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…

The Riot Games produced animated Netflix series breaks the trend of bad video game adaptations and is one of the best series of the year — In the past, movie adaptations of popular video games didn’t turn out particularly well (Assassins Creed 18%, Warcraft 28%), so I was a bit hesitant when I heard about Arcane, the new animated series by Riot Games and Netflix that plays in the fictional universe of League of Legends, one…

I couldn’t come up with 22 Goals For 2022 — Yes, it’s another one of these stories, which pop up by the thousands whenever a new year starts. Setting goals shouldn’t be limited to only January 1st, but leaving our baggage in the old year and starting with a clean sheet is very pleasing to the OCD parts of our…

Income and other stats from my first somewhat successful side hustle — To get to the point straight away, it’s 699 dollars and 6 cents. It’s an increase of almost 10 times compared to last year and is quite amazing considering that I am still a fairly small writer. Some bigger YouTubers like Graham Stephan talk about how much money they make…

On average, every single human has watched 126 Minecraft videos — Recently, Minecraft videos reached the insane number of 1,000,000,000,000 views on YouTube. Even 12 years after its initial release, Minecraft is still the number one game on the platform with 201 billion views in 2020 alone, while the second most-watched game (Roblox) only accumulated 75 billion. 1 trillion views is…

The green falling rain text effect is easy to implement with JavaScript and HTML canvas and still looks great — The Matrix text effect is one of the most recognizable effects of the early 2000s. Inspired by the release of The Matrix Resurrections (which I didn’t get to see yet), I rewatched the old trilogy and it made me want to implement the effect for myself. It turns out, it’s…