James King

James King

@jamesking.dev

AI-Augmented Software Engineer | Laravel, Symfony & Modern Stacks | Building Secure, Scalable Systems

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Laravel queues have traps: delayed jobs expiring before they run, Horizon retrying forever, and unique-job locks that stick around. Oussama Mater explains six gotchas learned the hard way. I linked his article on my blog: jamesking.dev/blog/larave...

jamesking.devLaravel queue gotchas worth knowing | BlogSix Laravel queue gotchas, from delayed jobs and retry limits to unique locks, timeouts, rate limits, and model serialization.

I'm convinced we're living through software's golden age, and last week's Laracon US 2026 is why. AI does the typing. Laravel removes the friction. All built for how we work now. jamesking.dev/blog/softwa...

jamesking.devWe're in Software's Golden Era. Laracon US 2026 Made It Obvious. | BlogBetween AI doing the typing and last week's Laracon US 2026 announcements, this feels like the best time ever to build software. Here's what stood out and why it matters.

AI generates code that looks correct, sounds confident, and is sometimes subtly wrong. I wrote up the three-layer review process I use to catch the things AI consistently misses. Plus the tools that help: Laravel Boost and Ponytail. jamesking.dev/blog/review...

jamesking.devHow to Review AI-Generated Code Before It Hits Production | BlogAI generates code fast. That means more surface area to review, not less. Here's the review process I've settled on after months of daily use.

I stopped writing tests. I ramped up debugging. Here's what actually changed when I started using AI every day: jamesking.dev/blog/what-i...

Excited to announce that I am now AI Fluency Certified by Calyptus! 🎉 Proud to be in the top 5% of talent! certificate.calyptus.co/ai-fluency/...

🎉 New site, who dis? Just shipped my personal website rebuilt from the ground up. Astro 6 + TailwindCSS + Tokyo Night theme = blazing fast static site that actually looks good. jamesking.dev #WebDevelopment #AstroJS #Tailwind

Peerlist is a brilliant platform for devs, why not join using my link below? peerlist.io/jamesking/si...

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Joined the Laramap 💪 laramap.dev/developer/01...

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One of the best tools when dealing with multiple storage providers, rclone: rclone.org

rclone.orgRcloneRclone syncs your files to cloud storage: Google Drive, S3, Swift, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Azure, Box and many more.

Anyone else think that #laravel needs something better for Acceptance Testing? Dusk seems a bit underpowered and Cypress gets quite complicated. It feels like to me we need something like PestPHP but for Acceptance Testing

Bit of a Dark Pattern I spotted today in Duolingo! Duolingo doesn't tell you the price of its premium subscriptions until you finish the trial period, it doesn't even advertise its prices on the web. Very strange and not something I've ever seen an app do

Is anyone in the IT technical support field looking for a new UK worker? A good friend of mine is looking for a change of career, currently getting their CCNA, but wants to get some commercial experience. Please DM me for more details.

Any #laravel server infrastructure experts who can help me with something? Looking for a cost-effective large scalability solution for a queue worker heavy app. DM me :)

Its a great feeling when Taylor merges your PR into #laravel 🎉

Genuine question, is Jetbrains AI any good for #laravel projects?

Quick Tip: Laravel's HTTP client truncates thrown exceptions by default which can make it difficult to debug issues with the HTTP client requests. ✨Add this to your AppServiceProvider to get the full exception: RequestException::dontTruncate(); #laravel #php

Turns your exceptions from this image, into showing the full HTML response✨

Hello World! What is this place? It looks cool 😎

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