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: mmartial da-moon castrojo Thank you! ❤️ If you appreciate my work, then please consider sponsoring me too 🤑 Curious what I've been working on recently?

• flexiondotorg/tokentank (1 day ago)
  • A delightful Go terminal application that displays remaining credit balances for AI providers in a gorgeous, human-friendly interface.
• wolfi-dev/os (3 weeks ago)
  • Main package repository for production Wolfi images
• wimpysworld/nix-config (3 weeks ago)
  • Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
• wimpysworld/nothing-but-nix (4 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 📈
• wimpysworld/nixos-needsreboot (2 months ago)
  • Determine if you need to reboot ️♻️ your NixOS machine ️❄️

• feat: Add TypingMind Plugin Server health check workflow on flexiondotorg/typingmind (today)
• Add automated upstream sync workflow on flexiondotorg/typingmind (3 days ago)
• feat: add cilium-certgen package on wolfi-dev/os (3 weeks ago)
• feat: Add Beyond Compare and update packages with user-specific app selection on wimpysworld/nix-config (3 weeks ago)
• refactor(disko): reorganize disk configs for phasma and vader systems on wimpysworld/nix-config (1 month ago)

• DeterminateSystems/determinate-nix-action (v3.8.6, today)
  • The Github Action for Determinate Nix
• DeterminateSystems/nix-installer (v3.8.6, 1 day ago)
  • Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 7 million installs.
• wimpysworld/nix-config (v25.5.20250815, 3 days ago)
  • Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
• wimpysworld/nixos-needsreboot (0.2.9, 2 months ago)
  • Determine if you need to reboot ️♻️ your NixOS machine ️❄️
• wimpysworld/faff (0.1.0, 2 months ago)
  • Drop the faff, dodge the judgment. Another bloody AI commit generator, but this one stays local 🦙

• TypingMind/typingmind (698)
  • The most advanced Web UI for AI chat
• firecrawl/firecrawl (50026)
  • The Web Data API for AI - Turn entire websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data 🔥
• koiuo/xdg-override (135)
  • Override xdg-open behavior. Because the way it already works is not confusing enough
• nix-community/nh (1847)
  • Yet another Nix CLI helper. [Maintainers=@NotAShelf]
• wimpysworld/faff (35)
  • Drop the faff, dodge the judgment. Another bloody AI commit generator, but this one stays local 🦙

I co-present Linux Matters podcast with my friends @popey and @marxjohnson. Here are some recent episodes:

• Mirrors, Motors and Makefiles (2 days ago)
• Coding in My Pants (2 weeks ago)
• Frankenstein's Ubuntu Server Framework (1 month ago)
• Old Man Yells at GMail (1 month ago)
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1 month 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 (2 months ago)
• Nothing but Nix (3 months ago)
• Fuzzel Colour Picker (4 months ago)
• Install ZeroTier on Steam Deck (2 years ago)
• Steam Box vs Steam Deck (2 years ago)