New article: The Art of Keeping Business Logic Honest State machines for transitions. Workflow engines for orchestration. Two layers that keep your Laravel app's business rules explicit, auditable, and resilient - even across async processes that span days. www.juststeveking.com/articles/the...

New series: From Requirements to Reality A practical guide for junior devs learning to think before they build. 10 articles covering: Requirements & assumptions Feature shaping ERDs & schema design Application architecture The path to mid-level thinking www.juststeveking.com/series/from-...

Planning a series of YouTube lives atm 😎

So apparently you now need to verify your identity on here to access direct messages ... This is part of a new UK legislation, mostly focusing on adult websites. Last time I checked, bluesky was meant to be a social network If you don't get a reply to a DM, it's because I refuse to play along

Writing a free "Laravel API Handbook" based on years of building APIs that actually scale. Looking for a company sponsor who wants to support developer education and reach the Laravel community. If that's you (or you know someone), let's chat! 🚀 #Laravel #API #Sponsorship

I've been working on something a little fun for Laravel 👀 This isn't its final form, but I think it's getting close!

Currently working on my strategy for the next 12 months as a freelance dude. How's your Thursday going?

I think I might do something with my resume-php package on a live stream next week. Start building some tooling and services around the specification 💪

live stream tomorrow at 10am BST I will be building "Threaddit" - an API only social network. A fun little Laravel experiment I came up with! www.youtube.com/live/_Uhd_h1...

Kind of fancy doing a live stream tomorrow

Multi-tenancy in Laravel can be a pain, luckily Laravel Sprout is here to make it easy all while getting out of your way. juststeveking.com/articles/mul...

Tomorrow I will be adding a fun little subdomain to my website using @astro.build - adding a handy little "now" app/page to highlight some of the stuff I'm currently doing. Why not join me? www.youtube.com/live/OEDoHrS...

I thought I'd try a fun experiment, instead of me building a project on YouTube and calling it a "Let's build" - why don't I completely over engineer ideas and call it "Let's over-engineer" 🙃 Would this be fun? You can live vicariously through my exploits

What are MCP servers, and why should I care? I took a look into MCP servers, what they are, how we might use them, to figure out if they're just the next hype train - or something actually useful. juststeveking.com/articles/wha...

Let's talk about @nuxt.com and why you should be using it juststeveking.com/articles/nux...

Now at the bottom of each article, I'm showing related articles based on how I've tagged the content. Thanks @nuxt.com 🔥 that was less than 30 minutes of effort

New website, who dis? Juststeveking.link

📢 Our next event is up! On Wednesday 11 June, Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com will show us how to implement the Outbox Pattern in Laravel. There will also be two lightning talks about Drupal's latest and PHPStorm's Junie. 📅 Details and registration 👇 www.meetup.com/php-s... #php

Join me tomorrow at 11am BST as I start rebuilding my personal website using @nuxt.com and @laravel.com for the ultimate in DX 🔥 www.youtube.com/live/zFILoHg...

So, should I be using layers for my @nuxt.com apps, or not 🤔

Less than a week to go until I do my talk for Laravel Live Pakistan 🎉🎉

Only a few weeks left for my talk at Laravel Live Pakistan 🎉 Really looking forward to this talk, webhooks are something that most people only dip into a little!

I made a thing today, so thought I'd share! Mapping business logic to a workflow has never been easier 🔥 github.com/JustSteveKin...

So I have a slight gap between clients at the moment, would anyone like to chat about freelance work? Either hands on code, consulting, or even content creation!

It was a pleasure to work with @juststeveking.com on this 💙

1. Capture the request in your router 2. Validate source and payload via middleware 3. Pass validated data to the controller 4. Push payload to a background job for processing 5. Ensure quick responses & keep HTTP processing minimal Thanks, @juststeveking.com 👨‍🏫

I recently teamed up with @hookdeck.com to create the definitive guide to webhooks in Laravel 🔥 Article: juststeveking.link/hda Video: juststeveking.link/hdv Website: juststeveking.link/hook

One link has 100% won the internet in 2024 for me techarseholeoftheyear.com

Join me tomorrow at 10:30 UK time as we dive into building a website with @astro.build for a project I am starting www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA6I...

Working on a @raycast.com extension atm 😎

Going live to add projects to our CRM! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VJs...

Has anyone found a nice way to go through followers on here? I want to follow more people back, but find the UX unintuitive and cumbersome tbh.

Who’s ready to go live on youtuve, and build something fun! Today we are starting our business logic for our “tiny crm" www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9pl...

Going live in about an hour! www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7gS...

Join me today as we dive into the database design for our "tiny crm" we started building yesterday! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IFL...

Let’s do this www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp2P...

Going to be doing a live stream tomorrow to test if my Internet connection will hold up! www.youtube.com/live/fp2P5E4...

So I tried ticktick, and I just didn't get on with it ... I found myself actively avoiding using it. Not sure what to try next tbh!

I'm currently finishing up with a few clients, so will have some availability to take on more work soon if anyone needs me 🤗

I'm going to be refreshing my personal website soon 🎉 I know, again! But this time I'm freelancing, so I need to change the dynamic a bit. I have some testimonials on my website already, but wondering if anyone would like to add more?

Tonight's adventures included creating video assets using motion canvas and typescript to animate SVGs in fun ways. There was also a touch of writing a shader, which I haven't done in a long time!

PDF generation is done, onto the next task! Life as a freelancer is a lot more fun than I expected

Today I am working on a PDF API that gets data from the database and an API to build a PDF overview. The challenge is performance, there are so many things that cause a bottleneck, even before I build and serve a PDF

OBS or streamlabs desktop 👀

I'm thinking of doing a video on building an API using Go Blueprint, as a somewhat Go noob. Could make for good entertainment, and a fun experience

I'm getting back into the flow of content creation right now, so if anyone has video requests let me know and I will see what I can do! One I've got on my list so far: nix package manager on Mac 👀

We've assembled a starter pack of just a few of the awesome voices from the #PHP community here on Bluesky. But don't stop here! Take a look at who these folks follow for more great following ideas. go.bsky.app/SkXz8C8

I recently got a BenQ halo light for my office, and my god it's made the world of difference! Check it out on amazon amzn.to/3TmqFYa or check out the details here: juststeveking.link/benq

Laravel peeps, what are the main areas that you struggle with when building an API? I am working on a list of content to create, and want to make sure it is useful!

Today I am building a blade template for Laravel using HTML tables ….