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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

👋🏻 Say hello to the @laravelphp team!

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James Brooks

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2 months

I’m stoked to share that I’ve been promoted to Engineering Team Lead at @laravelphp 🎉 A huge, huge thank you to @taylorotwell , @theandreval and the team for supporting me as I move into this role! ❤️ #LaravelForever

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3 years

I just finished deploying the first version of my @laravelphp Artisan cheatsheet! Let me know what you think 😅

The Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet

The Laravel 11.x Artisan cheatsheet. Discover Laravel 11.x php artisan commands.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

Unpopular opinion: the node.js ecosystem sucks.

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@jbrooksuk

2 years

Laravel Valet is one of the best pieces of software I have installed. Automatic sites from directories, "valet secure" and I now have SSL on the site too. Ugh. So good.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

Today I made a PR to @laravelphp for a new "about" command. It also includes an API for pushing additional data, so applications and packages can display their own information.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

Did you know that in PHP 7.4, the numeric literal separator was added? This means you can separate numbers with an underscore. These two numbers are equal, but the second is much easier to parse.

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@jbrooksuk

2 years

My biggest PHP request is a "return if"

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

Here's how you can use PHP's spread operator to merge two arrays together. Technically this will be faster than array_merge too! Spreads also support anything implementing Traversable.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

Did you know you can add conditional validation rules in @laravelphp form requests? This makes validation very dynamic! 🤩

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

1 year

Today I PR'd a feature to Laravel that I've been wanting for a while now...

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 months

Today I, and most of the Laravel team learnt this.

Newton Job

@_newtonjob

3 months

I love how easy it is to combine two local scopes with the "OR" clause using #Eloquent 's `orWhere` magic property 🔥 #Laravel

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3 years

The @laravelphp framework is the result of 2,701 people working together. But, it's also more than that. It's the community of thousands and thousands of people, the teachers, the package developers and everyone else in between.

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2 years

🔎 I've been playing around with a new `about` command for Laravel that shows your application's environment at a glance. 💭 Inspired by Ruby's own `about` command.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

8 months

I can't wait for you to get your hands on @laravelphp Pulse. What's more, I can't believe we're giving away such a powerful package for free! 🤯

Laravel Pulse - Vital signs in real-time

Pulse delivers at-a-glance insights into your application's performance and usage. Track down bottlenecks, such as slow jobs and endpoints, view your most active users, and more.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

Tomorrow is the last day of my paternity leave. I’m extremely grateful to @taylorotwell and the team at @laravelphp for giving me six amazing weeks to spend with my incredible family. Forever grateful! 🧡

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 months

Did you know that @laravelphp 's Http facade can natively return responses as a collection?

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

Not using Laravel 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

1 month

📱We've just shipped a mobile and tablet friendly version of Laravel Forge! A huge amount of work started by @driesvints and finished by @ClaudioDekker .

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@jbrooksuk

4 years

I think this settles the “PHP sucks” debate, once and for all.

Marko Denic

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4 years

Backend Frameworks with the most stars on GitHub: 1. Laravel - 63.1K⭐️ 2. Django - 54.5K⭐️ 3. Flask - 53.3K⭐️ 4. Spring Boot - 52.5K⭐️ 5. Express - 51.3K⭐️ 6. Ruby on Rails - 47.3K⭐️ 7. Meteor - 42.2K⭐️ 8. Nest - 32.9K⭐️ 9. Koa - 30.5K⭐️ Which one is your favorite?

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

Oh hey, Laravel 9 is here. Enjoy!

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

1 year

Wow, @TablePlus is super generous with expired licenses.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

5 years

"nah" is one of my favourite and most used aliases.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

4 years

Coming to Forge soon... We're now making it very easy to monitor your new server's provisioning progress 🚀

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

1 year

Positive vibes only @LaraconUS 🤙🏻

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

Laravel Forge can now suggest repository branches when installing a repository!

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

Today marks my 2 year anniversary working at @laravelphp ! 🤩

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@jbrooksuk

3 years

Cleaned 🧹

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

I must use at least once every other day! Also, it'll now auto-update all versions of Laravel every week 😃

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

It's great to see the @laravelphp team growing! 💪🏻

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

It's now possible to modify the wp-config.php file from @laravelphp Forge!

