Hey, I’m Chris 👋
This is Chris Bargmann’s (@cbrgm) personal blog. I’m a Software Engineer based in Hamburg, Germany, 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/cbrgm: My personal status page (5 hours ago)
- cbrgm/gopodder: A self-hostable podcast synchronization server compatible with the gPodder API (9 hours ago)
- cbrgm/focusmode-chrome-extension: A simple Chrome extension that blocks distracting websites (16 hours ago)
- cbrgm/pr-size-labeler-action: Automatically labels pull requests in your GitHub repository based on the size of changes. (20 hours ago)
- cbrgm/community: Community Contributions for Open Component Model (1 day ago)
- cbrgm/cdk-on-demand-minecraft-server: On-Demand Minecraft Server running on ECS(Fargate) and deployed via CDK (Go) (1 day ago)
✌️ Recent collaborative efforts
- test: drop redundant ObjectMeta in struct literals (modernize/embedlit) (9 hours ago)
- chore(deps): update dependency chrome-types to v0.1.451 (16 hours ago)
- chore(deps): update dependency eslint to v10.12.0 (19 hours ago)
- fix(validate): reject hostless http(s) feed URLs (20 hours ago)
- chore: fix OSV findings (1 day ago)
🔭 What’s recently captured my curiosity
- Akifyss/obsidian-border: A theme for obsidian.md (4 days ago)
- rehan-remade/universal-modder: Point Claude at any game. Skills, tools and the fal MCP that let Claude Code mod almost any PC game you own: recon, reverse engineering, fal-generated art/3D/audio, in-game testing, showcase videos. (5 days ago)
- dolphin-emu/dolphin: Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements. (5 days ago)
- yokoffing/filterlists: Collection of blocklists to fill in the gaps (1 week ago)
- openai/tart: macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon to use in CI and other automations (1 week ago)
🧶 Join the conversation
- For some reason, I haven’t written anything for a long time. It’s about time… (10 months ago)
- With the spring temperatures in Hamburg, my mood rises by 1000% (2 years ago)
- #FOSDEM fomo kicks in. I wish everyone who’s there lots of fun. Keep the… (2 years ago)
- Weekend Painting, I also recorded the session this time… (2 years ago)
- First drawing of the year #krita #kritaartist (2 years ago)
📚 Dive into my blog posts
- Recap: Architecture Advice Process - Tech Talk (10 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 (3 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)
🤘 Listen to my recent tunes
- The Scrollkeeper - Dark Forest (From “Gothic II”) [Piano Version] (3 months ago)
- The Scrollkeeper - The Monastery Underground (From “Gothic II”) [Piano Version] (3 months ago)
- The Scrollkeeper - Beast Hunt (From “Gothic”) [Piano Version] (3 months ago)
- The Scrollkeeper - The Pass (From “Gothic II”) [Piano Version] (3 months ago)
- The Scrollkeeper - Trellis at Night (From “Gothic III”) [Piano Version] (3 months ago)
- The Scrollkeeper - Night Watch (From “Gothic”) [Piano Version] (3 months ago)
- The Scrollkeeper - On the Way to Monastery (From “Gothic II”) [Piano Version] (3 months ago)
- The Scrollkeeper - Old Camp (From “Gothic”) [Piano Version] (3 months ago)
🎬 Movies I watched recently
- Project Hail Mary, 2026 - ★★★½ (6 months ago)
- The Square, 2017 - ★½ (7 months ago)
- One Battle After Another, 2025 - ★★★★½ (contains spoilers) (1 year ago)
- Paprika, 2006 - ★★★★★ (1 year ago)
- 28 Years Later, 2025 - ★★ (1 year ago)
- Final Destination Bloodlines, 2025 - ★★★★ (1 year ago)
- Until Dawn, 2025 - ★★★½ (1 year ago)
- Mickey 17, 2025 - ★★★★ (2 years ago)
💬 Let’s Connect!
Let’s collaborate or chat. :-) Your input enriches my journey.
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- GitHub: Discover my projects on GitHub.
- Bluesky: Find me on Bluesky.
- Twitch: Join me for creative streams, mostly art sessions with the occasional variety, on Twitch.