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 tool in the background. Whether it is a small personal blog created with a content management system (CMS) or the biggest websites out there that are managed by massive companies with thousands of employees.

So what are the design challenges when it comes to admin panels and should you invest…

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. It may not have 100 champions, 50 weapons, or crazy explosions, but it has an unrivaled tactical depth, which makes it not only a great game to play but also a very interesting and engaging esports title.

Chess is the ultimate easy to learn, hard to master game. …

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 ahead of myself. I mean, so we can learn the Twitter API!

This is what a lot of my experience on Twitter has been like since I started posting regularly at the beginning of this year. …

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 Harmon, an orphan turned chess prodigy. She struggles with substance abuse on her way to becoming the best chess player in the world.

Based on Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel of the same name, the fictional story plays in the 60s and manages to capture the emotional struggles of the main…

Terror attacks, wars, accidents, pandemics, natural disasters, and climate change. Most of the daily news is negative and full of terrible reports that bring you down.

A few years ago, I was checking the news multiple times per day to stay informed about the relevant topics of the week. Since then I have steadily decreased my exposure to the news and last year I stopped looking at the news at all. It has been a great decision that has improved my mental health and productivity.

The news is full of negativity

Growing up, my parents would always watch the news and read the newspaper every day…

Some regions in western Germany have received 148 liters of rain within 48 hours whereas the area normally sees around 80 liters over the whole month of July. Weeks of rainy weather before had saturated the soil so it couldn’t absorb any more water and most of the rain accumulated in streams and rivers. The resulting flood caught many people by surprise and more than 100 people have died from the rapidly rising water. …

I was very happy with my old phone from 2013. It’s in good working condition, the camera is decent, and the battery can hold a charge.

However, over time, most apps have increased their minimum required Android version to 5.0 or higher and my old phone only had Android 4.2.

This meant that I couldn’t install most apps anymore and after a while of trying to find workarounds for it, I finally caved and bought a new phone.

I am not a heavy smartphone user, so I mostly looked at cheaper phones and ended up buying the LG K41S. It…

Minecraft has been the king on YouTube for the past decade with over 200 billion views in 2020 alone. Since the first Let’s Play videos during Minecraft’s pre-alpha days more than 12 years ago, both the genre and the game have grown dramatically.

In the beginning, people only showed off their first dirt huts and how they survived a single night in the game. Nowadays, we see creators, such as the Hermitcraft community, treat the game as a canvas with endless possibilities. …