Developer Tools

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. ...

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. ...