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 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…
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. 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. …
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 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. …
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 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…
Betting the games with friends and family for extra incentive
Like almost everything else, the 2020 Euro Cup fell victim to the pandemic. It was postponed to this year and will begin in a few days on Friday the 11th.
I am very excited and looking forward to watching some international football again, even though I haven’t even been following football as much in recent years in favor of the NFL, but I always enjoy events like the World Cup or the Euro Cup.
Watching German World/Euro Cup games in a group is always a lot of fun. However, with the pandemic still around, it’s probably not going to be…
What to look forward to in the next Minecraft update and some thoughts on the new additions
Minecraft is one of the most successful video games ever and 12 years after its release, Mojang is still adding new content to the game. In fact, the next update included so many new features that they had to split it into two parts. The first of these will be released next week on June 8th. Here is a comprehensive list of the new features in the Minecraft 1.17 Caves & Cliffs update.
An interactive candlestick chart using an HTML canvas element and vanilla JavaScript
With some of the recent price records of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, as well as the GameStop and AMC Reddit short squeezes, price charts have been all over the news. Especially when looking at live market data, a common way to display the information is candlestick charts.
Candlestick charts always looked very confusing to me because I never bothered to understand them. However, when I finally did, I realized they are actually quite easy and straightforward to read.
I have been doing some casual mining with NiceHash recently and because I love charts and diagrams, I decided to create my…
An MIT grad student and a tech billionaire with a rocket company try to avoid an asteroid impact
When MIT astrophysics grad student Liam Cole discovers an asteroid on a collision course with the Earth in the middle of the night and his professor disappears after he shares the news, he turns to the eccentric tech billionaire Darius Tanz for help.
Salvation is a fictional suspense drama series about the events that happen after the asteroid is discovered and private and government entities try to prevent an extinction-level event. It’s an exciting show with different storylines and relatable characters. …
A Raspberry Pi with a camera module, a Python MJPG streaming server, and an OpenGL/C++ client to preview and control the webcam
Since the start of the pandemic, video conferences have become a daily habit for many of us and webcam sales have increased by 309% because of it. However, you don’t always have to buy a new webcam for video calls. Sometimes, a random Raspberry Pi camera module will do the trick as well.
You can turn a Raspberry Pi into a webcam using free and easily available software within a few minutes. It works great for most situations, but I didn’t like the lack of control and missing features. …
A Raspberry Pi with a camera module can be a great webcam alternative
Video conferences have become a daily event for many of us. Forced by the pandemic, most companies, education facilities, and organizations had to shift their meetings to the digital world from one week to another. Because of this, the demand for webcams has increased dramatically and Logitech webcam sales have increased by 309% in 2020.
However, you do not necessarily have to buy a new webcam. You can use a tool like the Elgato Cam Link to turn digital cameras into a webcam.
Yet another alternative is to use a Raspberry Pi with a camera module. I had bought one…
Christian Behler
Indie Game Developer using C++/OpenGL, Web Developer using JavaScript/PHP/MySQL, +1000 other interests, follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/PingPoli
