This week on the podcast, Eric is in a truly positive mood, which might have something to do with him switching back to Vim full-time. John follows up on discussions he had with other developers around the topic of named arguments. And Tom talks security, doom and gloom and much more...

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Links from the show

• PHP 8.0 feature focus: Named Arguments
• PHP.UserGroups
• Standing on Our Own Two Feet
• Laravel Envoyer API Package - Laravel News
• Chrome Root Program - The Chromium Projects
• nikic/php-crater
• GitHub Reinstates Youtube-DL and Puts $1M in Takedown Defense Fund * TorrentFreak
• Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back - The GitHub Blog
• r/PHP - SOLID principles are not universal
• Red alert! Cops plan experimental real-time surveillance program using Amazon Ring doorbell cameras
• How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home - GitHub Security Lab
• Aldous Huxley - Wikipedia

*Eric's Vim Links from this week *

• NeoVim
• Conquer of Completion 
• nvim Telescope

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