TLO what's poppin We are on twitch. We are not live that you can leave a like comment subscribe turn on your pull notification Be a mind just continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK that is documentary Monday. I Think I didn't drop a good amount of video today. I've got this H&P Bell Marsh with Rose Kemp for some reason it got blocked so Whenever that gets unblocked y'all will have that and I also did part two to it But for some reason my video only recorded seven minutes of the hour long video So I don't know if I'm gonna be redoing that or not Because you know I do all my reactions live So it won't be the same. I might do it just because There's two parts which I will know that I've already watched it. So But benefit Street series one Season one episode for why they put series one Come on man. Get this together You'll see this street here James Turner Street. I don't want to watch the intro. I know exactly where it's done Oh episode is in gotta know where James Turner Street is in an area of Birmingham called Winston Green a Place where there are more people claiming unemployment benefits than anywhere else in the country Don't work. How are you gonna get money? No, I'd like to work for my money. Thank you Just take them Like these daughter. I mean white these daughter. Nope White these stop full-time work and started claiming benefits five years ago when she had her son Gerard You're not either I'm not gonna say I'm too old to have dreams because I'm not too old to have dreams but At this moment in time all my dreams are for my children. I don't want money. Just want them to be happy Be able to fulfill their education. That's a real talk to get a job You really just a lot of the times your dreams have to be put on pause when you had children And you got to live for a dream and whatnot But you know my daughter is 10 months. I'm going to continue They can create the difference the rest of the world. Yes And he's not have a living. I'd love it to have a career. I want both more kids to have careers I suppose a little vlog today. You just do want the best to be your kids Don't work on that. It's not just her own kids that white D is looking out for For many when there's a problem. She's the first person they turn to And today it's 25 year old mum of two SB who needs a help Two kids have attacked her son Tyrell whilst he was playing in the park Why don't one of the mums of the boys responsible? You know the police are involved, don't you? Yeah, of course the police are involved.  Do you know I'm saying this is This is what we're trying this is that's Tyrell kicked him in the head and stamped on his chest.  No, don't get your leg back Tyrell. I Don't look I don't condone any of this music.  And he's done it to my friend son, you know, I'm gonna keep it a buck with you.  Hey, that's just me personally.  I could buy the food that I wanted to buy but now I can't do that She's been looking for work as a model and has been approaching modeling agents with her photos The woman that was taking our photographs couldn't believe that I was pregnant and that I was in heels and I'm trying and pulling up these beautiful pictures SB gets no financial support from either of her children's fathers She hasn't seen Tyrell's dad since they split up Yeah We got together at 16 Got pregnant Last our first child it was a new girl the TV I gave birth to her But yeah Yeah, and then that's when domestic violence started after that And then 18 months later I had Tyrell Which was a bit of a blessing. It was a blessing To know that I could have another child But it was just upset in that I'm having a child with a man that just Kind of certainly beats me all the time domestic violence is I don't condone that at all That's tough. So he was beaten up. He was doing he was domestic violence in you and you had another child with him That's that's That's what domestic violence do to you.  He hasn't put me in that situation. Go ahead and actually do this You know, you're not holding me down forever He's holding me down for the last 10 years of my life from 15 to 25 It's April the phone across the country. It's a day of national mourning Did you know how your virtue is dead? Did you? You're not tuning into the funeral today, you're not interested Oh Man I just want to relax Who will watch my funeral? Talk about it says that class is for God All right, I know she was a good prime minister No, the only thing I don't like about it But she's done to the coal mourners and the workers things other than that. I think she's quite good What did she do for you? Can't be put on the street Yeah, you can't be put on the street. Yeah So she was all right was she For 10 years before he arrived on James Turner's dream home guy was homeless Did I get into this shit?  It's probably in there like that And you know, you got a gram by a certain time People know who's blank is a blanket to me. So they don't touch it by right, which is good You see where that piece of wood is there.  There's my daughter and all my nephew's and they serve She broke down and crying But the end of the day What really got me is that I was more interested in getting a hit. I'm seeing my daughter You know me I couldn't speak to the way I was. I didn't want to look at me the way I was For me Yeah, that's a rough one Fungi has a daughter and two sons all from different mothers Fungi was the rolling stone. He was putting that pickle anywhere, huh? His youngest son was adopted when he was four Okay But Fungi's held on to some mementos of their time together when he was three years old Only he may open this She's first teddy bear But he don't listen. It's for him when he was three only he may open this They're all the cards from when he was born Oh his drawings He will be now six and a half The family is with don't like me So he's down to them when I see my son Brought him up from the day he was born Until the eight years took Do you know what I mean? And you really, I'd like to see Do you know what I mean?  So I'm looking for cleaning jobs um What else have I been looking for? Cleaning, Secretarial Admin Hot Is it hot? Blow it I think I want to definitely made it more as a model In America then over here You know in America you never have more chance of you getting spotted or Stuff like that Wait, what did you say? I want to definitely made it more as a model Think I want to definitely made it more as a model In America then over here You know in America you never have more chance of you getting spotted or Stuff like that in in here We have to leave in London to get spotted. I don't leave in London Listen, I'ma tell you something right now. I got female friends that are models In America they want a certain You got to be a certain Not gonna lie. How old are you? Let's escape. What was this? 2020 This is obviously like some years ago probably when she was doing this And what at that time they wanted you to look a certain way Like not even you could be black whatever they don't care about that But your body got to be a certain way If you a black girl coming in there you have to be skinny because I have A few model friends that are African-American And they they went to my high school big models Victoria's Secret Model Like and they they coming like that It is real I don't know if y'all know who uh I forgot what she go by now, but her name was Erin Bubbly She went to my high school.  What's her name now? They changed it for modeling We are someone like as it was born lived in the um lived in the ghetto What made it big? You know I was born lived in Aston And I was in America with how many millions? Finding a career might not be fungi's first priority But he's determined to get his love that's her name. They changed it to uh, it was Erin Bubbly She had a twin sister name. Um Uh It doesn't even matter, but they changed it to heatherton. Her name is Erin heatherton now If you google her she's a Victoria's Secret Model. We went to high school together She used to hook Thank you and then I give you one when I got mine He's been living in his house for five years She's dead because of pitch black And he often finds himself without electricity None of these lights up here, you know, none of these lights up here work This is in my bathroom. I've never had to have a bath in there since I've been here Do you know what I mean? I have to go around to my dad's or pop over to Dee's or whatever But that fell off the wall the other day. What am I supposed to do?  Nah, I don't think so. That's the water coming through the little bit But this here basically that's supposed to be michelle I've had some baths in some dirty places, but that I wouldn't even attend. Yeah, I'm just crazy. Like I look think back. I went I went to a high school on suburbs And I'm thinking about it like we got like some famous people that went to that school like It's a couple comedians that's on tv shows like do stand-up comedy it's uh some uh It's a few models like Erin is her Then we had a girl named flow. She modeled a little bit then her best friend model That was a lot of them I sit back and I think like they're all right or they're my turn My turn I mean, I mean baddest myself Yeah, we kicked that out of high school. This is supposed to work. It's never worked since the day I've been here I mean the back door there's got a hole in it. You can't get through that Oh, why are you getting through that? You know what I mean? That's the alarm. So something comes through that falls off Like it was dead to the world earlier that I mean, that's what he's there for on these I've had enough I've had enough I just want to be normal. I'd like to know what it's like Try and remember what it's like to be normal Fungi's plan now is to get clean Methodo. Yeah Yeah, thank you And try to see his kids I'll see you all right. Thank you It's gonna be better than I want to drink these If I get clean and all that I'm praying to God. I'll just fall into place like a jigsaw does It is for myself But I want to get to know my kids really want to get my normal kids Come to the end where it's like You've got to stop Do you know me? It's a litty hand like his people say the first step is to admit it. Yeah, I've admitted it. So No, I'm on the verge of getting things sorted All right, it'd be after christmas before you even get near a height rehab Today is a big day for white d's 15 year old daughter katelyn She got a job She's running in a girls association athletics competition Why don't you go?   