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Zach
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Software engineer @eleventhhour.games, metalhead, Padres fan, generative AI hater.

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just caught the vod, congrats on the win!
December 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Exempt per the official release: github.blog/changelog/20...

"Runner usage in public repositories will remain free. There will be no changes in price structure for GitHub Enterprise Server customers."
Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions - GitHub Changelog
On January 1, 2026, GitHub will reduce the price of GitHub-hosted runners by up to 39% depending on the machine type used. The free usage minute quotas will remain the…
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December 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The "we don't know how" bit is a reference, specifically to a tweet about humans not knowing how to build cathedrals any more: knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-fat...
My Father-In-Law Is A Builder / We Can't, We Don't Know How To Do It | Know Your Meme
My Father-In-Law Is A Builder is a phrasal template tweet format originating from Christian commentator and Twitter user Jeremy Wayne Tate in mid-2023. The
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November 26, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I appreciate the nuance here - let me amend my statement from "appear pro-Trump/Republican" to "appear naive about US politics". I agree that Dems have been corporately captured as he claims (see: shutdown vote, the GENIUS act), but faith in modern Republicans to fight for citizen's rights is inane
November 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Here's some tweets from that make him appear pro-Trump/Republican, which he (allegedly mistakenly) sent from the Proton account rather than his own personal account: archive.ph/LlbSj

I still use the full Proton Suite with this knowledge, but it's certainly not "untrue" that Andy tweeted the above
archive.ph
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Anyway, Wild Dark Shore was a really fun read, enjoyed it quite a bit
August 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Discord communities with dedicated book channels have filled that void for me more recently, but I'm at the whims of these particular strangers having read the book I just finished, not the entire internet of fellow readers, and that bums me out
August 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
(late disclaimer + bias: I had two friends laid off from 1047 yesterday and I'm a little miffed!)
July 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I'd really hope that your game server processes could host more than one game each (I chose c6g.xlarges for these!), and that's already capacity for 600 players: Splitgate 1 peaked at 450 players over the past 3 months - there's absolutely no need for this many boxes
July 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Some hasty projections: with 100 machines (each hosting a single game server process, I'm assuming 6 players/game server) + 200 machines for services (authentication, matchmaking, etc) + 100 TB MySQL database, I'm getting $35k month
July 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"Between the game servers and 3rd party dependencies, Splitgate 1 is costing us about $40-50k per month"

"3rd party dependencies" is doing some legwork here, because I don't know if I could spend $40k/mo on game server cloud compute if I tried
July 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Walker's sample size is nearly double fwiw - this isn't to discredit Walker but rather vent about Schwarber
July 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
23/ This thread was composed using blueskythreads.xyz
July 11, 2025 at 5:30 AM
22/ There's certainly lots of easy wins we could get towards that goal while figuring out to what extent live service needs special attention.
July 11, 2025 at 5:30 AM