James Brooks
British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
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Blog james.brooks.page His personal site: posts on Laravel, tooling and his setup.
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- Introducing CloudPost: privacy-first iCloud Mail for AI assistants 10 Oct 2026 Why I built CloudPost to give ChatGPT access to my iCloud Mail, make sense of a noisy inbox, and help me unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters without creating another copy of my mailbox.
- Announcing Berroku 6 May 2026 Sudoku, meet Minesweeper. A berry-themed logic puzzle game, now live on the App Store.
- Getting into public speaking 10 Dec 2025 Here are ten things I learnt about public speaking.
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- Supercharging Rate Limiting with Cloudflare 6 Jan 2025 Enhance Laravel’s rate limiting by using Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) to block excessive requests at the edge, reducing server load and improving API performance.
- 2024 Recap 1 Jan 2025 Looking back over 2024.
- A Poem Of Grief 18 Nov 2024 A poem I wrote shortly after the passing of my brother and the birth of my first child.
- tweet.new 9 Oct 2024 I bought a .new domain to simplify tweeting—say hello to tweet.new, your shortcut to posting faster on X!
- Secrets of the Laravel Team Talk Video 9 May 2024 Watch my Documenting Laravel APIs talk from Laracon AU.
- Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet API 24 Jan 2024 In October 2023, I updated the Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet to Nuxt 3.x. Along with several other changes, I wanted to add a new feature to the site, an API.
- TIL: macOS’ Hidden Gem – The "caffeinate" Command! 11 Dec 2023 Did you know macOS has a built-in alternative to Caffeine? It’s called caffeinate and it’s awesome.
- Documenting Laravel APIs Talk Video 1 Dec 2023 Watch my Documenting Laravel APIs talk from Laracon AU.
- Review: Three Peaks GBR Commuter 22L 28 Jul 2023 A review of the Three Peaks GBR Commuter 22L backpack
- My Git Aliases 14 Feb 2023 Here’s how I alias Git commands and increase my productivity.
- Extending Laravel’s "about" Command 13 Feb 2023 Let’s take a look into Laravel’s "about" command and how we can extend it to add our own application / package information.
- 2022 Recap 1 Jan 2023 With 2022 already being all but a distant memory, I thought it’d be nice to look back at the last year and reflect on the year long journey.
- Upgrading macOS with Homebrew 24 Nov 2022 Updates that break Homebrew happen so frequently and I forget how to solve it, that I’ve finally caved and documented it.
- PHP Stoke 20 Nov 2022 Introducing PHP Stoke, a meetup for PHP developers in Stoke-on-Trent.
- Deployment Hook Error Handling in Envoyer 12 Aug 2021 Laravel’s Envoyer service allows you to break up your deployment process into multiple steps, which makes it really easy to manage deployments. Envoyer runs each step individually, checking the exit code of the last com…
- A GitHub Action for Laravel Forge 10 May 2021 Today I’m pleased to announce the availability of a new GitHub Action for Laravel Forge deployments.
- Injecting Additional Data into Laravel Queued Jobs 13 Apr 2021 We've shipped an enhancement to Laravel Forge that stores the ID of the user who initiated an event.
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x.com @jbrooksuk His X account.
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- Small @laravel Cloud thing that makes me unreasonably happy... the secret manager 🔐 16 Oct 2026
- Ordered, but took too long to check out so delivery isn’t until 9th - 16th 😭 16 Oct 2026
- wait, so we're like properly living in the future now? 16 Oct 2026
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- I just enjoy opening @AmpCode on my phone to wiggle the logo tbh 16 Oct 2026
- Sending mail? We've partnered with @resend to make setting up and sending mail even easier when you deploy with Laravel Cloud ✉️ 16 Oct 2026
- iCloud Mail not working on Grok Bot? Port 993 blocked? CloudPost is a free iCloud Mail connector (MCP) that fixes it. There's no IMAP setup on the bot's computer. Just ask your bot to add https://t.co/uR0sF0cjkB It also works with Outlook, Fastmail and any IMAP account. Passwords are encrypted and your emails are never stored or read. 15 Oct 2026
- I've spent 7+ years building @laravel's hosting platforms, and the thing I'm proudest of isn't a feature. It's how fantastically boring deploys have become. It. Just. Works ™ What's the one thing you still dread about shipping? 15 Oct 2026
- Free, one step at a time, and written by someone who really knows his stuff. If you're stepping into management, Manager in 8 Weeks is a fantastic place to start 🙌 15 Oct 2026
- One connector. Multiple inboxes. 📬 CloudPost now works with iCloud, Outlook, Fastmail and any IMAP account. Connect them all once, and your AI can search, read and reply across every inbox. Free, secure and totally private. 14 Oct 2026 cloudpost.ing
- @AmpCode can we get @bot's redirect uri added so we can connect Puck please? 14 Oct 2026
- Hey @AmpCode, can you turn off the auto-capitalization on this field if I'm not allowed capitals in my username, please. 14 Oct 2026
- It's mOrbin' time. 13 Oct 2026
- chat, are we going star white or night sky for the iPhone Duo? 13 Oct 2026
- CloudPost was the first project I shipped I didn't 𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚕 𝚗𝚎𝚠 myself. We're living in a new world and it's finally clicked into place for me. 13 Oct 2026
- Grok @bot users stuck on iCloud Mail since the IMAP ports closed: CloudPost is a free MCP server for iCloud Mail that works over plain HTTPS. Totally private, with encrypted passwords. Your emails are never stored or read. 12 Oct 2026 cloudpost.ing
- Berroku 1.8 is out 🫐 Endless is now free for everyone. That's all 6,000 puzzles, and still no ads. There’s also a roomier iPad layout and new optional tip jar if you'd like to support it. Sudoku, meet Minesweeper 🤝 11 Oct 2026 berroku.com
- The fire is lit and I’ve shipped an MCP for iCloud Mail. Introducing CloudPost, a simple way to let AI securely search, read, organise, and send your emails. Your inbox, now with tools. 10 Oct 2026 cloudpost.ing
- Orbin' my way through a whole bunch of iPhone games. 9 Oct 2026
- been shipping a couple of iOS apps during evenings and weekends and boy have I learnt some things - might need to release the app I’ve been using to remotely deploy iOS apps out of my local network 7 Oct 2026
- remember when we used to care about our craft 7 Oct 2026
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GitHub jbrooksuk His GitHub; he is a maintainer of Cachet.
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- artisan.page — A bookmarkable, searchable cheatsheet for Laravel's Artisan commands. 19 Oct 2026
- New repocloudpost-cursor — CloudPost plugin for Cursor and Grok Bot: iCloud Mail via MCP 11 Oct 2026
- Sidewire 6 Oct 2026
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- Orbit 5 Oct 2026
- laravel-forge-action — Deploy your application to Laravel Forge with GitHub Actions. 21 Sept 2026
- cloud-demo 11 Aug 2026
- node-summary — Node module that summarizes text using a naive summarization algorithm 8 May 2026
- cf-allow-test 5 Mar 2026
- jbrooksuk 4 Aug 2025
- discord-notification-channel — Laravel notification channel for Discord 18 Mar 2025
- chirper — Example application that demonstrates how to document Laravel APIs using Scribe. 10 Dec 2024
- mintlify-docs 14 Nov 2024
- tweet.new — Say hello to tweet.new, your shortcut to posting faster on X! 10 Oct 2024
- JSON-Airports — A JSON array of Airport names, IATA code and location 7 Nov 2023
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