That's what's her And there's an added incentive for katelyn to do well today. She wants to pursue a career in sports When i'm older i'm gonna try and become a gym instructor Like anything to do with sports really When I was younger I wanted to do like hair and all that And then like as I started growing up I started to realize i'm not one of them people that want to be your head I'm one of them outgoing sporty people She gets second place She's been asked by an agency to take part in an audition The entrance fee is 20 pounds half the money she has left for the week If I put in the 20 pound and get back 20 grand you never know I just have to take the risk I've got food and stuff that can last for the kids for the week So i'm all right with that And and just hope for the best That something comes out of this even like now i'm pushing kiwi and I've got my hands like this. I'm still trying to practice more You know i'm getting on I might look younger But i'm not getting any younger and then within the model is in industry, you know You're gonna get your chance grab your chance while you can This is my chance Caitlyn's back home after competing in her athletics event Come in Caitlyn Second This is asian god and i've come first in the 200 Wow well done To help Caitlyn realize her dream of a career in sports white d has arranged work experience for her at the local leisure centre I told you not to come home with anything less than a france I'm just gonna see now how she gets on next week and Does the job okay? I just hope she does buckle down hard and that the opportunity is there for her to get a job How did you get on? golden silver We're taking cash converters on monday See how much i can go for it Isn't that funny SB's paid her 20 pounds and is taking part in the modeling competition in a central Birmingham casino What made you apply for mr. Mrs. Monmay? Um when i got scouted and something i've always wanted to do So Yeah Yeah, you just sit right back now, huh? You know my first walk i don't think it was too too powerful I just think that that asked me less questions and i had to do most of the walking So i don't know what's going on there But i just hope that the modeling can get me and my kids financially stable You know and it makes me think when i'm at home having my bad days You know with the kids i feel like i can't get to be the model that i want to be because i'm depressed all the time so Getting the chance to be a model Is is something that i want to do So it's it's it's great Keep hope alive with my boy See me sun tomorrow See me sun tomorrow We're only for an hour because that's all in my life Fun guys just receive some surprising news You're happy I'm seeing my son tomorrow Only for an hour my son for an hour Last time i saw him my son was three years ago I said that's what's gonna work tomorrow Do you know what i mean? Because i haven't seen my son for so long It's gonna kill me Don't don't get drunk tonight I'm back in the swing do it now i can start seeing my son again So as i know it's just happened completely out of the blue Don't know don't know how it's happened But he's over the moon so i've washed all his clothes for him and Do you know what i mean? So fingers crossed Then when the first made the phone call I'm thinking he's a hoax Someone's playing games with me, but he wasn't Do you know what i mean? It was the grandmother and i was glad Do you know what i mean?  You know what i mean?  And i feel good for it Do you know what i mean? I really do feel good for it That's what's up, fun guy It's the Geralt Oh he's late? FUN GUY!   Do that look bendy? No, beat your son in a few minutes What do you mean? Put me on your own Put me on your own What happened?  I smashed up Yeah, broken You're not going to let it break, yeah That close to your lesson, I believe that Do you want to try and go through the proper channels to see it? Not later Why? Because he's been adopted now, mate So they've actually adopted it?  And they're not allowed Just let him see his son, man You know what I mean? It's like It's out of order Mark's an out-of-work dad bringing up two kids on James Turner Recently, his benefits were cut Finding enough money to put food on the table is becoming a headache Mark and his partner Becky are resorting to a food bank to feed their family You gotta do what you gotta do We're pleading for food That's the way I see it We've gotta plead for food these days I don't like it, like using the food bank Because that's the way it shouldn't be Looks all right around here What it is like, I mean poverty, scavenging, scavenging for food For our cupboards It shouldn't be like that in this society But Mark is not alone Around 350,000 people in the UK relied on food banks last year I haven't noticed the first time I've actually come So the reason that you're here is low income So are you working on it? I'm not, no You're not? Are you on some economic benefit? All we get is job seekers allowance Are you claiming that? As a football Yeah And you've got two children I have, yeah How old are they? One's one And the other one's three Okay, what I'll do, I'll just take this into the back They'll pack your parcel for you And then we'll just have a little bit of a chat More about your situation Yeah, that's fine Right, thank you It was a care worker who identified Mark's family As being in need of help Maybe one more sugar About half sugar However, the voucher that was issued Is in his partner Becky's name Okay, well because it's in your partner's name Have you got anything to go on to prove that she's your partner? Because normally we wouldn't Unless it was a support worker We wouldn't just give out the food parcel Oh yeah, but nothing come there So the only thing we can do is either actually to come back later Or I should go on to come back That's going to be complicated Because he has a good birth money again Can't believe that Because they can't prove that I'm Becky's partner They've told me to have a Wait for them to find them up later Richard, by the time the phone up here it'd be closed anyway Now I've got to go and explain to Becky For Becky to come up here It's really, really badly annoying But what can I do about it?     This is SB SB didn't get the modeling job But battering herself isn't the only thing on her mind She's also trying to make sure her son Tyrell Is heading down the right track He's had problems in and out of school Every time we used to get mad, I always used to pick up the tables And then the minute I got really happy I picked up a chair and hit someone in the head with an electronic Because I threw it By accident There's badness all around But I don't want him to grow up like that So I try my best to sometimes we go church You know, some way so he can know God It's hard for a single woman like to raise a boy You can only teach them so much, you know what I'm saying You can't teach a boy a man A woman can't teach a man that a boy ought to be a man You know Simple And things like that I wouldn't want him to grow up and be a bad man And stuff like that at all SB's worried that Tyrell's bad behavior Is partly down to the domestic abuse he's witnessed I just don't want my kids to have the life that I had I wouldn't want my daughter to go through domestic violence And I wouldn't want my son to put anybody His child or daughter through what his dad put me through She decided to home school her son With the help of a couple from the church Is still bullfrog Swimming or sleeping Tyrell is a typical boy for what the trauma that he's been through It's left an imprint on his mind So we have to try and let him know that Not our fathers are the same It's hard It's a struggle He wants that happy family And I would love to give him that happy family But there ain't a man out there right about now That can make that family complete Because I've got to make sure He's the right person For me as well as my kids Facts That's a fact It's just more subtle Package deal nowadays You can't just be trying to get SB Cooch You're going to worry about her kids too I just want the best for him really I really, really do White D might not be able to repair Fun Guy's relationship with his son But there's one thing she can't help fix The door The door is going to take an hour Do you want to come in and have a look? Come on Fun Guy's had no electricity for eight weeks Damn He's managed to get the utility company to come around and connect it At least we've got electricity down to you What can I say? I can only love you more than I love you now Yes! Man's happy Thank you gentlemen So if I had money I'd give it to you Sure guys, thank you Yes I've got to get some money now for me getting electric and me gas And then I've got everything I need I'm happy It's not like that It's nice Dave I used to be an electrician, yeah So now you used to be an electrician Now that the shit worked Where was you when it didn't work bro? Get out Matter of fact Just get out That's a fault if you're in He didn't used to be electrician Get out Of course I'm not even listening at the moment Steve Sorry Because it seems something I don't know I've watched it for eight weeks I can sit here tonight now It's a one o'clock in the morning And watch Terry At last Put a bit of heat in on Do you know something?  What happened? 20 Do you only promise? Don't have no money Tell me If you've made it this far And you do not follow my Instagram please I only got 35 more until I'm at 2000 I really want 10k But like I said over two Like go ahead just you know The lit one Simple That's right though Dead balance now It's repeatable for free So I don't say why I have to pay Holding down a steady job Is one thing fun guys never quite managed Stretchies in prison have always got in the way My mother brought us up properly And I don't know how we went wrong T-H-E-E underscore L-I-T underscore O-N-E That's all Simple My mum and dad did this very street What did you do? You first said the crime?  I've done a lot of things I've done a lot Yeah I'm serious McDonald's McDonald's What were you after?    