Welcome to the website of Christopher Burg. I'm the author, Christopher Burg.

Some of you may be familiar with my old blog A Geek with Guns. Of course, that website lay all but dormant for so long that the two people who used to read it probably forgot all about it by now. With that in mind, I'll treat this as a fresh start.

I have a love-hate relationship with technology. I spent much of my life as a technology enthusiast and still find a lot of it wonderful. However, much of that enthusiasm has been tempered by how technology has been used. I don't like that every Internet connected product doubles as a surveillance device or how the concept of device ownership has been largely replaced by the concept of device rental.

The technologies I am enthusiastic about are those that empower users and preserve privacy. My operating system of choice is Linux. My Linux distribution of choice is Fedora, but I maintain familiarity with others. My phone runs GrapheneOS and I self-host most of the online services I used.

I'm a martial artist, gun enthusiast, and competitive shooter (I'm not good, but I show up). I'm well versed in moving kettlebells in ways that make you stronger. Sometimes I pretend to be a philosopher, but I'm as full of shit as anyone else. Philosophically I'm an individualist anarchist in the tradition of Stirner, Novetore, and Nietzsche (I know Nietzsche wasn't an anarchist, but his writings align strongly with my view of anarchism).