James Seconde

(he/him) Developer Advocate @vonage speaker/writer/engineer/actor, BrumPHP founder, Fusion Meetup Team, Husband, Dad, European, failed DJ.

2025-06-12

It's SQLite o'clock! Check out Prisma ORM to write webhooks to my new favourite way of persisting data!

developer.vonage.com/en/blog/t

#typescript #javascript #sqlite

2025-06-11

Hälsningar från Stockholm! Vonage are at DevSum 2025 to show you all RCS and Network APIs, come say hello! #api #devsum

2025-06-09

I owe my entire career to this language.

I landed my first engineering role from just going to a PHP Meetup. Meetups and then conferences steered me into Developer Relations. I've made friends all over the world. I've watched it go from an underperforming, language perceived as legacy into a blazing fast, top choice for development due to crazy levels of innovation. #30YearsOfPHP

2025-06-09

Missed phpDay in Verona this year? No probs, I was there with Vonage speaking on CLI design. Get the lowdown on some talks in the summary here, featuring Roman Pronskiy, Florian Engelhardt, Laura Durieux, Gina Peter Banyard, and Zuzana Kunckova.

developer.vonage.com/en/blog/v

#php #laravel #symfony

2025-06-04

@martin @popey
sometimes I do feel i was a little too late to the tech industry professionally with what I loved. And this was one of them

2025-06-04

Right, it's today at 5pm BST, folks. Join me and Karl Lingiah as we go through RCS Messaging, and I implement a chat window with Laravel Echo, Livewire and Reverb.

lnkd.in/egVXafrZ

#messaging
#RCS
#PHP
#laravel
#VonageDev

2025-05-28

@elazar ...and this is off the back of cancelling Tek as well 🫠😢

2025-05-28

Even experienced developers might be less familiar with the crazy world of JS evolution. Have a light hearted history lesson in your lunch break, courtesy of the work from Ryan Dahl, Bun, and countless others.

developer.vonage.com/en/blog/c

#javascript #typescript

2025-05-27

Absolutely gutted to note that the CfP has opened up for LonghornPHP, and I can't respond because it is not safe for me to do so, should I be accepted. Heartbreaking.

2025-05-22
2025-05-20

@flowcontrol @phptek damn son, you did phpday and tek straight after as well. That's some serious conference business

2025-05-20

@derickr I don't think they've thought that far ahead yet. Can you imagine the heat it's going to radiate this summer

2025-05-20

@TheGingerDog the football is for their kids. I expect to hear crying soon when one of them has slid on the surface, because plastic and friction do not work well together

2025-05-19

It has taken my neighbours 3 years to finally sort out a messy garden after buying the house.

They put a giant slab of fake plastic grass on it. Just that. Nothing else. It goes all the way to the right, double the distance.

Our planet is cooked.

2025-05-18

@phrawzty I think that has very much been the case in recent times, starting with the Gulf War II... and just as things were calming down after that massive booboo, Brexit came along.

However, Sam Ryder almost winning it 2 years ago does show it's not all old scores.

Plus we're looking to be on an EU repair path. Pie in the sky but accepting the Euro would be a massive positive step

2025-05-17

You know what, our eurovision entry isn't too bad #eurovision

2025-05-15

@shochdoerfer @Girgias it's happening!

2025-05-15

Next up we have Laura Durieux on generative AI work @api-platform.com #phpday

2025-05-15

CAN I JUST SAY AT LUNCH @Girgias SHOWED ME A WORKING EXAMPLE OF GENERICS IN PHP

2025-05-15

Florian Engelhardt from Datadog throws in the one billion row challenge using #php

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