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 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 (1 day ago)
- Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
- linuxmatters/jive-encoder (2 weeks ago)
- Drop your podcast .wav into a shiny MP3, AAC or Opus with metadata, cover art, and all 🗜️
- linuxmatters/jive-vocals (2 weeks ago)
- Raw microphone recordings into broadcast-ready audio in one command. No configuration, and no surprises 🗣️
- linuxmatters/ffmpeg-statigo (2 weeks ago)
- Real FFmpeg bindings for Go. Not a wrapper. Not a CLI tool. The actual libraries 📚
- linuxmatters/jive-visualiser (2 weeks ago)
- Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser with spring-driven real-time audio frequencies ✨
- chore(hermes-agent): update to v2026.7.20 on wimpysworld/nix-config (1 day ago)
- chore(concord): update to v2.4.3 on wimpysworld/nix-config (1 day ago)
- chore(paseo): update to v0.1.110 on wimpysworld/nix-config (1 day ago)
- fix(agentic): load Nix project tools inside Fence on wimpysworld/nix-config (5 days ago)
- chore(wavebox): update to 150.2.131-2 on wimpysworld/nix-config (6 days ago)
- sinelaw/fresh (v0.4.4, 6 days ago)
- Terminal based IDE & text editor: easy, powerful and fast
- kenn-io/agentsview (v0.38.1, 1 week ago)
- Local-first session search, analytics, insights, and token use statistics for coding agents, supporting Claude Code, Codex, and more than 20 other agents.
- linuxmatters/jive-vocals (0.7.0, 2 weeks ago)
- Raw microphone recordings into broadcast-ready audio in one command. No configuration, and no surprises 🗣️
- linuxmatters/jive-visualiser (0.5.0, 2 weeks ago)
- Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser with spring-driven real-time audio frequencies ✨
- linuxmatters/jive-encoder (0.5.0, 2 weeks ago)
- Drop your podcast .wav into a shiny MP3, AAC or Opus with metadata, cover art, and all 🗜️
- WoozyMasta/png (4)
- Drop-in accelerated image/png using klauspost zlib, SIMD and decoder optimizations.
- emmansun/base64 (16)
- Base64 with SIMD acceleration
- gen2brain/base64 (4)
- SIMD-accelerated encoding/base64
- gen2brain/jpegn (7)
- JPEG decoder with SIMD optimizations
- kenn-io/agentsview (4495)
- Local-first session search, analytics, insights, and token use statistics for coding agents, supporting Claude Code, Codex, and more than 20 other agents.
I co-present Linux Matters podcast with my friends @popey and @marxjohnson. Here are some recent episodes:
- Moodling the Fediverse in Europe (1 day ago)
- Clearing the Decks (2 weeks ago)
- DOSing about with games (1 month ago)
- snap install flatpak (1 month ago)
- Ditching Grammarly for Open Sauce (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 year ago)
- Nothing but Nix (1 year ago)
- Fuzzel Colour Picker (1 year ago)
- Install ZeroTier on Steam Deck (2 years ago)
- Steam Box vs Steam Deck (3 years ago)