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

4 years

If you're not using @GetInsomnia when developing an API, you're not living.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

4 years

“PHP is terrible”

Tawanda Nyahuye👨‍💻

@towernter

4 years

What is the biggest lie you have heard from a programmer?

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

1 year

John Cena must think Laravel is cool.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

5 years

Today is my first day working @laravelphp 🥳

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

"Server management doesn't have to be a nightmare." Over 500k applications agree! 🤩

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

10 months

🧁 Starting now, Laravel Forge will also install @bunjavascript on all Web and App servers.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

1 year

🤔 Did you know you can use "composer why" to find out why a particular package is installed in your project?

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

1 year

🎉 This Saturday marks 4 years since I joined the @laravelphp team. Hoping @taylorotwell lets me do at least another 4! 👀

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

@taylorotwell "PHP is dead", they said.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

At Laravel, we round each day by sharing what we've been working on 😎 and at the end of every week, we share what we've shipped 🚀 It's such a good way to stay in touch with what the company and colleagues are doing, especially when you work on different projects!

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

4 years

Coming soon: Laravel Forge will allow you to view the last few hundred lines of a server log file 🔍📜

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

Did you know that you don't have to pass a function to Laravel's "where" method when using the Rule class?

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

5 months

1Password trending... Me: "Oh no... breach?" Everyone: "1Password is the best!" Me: Phew! 😮‍💨 Use 1Password, it's the best.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

4 years

Forge will now show the environment editor inline! No more modal editing ⚡

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

The latest addition to the Brooks family joined us on Sunday! Say hello to Emilia 🥰 I’m now taking a few weeks off for paternity 😊

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

4 years

✨ Recently I’ve been working on a new feature for Laravel Forge - Server Monitoring! Written in Go, you’ll be able to monitor CPU, Disk and Memory usages. Maybe I’ll stream some Forge and Go development this week?

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

1 year

💅🏻 We've shipped a refreshed "Create Server" modal to @laravelphp Forge.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

5 years

The Nova docs are now a PWA and available offline once installed!

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

4 years

The Laravel team, when we were almost together for the first time! (Minus @crynobone ).

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

Tell me you love your team without telling me you love your team.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

📣 Log4J is *not* installed by @laravelphp Forge.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

1 year

🎓 Did you know you can pass a redirect in @laravelphp 's `abort*` helpers?

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

🔥🔥🔥🔥

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

Did you know you can hover a scheduled job's cron time in Forge and it'll show you when the next run time is?

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 months

We're cooking up some exciting updates to Forge 🤌🏻

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

The Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet has been updated to support @laravelphp 9.x! Thanks to @driesvints for helping to get the GitHub action updated ⭐

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

Today I am very excited to announce the soft launch of @checkmangocom 🥭 (previously Prove). Checkmango is a full stack A/B testing service. It's been a long journey to get to this point and there is still more work to do before I can fully launch.

Maximise Your Brand's Potential. A/B Testing Made Easy - Checkmango

Optimize Your Conversions with Confidence. Checkmango - Where A/B Testing Gets Powerful and Affordable.

checkmango.com

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

1 year

🥃 Today I got my first @checkmangocom customer. It's taken over 2.5 years to get there, but the ball is now rolling! I bought a bottle of @BlantonsBourbon in Dec '21 and promised myself I wouldn't open it until I got my first customer. Today... I opened it — it was absolutely

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

Upgrading Nginx on a @laravelphp Forge provisioned server is really easy. Run the following as the "root" user.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

👋 Happy Monday! We've just deployed this nifty change to Laravel Forge which adds Bash autocompletion, including suggestions for Forge's environment variables to the Deploy Script panel. Thanks @stauffermatt for the suggestion on this!

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

Laravel Forge will now provision servers with @nodejs 14.x 🔧

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

6 months

Pretty big PR in @cachethq this evening 👀 The Cachet 3.x dashboard is now powered by @filamentphp ⚡

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

4 years

Coming to Forge on Monday ✨ Copy your database connection URL into apps like @TablePlus for quickly connecting to your database.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

4 years

One of my favourite features in @laravelphp Forge is the Deployments tab. You can see exactly why a deployment was made and how long it took. Clicking the commit hash will take you to the source control provider's commit page, so you can see what was deployed 🛰

