What is a good admin panel design and is it worth your time? — They live in the deepest and darkest corners of the internet. Always in the background. Never seen by the majority of normal users. No, I’m not talking about porn or the dark web. I’m talking about admin panels and dashboards. These days, almost every website has some type of configuration…

A 1,500-year-old game is now conquering the internet — Inspired by the recent Netflix hit The Queen’s Gambit, millions of people are getting into chess. Chess websites, content creation, and esport events are booming. …

How to use the Twitter API to track your follows and unfollows — Are you posting regularly on Twitter? Do you get the occasional follower here and there? Are they unfollowing a few days later because you didn’t follow them back? Enough with that! Let’s find out who is unfollowing so we can burn voodoo dolls with their names… oh, sorry, I’m getting…

The Netflix drama series shows the struggles of an orphan on her way to become the best chess player in the world — As I was scrolling through Netflix, a new thumbnail caught my eye: A beautiful woman sitting behind a chessboard. This had me intrigued. I love chess and as it so happens beautiful women. I started watching and got immediately hooked. The Queen’s Gambit follows the life and career of Beth…

Using ES6 modules to share code between frontend and backend — Ever since I started using Node.js for some backend applications a few years ago, I struggled with sharing code between Node and browser environments. …

Why the Rotten Tomatoes scores are confusing — Movie and series rating sites like Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, Metacritic, or Letterboxd are very popular and a lot of people check the ratings before they watch anything. Yesterday, I was writing a review for the Netflix show Lupin when I checked the Rotten Tomatoes ratings to mention in the article…

The collapse of FTX — The collapse of the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange FTX and all of its affiliated companies this week has caused massive damage to the whole crypto landscape. Not only will millions of users lose billions of dollars, but the trust in the system may have been irreparably damaged. …

Creating my submission for the biggest render challenge on the internet — In August 2022, the Moving Meditations Community Render Challenge took place. Thousands of artists from all around the world started with the same basic template file and had one month to come up with a unique idea and create their pieces of art. The only requirements for the challenge were…

Creating a complete game in less than 48 hours — A few weeks ago, I participated in the 51st Ludum Dare event. Ludum Dare is the most popular game jam where you have 48 hours to develop a game completely from scratch. Before the event, I wasn’t feeling well and I was contemplating whether I wanted to participate at all…