Hello 👋 I'm Martin (also known as Wimpy), a long-time Linux user, developer & community builder 🐧 Maker 🪛 Linux Matters host 🎙️ Occasional game jam participant and aspiring game developer using pico-8, LÖVE, and Defold 🕹️
I lead Ubuntu MATE 🧉 and I'm the creator of a bunch of other projects and Quickemu 🧑💻
We have a modest Discord server for Wimpy's World 💬 which serves as a community hub. We're a friendly bunch, and all are welcome 🏳️🌈 Join us!
I steam live-coding on Twitch 📡 and those streams are archived on YouTube 📺️
These awesome people sponsor me: v-nils mmartial castrojo Thank you! ❤️ If you appreciate my work, then please consider sponsoring me too 🤑 Curious what I've been working on recently?
- wimpysworld/nix-config (1 day ago)
- Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
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wimpysworld/critters (3 days ago)
- wimpysworld/brook (3 weeks ago)
- Wayland experiments 🖥️ 🧪
- wimpysworld/sidra (4 weeks ago)
- An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
- linuxmatters/jivefire (1 month ago)
- Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser with Cava-inspired real-time audio frequencies 🔥
- chore: update flake.lock on wimpysworld/nix-config (1 day ago)
- feat(hermes): provision SSH and GPG credentials for Traya agent on wimpysworld/nix-config (2 days ago)
- chore(llama-swap): update to 205 on wimpysworld/nix-config (2 days ago)
- chore(llama-cpp): update to 8895 on wimpysworld/nix-config (2 days ago)
- chore(repo): remove obsolete development tooling on wimpysworld/nix-config (3 days ago)
- DeterminateSystems/determinate-nix-action (v3.18.1, 1 day ago)
- The Github Action for Determinate Nix
- linuxmatters/jivedrop (0.3.3, 3 weeks ago)
- Drop your podcast .wav into a shiny MP3 with metadata, cover art, and all 🪩
- linuxmatters/jivefire (0.3.2, 3 weeks ago)
- Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser with Cava-inspired real-time audio frequencies 🔥
- wimpysworld/sidra (0.3.2, 4 weeks ago)
- An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
- wimpysworld/nix-config (v25.11.20260324, 4 weeks ago)
- Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
- JuliusBrussee/caveman (46122)
- 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman
- danny-avila/LibreChat (35977)
- Enhanced ChatGPT Clone: Features Agents, MCP, DeepSeek, Anthropic, AWS, OpenAI, Responses API, Azure, Groq, o1, GPT-5, Mistral, OpenRouter, Vertex AI, Gemini, Artifacts, AI model switching, message search, Code Interpreter, langchain, DALL-E-3, OpenAPI Actions, Functions, Secure Multi-User Auth, Presets, open-source for self-hosting. Active.
- wimpysworld/sidra (46)
- An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
- castlabs/electron-releases (273)
- Castlabs Electron for Content Security
- mksglu/context-mode (9929)
- Context window optimization for AI coding agents. Sandboxes tool output, 98% reduction. 12 platforms
I co-present Linux Matters podcast with my friends @popey and @marxjohnson. Here are some recent episodes:
- Pouring out the Sidra (1 week ago)
- VNC? No way! (3 weeks ago)
- Tailor Snaps for Big Iron (1 month ago)
- The Smell of Git (1 month ago)
- Mark's Meshing About (2 months ago)
- NixOS | More Nix ❄️ packaging & fixes 🩹 for OBS Studio 📡 (2 years ago)
- NixOS | Updating Nix ❄️ packages of OBS Studio 📡 and it's plugins🔌 (2 years ago)
- NixOS & Linux | Tinkering with my Nix config ❄️ and poking at some Linux projects 🐧 (2 years ago)
- NixOS & Linux 🐧 Automate OBS with Kruiz Control and Scene Switcher (2 years ago)
- [Linux & NixOS] Catching up on a few projects ❄️ - Part 2 (2 years ago)
- faffing about with diffs (10 months ago)
- Nothing but Nix (11 months ago)
- Fuzzel Colour Picker (1 year ago)
- Install ZeroTier on Steam Deck (2 years ago)
- Steam Box vs Steam Deck (3 years ago)