James Brooks

I've been quietly working on something for the last few months, and today I'm finally shipping it: Berroku, a berry-themed logic puzzle for iPhone and iPad.

Inspired by a post by Dylan Beattie, I wanted to share my own experience and advice.

Recently on Laravel Forge, we’ve been seeing an increase in the number of malicious, unauthenticated, or throttled requests hitting various API endpoints.

With 2024 now at an end, I’ve taken a moment to reflect on what has been an incredible and transformative year both personally and professionally.

Warning: This post contains themes of grief and loss.

Last night I did something crazy...

At the start of 2024, I gave a talk titled "Secrets of the Laravel Team" in which I talk about how Laravel works as a company, how we manage projects and continue to ship the high quality you come to expect of us.

In October 2023, I updated the Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet to Nuxt 3.x.

We’ve all heard of (or used) third-party applications like Caffeine to keep our Macs awake during long-running tasks.

This year I’ve been giving a talk at various conferences and meetups.

Online I’m not known for much more than being a software developer.

Did you know that you can add custom aliases to the git command?

Last year, I contributed a new about command to the Laravel framework.

With 2022 already being all but a distant memory, I thought it’d be nice to look back at the last year and reflect on the year long journey.

After having my M1 Macbook Air for 2 years, I’ve upgraded to a refurbed M2.

It’s with great excitement that I can say I’m hosting my first meetup; PHP Stoke.

Laravel’s Envoyer service allows you to break up your deployment process into multiple steps, which makes it really easy to manage deployments.

Today I’m pleased to announce the availability of a new GitHub Action for Laravel Forge deployments.

Earlier today we shipped an enhancement to Laravel Forge that stores the ID of the user who initiated an event.

I've been testing out the new Laravel Spark package before it gets launched and implemented it into my new side project (more details coming soon).

Over Christmas I started tinkering with a little project to learn about some of the emerging technologies and frameworks that I don't have a chance to play with day to day.

Today I released the Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet, a bookmarkable and shareable resource for all Laravel's default artisan commands.

A Laravel Forge customer recently reached out to us asking whether the Database Backup feature supported Alibiba OSS (Object Storage Service).

Well, 2020 has been a rollercoaster of a year hasn't it 😬 Luckily my family, friends and I have mostly avoided catching the virus so far.

Here is a little tip for Laravel's Localization that I discovered today whilst looking through the open Laravel Nova issues.

At Laravel we use Trello to store all of the ideas we come up with and also any suggestions that are sent to us.

This week I'm back working on Laravel Nova, which includes working my way through the nova-issues repo and seeing what's what.

On the 30th October 2019, I launched Happy Dev a podcast in which I interview software developers and we discuss mental health.

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Tomorrow brings with it a new year and the start of scribbling out 2019 and writing 2020 for at least the first 4 months.

As I mentioned in my last post we've been developing our new CRM system in Laravel 4 which has been great!