Chris Funderburg

@[email protected]
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Chris FunderburgNov 7
A bit stressed. Next week I'll have to pick up a locked down #Windows laptop from a client to connect to their system. I haven't been forced to touch a Windows machine in like 7 years. Windows isn't made for technical people, and locking them down is like something that should have stayed in the 1990s.
Chris FunderburgOct 26
Someone tell me why this is a good or bad idea: I self host my own email service. Due to the nature of email, I obviously need to read and send email from my phone, my laptop at home (dynamic ip), maybe with the laptop when using outside wifi. Now, all that will use TLS, strong passwords, etc. However, I don't want IMAP, and the SMTP submission port to really be open to the wide internet. Why could I not, run python app in an AWS Lambda function, listening on an encrypted API that sends a key, I validate that, and if valid, I take the source address of the call, store it in DynamoDB with a timestamp, and pop it into the security group of the mail service? Bang. Access granted. Then, the Lambda function cleans up any ip that hasn't been seen within the last 10 minutes and closes that hole in the security group if needed.
Chris FunderburgOct 7
There are few things better than pre-ordering a book, forgetting about it, and then it popping through your door as a surprise. Gonna enjoy this one by @pluralistic
Chris FunderburgSep 15, 2025

I found out today, with 2 weeks left, that my existing contract is winding up! So, if anyone in the UK or Europe is looking for a contract DevOps or Platform Engineer who specialised in Terraform, Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI/CD, let me know!

I'm keeping an eye out for an outside IR35, mostly remote role, but I'm flexible given the time of the year.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bocan/

#devops #PlatformEngineering #jobs

Chris FunderburgSep 11, 2025

https://liminaldial.net

Because 12 stations look better than 8.

Still need to find 2 more stations but now I have:

Ambiant Sleeping Pill, South Plainfield, New Jersey
Kennet Radio, Newbury, United Kingdom
Kiosk Radio, Brussels, Belgium
KUTX 98.9 FM, Austin, Texas
Nightride FM (Synthwave), Tasmania, Australia
Radio Caroline, United Kingdom - New
Radio Free Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee
SomaFM: Groove Salad, San Francisco, California
The Lot Radio, New York City
WWOZ 90.7 FM, New Orleans, Louisiana

#radio #web #opensource

The Liminal Dial

The best community radio streams for late nights, working, or just getting away from commercial radio.

Chris Funderburg — Radio
Chris FunderburgSep 11, 2025
Ericka SimoneSep 11, 2025

“You shouldn’t celebrate his death.”
He celebrated the deaths of Black and Brown people daily. He is a nazi. You are a nazi sympathizer.

No celebration. Just watching chickens coming home to roost, like Malcolm said.

Fake virtue signaling and demanding empathy for a man who said “empathy is for the weak” and whose actual last words were violent anti-black and anti-trans dogwhistles is absolutely delusional.

Having pity for a man who would gladly try to kill you for not being white is insane.

Chris FunderburgSep 4, 2025

The DevOps Creed. This is the way.

https://chris.funderburg.me/posts/2025/09/04/the-creed/

#devops #PlatformEngineering #SRE

04/Sep/2025 - The DevOps Creed

This is the way

Chris Rants at Clouds
Chris FunderburgAug 19, 2025

In proper geek news, my CV/Resume is now in Github as a LaTeX file. When I push a change to it, a Github Action automatically generates a PDF and Word version.

#latex #github #cv #resume

Chris FunderburgAug 15, 2025
Matthew HaugheyAug 11, 2025
I finally wrote about my new build, my ultimate gravel bike. https://a.wholelottanothing.org/my-dream-gravel-bike-build/
My dream gravel bike build

Back in March, my bike got stolen. I own a few different bikes, but the stolen one was my main rig. It was my do anything, long distance, off-road, on-road, gravel bike that covered 90% of my riding. It was a load-bearing bike. And I was lost without it. Planning

A Whole Lotta Nothing
Chris FunderburgJul 17, 2025

There. I've made a thing.

#alpine #gardening