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A blog about random tech stuff I find interesting - blockchain, programming languages, decentralized systems, and whatever else catches my attention.

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git-invader Space Invaders animation running on a real GitHub contribution graph

0x02 | git-invader: Your GitHub Contribution Graph Is Now a Battlefield

The Idea Every developer has that one GitHub profile widget they wish existed. For me it was something that felt alive — not a static badge, not a bar chart, not even the classic snake. Something that actually used your contribution data as game state. git-invader is exactly that. It reads your last 52 weeks of contributions via the GitHub GraphQL API, maps every active day to a Space Invaders alien, and generates a looping SVG animation where a ship hunts them all down — column by column, lowest row first — in a battle that is completely unique to your commit history. ...

May 3, 2026 · 11 min · 2196 words · PATEL96

0x01 | Web3 UX Is Broken — And That's Why Nobody Showed Up

The Narrative We Told Ourselves For years, the crypto community had a ready-made answer whenever adoption numbers disappointed: they just don’t get it yet. Normies weren’t ready. Regulators were in the way. The bear market killed momentum. Give it one more cycle. But cycles came and went. Ethereum went from $80 to $4,800 and back. NFTs had their moment in the cultural spotlight. DeFi summer happened. BlackRock filed for a spot ETF. Billions poured in from institutions. And yet — your parents still don’t use a dApp. Your non-tech friends still can’t explain what a wallet is. Mass adoption remains a perpetually future event. ...

April 27, 2026 · 13 min · 2709 words · PATEL96
Dotify dot matrix transformation preview

0x00 | Building Dotify: A High-Performance Dot Matrix Image Generator

Introduction In this guide, we will break down the engineering behind Dotify, a web application that transforms standard imagery into stylized dot matrix patterns inspired by the “Nothing” design language. The Transformation The concept is straightforward: we take a raster image and re-interpret it as a grid of discrete, color-sampled circles. It takes a simple image like this one: And transforms it into this: Technical Stack The architecture is built for speed and a seamless developer experience: ...

January 9, 2026 · 7 min · 1288 words · PATEL96

Hello World - Let's Build Something Decentralized

Welcome to 0x60 Blog Every coder’s journey starts with a “Hello World”, and this is mine - version 2.0, blockchain edition. Why Another Blog? Fair question. The internet is already flooded with tech blogs, Medium articles, and Twitter threads about blockchain. So why add another voice to the noise? Here’s the thing: I learn by building, and I learn better by sharing. Over the past few years, I’ve gone from being curious about what Bitcoin was, to deploying smart contracts on mainnet, to optimizing gas costs down to the last wei. Along the way, I’ve hit every possible error message, spent hours debugging why my transaction reverted, and celebrated when my contract finally did what it was supposed to do. ...

January 1, 2026 · 4 min · 670 words · PATEL96