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…
A story about what could have been
In 2021, the value of Bitcoin has more than doubled since the beginning of the year and reached 60,000$ on March 13th. This reminded me of an old Bitcoin wallet hidden in the depths of my hard drives. After resyncing the complete blockchain to check how much was left, I felt very disappointed and started to go down the dangerous road of thinking about what could have been.
An Old Bitcoin Wallet
Back in 2013, when Bitcoin reached the 1,000$ mark for the first time and became more widely known, I got interested as well and started to read up on it. …
It’s what makes writing so difficult but also very interesting and unique
You have a great idea for a story.
You have done your research and gotten a deep understanding of the topic.
But the blank page is still sitting in front of you and you have no idea how to start. There is no singular correct solution in writing. Instead, there are infinite possibilities to write the same text and you have to decide on one of them.
It always takes me back to school and reminds me of the difference between math and English. When 100 people are presented with a complicated math problem, they may take different approaches, but…
Is it even possible?
When I was randomly browsing YouTube while procrastinating other work, I stumbled upon a video about climbing the highest mountain in every country. As a naive non-climber, I assumed that this was a record that multiple people have achieved over the years. After all, thousands have summited Mount Everest and many have climbed the highest mountain on every continent.
However, it turns out that nobody has been able to climb the highest mountain in every country so far. …
Warring tribes with violent rituals fight for control over Europe in the dystopian Netflix show
The year is 2074. After a catastrophic power blackout in 2029, Europe has split into many small territories. The surviving humans have organized into tribes that fight for control over the lands with brutal violence. When three siblings discover a crashed plane, they are thrown into the middle of the warring parties.
‘Tribes of Europa’ is a Netflix series about a dystopian European future by the producers of Dark. It features a well-built post-apocalyptic world with drama and action. However, the story fails to convince completely and the season ends rather abruptly with many cliffhangers.
Plot
The small tribe of the…
Supporting different screen resolutions and accessibility feature.
When I started with game development just a few years ago, 4K (3840x2160) screens had a market share of 0.07% and no game was optimized for it. While full HD (1920x1080) remains by far the most common resolution today, more than 10% of users have a monitor with a higher resolution than 1080p.
To cope with the increasing range of different resolutions, game developers have to add UI scaling to their games to make sure they can be enjoyed by as many players as possible. …
Basic movements and captures, discovered checks, castles, en passants, and promotions
Chess has experienced a massive boom in 2020. A lot of people who were stuck at home during the lockdowns picked up online chess as a pastime and after Netflix released their amazing show The Queen’s Gambit, even more people got interested in the game.
I have also rediscovered my love for chess after watching the show. While I have been playing a bit and doing a lot of puzzles, it mostly got me interested in developing my own chess engine again. One of my first projects, when I was learning C++, was to develop a chess AI. …
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
