Hi! I'm Chris.

I'm a backend software engineer.

Specialties: Backend, APIs, updating documentation, negative line count diffs, Rust, Go, Python, the right tool for the right job, your PR is more important than mine.

Some of my public projects:

• untangle converts XML documents to Python objects
• passage A password manager using age encryption written in Rust

Latest blog entries:

• Gate Integration Tests on Environment Variables (2021-04-04) #integration #tests #python #pytest
• A tiny CI system (2020-11-08) #git #bash #ssh
• Have you considered buying used hardware? (2020-10-23) #hardware
• The self-hosted social network I'm looking for (2020-06-27) #internet
• MacBook Air vs. Lenovo Thinkpad X1 (2011-10-08) #hardware
• Learning vim (2011-02-05) #vim