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…

A rich text editor with contenteditable and the JavaScript Selection and Range Classes — When I learned web development, JavaScript wasn’t nearly as powerful as it is today and most text formatting was done with BB-Codes. Later on, I discovered the contenteditable HTML attribute, which allows the user to edit the contents of the HTML tag. Contenteditable is typically used with the execCommand function…

WebGL does not support wide lines natively, so I created my own — A few weeks ago, I discovered during Ludum Dare that, unlike OpenGL, WebGL does not support drawing lines wider than 1 pixel, which meant I wasn’t able to create the effect that I wanted during the event. To not repeat this scenario, I worked on a custom solution for drawing…

Sparrow’s first game, a new 2D particle system, and an interactive demo — It’s been a good week for my Sparrow WebGL engine. Last weekend, I used it for the first time to develop a game for Ludum Dare and this week, I worked on a new 2D particle system. …

Testing my WebGL engine while creating a game from scratch in 48 hours — Last weekend was the 53rd iteration of the Ludum Dare game jam where you have 48 hours to create a game completely from scratch. This time the theme was Delivery. Leading up to the event, I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to participate or not. I’ve been quite busy recently…

The bar for acceptable human work has increased — Using ChatGPT feels like cheating — I’ve been using ChatGPT more and more over the last few weeks and it’s truly a remarkable tool. From quickly getting an answer to a question to writing advice and even professional assistance, it can do pretty much anything. Last week, I had to write a freelancing offer and I…