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…
There aren’t that many great sitcoms anymore
The Crew is a new Netflix sitcom about a NASCAR team that undergoes an ownership change. The old-school ex-driver team owner decides to retire and hands over the team to his numbers-driven Silicon Valley daughter. The crew is skeptical of her new management style and many hilarious situations arise.
Watching The Crew is a good time. It’s not full of deep and complicated humor or far-fetched ridiculous situations. Instead, the characters are believable, all be it slightly exaggerated, and the jokes are easy-going. …
PogChamps 3 is a chess tournament featuring popular streamers and content creators
Chess and especially online chess has experienced a massive boom in 2020. When the whole world was stuck and bored at home, a lot of people started to learn and play chess. Among the people who took up chess during that period was xQcOW, a very popular Twitch streamer. His collaboration with chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura brought online chess to a wider audience.
Shortly after, the first PogChamps event was announced — a chess tournament where popular streamers with average chess skills play against each other. The event was very successful and broke viewership records for chess. …
It’s a weird and scary realization
Today is the 5th of February 2021. It marks the day when it has been exactly one year since I last saw my friends in person, which is quite a weird and scary realization.
When we met for a normal movie night like any other one year ago, none of us could have predicted what was going to happen in the 12 months since then.
The Beginning
When we met at the beginning of February the first COVID case in Germany had already been confirmed and we have all seen the news reports from Wuhan, China. …
The secure and open-source messenger app has a proper desktop version that works without a phone
Signal has been getting a lot of publicity recently as more and more people are switching from WhatsApp to Signal. Last month, WhatsApp introduced a new privacy policy that confused a lot of users. While chats between friends supposedly stay end-to-end encrypted and the update only affects business interactions, it highlighted the increasing integration of WhatsApp into its parent company Facebook and users feared even more data sharing than there already is today.
When people were looking for alternatives, Signal has been the main beneficiary. It’s end-to-end encrypted and has all functions you would expect from a modern messenger app…
Europe and the eastern United States experience record-breaking snow levels and arctic temperatures
One week after the east coast of the United States was hit by one of the biggest blizzards in New York City history, Germany and central Europe are now covered in record-breaking snow masses.
Both events can be traced back to a collapsing polar vortex that enables cold arctic air to travel south, which causes very cold temperatures and major snowfall in affected areas.
What is the Polar Vortex?
The polar vortex is a low-pressure cyclone in the upper atmosphere above the polar regions of the Earth. It exists year-round but is weakest in the summer and strongest in the winter.
When it is getting…
Tweeting and growing as a small creator
In February 2020, I started posting regularly on Twitter to share some development updates of my indie game and other projects I am working on. Now, one year later, I have tweeted 190 times and got 69 followers.
You can read a lot about people who had major success on Twitter and other social media platforms, but what about the little guy, who struggles to grow and maintain a consistent schedule.
Here is what I learned in one year of using Twitter semi-professionally.
Content
Tweets with multimedia content are 150% more likely to be retweeted, 89% more likely to be liked…
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
