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/ia-get (today)
- File downloader for archive.org ⬇️
- wimpysworld/nothing-but-nix (2 days 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/nix-config (3 days ago)
- Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
- NixOS/nixpkgs (1 week ago)
- Nix Packages collection & NixOS
- flexiondotorg/flexiondotorg.github.io (1 week ago)
- My personal blog
- ui: replace emoji with coloured unicode symbols/glyphs on wimpysworld/ia-get (1 day ago)
- refactor: improve URL validation and error messages on wimpysworld/ia-get (1 day ago)
- ui: enhance download progress information with a counter on wimpysworld/ia-get (1 day ago)
- refactor: improves error handling and URL validation on wimpysworld/ia-get (1 day ago)
- fix(downloader): fix resume download corruption and hash verification on wimpysworld/ia-get (1 day ago)
- wimpysworld/ia-get (0.1.2, 1 day ago)
- File downloader for archive.org ⬇️
- DeterminateSystems/determinate-nix-action (v3.6.1, 2 days ago)
- The Github Action for Determinate Nix
- wimpysworld/nix-config (v25.5.20250522, 2 days ago)
- Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
- DeterminateSystems/nix-installer (v3.6.1, 2 days ago)
- Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 7 million installs.
- wimpysworld/nothing-but-nix (v5, 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 📈
- DeterminateSystems/determinate-nix-action (2)
- The Github Action for Determinate Nix
- wimpysworld/nothing-but-nix (67)
- Create a 130GB Nix ️store in GitHub runners ❄️ Multi-partition BTRFS RAID-0 for /nix 💪 Brutally purges unnecessary software 🪓 Dynamically grows the Nix store 📈
- popey/youtube-chapter-generator (3)
- Python script that uses yt-dlp and Google Gemini models to auto generate chapter markers for YouTube video descriptions.
- picolove/picolove (804)
- PICO-8 Reimplementation in Love2D. Chat: https://discord.gg/jGEMUse6RM
I co-present Linux Matters podcast with my friends @popey and @marxjohnson. Here are some recent episodes:
- Thoccing Heavy (1 week ago)
- High Precision Solid Metal Balls (3 weeks ago)
- Crafting Bookshelf Buddy (1 month ago)
- Great Scott, 1.21 Jiggabits! (1 month ago)
- Moodling Myself Silly (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 (1 year ago)
- [Linux & NixOS] Catching up on a few projects ❄️ - Part 2 (1 year ago)
- Nothing but Nix (1 week ago)
- Fuzzel Colour Picker (1 month ago)
- Install ZeroTier on Steam Deck (2 years ago)
- Steam Box vs Steam Deck (2 years ago)
- Flash Stadia Controller Bluetooth Firmware on Linux (2 years ago)