With Thanks
People and things that made this possible, or at least tolerable.
The Mates
To everyone who plays on the servers, tolerates the downtime, suggests things at unreasonable hours, and participates in the ongoing bit that I am a 400-pound basement dweller. You lot are the reason any of this exists. Genuinely.
Tools & Infrastructure
Astro
This site is built with Astro. It's fast, static, and doesn't make me write React. Perfect.
AWS, Hetzner & On-Prem
The infrastructure behind the game servers and everything else is split across AWS, a Hetzner dedicated box, and on-prem hardware at home. Whatever makes sense for the workload.
Prism Launcher
Open-source Minecraft launcher that makes modpack distribution actually painless. The Minecraft setup flow wouldn't work without it.
Modrinth
Where all the Minecraft mods come from. A genuinely good platform for mod hosting and discovery.
Mod Authors
The Minecraft server runs 29 mods by a lot of different people who make this stuff for free. Every mod in the pack is listed with a link to its Modrinth page on the Mods page. If you enjoy the server, those are the people who made it good.
People
For being a belligerent and abrasive arsehole when it mattered the most, and giving me a foot up in my career.
For being there for my crashouts, for saying the right thing at the right time, and for letting me do the same. I adore you.
The AI in the Room
This site was built with the help of an AI coding assistant. The ideas, the content, the decisions, and the overall direction are mine. The CSS, the Astro templating, and the ability to write 14 pages in one sitting without losing my mind are partly thanks to the machine. I'm a DevOps engineer, not a frontend developer, and I'm at peace with that.