Zach BroadSoftware engineer in Florida. Building cloud platforms, webhook infrastructure, and small games.https://zachbroad.com/Categories.LIVE: real-time multiplayer Scattergories, graded by an LLMhttps://zachbroad.com/blog/categories-live/https://zachbroad.com/blog/categories-live/Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMTBuilding a CHIP-8 emulator in C with SDL2https://zachbroad.com/blog/chip-8-emulator/https://zachbroad.com/blog/chip-8-emulator/Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTWriting a CHIP-8 emulator in C with SDL2https://zachbroad.com/blog/chip8-emulator/https://zachbroad.com/blog/chip8-emulator/Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTdns-monitor: a single-binary DNS uptime and drift monitor in Gohttps://zachbroad.com/blog/dns-monitor/https://zachbroad.com/blog/dns-monitor/Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTDon't build on rented land: diversify your traffic before it's gonehttps://zachbroad.com/blog/dont-build-on-rented-land/https://zachbroad.com/blog/dont-build-on-rented-land/Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFlipPhoneFinder: a catalog and comparison site for flip phones and dumbphoneshttps://zachbroad.com/blog/flipphonefinder/https://zachbroad.com/blog/flipphonefinder/Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTFrenchieWiki: growing a niche site to 1.3M users and $100K+ ARRhttps://zachbroad.com/blog/frenchiewiki/https://zachbroad.com/blog/frenchiewiki/Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTBuilding an RFC 1459/2812-compliant IRC server in Javahttps://zachbroad.com/blog/java-irc-server/https://zachbroad.com/blog/java-irc-server/Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTAutoscaling a Kafka consumer to zero with KEDAhttps://zachbroad.com/blog/keda-kafka-autoscaling/https://zachbroad.com/blog/keda-kafka-autoscaling/Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTNitroHook: a self-hosted webhook gateway in Gohttps://zachbroad.com/blog/nitrohook/https://zachbroad.com/blog/nitrohook/Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTpgsync in under 10 minuteshttps://zachbroad.com/blog/pgsync/https://zachbroad.com/blog/pgsync/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTSyncing Postgres to Elasticsearch using Kafka + Debezium Connect + Search Workerhttps://zachbroad.com/blog/postgres-elasticsearch-cdc/https://zachbroad.com/blog/postgres-elasticsearch-cdc/Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhat running a 1.3M-user site solo taught me about engineeringhttps://zachbroad.com/blog/running-a-site-solo/https://zachbroad.com/blog/running-a-site-solo/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTZachsMacTweaks: a one-click macOS system-tweak menu bar app in Swifthttps://zachbroad.com/blog/zachs-mac-tweaks/https://zachbroad.com/blog/zachs-mac-tweaks/Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT