mastodon 4.7.3Hey, I'm Steve! I do APIs and PHP (mostly)
I'm giving away my book on building Laravel APIs developers actually want to use.
Before you download 300 pages, here are the tips worth stealing first: contract-first design, versioning from day one, RFC 9457 errors, idempotency, audit logs.
Free read: https://www.juststeveking.com/articles/api-tips-and-tricks-from-my-book/
My Laravel API book is under way! I'm a few chapters in, and a few left to go - cover design has been completed - we are rolling!
I'm currently talking to 2 different companies about sponsorship, and have to choose one soon.
This is a free ebook for the community, to help with API education.
I made a thing today, so thought I'd share!
Mapping business logic to a workflow has never been easier 🔥
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! 🚀
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!
https://www.youtube.com/live/_Uhd_h17oM0?si=-9Je4OtoK2T3KSQr
New website is now live and at a point where I feel I can leave it alone for a while!
I recently teamed up with Hookdeck to create the definitive guide to webhooks in Laravel 🔥
Article: https://juststeveking.link/hda
Video: https://juststeveking.link/hdv
Website: https://juststeveking.link/hook
I'm currently planning a series of YouTube lives atm, let's do this 😎
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 💪
Tomorrow I will be adding a fun little subdomain to my website using @astro@m.webtoo.ls - adding a handy little "now" app/page to highlight some of the stuff I'm currently doing.
Why not join me?
https://www.youtube.com/live/OEDoHrS6ogo?si=JD5Mi3h3_NUYqU2_
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.
https://juststeveking.com/articles/what-are-mcp-servers-and-why-should-i-care
Join me tomorrow at 11am BST as I start rebuilding my personal website using Nuxt and Laravel for the ultimate DX 🔥
https://www.youtube.com/live/zFILoHgOVzY?si=fJFDo-pfRyn4D33K
Going live to add projects to our CRM!
Who’s ready to go live on youtuve, and build something fun!
Today we are starting our business logic for our “tiny crm"
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.
https://www.juststeveking.com/articles/the-art-of-keeping-business-logic-honest/