James Brooks

Hey, I’m James 👋 I’m an engineering team lead at Laravel, working on Laravel Forge, Envoyer and Vapor. Here are some of my projects: - artisan.page - cachethq.io - checkmango.com - james.brooks.page/projects I've given a few talks, which you can find on my blog at james.brooks.page/speaking

🚦 Forge now has its own dedicated status page: status.on-forge.com

Laravel VPS is a new server provider in Forge, that's easy to get started with and provides instantly available servers. From zero to deployed in a minute.

Excited about the next generation of Laravel Forge? So are we! Sign up for the Early Access list at vps.laravel.com

The Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet now displays option default values 🧠 artisan.page

Curious about the next generation of @laravel.com Forge? Ask your questions 👇

Something we didn't show in the Laracon US keynote is that Forge now keeps a log of when you run recipes. Now, you can see when and what servers a recipe was run on.

One minute with @jbrooks.uk at #laracon

I am incredibly proud of the Forge team and all their hard work! Unfortunately, some of the team were unable to join us at Laracon but all played a huge part in making Forge more awesome. Incredible work 👏

Oh boy, what a way to end the week 🚀 I can’t wait for LaraconUS!

While you slept, Nightwatch was on guard.

There’s no two ways about it; Nightwatch is a game-changer 🦸🏻‍♂️ We’ve been using it on Forge for several months, and it immediately found itself as a critical piece of our developer tooling. We hope you enjoy using it as much as we do!

Honestly, the team have been killing it on Forge. I can’t wait to show you all what we’ve been doing 🙌

For the Forge update, we've adopted the Action pattern and it's been incredibly productive for us, allowing us to efficiently refactor old code as we go. Previously, Forge had a massive class of methods (split into traits) that was unwieldily and much harder to test.

Hello les devs, depuis hier le n°129 de Quoi de neuf les devs ? est disponible. Vous y retrouverez l'interview de @jbrooks.uk qui est chef de l'équipe d'ingénierie chez Laravel. On y parlera également ✅ Docker, ✅ Linus Unix, ✅ React, ✅ Web3, ✅ IA, ✅ et bien d’autres sujets encore

Who's excited about the Laravel Cloud launch today? 🙋‍♂️

A bookmarkable, searchable cheatsheet for all artisan commands by @jbrooks.uk 🔖👉️ - https://madewithlaravel.com/artisan-page

We were busy working on Cachet 3.x in January! I'm incredibly grateful to everyone who has contributed 👏🏻

In @jessarcher.bsky.social's Nightwatch talk she mentioned how we paired Laravel's rate limiting with Cloudflare to completely side step our servers from handling "dead requests" on Forge. Here's how you can do the same thing! james.brooks.page/blog/superch...

I’m looking for our first DevOps Engineer to join the Core Services team at Laravel. If you’re EU based, please apply below 👇 apply.workable.com/laravel/j/06...

The Cachet v3 demo is now running on Laravel Cloud ☁ v3.cachethq.io

I am rewatching @jbrooks.uk talking about Scribe! A much-needed refresher that made using Scribe so much easier! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj7W...

We're hosting a Q&A with members of the Laravel team on the 16th Jan. If you have any burning questions for Joe Dixon, @iamdavidhill.bsky.social, @ryangjchandler.co.uk or @jbrooks.uk please submit them to us! forms.gle/oEXHykphLx9m...

👏🏻 Happy New Year! We couldn't start 2025 without looking back at 2024! Check out our 2024 recap blog post. blog.cachethq.io/2024-recap/

I have a hundred or so photos I want to digitise. Any recommendations on how I digitise these to a high DPI. No scanner myself.

Here's my 2024 recap. james.brooks.page/blog/2024-re...

🎆 New year, new events! Join us Thursday, Jan 16th for the first PHP Stoke Meetup of the year. Featuring talks from David Hill, Dan Newns and a Q&A with members of the Laravel team ✨ www.meetup.com/php-stoke/ev...

Is your New Year resolution to contribute to open source? Check out @cachethq.io 🚦

When translating Laravel apps, do you prefer short keys or strings as keys? PHP vs JSON. I’m considering whether we switch @cachethq.io from JSON.

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎅🏻 🎄

Implemented @calebporzio.bsky.social‘s accent theming system into @cachethq.io. Pick a colour and see Cachet adapt. More theming changes coming soon! docs.cachethq.io/v3.x/configu...

The @cachethq.io test suite now runs on MySQL, Postgres and SQLite. github.com/cachethq/cor...

It's so great to see so many familiar faces joining this new community. I think it speaks volumes on the state of the other platform, it's not easy to move social platforms...

Fancy dipping your toes into Cachet development? We've got you covered 👇 docs.cachethq.io/v3.x/develop...

I'm pumped for 2025. We're working harder than ever on @laravelphp.bsky.social Forge right now 💪🏻

Laravel development perfected Today is your last chance to pick up Laravel Herd Pro with a massive 30% discount! 🔥 herd.laravel.com

Early this morning I shipped a new feature to @cachethq.io; schedule updates. I've refactored the existing incident updates system into a polymorphic relationship, allowing us to support both incident and schedule updates together ✨

Guess I need to start drafting mine too. It's been a busy old year.

Blue Sky is a safe place, @ericlbarnes.com. Die Hard *is* a Christmas movie.

The nicest, politest roast ever. blueskyroast.com/roast/jbrook...

Cachet Update — November 2024 blog.cachethq.io/cachet-updat...

In the next few weeks we'll be kicking off work on new Laravel starter kits. Here's what I'm thinking... I don't think the starter kits should be packages. Instead, I think they should just be GitHub repositories you clone. All of the code lives in your application, no "install" commands. 🔨

Is it just me that receives countless spam Telegram messages?

So, where are people ordering stickers from these days?

Introducing the new Cachet documentation 📖 blog.cachethq.io/introducing-...

⚡ Cachet v3.x now ships with an Oh Dear integration to help you quickly import your Oh Dear sites and recent incidents. docs.cachethq.io/v3.x/integra...