Fun guy's still working on his plan to get clean And get back in contact with his children Having the positive attitude I'm sure you'll be fine If you haven't had the attitude I've got the attitude yeah But he's just getting in He's just getting in He has been clean He's been eating He has been looking after himself He does not want to go back to where he was before Next please Take out I forgot his B work there 2.99 please Having not got the modelling job she wanted SB found part-time work in a takeaway You know something I paid exactly 450 for this one yesterday 450 I saved you yesterday You did yeah exactly the same one Not in a small The big one That's why he had veg How much of the veg? 50 BX So I wouldn't have charged you 450 I know it's not for the bigger one You know it's not the best job But it's the way it pays He puts food on the table And stuff at the moment So I'm still going to look for the job I want Tabot I was thinking to audition again Man said I paid the exact same thing For the same thing yesterday Dude veggie is not the same thing yeah How do you want people to see that? Oh listen Next tap model You like it? Let me see you here She real patient Because I would have told them That's not the same thing Just like that That's not the same thing And that would have been the end of my conversation Why don't you have a job? Because I'm going to do the gym and everything K all over again Yeah well you still can do it though I've always wanted to earn my own money And you know Where we lived and stuff like that My mum didn't have a job You know so For me growing up I needed to have my own money You should do it You go and do your own thing And I'm going to do my driving lessons now Now I want to It's not that I don't want to do it But it's just hard now It's not going to be for long though is it?  Yes I feel like I was born to be a star What else? What else do you want? How the food is there? Something like kind of good For Caitlyn Her first taste of the daily grind Work experience at the sports centre Has come to an end I think my mum is going to be very proud of me Because I did try my hardest this week And she knows I don't like getting up early in the morning And she's probably going to be proud of me That I actually did get up early in the morning I really enjoyed it They've got a cool relationship So Matam If you learnt anything about working Is it easy? Is it hard? It's hard It's very hard Is it? Yeah And that's all funny isn't it?  Yes Definitely Yes Oh I'm so proud of you Bones She doesn't really talk about her ambitions But I don't really have any worries about her I mean she's such a grounded girl I can actually see Caitlyn getting what she wants Me too You're asking about a proper job or any other proper job? No, why? Can't be bothered after what I've been through this week In your face Ah! But out on meeting his youngest son Trying out, yeah Fongai's now trying to contact his 23-year-old daughter I mean he's a smart phone See you bag of nerds man Oh no, please don't do that He hasn't seen his daughter for over a year I'm sorry The number you have called is temporarily unavailable Please try again later Change the number on the phone Yeah, I weren't the best dad in the world But I'm trying now Do you know what I mean? All right It's four years a bit too late but But I'm trying Do you know what I mean? For the grandkids sake Do you know what I mean? No, no, no, Fongai don't look that old His ex-partner, Dommar The mother of his daughter I want to find out what's going on I'll be with my family man Do you know what I mean? Why am I being blank so much? Unable to speak to his daughter His only option is to visit Dommar You think I blew on Millie Pseboi? Because you know I've been second bills Fongai If I was just walking in the crib like that What if she got a new man or something? Dommar has just got back from a night shift And is looking after her granddaughter She wouldn't ever turn her back completely on him I know she wouldn't It's her dad But they ain't got that closeness Yeah, we ain't got that bond Too late for that now She was 23, no? No, I can't believe you've just seen her then 20 years old Where's that from, brother? I met it in jail I don't know, she was about three It's in prison? I met the baby of those days You'd see her for four years, did you?  I'm on medication now, look, I have to carry it with me What's medication? Drugs Man, you know what? Never done Yeah Yeah I can't get off and look at them just like that No, no, no But look at how long has it been? Yeah, I've got it down 180 mil and then it's 180 mil now Just 80 mil, not 180 It's just, I think it's a lot to do with the area he lives in as well and the friends he's got Yeah, well, moving out of there anyway To change your life like that, you have to complete, though Make a gentleman a big, big break My alcoholic, bruv You're an alcoholic now? Oh, Jesus That's not what I'm saying Imagine it You shot one for another one I don't think he could live the normal life See I'm going to be trying to get some cooch Some cooch from down, look at that You know, it's just being normal What, he's normal? I know, yeah, true All right, listen, I'm going to let you look after the kids tonight, yeah? Yeah You'll be good, right?   We're a producer's trove, huh?  Twenty years ago, man Come on, let's get out of here It's too many memories here for me What's up, man?  It's a shame he passed away I feel like he was on the right path during the show Maybe it got worse It's, it's wonderful It's nice to call it What the hell is this? You don't even know who the next door neighbors are I don't want to, I don't want to see the preview I just want to watch it, man Till I leave a like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post I hope you enjoyed documentary Monday Well, I have a TV series on this one But whatever, I'm gone Follow the Instagram, leave a like


All praise belongs to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the Lord of the worlds, the one and only true God, the most compassionate, the merciful. There is nothing like him whatsoever. He is the all-hearing, yet he is the all-hearing and the all-seeing. And peace and blessings be upon our Master Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wa la li wa sallam, the final Messenger of God, the Seal of the Prophets, the Commander of the Righteous, the Leader of the Messengers, and the Beloved of the Lord of the Worlds. In the next couple of days, inshallah ta'ala, we will enter the month of Dhul-Hijjah, inshallah this is the month of the blessed Hajj, the pilgrimage. Of course the rites of the Hajj go back to our father, the Prophet Ibrahim alaihi sallam, whose name literally means the father of nations, the one who is called the friend of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Khalilullah, in the Torah, in the Injil, and in the Quran. The Hajj is Abrahamic, it has nothing to do with paganism, it has everything to do with Tawheed. So in the spirit of the season, as it were, I would like to look at a beautiful passage in the Quran, a passage that I refer to as the Abrahamic monologue. This is found in Surah 26 of the Quran, verses 75 to 89, and it has two sections. So both sections are essentially didactic, meaning that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala through the Prophet Ibrahim alaihi sallam is teaching us something. So what is he teaching us? He's teaching us theology, the proper understanding of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This is usuluddin, this is the most noble of sciences in our tradition because it deals with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So in the first section Ibrahim alaihi sallam, he's speaking to his people about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. His people are the ancient Caldeans, the ancient Babylonians, who worshiped a pantheon of gods. They were mushrikin, they were polytheists. And then in the second section Ibrahim alaihi sallam is speaking directly to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the form of supplication, a dua. But you will see how Ibrahim alaihi sallam's speech is trans-historical. In other words, how his speech is absolutely relevant for us today. It is timeless. So his speech begins, Have you really considered what you worship? Have you really considered what you worship? You and your ancestors. They are all enemies to me except the Lord of the worlds. And our master Mufassir, he says here something interesting in his tafsir. He says that these verses are one of the strongest proofs against what's known as theological taqleed and a proof for istidlal. So taqleed is blind conformance or uncritical faith. It's following someone without due inquiry or to believe without evidence. So taqleed in matters of creed or theology is unacceptable. Don't just follow someone because someone told you to follow someone or because someone is charismatic or popular. You have to actually believe what you claim to believe. So this is very important. And you have to be able to explain your beliefs even if it's just at a basic level. This is called being discursive in our theology. You have to be able even to a small extent to provide the evidence or proofs of your e-man to other people. You don't have to be a theologian but you have to know something. You know Socrates is famous for saying the unexamined life is not worth living. In our tradition we can say the unexamined faith is not real believing. You should be able to explain to an atheist why God exists and why God is one using philosophical and rational proofs. We should be able to explain to the Christian why Jesus is not divine using rational and scriptural proofs. We should be able to explain why we believe that the Prophet Muhammad is the messenger of God and why the Quran is the word of God using rational, logical, historical, linguistic and scriptural proofs. We believe because it is rational. Faith in God is rational. All of the commandments of God, all of the commandments of Allah are rational. Imam Al-Qurdubi, he points out that due to Ibrahim A.S. statement, all of them are my enemies except the Lord of the world. He says that this indicates that the ancient Babylonians like the Quraish at the time of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did believe in Allah in some sense but they attributed some falsehood to him. There was a large population of Semites living in ancient Babylon at that time who like the Quraish understood that they were inheritors of a prophetic legacy or tradition. The life of the patriarch Ibrahim A.S. is often mirrored in the life of our master Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So even today most people believe in God but their theology needs refinement and needs correction. That's the relevance. And then he says, And now he begins his theological monologue that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the Creator. He is the only Creator in reality because logic tells us that there can only be one true Creator to ask the question who created the Creator is total nonsense. Why? Because by definition the Creator is uncreated. If the Creator was created then he is not the Creator. He doesn't merit the title Creator. If there was no beginning to the universe, if there was not creation ex nihilo out of nothing then we are stuck in infinite regress which is repugnant to the intellect. It is intelligent to believe in one Creator who created from nothing. And He guides me, he says. The emphasis on the He alone, this verb is imperfect. He alone guides me and continues to guide me. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the majestic, all powerful and timeless Creator. He is also in some sense personal, intimate, close to His creation. He is kareeb. He shows us the way. He's not some impersonal distant or removed God. He's not the God of the Greek philosophers. He's personal. When my servants ask you concerning me, say I am close to them. I answer every supplication of every supplicant should he call upon me. We created man and we know what to do and we are well acquainted with what his soul suggests to him. And we are closer to the human being than his jugular vein. Allah says. And He knows what goes into the earth and what comes out of the earth. He knows what comes down from the sky and what goes up to the sky. And He is with you wherever you are. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with respect to what you're doing is well aware. He is all seen. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is neither totally imminent nor totally transcendent. He crashes the binary. This is amazing. And then He says. He is the one who feeds me and gives me to drink. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the only source of life, the ultimate sustainer of our existence. The outward meaning is food and water. Ibn A'jiba however says in his beautiful tafsir al-Bahru al-Madeed which is an esoteric exegesis of the Quran. This is perfectly permissible as long as the tahrir, the botany meaning doesn't contradict the tahrir meaning. Allah says this refers to the food of ma'rifah and the drink of ma'habah, the food of gnosis and the drink of love that this is what the Quran provides us, knowledge of God leading to His love, our spiritual sustenance. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the source of our physical sustenance as well as our spiritual sustenance. وَإِذَا مَرِتُوا فَهُوَا يَشْفِينِ إِبْرْهِمْ عَلَيْسَلَمْ كَانْتِينُوزَ And when I am sick He heals me. And sicknesses are of two types. The first type is psychosomatic, dealing with the mind and body. But there's also spiritual diseases. اِمَام جَافَرَ الصَّادِقْ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ تَنَعَنْهُ He said, when I am sick due to sin, He heals me with tawbah, with repentance. The Quran says about Ibrahim A.S. فَنَّظْرَ نَظْرَتَنْ فِنْ نُجُومْ فَقَالِ اِمْنِ صَقِيمْ He casted a glance towards the stars and He said, indeed I am sick. ابن كثير He says that the idolatry of His people made His heart feel sick. And this was out of His compassion. The compassion of Ibrahim A.S. That He loved His people so much that just the thought of their punishment would make Him ill. And the Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. was the same way and we should be the same way. Allah SWT speaks directly in the Quran to the Prophet S.A.W. And by extension to all of us فَلَعَلَّكَ بَاْخِ وِنَّفْسَكَ عَلَى آثارِهِمْ إِلَّمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِهَادَ الْحَدِيْفِي أَسَفَاءِ Perhaps you might worry yourself to death over them if they do not believe in this message. But Allah SWT tells him time and again and by extension to all of us إِنَّكَ لَا تَهْدِيمَنْ أَحْبَبْتِ وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهِ يَهْدِيمَنْ يَشَاءِ You cannot guide all whom you love but Allah SWT will guide them, whomever He chooses لَيْسَ عَلَيْكَ هُدَاهُمْ It is not upon you to guide them وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهِ يَهْدِيمَنْ يَشَاءِ But Allah SWT is the ultimate guide Society might make us sick to our stomachs and right now what's going on in society is making us sick to our stomachs but we have to trust in Allah SWT Now so far in this passage by the way from a linguistic standpoint we have three defective verbs this is for like the linguistic nerds or geeks whatever we have three defective verbs in juxtaposition with three strong verbs in the Arabic this adds to the incredible eloquence of the Abrahamic monologue it's very subtle but the Arab shu'ara the poets will have picked up on this by the way this monologue is in a surah called as shu'ara the poets but then Ibrahim alaihi salam he continues وَالَّذِ يُمِيتُنِ ثُمَّ يُحْيِينَ The one who causes me to die and causes me to live Imam Fakhredin al-Razi said that only a being capable of the acts listed in these series of verses 78-81 of as shu'ara only a being capable of these acts is worthy and deserving of worship is معبود بحقه what are these acts? creation guidance sustaining causing health and sickness causing death and life and then he says and the one who I hope will forgive my sins on the day of judgment Mujahid said that this could be a reference to 2163 in the Quran in which Ibrahim alaihi salam quote-unquote lied to his people and said that the largest idol smashed all the other idols but Imam al-Razi he says this was not actually a lie because his intention was not deception his intention was to demonstrate an absurdity and their belief that Ibrahim alaihi salam was demonstrating the dangers and follies of theological taqleed ask your average Christian why do you believe in the doctrine of the trinity? he'll probably say it's in the Bible and as Muslims we have to have enough knowledge to follow this answer with where is it? show me where in the Bible that the trinity is explicitly taught in the Bible produce book chapter in verse and after finding nothing in the Bible many Christians come to the realization that the only reason why they believed in the trinity was because of theological taqleed blind imitation of their leaders they were told to believe that God was three without seeing the evidence Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Quran, in the context of Christianity he says subhanallah say, oh people of the book again, speaking in the first instance to the Christians do not exaggerate in your religion beyond the truth and do not follow the desires and caprices of a people who went astray and thus led many other people astray and continued to stray from the right path Dallal is mentioned in this ayah three times to the Christian leaders who invented the trinity went astray then with their theology they led millions more astray then the Christians at the time of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi salam and even today reject the Prophet sallallahu alaihi salam because he did not teach the trinity and thus they continued to go astray continued compounded Dallal but the Quran wants to ask the Christians have you really considered what you worship? It's the same question Ibrahim alaihi salam asks his people and like the people of Ibrahim alaihi salam the Christians in principle worship Allah the God of Abraham but they need correction in their theology and then he says Rabbi habli hukman wa al-hikni bi saniheen oh my Lord grant me a judgment process and bind me to the righteous and this begins the second section of the Abrahamic monologue his supplication to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala which is still didactic he's teaching us theology through dua and he says Rabbi Rabbi denotes a personal deity the Rabbi is the one who takes care of you loves you sustains you protects you habli grant me this is called a fi'l du'a it's not an amr we don't give an amr to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala it's a fi'l of supplication habli grant me Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is al-wahhab he is the one who gives things even though we are undeserving grant me what? hukman a judgment process by which I might recognize the truth in other words a stronger sense of discernment all of us are born with a conscience the word conscience comes from con in science with knowledge we all have the ability to intuit to a certain degree what is good what is bad, what is beneficial, what is harmful what is beautiful and ugly we have this naturally we are not a tabula rasa we are not a clean slate however bad education and sin and disobedience and shaitan can delude and deceive us even to the point where the bad is seen as good the ugly is seen as beautiful and the harmful is seen as healthy and this is happening today all over our society so we need reminders that's why the Quran is adhikr the reminder we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to grant us a sustained and sharp process of judgment by which we might see the reality behind the form in this vein the Prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam he is supplicated Allahumma arina al-haqqa haqqan wa razzukna ittiba'a a beautiful dua'a O our Lord, O Allah show us the truth as truth and give us the ability to follow what wa arina al-baatila baatilan wa razzukna ittiba'a ittinaabah and show us the falsehood as falsehood and give us the ability to shun it and then Ibrahim alayhi sallam he says wajalli lisana sutqin fil aakhireen and attribute to me a tongue of truthfulness among the later generations in other words, when people speak of me in later times may their tongue speak truthfully about me Imam al-Qurtubi and Imam al-Razi they say this could be understood as a prayer for a great prophet to come in the later days so in other words something like raise up the speech of a truthful prophet in the later generations concerning me and of course this sadaq, this assadiq al-ameen was the holy prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam the final messenger of God he is the prophet of the Abrahamic restoration and I'll tell you this, my brothers and sisters I'm gonna tell you something, have a little bit of time I studied the sacred texts of the Jews and the Christians believe it or not for 25 years many people said I wasted my time and I've studied their normative exegetical tradition and even their sacred languages according to