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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 10/06/2026

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: www.juststeveking.com/articles/api...

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The Tips Behind API Artisan: Building Laravel APIs Developers Actually Want to Use — JustSteveKing

Practical tips for building Laravel APIs developers trust: contract-first design, versioning, RFC 9457 errors, idempotency and more. Free book inside.

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 20/05/2026

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...

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The Art Of Keeping Business Logic Honest — JustSteveKing

Use state machines and workflow engines in Laravel to keep business rules explicit, auditable, and resilient across async processes.

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 19/05/2026

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-...

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From Requirements to Reality — JustSteveKing

A practical guide for junior developers learning to think before they build, covering requirements, feature shaping, ERDs, and application architecture.

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 02/09/2025

Planning a series of YouTube lives atm 😎

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 03/08/2025

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

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 02/08/2025

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

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 01/08/2025

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

Code example of a Login Controller using PHP Attributes to implement the Action Domain Responder pattern.

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 31/07/2025

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

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 22/07/2025

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 💪

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 09/07/2025

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...

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Threaddit - API only social network

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 07/07/2025

Kind of fancy doing a live stream tomorrow

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 02/07/2025

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...

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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.

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 16/06/2025

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...

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Building & Deploying an Astro website

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 08/06/2025

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

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 06/06/2025

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...

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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.

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 02/06/2025

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

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PHP Sussex @phpsussex.uk · 29/05/2025

📢 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

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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

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 07/05/2025

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

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 07/04/2025

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

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 21/03/2025

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!

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 13/01/2025

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!

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Phil Leggetter @leggetter.co.uk · 07/01/2025

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

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Hookdeck @hookdeck.com · 07/01/2025

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 👨‍🏫

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 15/12/2024

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...

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Building websites using Astro

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 10/12/2024

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.

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 10/12/2024

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...

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Managing Clients: Core CRM Feature Development

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 04/12/2024

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

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Setting the Foundation: Laravel Project Setup & Database Design

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 02/12/2024

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

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 01/12/2024

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!

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 30/11/2024

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

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 27/11/2024

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?

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 26/11/2024

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!

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 26/11/2024

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

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 26/11/2024

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

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 25/11/2024

OBS or streamlabs desktop 👀

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 23/11/2024

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

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 22/11/2024

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 👀

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PHP Community @phpc.social · 22/11/2024

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

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 19/11/2024

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

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Steve McDougall @juststeveking.com · 18/11/2024

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!

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