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zachbroad/README.md

Hey, I'm Zach

Software engineer based in Florida. Currently building Nitrohook, a self-hosted webhook gateway written in Go, Postgres, Redis Streams, and Kubernetes.

Projects

  • 🪝 NitroHook — Self-hosted webhook gateway in Go that receives, transforms (sandboxed JS), and fans out deliveries to HTTP, Slack, SMTP, Twilio, and more. (GitHub)
  • 🎛️ ZachsMacTweaks — Native macOS menu bar app for one-click, fully reversible system tweaks (Caps→Esc, mouse accel, anti-distraction profiles, and more). Swift 6 + SwiftUI MenuBarExtra over a UI-agnostic, unit-tested core engine that snapshots every original value before mutating it. Notarized .app via XcodeGen + a build/sign/notarize pipeline.
  • 🛰️ dns-monitor — Lightweight DNS uptime/drift monitor in Go. Resolves configured records on an interval, flags drift against expected answers, persists history to SQLite, and serves an HTMX dashboard. Multi-arch image on GHCR. (Docs)
  • 🐶 FrenchieWiki — Niche website I built and scaled to 1.5M annual users and $100K+ ARR. Top 1% of U.S. publishers by traffic.
  • 🎲 Categories.LIVE — Real-time multiplayer Scattergories with LLM-graded answers. React Router v7 + Socket.IO, deployed on Fly.io. (GitHub)
  • 📱 Flip Phone Finder — Directory and comparison tool for flip phones and minimalist devices. Next.js 15, Drizzle ORM, Supabase. (GitHub) (you should ditch your smartphone!)
  • 💬 Java IRC Server — IRC server implementing RFC 1459/2812 with channels, private messaging, and multi-client support.
  • 🕹️ CHIP-8 Emulator — CHIP-8 emulator written in C with SDL2.

Tutorials

  • 🔎 pgsync-elasticsearch-bookstore — FastAPI bookstore where CRUD goes to Postgres and search is served from Elasticsearch, kept in sync by pgsync over logical replication. Includes a query-mode search playground and a SQLAdmin UI. (Write-up)
  • 🔄 debezium-elasticsearch-cdc — Syncs a multi-table Postgres aggregate into a single Elasticsearch index via Kafka + Debezium + a search worker that treats CDC events as triggers and re-fetches the full aggregate from Postgres. (Write-up)
  • 📈 keda-kafka-autoscaling — A Kafka-driven notification pipeline that scales its consumer on Kafka consumer-group lag using KEDA. (Write-up)

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  1. nitrohook nitrohook Public

    Self-hosted webhook gateway that receives, transforms, and fans out webhook deliveries to HTTP endpoints, Slack, email (SMTP), Twilio, and JavaScript handlers. Built with Go, Postgres, and Redis. I…

    Go 1 1

  2. zachs-macos-tweaks zachs-macos-tweaks Public

    Native macOS menu bar app for one-click, reversible system tweaks. Swift + SwiftUI, fully tested core engine.

    Swift

  3. debezium-elasticsearch-cdc debezium-elasticsearch-cdc Public

    Syncs a multi-table Postgres aggregate into a single Elasticsearch index using Kafka + Debezium + a search worker, with a tiny CRUD web app to drive it.

    Python

  4. pgsync-elasticsearch-bookstore pgsync-elasticsearch-bookstore Public

    Real-time search indexing via change data capture: FastAPI writes to Postgres, pgsync streams changes through logical replication + Redis into Elasticsearch.

    Python

  5. dns-monitor dns-monitor Public

    Lightweight DNS uptime and drift monitor -- YAML-configured DNS checks, SQLite history, HTMX dashboard. Single Go binary.

    Go

  6. categories-live categories-live Public

    Real-time multiplayer word game — built with React, Socket.IO, and GPT-4

    TypeScript 1