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 📺️
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- wimpysworld/nix-config (today)
- Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
- wimpysworld/nixos-needsreboot (1 week ago)
- Determine if you need to reboot ️♻️ your NixOS machine ️❄️
- flexiondotorg/flexiondotorg.github.io (1 week ago)
- My personal blog
- wimpysworld/faff (1 week ago)
- Drop the faff, dodge the judgment. Another bloody AI commit generator, but this one stays local 🦙
- wimpysworld/nothing-but-nix (2 weeks ago)
- Create a 130GB Nix ️store in GitHub runners ❄️ Multi-partition BTRFS RAID-0 for /nix 💪 Brutally purges unnecessary software 🪓 Dynamically grows the Nix store 📈
- refactor(token): Read TTLs directly from cache files on wimpysworld/nix-config (1 day ago)
- feat(development): update cg-tokens.sh for BusyBox compatibility on wimpysworld/nix-config (2 days ago)
- feat(cg-tokens): add script for token management and authentication on wimpysworld/nix-config (2 days ago)
- feat(yubikey): add YubiKey configuration and key management on wimpysworld/nix-config (3 days ago)
- feat(ghorg): add ghorg and go to dev tools on wimpysworld/nix-config (4 days ago)
- wimpysworld/nix-config (v25.5.20250617, 1 day ago)
- Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
- DeterminateSystems/determinate-nix-action (v3.6.6, 1 day ago)
- The Github Action for Determinate Nix
- DeterminateSystems/nix-installer (v3.6.6, 1 day ago)
- Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 7 million installs.
- wimpysworld/nixos-needsreboot (0.2.9, 1 week ago)
- Determine if you need to reboot ️♻️ your NixOS machine ️❄️
- wimpysworld/faff (0.1.0, 2 weeks ago)
- Drop the faff, dodge the judgment. Another bloody AI commit generator, but this one stays local 🦙
- koiuo/xdg-override (109)
- Override xdg-open behavior. Because the way it already works is not confusing enough
- nix-community/nh (1570)
- Yet another Nix CLI helper. [Maintainers=@viperML, @NotAShelf]
- wimpysworld/faff (14)
- Drop the faff, dodge the judgment. Another bloody AI commit generator, but this one stays local 🦙
- openai/whisper (83552)
- Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
I co-present Linux Matters podcast with my friends @popey and @marxjohnson. Here are some recent episodes:
- Nerdy Day Trips (1 week ago)
- Python A-Go-Go (3 weeks ago)
- Thoccing Heavy (1 month ago)
- High Precision Solid Metal Balls (1 month ago)
- Crafting Bookshelf Buddy (2 months ago)
- NixOS | More Nix ❄️ packaging & fixes 🩹 for OBS Studio 📡 (1 year ago)
- NixOS | Updating Nix ❄️ packages of OBS Studio 📡 and it's plugins🔌 (1 year ago)
- NixOS & Linux | Tinkering with my Nix config ❄️ and poking at some Linux projects 🐧 (1 year 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 (2 weeks ago)
- Nothing but Nix (1 month ago)
- Fuzzel Colour Picker (2 months ago)
- Install ZeroTier on Steam Deck (2 years ago)
- Steam Box vs Steam Deck (2 years ago)
