Hey, I’m Chris 👋 This is Chris Bargmann’s (@cbrgm) personal blog. I’m a Software Engineer working on distributed systems and sovereign European cloud infrastructure. You can find me on GitHub and connect with me on the Fediverse.
🌱 Check out my projects
- cbrgm: My personal status page (5 hours ago)
- gopodder: A self-hostable podcast synchronization server compatible with the gPodder API (2 days ago)
- focusmode-chrome-extension: A simple Chrome extension that blocks distracting websites (2 days ago)
- cleanup-stale-branches-action: Use this Action to cleanup stale / abandoned branches in your GitHub repository (2 days ago)
- cdk-on-demand-minecraft-server: On-Demand Minecraft Server running on ECS(Fargate) and deployed via CDK (Go) (2 days ago)
- promcheck: A tool and exporter to identify faulty Prometheus rules (2 days ago)
✌️ Recent collaborative efforts
- fix: reject cross-origin state-changing requests in the UI backend (23 hours ago)
- feat!: tag first, then create a complete draft release (1 day ago)
- chore: drop the structured-merge-diff hold now covered by the shared k8s preset (1 day ago)
- fix(k8s): hold standalone structured-merge-diff major updates (1 day ago)
- chore(deps): update module modernc.org/sqlite to v1.62.0 (2 days ago)
🔭 What’s recently captured my curiosity
- GoogleChrome/modern-web-guidance: Keep your coding agent up to date with the latest web best practices (1 day ago)
- JBurlison/WoWAddonAPIAgents: Entire suite of Copilot/Claude/Codex agents, skills, instructions and prompts for creating modern wow addons (2 days ago)
- AltraMayor/f3: F3 - Fight Flash Fraud (2 days ago)
- cloudflare/security-audit-skill: A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-readable findings (3 days ago)
- PacktPublishing/The-MCP-Engineer-Handbook: The MCP Engineer Handbook (4 days ago)
📚 Dive into my blog posts
- Recap: Architecture Advice Process - Tech Talk (11 months ago)
- Recap: Attending GopherCon UK in London (2 years ago)
- Recap: Attending GrafanaCon 2024 in Amsterdam (2 years ago)
- Talk: Introduction into Go Profiling: Tools (3 years ago)
- Personal: 2022 Year in a Review (3 years ago)
- Talk: DevFest Hamburg 2022 Workshop Recap (4 years ago)
- Talk: Code Generation with Go - GDG Hamburg Meetup (4 years ago)
- Recap: KubeCon Europe 2022 - Back to In-Person Events (4 years ago)
💬 Let’s connect
Always happy to chat about distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, Go, or whatever you’re building. Say hi:
- 🐘 Mastodon: @chrisbargmann@mastodon.social
- 🦋 Bluesky: @chrisbargmann.bsky.social
- 🐙 GitHub: @cbrgm, issues and pull requests welcome
- 🎨 Twitch: cbrgm, creative streams, mostly art sessions
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