their own books according to the book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible this is in the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible a greatly praised nation in Ummah led by a leader highly beloved to God will come and conquer the fourth beast of Daniel's visions the prophet Daniel had a vision of four beasts these are symbols the fourth beast was interpreted as the Roman Empire by the most authoritative Jewish exegetes the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans now Daniel also said that one of the Roman emperors will fight and oppress the monotheistic believers and commit an act of unimaginable blasphemy and I believe that when you look at the evidence this emperor was clearly Hadrian who fought against and expelled all the Jews and the Jewish Christians, the people of Tohid from Jerusalem and placed a statue of Zeus on the Temple Mount however Daniel says that this beast will be killed by this coming great nation in 1,335 years it actually gives a time, an exact date Hadrian became emperor on August 11th, 117 of the common era the prophecy says that during the Roman period a powerful and holy prophet called the Baranash in Aramaic the son of man will come with a nation of saints who will definitively end the Roman Empire the fourth beast now the Christians say this is us the Christians claim this is our nation but Hellenistic Christianity starting with Constantine converted the Roman Empire they did not conquer it they became an extension of the fourth beast by 381 of the common era Trinitarian Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire so now Kufr and Shirk that had corrupted the message of Issa A.S. was all over the Empire and the true Muwahidun the true monotheists the Jews and the Unitarian or Ebonite Christians were being marginalized and persecuted then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala raised the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam with the pure Tauhid the Tauhid of the prophets of old he is the prophet of the Abrahamic restoration one by one the major cities of Byzantium the Eastern Roman Empire fell to the Muslims this was the great universal monotheistic ummah that Daniel foresaw in his vision and on May 25th, 1453 Constantinople the city of Constantine was conquered by the Ottomans and this was officially this officially and definitively ended the Roman Empire this was exactly 1,335 years after Hadrian became Emperor it's amazing August 11th, 117 to May 29th, 1453 is 1,335 years, nine months and 18 days is Ajid, this is in their books the Quran says Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and those with him, his ummah are fierce against unbelievers yet compassionate among themselves you will see them bowing, prostrating seeking grace from God in his pleasure their marks on their faces is from the traces of their worship and the Tauhid of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is the Tauhid of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam these marks are from the traces of their worship that is their similitude in the Jewish Scriptures a nation of holy saints who conquered disbelieving nations that's their similitude in the Torah and the Jewish Scriptures that is Daniel chapter 7 Walaa talbisul haqqa bilbaatili wa taqtumul haqqa wa antum ta'lamoon Allah SWT says to the Bani Israel don't clothe truth with falsehood nor conceal the truth when you have the knowledge of the truth And make me from the inheritors of the garden of bliss and forgive my father, he was from the wrongdoers and do not disgrace me on the day that the dead are raised on the day that neither children nor wealth will benefit except the one who brought to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala a sound heart, a qalb salim and the exegesis in the Quran, they say a heart, this means a free heart of shirk in dunya and full of love and reverence for Allah and his messenger and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us such hearts, I say this and I ask Allah to forgive you and forgive him, he is the Forgiving, repent to Allah, I repent to him. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of all the worlds, peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, the Most Merciful, and upon our leaders and our Ummah, Abu Bakr, Omar, Uthman and Ali, and may Allah be pleased with the companions of the Messenger of Allah, he is a group, he says, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in his holy book, we say, and I seek refuge with Allah from Satan, the accursed, in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful,


Curious, just what was the reaction in your room to the Jedevi and Clowney news and how much do you figure your guys have a half a second or however much time, less to have to defend on most past plays now? Obviously, the guys were excited when you could add a player, JD's caliber, and us in the back end just understanding that's just going to help us on defense and be able to get after the quarterback. And it's going to make our job a lot easier when we could put pressure on the quarterback. So adding a guy like JD, the guys were really excited. Teresa? Hey, coach, how has Christian Fulton come along? He missed a couple of a few days there. Has his rookie preseason gone like you'd hope? And how has he kept pace? He's been fine, obviously. But a lot of rookies, it's just tough not having that offseason. But these guys have put in the extra time and extra hours just trying to get caught up to speed. So where we need these guys to be. And he's been coming along fine. And we're happy where he's at. Buck? Hey, coach, appreciate you doing this. If you could also speak to the progress that Chris Jackson has made. Kevin Byrd was incredibly complimentary of what he's seen out of him from a veteran's perspective throughout the course of training camp. Have you seen, have you been equally as impressed as Kevin or what observations have you made about his progress? I've been really impressed from the time we drafted Chris from our first meetings on Zoom. He's come in, he's prepared, he's smart. He has great attention to detail. He listens, he takes coaching. And he leans on the veteran guys. And those guys are helping him out. And he's earned their respect by the way he comes to the meetings and compete in the meeting room and also compete on the practice field. And he's done that throughout the entire camp that we had.  And he's really earned the respect of the veterans by the way he's prepared and the way he competes on the field. Glennon. Hey, Anthony. Yeah, a couple of questions for you. One sort of a follow on Chris Jackson there. I know he was kind of maybe a safety or a corner when you guys drafted him. Did he end up playing pretty much all corner in training camp? Or is there still potential for kind of a hybrid situation there at all? We moved him around. He's basically been focusing on corner, but Chris has the versatility to play anywhere we ask him to play. He has that type of football IQ that whatever we ask him to do he can handle it. But right now he's really just playing at the corner spot right now, not safe. Sure, and just a thought on Denver. Two of the, of course, the main guys you focus on, Drew Locke and I guess Jerry Judy, there's not a whole lot of pro tape to analyze, I don't guess. How do you go about preparing for them and just maybe what are your thoughts on those two players at this point? Well, obviously, Locke started the last five games for him, went four and one, did a really good job finishing out the season, finished with some momentum. So we have some tape to go on there. And then with Judy, obviously, you got to go back with no preseason game and study what he did at Bayman College and watch the guy. He's a really talented receiver. We understand that we got our work cut out for us. But not only those two guys, they have Sutton, who's a top flight receiver in this league, who's a big physical guy that we're going to have to contend with as well. Eric, Bo-Claire. Anthony, what did you lose with Dane Crookshank getting hurt in terms of versatility and some options in terms of coverage? Well, obviously, when you lose a player like Dane, obviously, not only on defense, but a core special team player for us. And from a depth standpoint, a guy that was playing at a high level for us. So obviously, we're going to miss his athleticism and what he brought. But we just want him to get healthy as possible. He's still engaged in the meet rooms. But obviously, we're going to miss Dane for what he brought to us from a depth standpoint and the value he added on special teams. Try Eric again. Sorry about that. I've lost connection. Hey, Anthony, I was just curious about the impact that Jadevian Clowney has on the rest of the secondary. And I also want to ask you about your personal relationship with him, just what that's like going back to Houston. Well, Jadev, obviously, like I said before, when you add a guy that can get after the quarterback and affect the quarterback, obviously, that helps us in the back end. Obviously, we still got to do our job. But when you pass for us just guys that can affect the game and affect the quarterback, it really helps you as a unit and as a defense as a whole. But Jadev, like me and Jadev were really close. Obviously, with my time in Houston, he's a guy that I would talk to every day. And Jadev is just a down-to-earth guy, great personality. And guys are going to love him here. The one thing I can say when you get him on Sunday, he plays hard.  So that's the thing you respect about the guy. But I'm happy for Jadev that he ended up here with us and we get a chance to reunite and hopefully look for good things for him helping us out this year. Got one here for you, Coach. Christian, obviously, missed practice time due to injury. How challenging is it to keep him up to speed after no OTs, no minicamp, no offseason, and then missing practice reps?  But he's been engaged, he's been in every meeting, he's been doing the walk-throughs, the jog-throughs, and he's actually been back out there the last couple of days. So we just got to keep him going as much as possible to keep him engaged, continue to ask him questions.  We coach off well, they make a mistake and have to get it corrected. So it's a little different than just, you know, just going through a jog-through. But as many live reps as you can get, the more he'll continue to get better.


