Just a little about me, since you're here:

• I'm currently working for Indicium AI as a Forward Deployed Engineer.
• By trade, I'm a Principal Platform Engineer, DevSecOps Practitioner, and Cloud Architect.
• In my youth, I worked at Burger King, washed oil rigs so they could be sold, loaded nuclear and non-nuclear munitions onto F-111 and F-16 aircraft in the US Air Force, worked as a mechanic and then a roofer.
• Now, I have more than 30 years experience in the IT industry. I've been a developer, a DBA, a system administrator, a release engineer, an infrastructure manager, a NOC engineer, and both a cloud engineer and DevSecOps engineer, and as my industry's evolved, a platform engineer.
• I'm an expert in public clouds like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, infrastructure as code, container building and orchestration, database administration, observability, and software delivery pipelines using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.

• Outside of tech, amongst other things, I'm a tree hugging hippy, a keen photographer, an environmentalist (with an Open University Bachelor of Science in "Environmental Management and Technology"), an allotment gardener, a charity trustee, and an occasional Nintendo Switch, Playstation 5, and PC gamer.

I build things because I enjoy building things. That's the honest easy answer.

The deeper one: I write software I want to use myself, because I don't like the alternatives. I have a profound aversion to products that are just a front-end view onto somebody's proprietary backend. They watch you. They need to monetise you eventually, because the money has to come from somewhere and it isn't coming from the product. And they increasingly think they get to dictate how you use a thing you're supposed to own.

You'll find none of that here.

Everything you can see is open source. No ads. No algorithms. No telemetry. Nothing phones home about you. When something does hit the network, it's because you asked it to and you can see where it's going. You'll need no account, because there's no server for an account to live on. And it's all using Open Source licenses, which means it stays that way whether or not I do.

If a handful of people use these and have a good time, brilliant. That's a bonus, but not a business model. There is no business model.

• 📩 Feel free to reach me at chris@funderburg.me.

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Know, O Prince,
    
That between the years when the oceans drank Microsoft DOS and the gleaming Windows,
and the rise of "The Cloud", there was an Age undreamed of, when shining servers lay
spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - Debian, FreeBSD,
Slackware, AIX, Solaris with its dark-haired sales women and server towers of
spider-haunted mystery, SuSE with its chivalry, Caldera that bordered the pastoral
lands of SCO, OpenBSD with its shadow-guarded passwords, RedHat whose Sys Admins wore
steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Mac OS, reigning
supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Chris the Texan, little-haired, sullen-eyed,
MacBook in hand, a builder, a programmer, a sys-admin, a DevSecOps engineer, with
gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jewelled server rooms of the
earth under his sandled feet.
-- By me - with apologies to Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian

Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
-- from "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson