🎄 Advent of Donations🎄
This year I've decided to give something back to the open source projects that I rely on day to day. Therefore I'm going to donate $50 each day until Christmas to an open source project that has had a direct impact on me in 2025.
Day 1 is fish shell!
Read more about Advent of Donations on my blog: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 2 🎄
Today's donation of $50 go to Daniel García, maintainer of the Vaultwarden project.
Read more about Vaultwarden and why I'm sponsoring it in my blog: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/
#opensource #selfhosting #vaultwarden #bitwarden #donation #AdventOfDonations
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 3 🎄
Today I'm spending 50€ to become an active member of @Codeberg!
Read more about Advent of Donations and Codeberg e.V. in my latest blog post: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 4 🎄
Today I'm sponsoring a project that may not fit into the list of high profile projects I've had so far: tree-sitter-alloy.
This project ticks all the boxes of Advent of Donations.
Learn more about Advent of Donations and tree-sitter-alloy in my latest blog post update: http://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 5 🎄
Today I'm sponsoring a content creator who has help me a big deal in leveling up my NeoVim skills: Marco Peluso.
Marco produces short videos that explain Vim features in depth. I can highly recommend checking out his channel if you're currently learning NeoVim or want to improve your skills.
Read more about Advent of Donations and Marco Peluso in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 6 🎄
Today I'm sponsoring the Catppuccin project! Every day when I look at my computer screen, I'm looking programs styled in the Catppuccin Macchiato palette. This makes me enjoy working with my computer each day.
Read more about Advent of Donations and the Catppuccin project in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/#day-6---catppuccin
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 7 🎄
Today's donation goes to the open source project that I'm probably using the most each day: GrapheneOS. It's the mobile operating system that I've been running on my Pixel 7a for almost a year now. I've never looked back to iOS.
Learn more about advent of donations and GrapheneOS in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/#day-7---grapheneos
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 8 🎄
Today I've selected a project that has become essential to how I run my self-employment business: hledger.
It's a plain text accounting tool and I use it for all my accounting.
Learn more about Advent of Donations and hledger in my latest blog post update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/#day-8---hledger
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 9 🎄
Today I'm going back to my terminal to find a project to sponsor. I'm sponsoring bat, the cat clone with syntax highlighting and git support. I've aliased it to cat for years now and therefore am using it every single day.
Learn more about Advent and Donations and bat in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/#day-9---bat
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 10 🎄
Today I'm donating to the very reason you're reading this toot. I'm giving today's donation to chaos.social e.V. the non-profit that's operating my Mastodon home instance, operated by @ordnung. Thank you for giving me a new home after blue bird site went up in flames!
Read more about Advent of Donations and chaos.social in my lasted blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/#day-10---chaossocial
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 11 🎄
On day 11 I'm sponsoring a tool that everybody knows: tmux! It's the first command that I type into almost every terminal session and it helps me stay focused and work in a keyboard-driven way.
Learn more about Advent of Donations and tmux in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations#day-11---tmux
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 12 🎄
On day 12 I'm sponsoring an Android app I use every day to communicate with my family and friends: Molly for Android. It's a fork of the original Signal app that doesn't rely on Google Play services and can be side-loaded from the F-Droid store. If you're using Signal on Android, you should give it a try!
Read more about Advent of Donations and Molly in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations#day-12---molly
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 13 🎄
Today we have another content creator. I'm sponsoring Vimjoyer, a YouTuber dedicated to creating videos about NixOS with nice visuals. His videos played an important role in my NixOS journey.
Learn more about Advent of Donations and Vimjoyer in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations#day-13---vimjoyer
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 14 🎄
Can't believe it's the first day I'm sponsoring a project from the NixOS ecosystem! Today's donation goes to the Nix Community project which provides some of the most important components of my NixOS setup.
Read more about Advent of Donations and Nix Community in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations#day-14---nix-community
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 15 🎄
Today: Another piece of my keyboard driven terminal workflow. I'm sponsoring the zoxide project! zoxide keeps a list of all the places you've visited in the terminal and let's you jump to them without having to insert the full path of the directory.
Learn more about Advent of Donations and zoxide in my latest blog post update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/#day-15---zoxide
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 16 🎄
On day 16 we have another pic from the tool stack I use in my home lab: Restic the free and open source backup solution. I use it to create incremental backup and store them in my self-hosted minIO instances. It's again one of those tool that just does its job without getting in your way.
Learn more about Advent of Donations and Restic in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/#day-16---restic
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 17 🎄
On day 17 I'm sponsoring another tool that's part of my workflow to navigate the terminal and getting directly to editing in NeoVim: fzf. It offers a fuzzy command line search and I use it as part of an alias to open the desired file form my project directory in NeoVim.
Read more about Advent of Donations and fzf in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/#day-17---fzf
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 18 🎄
Today I'm sponsoring KOReader! It's a free and open source e-reader software that you can flash on may devices, including Kindle. I liberated my Kindle some time in the middle of the year and I've never looked back.
Learn more about Advent of Donations and KOReader in my latest blog post update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/#day-18---koreader
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 19 🎄
It's day 19, Advent of Donations is almost over. Today's donation of $50 go to @astro, the web framework for content-driven websites. Since the beginning of the year I've built three websites using Astro, including my blog. I really love the flexibility and all the integrations.
Learn more about Advent of Donations and Astro in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/#day-19---astro
#AdventOfDonations #Astro #JavaScript #StaticWebsiteGenerator
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 20 🎄
Today we have another pic from the modern unix list: eza is a modern, maintained ls replacement, written in rust. I use it every day and therefore the donation is well deserved.
Learn more about Advent of Donations and eza in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/#day-20---eza
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 21 🎄
On day 21 we have the first project from the Java ecosystem. And it's with no doubt the most important project for the JVM: @junit I use it for testing in every JVM project that I work on.
Read more about Advent of Donations and JUnit in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/#day-21---junit
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 22 🎄
As we're getting closer to the end of Advent of Donations, I'm sponsoring another tool that I've been using since forever. It's tldr, the community driven cheatsheets for console commands. Another incredibly helpful tool from my shell toolbox.
Read more about about Advent of Donations and tldr in my latest blog post update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/#day-22---tldr
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 23 🎄
On day 23 I'm sponsoring lazygit! It's a TUI application in the spirit of Fork or SourceTree but runs fully in the terminal. I makes working with git repositories an absolute joy.
Learn more about Advent of Donations and lazygit in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/#day-23---lazygit
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 24 🎄
It's the final day of Advent of Donations and today I've selected something special! I'm sponsoring the Vim text editor because the Vim project uses most of their donations to support the Kibaale Children’s Centre in Uganda. I can't think of a better way to conclude Advent of Donations then donating to a higher cause like this. Also I'm going to double today's donation to $100.
Merry Christmas!
https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/#day-24---vim
Benedikt Ritter (he/him)
Astro
Pengui-ng🐧
cimm
Simon Michael