in its cloud recording right now. So yeah, welcome to the kickoff for folks that can please help out promote people from attendees to panelists. This is of course the call for the kickoff of 11.0 and I'm gonna start by sharing my screen. Josh at the end is gonna tell us if this is the best release ever. So we'll wait for that. And so in the discussion area, I'm really excited because we're doing a variety of things and on the ultimate end of the front, we're going to really close the loop and make epics really complete and have all the features that you would expect from epics. And if you've been using epics right now, you see that they're very similar in nature to issues of merge requests, but you might be thinking, oh, why can't I do to dos or search for, you know, autocomplete and identify other issues and Malaston and stuff like that in the comments and description. And so we're exactly closing that gap in 11.1. And so we're gonna do that, let me, sorry. So yeah, I'm gonna keep going, sorry for the interruption there. And so we're gonna do that for epics. And one thing to note is that you can already get notifications for epics right now. So people have been enjoying using that feature. That's great, I encourage more people to use epics, but we're gonna add to dos and autocomplete. So in addition to getting the email notifications in your email inbox, you'll get the to dos as well in your to dos menu inside GitLab. We've been pushing hard for Jera support inside GitLab and integrating with Jera because it's a lot of our customers are using Jera and they have a lot of legacy systems with Jera. They enjoy using Jera and we wanna support those users, those customers. There's a great feature inside Jera, the development panel. And we have a great support for that inside GitLab. So in the development panel, you can create a merge request, a branch, and a lot of other features that integrate into the SCM tool, in our case, GitLab. But right now subgroup support is not supported there. So if you have subgroups inside GitLab, the dev panel will not work. And so we're correcting that exactly in 11-1. Some weights and issue board column, this has been a stretch issue in the past and we unfortunately can get to it. So we definitely wanna set as a deliverable and be able to see of all the issues inside a issue board column or a list, you can see right now that there's five issues. There's a count for that. And before those five issues, what is the combined weight of those five issues? You'll be able to see that inside an issue board list once we ship this feature. And what I'm doubly excited about is that in 11-0 in the release that's shipping in a couple of weeks, you're going to have assigning lists as well. So not only will you have assigning lists in 11-0 in 11-1.1, you're going to be able to see for, Victor has, assigning list has five issues assigned to Victor and you're gonna be able to see of those five issues, the combined weight of say 23 is also assigned to Victor. So that's super, super helpful if you're doing any type of project management. And so that's a starter feature because weight is a starter feature. The rest of these features are core features, which are things like filter discussion by comments, by comments, activity and issues in merge request, filter by work in progress merge request, a community member started this and we're wrapping it up. So I'm really excited about that. Showing information and pipeline sections design, we have this feature in GillLab, but as our widget becomes increasingly powerful inside GillLab, we want to improve the design and make this super awesome. So we're going to work on that in this iteration. Similar to usable milestone list pages, again, improved design. And finally, batch commenting, we really wanted to do this for a couple of iterations now and we've been blocked by a significant view refactor that's going to come in also in 11-1 and that's going to improve a lot of performance but very importantly, it's going to unblock us to be able to do a batch commenting. So really excited that we can work on that in 11-1 and ship that and that that's going to be a premium feature. Fabio, tell us more about CI CD and security. Yeah, thank you, Victor. Always a lot of issues for discussion that that's awesome all the time. And I don't think that it's too hard to figure out this is the best release ever, as Joshua said. So let's start with CI CD 11.1. So first of all, we are moving on a very new design for the environments view. We are envisioning this pipeline way to understand environments because you have environments but they are normally related with each other and you want to promote your deployments, for example, from staging to production. In order to do that, it's very helpful that you can know exactly which is the status on staging which is the actual status on production but also which are the differences between staging and production. So you know exactly what you're adding to your production environment as soon as you are promoting it. So this first iteration is adding a tab in the environment view in order to give users the ability to know about their environment in this new approach that we are validating. This will be improved in the future and so you will see information like environment theme. You have links to jump into the real deployment. So a URL you can reach with your browser but we also want to show the merge requests that are in one particular environment but they are not in the next one. So you can exactly spot the differences and you know which are the features that are gonna add in the new one. We are also working with a community contributor that already, thank you for that, to an interactive web terminal for CICD jobs. This is very, very interesting and allows you to jump in the job while the job is being executed by the runner. This is very awesome if you want to debug or if you want to do a post-failure analysis of the environment. Normally you are working with a Kubernetes executor or with a Docker executor. It means that at the end of the job the virtual environment, the disposable environment is trashed away and you have no way to access logs, to access information to perform more analysis. You just have to rely on the output log that you can see in GitHub. But with this new feature you will have an interactive session with the runner and with your job. This has a lot of different implications. It can be used in very different ways and they're very happy that this could be leveraged in the near future by the platform team in the web IDE. So it's something that you want to build. It already has a very specific target but also the generic target is very, very cool. And we are also implementing a way to stop environments manually. In the perfect flow, your environments will always be automatically stopped. For example, when you merge a merge request and the review app will be automatically shut down and cleaned up. But sometimes you just have environments that are not closed, that are not cleaned up and there are wasting resources. They are just showing in the list that creating garbage that you want to void. So we want just to provide a very simple way to click on a button and to trash away your environment that you don't need anymore. And that's it for CICD in 11.1. Let's talk about security products features in 11.1. The first very important thing we want to work on is the security dashboard. This is the first step in our intent to support the security teams and security people as a first-class entity in GearLab. So if you are part of a security team, more than the repository code, you probably want to have a security overview on the project that you are caring about. And this is exactly the place where you want to land. Security dashboard in this first iteration will present you the list of projects that you want to keep under monitoring with a very brief overview of the security status coming from the reports that you can also access in the MergeQuest widget or the pipeline level. From there, obviously you are allowed to jump in specific projects and to see more details if you are interested in. This is also intended to be an option that users can set as their default homepage when they're logging into GearLab. So now you have a few options, mainly for developers. You can have your repository or the list of projects. These kinds of things that are very cool for developers could be not optimal for security folks. They will be able to set the security dashboard as such. Another very cool feature that we want to implement in 11.1 is a second iteration on the license management story. So in 11.0, you are able to see the licenses that are in your project because of dependencies of other tools that you are using inside your project. With this new iteration, you will be able to mark the licenses that you accept as part of your project or that you don't want to allow. This means that if your project is open source and is using a license that you don't want to allow because it breaks the open source idea you have for your project to redistribute it, you can just disallow it, blacklist it, and you will see when you create a merge request adding this new license that you don't want that there is a problem, so you can take action. Also, you can just say, you know, this license is good to me, market at green, and so this license will not be considered as a possible problem in the future because you already allowed it. Then we also continuously add the new functionalities, continuing functionalities, what we already have for container scanning and DEST and SEST, so you can find in the list a few issues that will close the loop with existing features that are not implemented for container scanning and DEST. In this specific case, we are working to show