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/promcheck: A tool and exporter to identify faulty Prometheus rules (4 hours ago)
• cbrgm/cbrgm: My personal status page (5 hours ago)
• cbrgm/focusmode-chrome-extension: A simple Chrome extension that blocks distracting websites (7 hours ago)
• cbrgm/cdk-on-demand-minecraft-server: On-Demand Minecraft Server running on ECS(Fargate) and deployed via CDK (Go) (15 hours ago)
• cbrgm/gopodder: A self-hostable podcast synchronization server compatible with the gPodder API (1 day ago)
• cbrgm/telegram-github-action: Up-To-Date GitHub Action to send messages + media to a Telegram chat (6 days ago)

✌️ Recent collaborative efforts

• patch(deps): update module github.com/prometheus/common to v0.70.1 (4 hours ago)
• patch(deps): update dependency lint-staged to v17.1.1 (7 hours ago)
• minor(deps): update minor versions (18 hours ago)
• patch(deps): update module github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config to v1.32.31 (18 hours ago)
• feat: ocm kit community contribution (1 day ago)

🔭 What’s recently captured my curiosity

• open-resource-discovery/provider-server: Serves static ORD metadata files at some HTTP accessible endpoint (9 hours ago)
• kubernetes-sigs/kro: kro | Kube Resource Orchestrator (21 hours ago)
• kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools: Tools to use with the controller-runtime libraries (21 hours ago)
• go-vikunja/vikunja: The task manager you actually own. (23 hours ago)
• open-component-model/community: Community Contributions for Open Component Model (1 day ago)

🧶 Join the conversation

• For some reason, I haven’t written anything for a long time. It’s about time… (7 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… (1 year 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 (7 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] (1 month ago)
• The Scrollkeeper - The Monastery Underground (From “Gothic II”) [Piano Version] (1 month ago)
• The Scrollkeeper - Beast Hunt (From “Gothic”) [Piano Version] (1 month ago)
• The Scrollkeeper - The Pass (From “Gothic II”) [Piano Version] (1 month ago)
• The Scrollkeeper - Trellis at Night (From “Gothic III”) [Piano Version] (1 month ago)
• The Scrollkeeper - Night Watch (From “Gothic”) [Piano Version] (1 month ago)
• The Scrollkeeper - On the Way to Monastery (From “Gothic II”) [Piano Version] (1 month ago)
• The Scrollkeeper - Old Camp (From “Gothic”) [Piano Version] (1 month ago)

🎬 Movies I watched recently

• Project Hail Mary, 2026 - ★★★½ (3 months ago)
• The Square, 2017 - ★½ (5 months ago)
• One Battle After Another, 2025 - ★★★★½ (contains spoilers) (9 months ago)
• Paprika, 2006 - ★★★★★ (10 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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