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/nothing-but-nix (1 day 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 (1 month ago)
- Drop the faff, dodge the judgment. Another bloody AI commit generator, but this one stays local 🦙
- flexiondotorg/flexiondotorg.github.io (1 month ago)
- My personal blog
- feat: Add Beyond Compare and update packages with user-specific app selection on wimpysworld/nix-config (today)
- refactor(disko): reorganize disk configs for phasma and vader systems on wimpysworld/nix-config (2 weeks ago)
- refactor(disk): enhance LUKS encryption and disk configurations on wimpysworld/nix-config (4 weeks ago)
- feat: Add maul high-performance server to flake on wimpysworld/nix-config (1 month ago)
- fix(gitsign): remove unnecessary socket argument from credential cache on macOS on wimpysworld/nix-config (1 month ago)
- wimpysworld/nix-config (v25.5.20250724, today)
- Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
- DeterminateSystems/nix-installer (v3.8.4, 4 days ago)
- Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 7 million installs.
- DeterminateSystems/determinate-nix-action (v3.8.2, 1 week ago)
- The Github Action for Determinate Nix
- wimpysworld/nixos-needsreboot (0.2.9, 1 month ago)
- Determine if you need to reboot ️♻️ your NixOS machine ️❄️
- wimpysworld/faff (0.1.0, 1 month ago)
- Drop the faff, dodge the judgment. Another bloody AI commit generator, but this one stays local 🦙
- koiuo/xdg-override (128)
- Override xdg-open behavior. Because the way it already works is not confusing enough
- nix-community/nh (1758)
- 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 (85530)
- 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:
- Frankenstein's Ubuntu Server Framework (3 days ago)
- Old Man Yells at GMail (2 weeks ago)
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1 month ago)
- Nerdy Day Trips (1 month ago)
- Python A-Go-Go (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 (1 month 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)