A standard set of responsive, energy efficient widgets (volume / brightness / calendar / timer / world clock / git)

Ah that’s your problem. You set BTT_USR_ROOT to the string literal "~/bettertouchtool". If you remove the quotes (or remove the line altogether) it’ll work.

Edit: To start the services now that the controller path is fixed (for calendar, git, etc), you can either toggle the app region visibility by tapping the time twice, or simply restart BTT.