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?

Recent project contributions 🏗️

• wimpysworld/brook (today)
  • Wayland experiments 🖥️ 🧪
• wimpysworld/nix-config (today)
  • Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
• wimpysworld/sidra (5 days ago)
  • An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
• linuxmatters/jivefire (1 week ago)
  • Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser with Cava-inspired real-time audio frequencies 🔥
• linuxmatters/jivedrop (2 weeks ago)
  • Drop your podcast .wav into a shiny MP3 with metadata, cover art, and all 🪩

Recent pull requests 🛠️

• refactor: code smells remediation across audio and ui packages on linuxmatters/jivefire (1 day ago)
• chore: update flake.lock on wimpysworld/nix-config (2 days ago)
• build(deps): migrate from electron-store to electron-conf on wimpysworld/sidra (5 days ago)
• types(hook): add type declarations and JSDoc for musicKit integration on wimpysworld/sidra (5 days ago)
• refactor(tray): extract About window logic to dedicated module on wimpysworld/sidra (5 days ago)

Recent releases 📦️

• DeterminateSystems/determinate-nix-action (v3.17.2, 1 day ago)
  • The Github Action for Determinate Nix
• linuxmatters/jivedrop (0.3.3, 1 day ago)
  • Drop your podcast .wav into a shiny MP3 with metadata, cover art, and all 🪩
• linuxmatters/jivefire (0.3.2, 1 day ago)
  • Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser with Cava-inspired real-time audio frequencies 🔥
• wimpysworld/sidra (0.3.2, 5 days ago)
  • An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
• wimpysworld/nix-config (v25.11.20260324, 5 days ago)
  • Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️

Recent starred projects ⭐️

• danny-avila/LibreChat (35118)
  • 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 (6)
  • An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
• castlabs/electron-releases (268)
  • Castlabs Electron for Content Security
• mksglu/context-mode (6335)
  • Privacy-first. MCP is the protocol for tool access. We're the virtualization layer for context.
• wimpysworld/nix-packages (1)
  • Nix packages published by Wimpy's World ️❄️

🎙️ Podcast

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

• VNC? No way! (1 day ago)
• Tailor Snaps for Big Iron (2 weeks ago)
• The Smell of Git (4 weeks ago)
• Mark's Meshing About (1 month ago)
• Audio Trainers and Wallet Drainers (1 month ago)

📺️ YouTube

  

• 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)

✍️ Blog

• faffing about with diffs (10 months ago)
• Nothing but Nix (10 months ago)
• Fuzzel Colour Picker (11 months ago)
• Install ZeroTier on Steam Deck (2 years ago)
• Steam Box vs Steam Deck (2 years ago)