Benedikt Ritter (he/him)

I live in West Germany with my wife and two little sons.

In my free time I enjoy cycling, reading (space
operas), and video games. I also like to tinker with my computer and am very facinated by NixOS.

I work as an independent developer productivity consultant, co-founded GradleX.org, and am an emeritus Apache Software Foundation member. Last but not least, I co-host my own podcast: Autoweird.fm

#cycling #gravelbike #nixos #linux #gradle #java #podcast

GitHub: https://github.com/britter
Podcast: https://autoweird.fm
Website: https://www.britter.dev

Last Notes

2026-06-28 12:13:38 UTC

Stellt euch vor, wo wir stünden, wenn wir die Warnungen der Wissenschaft seit den 80ern ernst genommen hätten. Wir hätten konsquent in erneuerbare Energien und Dekarbonisierung investiert. Made in Germany das stünde für die fortschrittlichste und umweltfreundlichste Technologie am Markt.
Statt dessen: Diskussion über AKW Laufzeitverlängerung und Verbrenner-Aus Verschiebung.
Deutschland kann die Welt nicht alleine retten, aber wir könnten wengistens mit gutem Beispiel voran gehen.
#klimawandel

2026-05-12 14:16:14 UTC

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😆

2026-05-12 11:27:14 UTC

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time to move to frogejo 🤷‍♂️

2026-05-03 15:00:27 UTC

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also if you're running an alternative ROM, some banking apps refuse to run, because they expect Play integrity checks to pass, that OSes like @npub1kwa…e0nj don't pass.
So you might end up with a bank that support tap to pay via their app, but that app only runs on stock android.
Honest opinion: mobile computing is a pretty big mess when it comes to privacy and freedom of choise.

2026-05-03 14:57:56 UTC

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when you ask about Google Wallet, I think you're really asking about Google Pay.
There are alternatives to Google Wallet in the sense of an app that stores e.g. plane tickets.
If you're searching for a tap to pay solution like Google Pay, things get difficult. Some banks in Germany offer tap to pay via their app, but it's the exception.

2026-04-30 17:13:29 UTC

GitHub recently announced that starting with v2.91.0 GitHub CLI will start sending pseudonymized telemetry data back to GitHub.
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-22-github-cli-opt-out-usage-telemetry/
Since this is an opt-out feature, most users will have it activated without knowing it. This is unacceptable in my opinion. So I took the liberty of turning this into an opt-in, disabled by default for nixpkgs.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/515047
#GitHub #nixos #nixpkgs #privacy

2026-04-10 08:30:35 UTC

New blog post!
I finally started writing about my home lab. This post is about how I back up data using restic.
Full story: https://britter.dev/blog/2026/04/10/home-lab-backup-with-restic/
#homelab #selfhosting #nixos #restic #backup

2026-04-04 20:47:08 UTC

Finally got all the pieces in place to mount an NFS share from my new TrueNAS server into my NextCloud VM running on NixOS. Next step: move data and reconfigure datadirectory to point to the NFS share mount.
#homelab #truenas #nixos #nextcloud #selfhosting

2026-04-01 06:57:40 UTC

Release Alert!
I just released version 2.2.0 of gh-get - A GitHub CLI extension in the spirit of the ghq tool. Cloning a repository is as easy as
gh get <org>/<repo>
This release features interactive progress login as well as automatically forking repostories.
Get it here: https://github.com/britter/gh-get
Full Story: https://britter.dev/blog/2026/04/01/gh-get-v2-2-0/
#GitHub #CLI

2026-01-29 13:51:29 UTC

I just backed Mecha Comet on KickStarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mecha-systems/mecha-comet-modular-linux-handheld-computer?ref=thanks-copy
#linux #handheld #kickstarter

2025-12-03 19:40:59 UTC

@npub1fh7…ee83 I was about to apply for a membership but I'm getting Internal Server Error when submitting the form 😕

2025-11-18 13:54:06 UTC

Days since half the internet went down because of a single US big tech company: 0
#cloudflare

2025-09-08 07:27:06 UTC

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I think @npub1fh7…ee83 is a great example of a community taking care of hosting a service (gitea in this case) for the public

2025-03-02 21:35:21 UTC

Converting my dad’s old windows box into a backup server that I can put into my mom‘s basement as an off site backup. Its like 15 years old but only has to run sshd for Restic backup via sftp. Connection via Tailscale. Install is fully automated with NixOS. Secrets managed with sops.
Thinking about writing a blog post about all of this. Let me know if there‘s anything in particular you want me to cover.
#NixOS #Homelab #restic #tailscale #selfhosting
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