mastodon 4.6.9I 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
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.
Finally started deleting photos vom Google Photos after importing a takeout into my immich instance. My got is the UI for deleting stuff at Google terrible...
Up next: migrating my calendars to NextCloud.
New blog post: I've been managing my tmuxinator projects declaratively with a custom Home Manager module for over a year - and finally decided to contribute it upstream.
The post walks through the implementation and how `freeformType + pkgs.formats.yaml` make it surprisingly straightforward.
👉 https://britter.dev/blog/2026/03/23/home-manager-tmuxinator/
Plan to remove minIO from nixpkgs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/490996
Erster Ausritt des Jahres
#gravelbike #gladbeck #ruhrgebiet
I just finished the codecrafters.io challenge for building a DNS server in Rust! Uploaded my solution to codeberg: https://codeberg.org/britter/crabdns
Getting my hands dirty and solving a real problem with Rust helped tremendously with learning the language. I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I have a better understanding of ownership and life times now.
@frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org Shut up and take my money!
Just tried https://datarequests.org today. Makes composing and sending data requests a breeze. Amazing tool! Thanks for the pointer @joschi@hachyderm.io!
At the end of last year I felt a little like I ended up in the hamster wheel again. I made the decision to take one week for myself in 2026 to learn something completely new.
This weeks is my personal learning week of 2026 and I'm half way through implementing a DNS server in Rust, following the https://codecrafters.io course on that topic.
Big tech companies have a track record of enshitification of products that used to be good, but as they need to make more money the products get worse.
Don't think that AI is going to be any different. After a few players have killed competition, prices will go up and the products will get worse.
Eigentlich zeigt der Erfolg von AI ja nur, dass die globale Umweltpolitik komplett versagt hat. Ein Geschäftsmodell, welches darauf fußt noch mehr CO2 in die Luft zu blasen als eh schon. Es müsste eigentlich unfassbar teuer sein. Statt dessen wird ein Rechenzentrum nach dem nächsten gebaut.
Endlich mal gute Nachrichten!
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/spargel-ernte-maerz-100.html
Pretty awesome move by @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org @AerynOS@hachyderm.io
#GitHub broken again?
