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 (today)
  • Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
• wimpysworld/tailor (1 day ago)
  • Ready-to-wear project templates for GitHub repositories 👔
• wimpysworld/ia-get (1 day ago)
  • File downloader for archive.org ⬇️
• wimpysworld/sidra (1 day ago)
  • An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
• wimpysworld/antsy-alien-attack-pico (3 days ago)
  • The year is 2139. Planet Earth is under attack by aliens, and they're (still) antsy! 👾🛸💥

• chore(wavebox): update to 148.2.4-2 on wimpysworld/nix-config (2 days ago)
• feat(agentic): integrate pi agent support on wimpysworld/nix-config (3 days ago)
• fix(snap): resolve confinement issues on Ubuntu 24.04 on wimpysworld/sidra (3 days ago)
• feat(build): add snap package target with automated publishing on wimpysworld/sidra (3 days ago)
• chore: update screenshot on wimpysworld/sidra (3 days ago)

• wimpysworld/critters (0.1.0, 1 day ago)
  • Reveal odd and invisible whitespace characters.
• DeterminateSystems/determinate-nix-action (v3.20.0, 2 days ago)
  • The Github Action for Determinate Nix
• wimpysworld/sidra (0.3.3, 3 days ago)
  • An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
• wimpysworld/ia-get (0.1.4, 3 days ago)
  • File downloader for archive.org ⬇️
• wimpysworld/nix-config (v25.11.20260501, 5 days ago)
  • Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️

• JuliusBrussee/caveman (56905)
  • 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman
• danny-avila/LibreChat (36773)
  • 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 (66)
  • 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 (14099)
  • Context window optimization for AI coding agents. Sandboxes tool output, 98% reduction. 14 platforms

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

• Passing the Gourd (1 week ago)
• Pouring out the Sidra (3 weeks ago)
• VNC? No way! (1 month ago)
• Tailor Snaps for Big Iron (1 month ago)
• The Smell of Git (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 (11 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)