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Steve McDougall — Personal Site

Practical engineering education, courses, and resources for the modern PHP & Laravel developer.

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# Steve McDougall — Personal Site

Practical engineering education, courses, and resources for the modern PHP & Laravel developer.

## Core Pages

- [Home](https://www.juststeveking.com/) - What the work is: finding and fixing the real failure points in slow, unreliable APIs
- [Writing](https://www.juststeveking.com/articles/) - Every article, plus the series, the reference guides and the five subject pillars
- [Speaking](https://www.juststeveking.com/speaking/) - Talk topics, the full record of talks delivered, bios and a headshot for organisers
- [Code](https://www.juststeveking.com/projects/) - Open source packages for PHP, Laravel and Go
- [About](https://www.juststeveking.com/about/) - Who Steve is, how he works with teams, the CV, and how to get in touch
- [Now](https://www.juststeveking.com/now/) - Current focus, active projects and what is in progress

## Subject Pillars

- [API Design](https://www.juststeveking.com/articles/categories/api-design/) - How APIs outgrow the design they shipped with, and what to fix first.
- [Architecture](https://www.juststeveking.com/articles/categories/architecture/) - Recognising the pattern you already live inside, and pricing the exit.
- [PHP & Laravel](https://www.juststeveking.com/articles/categories/php-laravel/) - The language got good. Most code has not caught up with it.
- [Shipping & Tooling](https://www.juststeveking.com/articles/categories/shipping-tooling/) - Deploys, local environments, CLIs, and where agents actually help.
- [Engineering Leadership](https://www.juststeveking.com/articles/categories/engineering-leadership/) - The job changes from writing code to deciding what gets written.

## Also On The Site

- [Talks](https://www.juststeveking.com/talks/) - The talk archive, one page per talk
- [Videos](https://www.juststeveking.com/videos/) - Screencasts and recorded sessions
- [Podcasts](https://www.juststeveking.com/podcasts/) - Guest appearances
- [Work](https://www.juststeveking.com/work/) - Full career history
- [Contributions](https://www.juststeveking.com/contributions/) - Open-source contributions aggregated by organisation
- [Recommendations](https://www.juststeveking.com/recommendations/) - What engineering leaders say about working with Steve
- [Career Framework](https://www.juststeveking.com/career-framework/) - Six levels, expectations and growth signals, free to copy
- [Uses](https://www.juststeveking.com/uses/) - Hardware, software and services

## Articles

- [An Example App That Needs Its Features](https://www.juststeveking.com/articles/an-example-app-that-needs-its-features/) - Flagpole is a feature flag service built on kit, where every HTTP standard is there because the domain needs it. Building it found four bugs that kit's own tests never caught.
- [A Laravel API Starter Kit That Keeps Its Promises](https://www.juststeveking.com/articles/a-laravel-api-starter-kit-that-keeps-its-promises/) - Starter kits are right on the day you install them and drift from then on. Ki
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