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

4 years

Forge will now display the deployment log with full terminal colour! 🎨

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

Forge: We've made PHP 8.0 the default for new servers ✨ Of course, if you don't want PHP 8, you can change this in the PHP Version dropdown.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

5 years

I’m so proud to be working for @laravelphp from Monday! 😆

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

11 months

👀

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

4 years

Here's a useful macro to add the User-Agent header to Laravel's HTTP client.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

Forge now has better highlighting and editing of Nginx configuration files ✍️

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4 years

Forge: PHP 8.0 Is Now Supported

Forge: PHP 8.0 Is Now Supported - The Laravel Blog

As you may know, Forge allows you to specify which PHP version a given site runs on. Of course, we want you to be able to use the latest PHP features as soon as possible. Beginning today, you may...

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

4 years

Today on the @laravelphp blog, we walk you through how to upgrade #ComposerPHP on your Forge servers.

Forge: Upgrading To Composer 2.0 - The Laravel Blog

Following the release of Composer 2 on October 24th, we wanted to share a guide on how to upgrade your servers to make the most of all the great benefits it brings.First, all new servers will...

blog.laravel.com

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

Forge's Dark Mode is 👨‍🍳🤌🏻

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

1 year

|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ | | Remember folks, | | don't commit your | | .env files | | ＿＿＿＿＿________| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　づ

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

4 years

As of yesterday, I’m officially a home owner! 🥳

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

4 years

Today is my one year anniversary at @laravelphp ! Hasn't that gone quickly... 🏄

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

Last week @laracasts released the new @laravelphp Forge series I’ve been working on. Twenty-four episodes of pure Forge goodness, that teaches you everything you need to know. And best of all, it’s FREE!

Laracasts

@laracasts

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Happy Friday! This week at Laracasts... We published a 2022-edition of our @laravelphp Forge series. This time, @jbrooksuk is at the helm with 24 episodes of 100% free-to-all training.

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1 year

🔥 PHP is such a joy to work with these days. Enums, match statements, short-closures and type hints really make it fun!

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

We're actively working on Ubuntu 22.04 support in @laravelphp Forge 🔧🚀

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

New in Forge: Site Commands Panel ✨ Quickly execute arbitrary Bash commands from your site's directory.

Forge: Site Commands - The Laravel Blog

Forge has had the ability to execute arbitrary Bash scripts on your server via Recipes for some time now. However, sometimes you may just need to run a quick command without the overhead of creating...

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

Wanna get into web dev? Learn PHP and Laravel. Thank me later 👋🏻

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

Here's how you can skip elements with array destructuring in PHP.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

11 months

Want to know my #1 Laravel tip? Follow the standards laid out by the skeleton and framework 👏 You'll find: - Updates easier - More packages will "just work"™ - New developers will grok your project quicker - Life is just more enjoyable 🏄

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

It's now possible to edit Scheduled Jobs in Laravel Forge ✍️

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@jbrooksuk

3 years

@adamculp @taylorotwell Laravel Valet

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

Just learn Laravel. You won’t believe the lifestyle you’ll be able to fund with that.

Simon Høiberg

@SimonHoiberg

3 years

Just learn JavaScript. You won't believe the lifestyle you'll be able to fund with that.

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3 years

Laravel Forge now has support for @PostgreSQL v14 🚀

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

8 months

Using Laravel and want to add a new column, but want it at the beginning of the table? Here's how 👇

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

4 months

Happy Holi! What an amazing time!

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

Going forward @laravelphp Forge will now show you who initiated a deployment. Quick deploys will show the name of the commit author, and deployments made via the UI / API will show the Forge user who initiated the deployment 🙋‍♀️

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

2 years

My wife asked me what my perfect date would be. I said, it’s a no-brainer. ISO-8601, any day.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

Prove's login screen, bringing back the vibes.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

3 years

🕙 You can now pause and unpause scheduled jobs in @laravelphp Forge!

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

11 months

5 years missing you.

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James Brooks

@jbrooksuk

4 years

I'm very privileged to be working alongside some of the best developers (and people) I've ever met; @taylorotwell , @themsaid , @driesvints , @enunomaduro , @davidhemphill & @crynobone . Working on Envoyer, Forge & Nova is a dream for me ☁️🧡 We're empowering developers to create!⚡

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James Brooks

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3 years

Web 1: I own my data. Web 2: Someone else owns my data. Web 3: Everyone owns my data.

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