the security reports for container scanning and for DEST at a pipeline level. We already have in the merge request widget, but you want also people to access them at the pipeline level. The last point is about a new support for SEST for Node.js projects. We are still evaluating tools and as usual, we are using the best tools available on the market that are also open source and people will just have to run jobs as usual. They will be automatically detected as Node.js projects and the correct tool will be run and the reports will be available. And that's all for security products and now big announcement from starting from 11.1, but they are still, they're already working. There is a new team in Gillab that is the configuration team that is taking over the job about Kubernetes and out to DevOps. So Daniel, what about your planning? Thank you, Fabio. So we have some exciting additions in the configuration area and we'll start with support for Kubernetes RBAC for GitLab managed apps. So now that RBAC has been made generally available in Kubernetes, we're going to support it and implement it as the default authorization method for cluster security. So we recognize the importance of security in the context of deploying applications to our clusters and we want to ensure that we are securing applications properly. So additionally, RBAC is now enabled by default in platforms such as Google's GKE and Amazon's BKS. So it go further to that as well. So this means that when you create a cluster in the Kubernetes area of GitLab on their operations, RBAC will be enabled by default. And then when you deploy an application via GitLab, say Prometheus or Jupyter Hub, RBAC world creation will be automatically handled based on the Helm chart settings for those apps. So we're very excited to bring RBAC into our Kubernetes integration. Let's see, moving on, the next thing I wanted to talk about is protected environments. So we recognize the importance that operators play in the entire DevOps lifecycle. Deploying applications to a production environment is always a sensitive task, especially highly regulated environments where separation of duties kind of is higher taxed. So we recognize operators as first class citizens at GitLab and to that end, the protected environments feature will allow you to determine which role a user or group will be able to execute a deployment into a given environment. At the same time, users will be able to determine which environments are protected. So kind of the same pattern that we use for protective branches. So from here, kind of from this first point, we want to iterate and continue adding features that will bring more value to operators and basically bring them more value to their day-to-day. And that's all I have for configuration. Jeremy, on to you with platform. Thanks, Daniel. I'll actually take platform first. We've got a number of exciting improvements planned for the platform team. And the first I'd like to share with you is the ability to create a readme when you create a project. This is a really simple straightforward feature, but it's really helpful for the obvious reason normally the first thing you do is create a readme. But there's also a bunch of use cases where being able to do this is incredibly helpful. Some organizations really restrict who's allowed to create a project. And so there's a couple of blessed people who create the project, but then if it's completely empty, there's no default branch, there's no master branch. So nothing can be pushed to the project because by default in those environments, the master branch is protected. So currently they have to push the master branch, put a readme in manually. And so that's a bit of a choke point in these organizations that follow these quite restricted workflows. By adding this checkbox, we solve that usability problem for those organizations and make GitLab better for everyone else who just uses it to create their projects normally. The next set of improvements I'd like to share is to do with the Web IDE. So the Web IDE has been getting better and better every release in 11.0. We've got some really great improvements to allow you to switch between merge requests and view pipeline traces and pipeline statuses. But one improvement that we're gonna be working on 11.1 that's gonna make it even better is the ability to view the merge request description when you open a merge request in the Web IDE. And this is gonna be really useful for those who are using the Web IDE for code reviews because they'll then see the description of what the merge request is doing side by side the code changes. And it'll also help developers who like to use a workflow of opening the merge request before they start developing, write a description of how they're gonna break it down and attack the problem practically, and then use that as sort of a reference document beside the code as they write it. So it's gonna be incredibly useful for those kind of workflows. One thing that's maybe not working so well in the Web IDE right now is that the improvements we made to support file staging and committing has made the committing workflow more complicated. And so we're looking to address a number of usability concerns and pieces of feedback to make the staging workflow cleaner, make sure that there's feedback about the information that needs to be supplied and making sure that it's really easy to commit your changes. We really don't want users getting stuck with changes that they wanna commit but they just don't know how. So we've got two issues linked there and a bunch more UX refinements to really improve that committing workflow and we're really excited to see how that will make a difference. Next up we're working on project exports and storing the project exports in object storage. One of the really great features we have in GitLab is the ability to export the entire project, not just the repository, but all the issues, the merge requests, the snippets, the wiki, everything in your project gets exported in this nice little table that you can use for backup purposes or for migrating your project to another instance. And so the way that feature works is that you request the table to be prepared and then you get an email when it's ready. But during that period while you're waiting and the 24 hours following when the link is ready, that table is being stored on the GitLab's disk, which isn't great if you're trying to run GitLab in a cloud native environment. And if your instance is getting a lot of project exports on a regular basis, it can really consume a lot of storage. So we're adding support so that those tables will be stored in object storage, which will unblock some important parts of the cloud native project that we're working on. And finally, also related to project export. We've been noticing some increased error rates on gitlab.com with project exports and we've got a range of bug reports. And so we're investigating and hoping to resolve a significant number of the most common project export import bugs related to the GitLab project export and continue to improve that feature because it is so useful for so many different workflows. With that, I'll hand over to Andreas to talk about some SSH improvements. Thanks, James. I'm really excited about bringing in more of GitLab into our web ID experience. So looking forward to those changes. So we know from our search information that we have that SSH currently is actually number one of our search terms within our GitLab documentation and has been since quite some time. So apparently, this is not an intuitive thing to do. And because of that, our awesome UX research team actually conducted a great user study to on the one side learn about where our users actually struggle on the topic and actually identify small improvements that just make this configuration easier. So the outcome of this research study you can find in the linked epic. So this is partly documentation related, partly frontend, so small changes, but we plan to ship all of them in the upcoming 11.1 release. So at GitLab, we actually believe that everyone can contribute and people should be able to really push through repository on GitLab with as little as overhead as possible. So I'm really confident although that sounds quite small that this is a big improvement to make this experience and our goal towards that a lot easier. So that's that. Next on platform is Cherun. Thanks a lot, Andreas. It's super great to hear us using UX research in a transparent way to continue to improve things for our users. It's really exciting stuff. And James, super excited to hear more about Web ID can you continue to approve? It's something I use constantly and it's so much fun like when you're watching it, it would slowly iterate and improve over time. So I'd like to talk about the last final two platform rows, both of which I'm really, really excited about. So the second to last row is about making personal access tokens better and more secure. So these tokens are generally used for application or script development when you need external access to the GitLab API as a particular user. However, like when you actually create a new API private token on your user, it grants full access to the API Azure user, including destructive permissions for all the users, groups, and projects. So this makes managing the blast radius of these particular tokens like really, really challenging. And so we'd like to take the first step towards solving this problem by introducing project level scoping for personal access tokens 11.1. So when you create a new token at 11.1, you'll actually be able to restrict full API access to a particular project. This is great for groups and organizations in GitLab with hundreds and hundreds of projects where it just doesn't make sense for one really