👋 Hey there, I'm Steve, but you may know me better as @JustSteveKing . I currently live in the Welsh Valleys, about 40 minutes north of Cardiff, with my wife and kids.
I work as a Lead Software Enginner for a company called Mumsnet , the UK’s largest network for parents, with over 8 million unique visitors per month clocking up over 100 million page views. We regularly campaign on issues including support for families of children with special educational needs, improvements in postnatal and miscarriage care, and employment rights for working parents.
I spend some of my spare time moonlighting as a consultant CTO, and freelance software engineer for various clients from around the world. As a consultant CTO I have been involved in some major Digital Transformation projects, revamping products and departments ready for an acquisition, API strategy and consulting, open source consulting and advising companies on their technical strategy.
I have a YouTube Channel where I stream and release video content which is of an educational nature. The main focus of what I do here is to help combat imposter syndrome in other developers, and spend as much time as I can sharing the knowledge I have built up over the years.
Laravel Command Bus
In Laravel 5.1 the Command Bus was replaced with Dispatchable Jobs, we can still use them but let us also look at how to add a Command Bus.
Adapter Pattern
Over the years I have built a lot of SDKs to work with 3rd party APIs. Each time I require the same components, so I decided to create a way to bootstrap this process while still allowing flexibility
Testing API responses in pestPHP
I get asked about API response testing a lot, how should you do it, and where to start. I have a general rule when it comes to testing APIs, and that rule is: "test your code, and your code only". What do I mean by this? Let me explain.
Tappable Query Scopes in Laravel
I recently saw an awesome tweet while browsing twitter which introduced this idea of tappable query scopes, and wanted to share it and dig into it a little more.
Laravel DDD - Routing within our Domain
In a normal Laravel application we store all of our routes within web.php or api.php typically, however how does this work with our Domain Driven Design approach? Do we create a routes/{domain}.php file, or do we want to put this somewhere else?
GitHub Sponsors
The people below are all people who support my Open Source and community efforts using GitHub Sponsors, I couldn't do what I do without them.
