One of the biggest fallacies of our industry is that good work speaks for itself. It is a self-delusional lie that those with a good reputation tell themselves to explain their success. I will let you in on a secret; I am not that amazing at my job. Don't get me wrong; I am good. But I am not a leading mind in our industry or anything. But, people often talk as if I am.The post Is Success Down To The Quality Of Your Work? appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

At the Laracon US conference in New York, Taylor Otwell released Laravel Vapor, a new platform for serverless hosting backed by AWS services. You can watch the presentation below.

On the Laravel News site there's a tutorial posted showing you how to use the Swole extension to speed up your Laravel-based application. Swole is a PHP extension written in C that provides missing asynchronous functionality to the language. Swoole is a production-grade async programming framework for PHP. It is a PHP extension written in pure C language, which enables PHP developers to write high-performance, scalable, concurrent TCP, UDP, Unix socket, HTTP, WebSocket services in PHP without too much knowledge of the non-blocking I/O programming and low-level Linux kernel. You can think of Swoole as something like NodeJS but for PHP, with higher performance. The post covers the "why?" question of using Swoole with Laravel, explaining how the traditional PHP request flow works. Swoole provides a way to reduce come of this processing overhead and increase performance. They then help you integrate Swoole and Laravel using a custom package (swooletw/laravel-swoole), installing both the package and using PECL to install the Swoole extension. Once the extension is enabled and the service provider is added, all it takes is an artisan command to start the web server up. The post finishes with some quick benchmarks using wrk comparing it against a typical Nginx setup with PHP-FPM. Not surprisingly, Swoole outperforms the other setup well.

When you stay in your own lane, there is no traffic. In other words, mind your own business. Road Blocks & Wrong Turns People lose themselves by comparing themselves to others or trying to emulate (or worse, copy) their style or approach whether it be in design, marketing or business. This is a follower's game and you will always be trying to keep up. And by trying to keep up you will often take a wrong turn or hit a road block in the process. Focus on Your Road Instead, focus on your road. Stay in your lane and when you're good enough, people will come to you. To put this in perspective, my lane or strategy here on Instagram is to provide value to others, through education, inspiration & positive affirmation, with the underlying focus of mindset, business, branding, marketing and logo design. In my business, "my lane" is to help small to mid-sized businesses (and agency clients) grow and thrive through creating distinctive logos and brand identities, backed by strategy. My marketing strategy is inbound focused (SEO, social & word of mouth). This particular combo is not going to work for everyone so why chase it? Know Your Destination […]

It's fair to say Google Fonts are popular. As of writing, they have been viewed over 29 trillion times across the web and it's easy to understand why — the collection gives you access to over 900 beautiful fonts you can use on your website for free. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of "system fonts" installed on your user's device. System fonts or 'Web Safe Fonts' are the fonts most commonly pre-installed across operating systems.

This week's Designer News (N.448) includes Speed Up Alignment in CSS with Flexbox Utility Classes, a Tool for Collaboratively Editing CSS, Evolving the Firefox Brand, ApexCharts, Argon Design System, Using srcset for Responsive Images, The Age of the Wordless Logo and much more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 448 appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

Advertise here with BSA Multipurpose WordPress themes make it possible for any web designer to build a truly amazing website. Where these web tools really strut their stuff however, is when they are put... Advertise here with BSA The post 10 Powerful Multipurpose WordPress Themes and Tips for Choosing the Right One appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Photography isn’t the only way to represent your brand on your website. There are other ways like illustration, You can use illustrations to make your website stand out from the rest. Illustrations are becoming more and more popular, and some designers are really pushing the limits with some gorgeous ones.

Sometimes you might create a file that is unexpectedly ignored by git. Although it doesnA?AEURA(TM)t happen often, it can be tricky to figure out which .gitignore file is responsible for ignoring a file in your project. It is super easy once you know about a handy git co...

Check out the much-anticipated 2020 logo design trends that are expected to shape the logo design industry in 2020 and beyond!