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Chris Christensen — infrastructure & open source

I build the boring layer that keeps things up.

Platform engineering, homelab NixOS, and writing about the infrastructure work that usually happens off-screen.

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Latestall 6 posts →
Jul 18, 2026Rebuilding my homelab on NixOSSix months of yak-shaving to make my home infrastructure declarative, reproducible, and boring.#nix #infra · 1 minJun 2, 2026Why I stopped trusting cronA missed backup taught me more about scheduling than a decade of uptime ever did.#shell #infra · 1 minApr 14, 2026A Go CLI for log rotation that doesn't lose writesrotatectl started as a weekend project to fix a race condition I kept hitting in production.#go #infra · 1 minFeb 27, 2026Terraform state is not a databaseNotes from the time a teammate queried state directly and everything caught fire.#infra · 1 min
Selected workls /projects →
kloggerKLogger is a Python CLI application designed to efficiently collect and organize logs from Kubernetes deployments within a specified namespace.Pythonrepo →
gojackCommand-line Blackjack written in GoGorepo →
aws-sso-loginGo app for automating the process of logging into multiple aws accounts using AWS's SSO service.Gorepo →