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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- linuxmatters/jivedrop (2 days ago)
- Drop the mix, ship the show—metadata, cover art, and all 🪩
- linuxmatters/.github (1 week ago)
- Linux Matters Podcast 🐧🎤
- wimpysworld/nix-config (2 weeks ago)
- Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
- noughtylinux/config (3 weeks ago)
- Nix flake for Nøughty Linux terminal environment and desktop shell ️❄️
- wimpysworld/glyph-party (1 month ago)
- Finally, a Unicode search tool that sparks joy instead of despair. 10,000+ characters, zero tears 😂
- chore(deps): update library versions and fix build process on flexiondotorg/ffmpeg-go (1 day ago)
- fix: resolve automake version mismatch issues in builds on flexiondotorg/ffmpeg-go (1 day ago)
- chore: update libiconv download URL to use mirror service on flexiondotorg/ffmpeg-go (1 day ago)
- fix(ci): create compatibility symlinks for older automake version on flexiondotorg/ffmpeg-go (1 day ago)
- feat(download): implement robust file download with retry and resume capability on flexiondotorg/ffmpeg-go (1 day ago)
- DeterminateSystems/determinate-nix-action (v3.13.0, 2 days ago)
- The Github Action for Determinate Nix
- linuxmatters/jivedrop (0.2.0, 2 days ago)
- Drop the mix, ship the show—metadata, cover art, and all 🪩
- wimpysworld/nix-config (v25.5.20251026, 2 weeks ago)
- Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
- wimpysworld/stream-sprout (0.1.6, 2 months ago)
- Restream a video source to multiple destinations such as Twitch, YouTube, Owncast and Peertube 📡
- wimpysworld/nixos-needsreboot (0.2.9, 5 months ago)
- Determine if you need to reboot ️♻️ your NixOS machine ️❄️
- linuxmatters/jivedrop (2)
- Drop the mix, ship the show—metadata, cover art, and all 🪩
- csnewman/ffmpeg-go (70)
- Go bindings for the FFmpeg libraries
- mediaelement/mediaelement (8285)
- HTML5 <audio> or <video> player with support for MP4, WebM, and MP3 as well as HLS, Dash, YouTube, Facebook, SoundCloud and others with a common HTML5 MediaElement API, enabling a consistent UI in all browsers.
- linuxmatters/.github (1)
- Linux Matters Podcast 🐧🎤
- iLib-js/UCD (10)
- The Unicode Character Database encoded as json files
I co-present Linux Matters podcast with my friends @popey and @marxjohnson. Here are some recent episodes:
- Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes (1 day ago)
- Panache, for Men (2 weeks ago)
- Terminal Full of Sparkles (4 weeks ago)
- MacOS Made Me Snap! (1 month ago)
- Ethical Retro Gaming (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 (5 months ago)
- Nothing but Nix (6 months ago)
- Fuzzel Colour Picker (7 months ago)
- Install ZeroTier on Steam Deck (2 years ago)
- Steam Box vs Steam Deck (2 years ago)