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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 03/10/2026

What it's like to use AI as an engineer in 2026. Also a commentary on my career. #devops #platformengineering #engineer #claude #vscode #anthropic

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 24/09/2026

Just a drive-by on this old post... We put that on all our presentations at Indicium AI. I built an alternative one for a late October Halloween slide deck. But decided against it as the marketing team would want to "have words" with me. 😅

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 24/09/2026

It is SURPRISINGLY hard to record a demo on macOS. Had to script it in python then convert the video to a gif. 😬 But here it is. Nearly 6 months of work. bocan.app for macOS 15 and up. Free and Open-Source at github.com/bocan/bocan-... #music #audiofile #macos #open-source #swift

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 11/03/2026

The first MacBook Pro M5 Max's are being delivered today. 18 CPUs and 32 GPUs to play with.

My new MacBook Pro M5 Max still in the box

A MacBook Pro M5 Max unboxed and running

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 03/07/2025

I don't play Warhammer 40k. I probably never will. But I love the lore and want to paint one.

A Warhammer 40k Figure in box. Specifically, it's Brother Haecule of The Salamanders

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 21/06/2025

Drove over to Cardiff this morning and unexpectedly found #Pride happening.

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 23/05/2025

The incinerator in Toy Story 3.

From Toy Story 3: Buzz Lightyear and Woody holding hands in the incinerator.

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 25/02/2025

Unboxing my new Keychron Q3 Max (ISO) mechanical keyboard. This is a seriously heavy keyboard with a super-satisfying sound and feel to the keys. I went with the Banana Tactile Gateron Jupiter switches. I'll use this or my Ergodox EZ depending on where I'm at. #keyboard #keychron

The box for a Keychron Q3 Max mechanical keyboard.

Back of the box for a Keychron Q3 Max mechanical keyboard. It mentions: the TKL Layout, double-gasket design, dual Mac/Windows compatibility, the web configurator, 1000 Hz Polling Rate, how you can pair up to 3 devices, screw-in stabilizers, the great batter light, and 22 light effects to choose from.

The Keychron Q3 Max mechanical keyboard unboxed.

The Keychron Q3 Max mechanical keyboard plugged in showing one of its multi-color lighting effects.

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 19/01/2025

I know I've set this sort of thing up in a work context, but I'm quite proud to have single-sign-on in my home lab setup now. Makes life easier. #devops #openid #keycloak #homelab #kubernetes #raspberrypi #singlesignon

The login screen from my Grafana instance in my home lab. It's has a "Sign in with KEYCLOAK" button at the bottom.

The actual keycloak login page, in my Home Lab Realm.

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 09/01/2025

I'm not 100% sure yet as the Second Skin is still on but I think I've inadvertently put the badger's head too close to where my watch would be. Might have to switch to wearing it on my right arm or never wear a watch again! 😭 #tattoo #sufferingforart

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 08/01/2025

The Minecraft Crafting Table in Lego form. Next step, add the lighting kit. #lego #minecraft

A completed Minecraft Crafting Table made from Lego.

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 05/01/2025

Mine kept me up to 3am last night. From day 1, one k3s node refused to be powered up with POE. Bought a new POE/NVMe header - didn't fix it! So bought a new Pi - and then the M2 chip decided it doesn't like running at full speed and kept being corrupted ever boot.

A Raspberry Pi 5 cluster with 4 nodes and 4 POE+/NVMe headers, a USB to NVMe connected at the bottom node. At the top node, an annoying power cable is plugged in due to a faulty Pi.

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 26/12/2024

My best christmas gift. I've been asking for a guitar for half a decade. Now comes the hard part - learning to play it.

A Fender CD-60SCE Dreadnought Electro Acoustic Guitar, All Mahogany.

Me holding 3 guitar pics, one with a Texas flag on it, one with the pattern from Eddie Van Halen's guitar, and one with my initials "CF" on it.

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas and Hanukkah yourself from me and my Santa Shark socks! I've got festive octopus ones for later.

Christmas socks with a Santa shark in the ocean - wearing a white beard and red elf hat.

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 16/12/2024

It's taken several years but I've finally got around to putting my degree ceremony pic on the wall. 😊 #openuniversity

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 12/12/2024

Got a substantial little home Kubernetes lab going on now. All powered by ArgoCD and code. But - I need to stop, go back and fully read the K3B docs, and understand the interactions between Flannel, CoreDNS, and Traefik - as I don't quite grok *WHY* this all works. 😜

A screenshot of my ArgoCD dashboard, running on my Raspberry Pi powered Kubernetes cluster at home. It's showing 4 applicaitons. One is an app of apps called root app, which then installs argo-cd, grafana, and prometheus. Everything is in-sync and healthy

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 07/12/2024

And - DONE! One home Kubernetes cluster built from 4 x Raspberry Pi 5's, using Power-over-Ethernet (aside from 1 with a dodgy POE+ header). Almost totally built with Ansible. Costed about £630 all in. This weekend, I'll finish documenting it all here: chris.funderburg.me/posts/2024/1...

A kubernetes cluster, made with 4 raspberry Pi 5s and 4 POE+ / NVMe headers, all stacked between clear plexiglass layers. There are 3 green LEDs lighting up each level. A POE+ hub, and a wifi broadband router are in the background. A single NVMe to USB adaptor is at the bottom to the side.

The output of `kubectl get nodes -o wide` on the Kubernetes cluster, showing all 4 nodes running and ready. Only the first node is running the control plane.

2 quick runs of hdparm showing disk speed. The NVMe drive via the hat is blazingly quick at 864 MB/sec. The NVMe drive inside the USB adaptor is horribly slow at 33 MB/sec. Feels like that should be faster as it's in the USB3 port.

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 01/12/2024

Tree's up! Still need to finish decorating it, but my back hurts. Will sort it out tomorrow.

An unfinished christmas tree, frosted, and lit up with white lights and 2 pieces of tinsel.

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 25/11/2024

A great weekend! I ordered a new hybrid car, and the new Kubernetes Rasberry Pi 5 cluster I'm building got off on a great start. (the POE+ / NVMe header works like a charm, so 3 more ordered) It boots in about 10 seconds. #car #kia #devops #linux #raspberrypi #kubernetes

A dark green 2025 Kia Sportage GT Line S - Hybrid

The linux console screen from a Raspberry Pi, running neofetch showing details about the debian based, arm64 operating system. And beneath that various kubectl commands showing Kubernetes running.

A Raspberry Pi 5, with a POE+ / NVMe hat connected on top, all inside a clear acrylic case, powered on via a POE ethernet hub sitting behind it. Just one layer so far - but I've got 3 more units to add.

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 18/11/2024

Oh I think they know the definition, but just won't admit it.

It looks like a book called, "Everything I don't like is WOKE - A book for basic dickheads"

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Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 13/11/2024

I've made a start building a new #kubernetes cluster with #raspberrypi 5s. The big one here is made of 4 version 4s. All POE. I'm just waiting for the POE/NVMe header for the version 5 to be delivered. Then I'll test and build it to the same size, and profit.

A Kubernetes cluster made up of 4 Raspberry Pi 4s.

The start of a Kubernetes cluster - but made up of 1 Raspberry Pi 5.

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