Episode 2.0 with Joe Watkins

In this weeks episode we are joined by good friend of the show Joe Watkins. We start off discussion with the successful release of PHP 7.1 and what is in store for Joe now as release manager for that version. Following this, we chat about the libui and Yubico PHP wrappers he as been working on and development of a better Raspberry Pi OS. Finally, we highlight progress made towards incorporating a JiT compiler within PHP and some interesting things you can do with Zero-width joiner’s and Emoji’s in Unicode.

Show Links

• PHP 7.1.0 Released
• PHP RFC: Debugging PDO Prepared Statement Emulation v2
• andlabs/libui
• The GTK+ Project
• krakjoe/ui: Cross platform UI development in PHP
• Musings, ninja ones: Expanding Horizons
• Joe Watkins on Twitter: “#PHP 7 drew, and is animating, what you see here with #libui”
• Yubico
• krakjoe/u2fh: PHP7 u2fh
• krakjoe/u2fs: PHP7 u2fs
• Yubico/php-yubico: PHP class for Yubico authentication
• HomePlugs
• LastPass
• Have I been pwned?
• Raspberry Pi
• elephos
• elephos/buildroot: buildroot source for image creation
• Windows 10 IoT Core
• X Window System
• Wayland
• wayland-project/weston: Reference compositor for Wayland
• raspberrypi/maynard
• php.internals: JIT for PHP project
• Just-in-time compilation
• Lua Programming Language
• DynASM
• Wes Bos on Twitter: “Woah, you can an ES6 spread to see what an emoji is made up of”
• Emoji.prototype.length - a tale of characters in Unicode