do like that you actually dock this as opposed to whatever is happening over here with this little guy. Coffee cup. It's an Aeonir coffee cup.  I'm coming around. You're coming around on the Aeonir. Also a screen protector, that's what it is. Okay, well, that bleep that. Ooh, it smells nice. It smells different. It was like my thumb more than anything. AMD Ryzen 7, 6,800, you cool. Oh, that's the thing. And we're done. She's coming. Oh, big old stick of butter.  I'd love to do a brunch. Is there brunch places in here? There actually is. Ooh. It's just sat there. That's really sleek.  That's kinda sexy. It's screaming Wii U pad vibes. Oh, it is? Yeah. You know, this isn't, it's not that much bigger. No, it's a lot bigger. It's not that much bigger. It's a lot bigger. Let's talk about how it feels to play the Aeonir 2. As far as actually playing it though and the comfortability, I like the Aeonir 2 a lot. They worked in tandem with this company that makes the King Kong 2 Pro controller. You can't get stick drift with these bad boys. At least that's the idea. Everything about it feels super quality. The biggest advantage for me is you just have the classic sticks, D-pad and buttons where they should be. I do love my steam deck. Just having the D-pad and buttons up here, it's weird. It's really hard for me to get used to. I do like these track pads, but let's be honest, we don't use them. This thing is just more straightforward, more comfortable, and probably just more what I'm used to. Also, they weigh about the same. Pretty equal. No visible screws on the 360 full body. What is that feature? I guess the other ones you can see screws, but I gotta say, now that I know that, it looks very clean. Whole piece of glass, no bezel design. That is nice, that I like that. I gotta say, the no bezel is very nice. You look at the steam deck here, it's great. I love the way it looks, but you do obviously have this bezel and then the glass smack right here in the middle. I mean, it's a classic. And there's nothing wrong with the way it looks. But this Aeonio, I don't know, man, it's pretty sleek. All this around here is glass. So there is no bezel, there's no dip, there's no groove. It's all one flush piece. The only plastic you have is rounded out here around the buttons and the sticks. It's super futuristic. Also, they gave it to me this time with windows not activated. Baby sleeping position grip. As I don't know, the picture has nothing in it. Ultra high capacity battery, we'll see. You don't get much juice out of it. Playing Elden Ring on full charge, I got about 45 minutes.  Crisis Core lasted me about an hour, about an hour and 10 minutes on full battery before I had to charge, which I mean, I guess isn't terrible. I also played Crisis Core on the steam deck to see how long I got and it was like an hour and a half on full charge before I started getting the low battery. So I mean, apples and oranges there. A good screen, it says. 1920 by 1200. But the steam deck's only 720-ish. It is a Windows device and I just turned a Windows device on, which means I gotta install things on the Windows. Which means cut. Yeah, which means cut. I would comfortably say the A and the A2 is better in many ways. The steam deck has a 1280 by 720p screen. It's not full HD, which is fine. For a handheld, I've always been okay with that. But this 1920p screen, you're able to play every game in full HD resolution. There's none of that A-listing when you try squishing down a game to 1280. It's really clean and it pops. There's a drawback here. The higher resolution you play in, the more it sucks from a console. So how does the A and the A2 hand or some of these more intensive game? Pretty good for the most part. The thing is, though, playing the games at 1920, you probably can't boost most things up to high.  But then you are losing a lot of textures and lighting and shadows when you switch it down to low. So if you wanted, you could play the games at 1280. Just set the resolution down and then boost everything up to high and you're gonna get better performance and better visuals out of the A and the A2. Really across the board. But it's kinda up to you to do all the messing around with things, to make it look as good as it can and how much does that full HD mean to you? But I've been switching back between Crysis Core on the two consoles and ultimately, the frame rates are definitely better on this, but I'm still getting a stable 30 on the Steam Deck and for the price, it is just so impressive what the Steam Deck can do. So Bob did put emulators on this thing. It was a little more convoluted, though, than we wanted it to be. So on a scale of one to 10, how fun is it to set up an A and the O, Bob? A one to 10 fun level. Well, I can't see anything. Yeah. And that makes it really fun to use all of the rest of your senses. Yeah. I think I can hear that I'm about to click on Emulation Station. Can you hear over the fan? Yeah, I can hear it. Did you say something? Can you hear over the fan? Ooh. It looks like we're somewhere. No. We're nowhere, we're nowhere. What? We were halfway there. What happened? Once he got one working, he dumped all the ROMs. This bad boy was good to go. We were playing Smash 64 and it runs like a dream. I do know that emulating on the Steam Deck is actually pretty easy. I mean, that's really one for one. People look at the price tag of the A and the O and they get blown away that it's so expensive comparatively to something like a Switch or a Steam Deck. The thing with the Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch and any gaming console, they always sell their consoles at a huge loss so that you sign up to PlayStation Now and sign up to PlayStation Plus and Game Pass and Games with Gold and then you start buying their software. When all those subscriptions and softwares kick in, they're gonna make their money back triple-fold and selling the console to you that cheap doesn't matter in the long run. It's the same with Steam Deck. It only works with Steam unless you hack it. So you literally have to buy more Steam Games which is more money for Steam. A and Neo, they don't have that luxury. They don't have games, they don't sell software. Once you buy the one thing they sell, you're done. So they can't sell it at a loss. They're literally manufacturing and making PCs. But not only are you buying a PC, you're buying a pretty powerful mini PC that also has a controller built in. You're buying the screen, the speakers.  If you purely are all about raw power and what you can do on the go, this is going to win every time, all the time. The battery life might be a lot shorter but it's going to be able to do a lot more. I think the whole package is very impressive. But it's Windows and it's up to you to do everything. So it's not very consumer friendly. If you want an example of that, I'll boot both up right now and try loading up Crisis Core. Here we go, Crisis Core on the A and Neo. It loads up like that every time. In a tiny little window, why? It is annoying but it's fixable. However, if you were to do it on the Steam Deck, guess what, baby? It's just going to work first time every time. You're not going to have any issues with anything on the Steam Deck. It's so easy to use. I want to keep justifying it because I mean, for half the price, I would just go with the Steam Deck. If I'm going to play one, I'm going to play this one but I don't want to pay for it. I feel like that's my opinion and outcome of every single one of these A and Nios I take a look at. They get better and better. I think they're always worth their price. If you frame your mind as in you're buying a mini portable PC that you can play, the only thing I'll say and Bob said it and I'll keep saying it, A and Neo has to slow down because they are devaluing their own product every time they put out a new one. Even though it's too rapid fire to build any trust in the product, that there won't be a better one for the same price in six months. Nintendo Switch, it's like six years outdated but people keep buying it because it's their only option and it doesn't seem like Nintendo's going to do anything different anytime soon. It just is what it is. I got all of these like last year but both of these are sick and technically the A and Neo is better than the Steam Deck but the Steam Deck just makes more sense. But I will thank A and Neo for sending me their console and I hope they keep doing it every time because I love looking at them and it's going to be hard to not play this because of how cool it is and I already have it. I just need to find a way to keep it charged longer. All right guys, if you liked this video and you like it when I review these wacky consoles smash a like, subscribe, comment down below. I appreciate you guys. I'll see you soon. Bye.