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?

• wimpysworld/nix-config (5 days ago)
  • Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
• wolfi-dev/os (5 days ago)
  • Main package repository for production Wolfi images
• wimpysworld/nothing-but-nix (1 week 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 (1 month ago)
  • Determine if you need to reboot ️♻️ your NixOS machine ️❄️
• wimpysworld/faff (2 months ago)
  • Drop the faff, dodge the judgment. Another bloody AI commit generator, but this one stays local 🦙

• feat: add cilium-certgen package on wolfi-dev/os (5 days ago)
• feat: Add Beyond Compare and update packages with user-specific app selection on wimpysworld/nix-config (1 week ago)
• refactor(disko): reorganize disk configs for phasma and vader systems on wimpysworld/nix-config (4 weeks ago)
• refactor(disk): enhance LUKS encryption and disk configurations on wimpysworld/nix-config (1 month ago)
• feat: Add maul high-performance server to flake on wimpysworld/nix-config (1 month ago)

• DeterminateSystems/determinate-nix-action (v3.8.5, today)
  • The Github Action for Determinate Nix
• DeterminateSystems/nix-installer (v3.8.5, 1 day ago)
  • Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 7 million installs.
• wimpysworld/nix-config (v25.5.20250724, 1 week ago)
  • Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
• wimpysworld/nixos-needsreboot (0.2.9, 1 month 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 🦙

• koiuo/xdg-override (134)
  • Override xdg-open behavior. Because the way it already works is not confusing enough
• nix-community/nh (1803)
  • 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 🦙
• openai/whisper (86104)
  • Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

• WeidiDeng/caddy-cloudflare-ip (81)

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

• Coding in My Pants (today)
• Frankenstein's Ubuntu Server Framework (2 weeks ago)
• Old Man Yells at GMail (4 weeks ago)
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1 month ago)
• Nerdy Day Trips (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 (2 months ago)
• Fuzzel Colour Picker (3 months ago)
• Install ZeroTier on Steam Deck (2 years ago)
• Steam Box vs Steam Deck (2 years ago)