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 (today)
- Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
- quickemu-project/quickemu (1 day ago)
- Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
- quickemu-project/homebrew-quickemu (2 days ago)
- Homebrew tap for quickemu and quickgui 🍻
- quickemu-project/quickemu-project.github.io (5 days ago)
- Quickemu website
- wimpysworld/obs-rgb-levels (6 days ago)
- RGB levels plugin for OBS Studio 🎚️🌈
- feat(quickemu): prefer GTK display backend and add GTK->SDL fallback on quickemu-project/quickemu (1 day ago)
- fix(quickemu): disable serial by default for macOS and Windows on quickemu-project/quickemu (1 day ago)
- fix(quickemu): use vmware-svga display for macOS guests on quickemu-project/quickemu (1 day ago)
- fix(quickget): pin macOS OpenCore and OVMF downloads to last-good commit on quickemu-project/quickemu (1 day ago)
- feat(quickemu): enable local SPICE over Unix sockets with VirGL on quickemu-project/quickemu (1 day ago)
- wimpysworld/nix-config (v25.11.20260125, 1 day ago)
- Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
- quickemu-project/quickemu (4.9.8, 4 days ago)
- Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
- wimpysworld/nothing-but-nix (v9, 5 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/deb-get (0.4.6, 6 days ago)
- apt-get for .debs published via GitHub or direct download 📦
- wimpysworld/faff (0.2.0, 6 days ago)
- Drop the faff, dodge the judgment. Another bloody AI commit generator, but this one stays local 🦙
- sinelaw/fresh (5453)
- Text editor for your terminal: easy, powerful and fast
- wimpysworld/plugin-research-badger (1)
- Relentlessly dig through online sources to uncover comprehensive insights on any topic 🦡
- linuxmatters/terminal-velocity (34)
- The A to Z of Modern Unix 🐧
- olimorris/codecompanion.nvim (6022)
- ✨ AI Coding, Vim Style
- anomalyco/opencode (90553)
- The open source coding agent.
I co-present Linux Matters podcast with my friends @popey and @marxjohnson. Here are some recent episodes:
- Points of You (1 week ago)
- Lets get Trippy (3 weeks ago)
- Give me the Aux (1 month ago)
- Grummaging Gophers & Gods (1 month ago)
- He's a very nøughty boy (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 (7 months ago)
- Nothing but Nix (8 months ago)
- Fuzzel Colour Picker (9 months ago)
- Install ZeroTier on Steam Deck (2 years ago)
- Steam Box vs Steam Deck (2 years ago)