Hi, my name is Ben!

I'm a full time Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience in the field - even though I wrote my first lines of code back in 2003.

In recent years, my interest in data privacy, EU sovereignty, and open source has grown, particularly due to certain political developments.
And yet, I can't bring myself to publish my projects on GitHub. Once Microsoft bought GitHub, the inevitable en💩tification began.

Instead, together with a bunch of friends, we're hosting a (private) forgejo instance. We cannot allow registrations (laws in Germany make some things complicated). So I'm eagerly waiting for forgejo to implement and ship federation (see their FAQ).

I'll keep an eye on forgejo's progress and may reconsider my decision.