super powerful token to have read, write permissions for every project on the instance, especially for more secure industries and environments. So this is just a start and we'll do more and more scoping in the future. And our goal is really to make sure that you're granting just the right amount of access to these tokens as makes sense for your user, your organization. So I'm super excited for this. This is a problem I'm really excited to solve. And lastly, we're really designing the contribution analytics page. So we've actually got some really cool analytics features in GitLab and this is definitely one of them. At the starter level and above, we actually give you groups and analytics page that helps you visualize pushes, merge requests and issue activity over a period of time. So you can see like who you're in that particular group is contributing the most frequently. And we've redesigned this page actually to be able to better support presenting many, many contributors made the page much more visually attractive and useful. So we've actually got lots planned for analytics in GitLab. It's a big area of opportunity for us that we really see helping users manage their instance activity kind of at a glance. So please stay tuned for that, lots more planned, but I'll leave it there for now. And Andreas, I'll hand it back to you for more for Geo. Thanks, Jeremy. Awesome improvements there. So talking to you, we typically, as always, are continuously working on improving the experience and performance within the Geo team. Two things I really want to highlight for the 11.1 release, starting with the first one, which is actually quite a big one, with 11.0. So the release that is upcoming next few weeks, we actually ship automatic redirects. So on GitFetch and GitPush writes, you actually get automatic proxies to primary Geo instances. So super cool addition that we have for HTTP with SSH following in one of the next releases. Unfortunately, in the upcoming release, redirects do not support Git LFS. And this is actually due to a bug on the Git LFS side of things. And what we're going to do in the 11.1 release is actually going to add support for HDBT repests on LFS. So what we did for that, and that's ongoing, we actually collaborate with the Git LFS maintainers at GitHub. So two weeks ago, we filed a issue on their side of things. And within no time, they not only analyzed and fixed that, but also already shipped the release that actually contains these improvements. So that's really awesome to see. And the second part is a small UI improvement that I actually think makes a lot of sense. So whenever you navigate on the GitLab UI of secondary Geo nodes, you just get the information that this instance is read only and a small link that forwards you to the primary GitLab instance. While this is helpful, it does not really forward you to the actual page where you're currently on. So what we want to do is just put in links that forward you to the direct page, similar to where you are looking at currently on the secondary, which is read only to see the same information where you actually are allowed to add and edit information on the primary Geo node that is related to your secondary. So small change, but I think it helps a lot with working on Geo scenarios within our GitLab UI. And with that, I'm happy to hand over to Josh with monitoring. Yep. Thanks Andreas. That's all really exciting stuff. Can't wait for the Geo improvements and of course all the platform features as well. It's all really exciting. On the monitoring side, we have some similar setting features. We just missed delivering our SLI alerts in 11.0. And so we'll go ahead and be finishing it up and get it out the door here in 11.1. This is a great way for users to easily go ahead and add alerts to any machine they have, whether it's ones that we automatically detect or also alerts that users have added themselves. Maybe it's a business metric they want to care about, like cart sizes and things like that. It doesn't matter, you can set alerts on error rates and things like that and get those delivered to you in email. So that'll be a really great way to close a loop and get notifications with the monitoring service that we have here in GitLab. We're also building on top of another feature that we delivered in 11.0, which will be coming soon, is we added the operations tab. And right now there is the environments and the Kubernetes workflows within that tab. And we're gonna go ahead and build on top of that start with 11.1 with the addition of metrics and also logging options. And so we're really building on a great home for all the operations-related features and having all these things promoted from in the case of metrics being underneath environments and logs being attached to deploy boards and really moving those frontends that are making them easier to access and also increasing discoverability and usability of these features. So really setting features there as well. And there's a couple of kind of associated issues to do a couple of things to the workflows to make that work and make that sensible. We're also gonna go ahead and try to deliver on the first iteration of our trace integration with Yeager. And so this is again, just the very, very beginning where we'll add the option to essentially proxy through to Yeager in a cluster with the GitLab authentication applied since Yeager itself has not provided authentication and could potentially contain some sensitive information. And then also again, render the UI in a new tab. And so essentially you would see a tracing option in that operations drop down there or sidebar, clicking on it, what again, just seamlessly take you through to Yeager. But again, we'd be in the proxying for you in the authentication for you to make it easy to interact with where it might not be if it's again, resulting in the Kubernetes cluster and you're on your PC at home, for example. So some very exciting features there for monitoring. We also have some really important features coming for the distribution team as well. And one of what we've been talking about for a number of releases here is that we're really making some great progress on the cloud native Helm chart. This is a really great way to deploy GitLab on Kubernetes and the various variants of Kubernetes whether it's EKS or GKE or Vanilla. And we've gone ahead and again, made a new chart and we've also split out the containers into five major services. And this will make it easier to scale them. They could easier to make them redundant. And also critically, we've removed the need for NFS. And so this way they're easier to scale and run and operate in a highly available fashion on Kubernetes without some of the kind of perhaps not very cloud-friendly official requirements like NFS. And so again, that's just some of the highlights there. We're gonna be in beta here at 11.0 and we're on a journey to going to GA here with 11.1 coming up. So again, some very exciting progress there and give them a try. It's really great way to deploy GitLab. We're also making improvements onto the Raspberry Pi packages. So right now, this is actually a pretty popular way to deploy GitLab from smaller instances. And right now, we have just the packages but unfortunately, Justi is really kind of no longer available easily for the Raspberry systems. If you go like nubes, for example, or Raspbian, you're gonna see stretch. And so you wanna make sure the package available for stretch to make it easy to go ahead and install GitLab on Raspberry Pi. Since again, this is a fairly popular to go ahead and run GitLab. So we're working on that here on that one. And certainly we're also doing some internal work here also for folks who are perhaps using source to improve the build caching and package bit of times for compiling packages. Right now it can take like 30 minutes and we've estimated the cost for ourselves at like a one or two euros. And that can be problematic for the developer workflow. It reduces how often, you know, you can iterate as a developer if you wanna get a package and try it out. And also of course, having some costs attached to it, they got harder for us to have this enabled by default automatically and more pipelines. And so by being able to improve this up, but hopefully allow developers to have more access to packages, more quickly test their features and also again, allow us to unlock additional package buildings, additional workflows. For example, right now it's a manual option in the pipelines for GitLab CE and GitLab EE pipelines. So that's the same work we have here for distribution as well. I think, you know, overall, again, 11.0 is a pretty setting release. It's a major release. And I think most people thought we had a really hard time topping that one, but with all the amazing features here in 11.1, from the core features with some key UX improvements, we have, you know, that amazing pipeline view in CE, that grid improvements, the web ID, I use it all the time. I love it. And it's just getting better and better. And of course, also we got the RBAC features coming in for Kubernetes, which would be huge. And then of course we have in the premium side, Batch comments, which is amazing by itself. I know my email box has a fill up rapidly and when someone's doing review, it's a lot of the fantastic to have. And then of course, on the ultimate side, some really great features here with alerting, the security dashboard, security enhancements, and all of a sudden together, this is an amazing release across all the tiers. And we can't wait for this to be available. And I think of course, it really is gonna be the best release of GitLab ever. So thanks everyone for attending. And we look forward to seeing you on the next release.


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