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/pr-size-labeler-action: Automatically labels pull requests in your GitHub repository based on the size of changes. (42 minutes ago)
- cbrgm/cbrgm: My personal status page (1 hour ago)
- cbrgm/gopodder: A self-hostable podcast synchronization server compatible with the gPodder API (4 hours ago)
- cbrgm/rcon: Pure modern Go implementation of the RCON protocol for administering game servers over TCP (5 hours ago)
- cbrgm/telegram-github-action: Up-To-Date GitHub Action to send messages + media to a Telegram chat (5 hours ago)
- cbrgm/semver-tag-sync-action: Keep major and minor version tags in sync with semver releases (e.g., v1 → v1.2.3) or sync tags across repositories (5 hours ago)
✌️ Recent collaborative efforts
- ci(tools): update docker/setup-buildx-action action to v4.3.0 - autoclosed (5 hours ago)
- chore(deps): update dependency golang to v1.27.0 - autoclosed (5 hours ago)
- ci(tools): update docker/setup-buildx-action action to v4.3.0 (6 hours ago)
- chore(deps): update module github.com/stretchr/testify to v1.12.1 (6 hours ago)
- ci(tools): update docker/setup-buildx-action action to v4.3.0 (6 hours ago)
🔭 What’s recently captured my curiosity
- mxschmitt/playwright-go: Playwright for Go a browser automation library to control Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. (19 hours ago)
- protobom/protobom: A universal SBOM representation in protocol buffers (5 days ago)
- openchoreo/openchoreo: OpenChoreo is an internal developer platform for Kubernetes (1 week ago)
- modelpack/model-spec: An Open Standard for Packaging, Distributing and Running LLMs in Cloud-Native Environments (1 week ago)
- abue-ammar/tinycast: Tinycast — a tiny, fully native macOS launcher, hotkeys, and clipboard history (1 week ago)
🧶 Join the conversation
- For some reason, I haven’t written anything for a long time. It’s about time… (8 months ago)
- With the spring temperatures in Hamburg, my mood rises by 1000% (1 year 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 (8 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] (2 months ago)
- The Scrollkeeper - The Monastery Underground (From “Gothic II”) [Piano Version] (2 months ago)
- The Scrollkeeper - Beast Hunt (From “Gothic”) [Piano Version] (2 months ago)
- The Scrollkeeper - The Pass (From “Gothic II”) [Piano Version] (2 months ago)
- The Scrollkeeper - Trellis at Night (From “Gothic III”) [Piano Version] (2 months ago)
- The Scrollkeeper - Night Watch (From “Gothic”) [Piano Version] (2 months ago)
- The Scrollkeeper - On the Way to Monastery (From “Gothic II”) [Piano Version] (2 months ago)
- The Scrollkeeper - Old Camp (From “Gothic”) [Piano Version] (2 months ago)
🎬 Movies I watched recently
- Project Hail Mary, 2026 - ★★★½ (4 months ago)
- The Square, 2017 - ★½ (6 months ago)
- One Battle After Another, 2025 - ★★★★½ (contains spoilers) (10 months ago)
- Paprika, 2006 - ★★★★★ (11 months 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 - ★★★★ (1 year ago)
💬 Let’s Connect!
Let’s collaborate or chat. :-) Your input enriches my journey.
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