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…
How bad is personal GPU mining with NiceHash?
One of the biggest negative aspects of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is their environmental impact. To progress and update the blockchain, most coins use mining, which requires massive amounts of computing power and energy.
I have been doing some small-scale personal mining with my graphics card recently and I always felt guilty about the carbon emissions it is producing. So I tried to calculate the impact of my mining and how bad it is for the environment.
My Mining Impact
For the past few weeks, I have been using NiceHash to sell my GPU’s hashing power when I’m not using it for anything…
How to earn money with your graphics card using NiceHash
With some of the recent price records of Bitcoin and Ethereum, cryptocurrencies are all over the news and many people want to join the hype. However, investing your real money into Bitcoin still is a risky and volatile investment and to this day, I haven’t been brave enough to do it.
Besides buying Bitcoins straight up, there is another method to get your hand on small amounts of cryptocurrency: Mining.
However, researching, setting up the software, joining a mining pool, etc. requires patience and some technical knowledge. For most people, using a consumer-friendly mining client like NiceHash is a better…
A dystopian, post-apocalyptic show about the last humans living on a giant train
Good morning, Snowpiercer. The temperature outside is -119.6 degrees celsius. We are 6 years, 9 months, and 26 days from departure.
This is the daily morning briefing onboard Snowpiercer, a gigantic train that is circling the Earth in 2026. After a climate catastrophe, the Earth has frozen over and has become uninhabitable. Only a few thousand people are still alive, riding out the end of the world on a 1001 car long train.
Snowpiercer is a dystopian post-apocalyptic drama series. It is based on the 2013 film, which is an adaptation of a 1982 French graphic novel.
Plot
Seven years before…
My experience and thoughts on writing, topics, views, followers, and money
One year ago, I published my first story on Medium. Since then I have learned a lot, published 90 stories, got over 100 followers, and earned a small amount of money. Here is my experience and thoughts looking back at one year of writing on Medium.
History
In April of 2020, YouTube randomly recommended Shelby Church’s Medium video to me. It sounded very interesting and almost too good to be true. You are allowed to repost content from your own website and you can earn money from it. …
Looking back at the development process of my Ludum Dare 48 entry
Last weekend, the 48th edition of Ludum Dare took place. Ludum Dare is a game jam where you have 48 hours to create a game completely from scratch. This includes all of the programming, every art asset, every sound effect, the music, everything.
A theme is announced at the beginning of the event, but it is generally a loose theme, so a wide range of games can be submitted. The theme this time around was “Deeper and deeper”.
Technology
For the past Ludum Dare events, I have either used my C++/OpenGL engine or HTML5/JavaScript, both of which work pretty well for…
Discover new places and improve your geography knowledge with GeoGuessr, City Guesser, and more
Imagine you are stranded somewhere in the world with no idea where you are. All you can see is your local surroundings, the buildings, street signs, and people…oh, and you only have a few minutes to find your exact location on a map of the world.
This is the premise of GeoGuessr and other games like it. It has you narrowing down your location based on Google Street View images or videos.
During the last year, with the pandemic severely limiting international travel, these geography games have become one of the best ways to explore new places across the globe…
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
