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Steve McDougall
@juststeveking.com
Father, Husband, Vida 🦋🤍

Tutorials for @laravelnews
Columnist at @phpArch
Livestreams at http://youtube.com/@JustSteveKing
Planning a series of YouTube lives atm 😎
September 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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
August 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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
August 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I've been working on something a little fun for Laravel 👀

This isn't its final form, but I think it's getting close!
August 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Currently working on my strategy for the next 12 months as a freelance dude.

How's your Thursday going?
July 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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 💪
July 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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...
Threaddit - API only social network
YouTube video by JustSteveKing
www.youtube.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Kind of fancy doing a live stream tomorrow
July 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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...
Multi-tenancy Without the Hassle
Learn how to build a multi-tenant application in Laravel using Sprout, avoiding the common pitfalls of manual tenant management.
juststeveking.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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...
Building & Deploying an Astro website
YouTube video by JustSteveKing
www.youtube.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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
June 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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...
What are MCP Servers, and why should I care?
Discover how Model Context Protocol servers are revolutionizing Laravel development by connecting AI to your codebase for smarter debugging and coding workflows.
juststeveking.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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
June 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
New website, who dis?

Juststeveking.link
JustSteveKing
API & DevRel Consultant.
Juststeveking.link
May 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Reposted by Steve McDougall
📢 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
June | Reliable API Calls Without the Stress 🧘‍♂️ + Lightning Talks ⚡, Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
This month we welcome returning speaker [Steve McDougall](https://x.com/JustSteveKing) a.k.a. JustSteveKing a.k.a. The API Guy, for a new talk about implementing the outbox
www.meetup.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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...
Rebuilding juststeveking.com with Nuxt
Join me as we start rebuilding my personal website, starting with the NuxtJS frontend that will be used to manage content as well as integrate a Laravel API later on. This stream we will focus on get...
www.youtube.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
So, should I be using layers for my @nuxt.com apps, or not 🤔
May 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Less than a week to go until I do my talk for Laravel Live Pakistan 🎉🎉
April 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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!
March 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I made a thing today, so thought I'd share!

Mapping business logic to a workflow has never been easier 🔥

github.com/JustSteveKin...
GitHub - JustSteveKing/laravel-flows: A fluent, modular workflow builder for Laravel that leverages the Pipeline pattern to simplify and organise business logic.
A fluent, modular workflow builder for Laravel that leverages the Pipeline pattern to simplify and organise business logic. - JustSteveKing/laravel-flows
github.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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!
January 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Reposted by Steve McDougall
It was a pleasure to work with @juststeveking.com on this 💙
January 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Reposted by Steve McDougall
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 👨‍🏫
January 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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
Hookdeck - A reliable Event Gateway for event-driven applications
Hookdeck is an Event Gateway. A platform giving engineering teams infrastructure and developer tooling to build, deploy, operate, and monitor event-driven applications.
juststeveking.link
January 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM