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: gthelding 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 (today)
  • Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
• kenn-io/agentsview (today)
  • Local-first session intelligence and analytics for coding agents, supporting Claude Code, Codex, and more than 20 other agents. Also: 100x faster replacement for ccusage!
• linuxmatters/jivetalking (1 day ago)
  • Raw microphone recordings into broadcast-ready audio in one command. No configuration, and no surprises🕺
• linuxmatters/jivefire (3 days ago)
  • Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser with spring-driven real-time audio frequencies 🔥
• linuxmatters/ffmpeg-statigo (3 days ago)
  • Real FFmpeg bindings for Go. Not a wrapper. Not a CLI tool. The actual libraries 📚

• feat(wayland): replace session-locker, wallpaper, and menu with portable alternatives on wimpysworld/nix-config (today)
• fix(processor): derive ceiling margin from validation corpus on linuxmatters/jivetalking (1 day ago)
• refactor(processor,audio): clarify callback semantics, frame aliasing, and cgo cleanup on linuxmatters/jivetalking (1 day ago)
• refactor(processor): audit and remove filter adaptation theatre on linuxmatters/jivetalking (1 day ago)
• chore(wavebox): update to 149.2.69-2 on wimpysworld/nix-config (1 day ago)

• linuxmatters/jivetalking (0.5.1, today)
  • Raw microphone recordings into broadcast-ready audio in one command. No configuration, and no surprises🕺
• sinelaw/fresh (v0.4.0, 1 day ago)
  • Terminal based IDE & text editor: easy, powerful and fast
• linuxmatters/ffmpeg-statigo (v8.1.1.2, 3 days ago)
  • Real FFmpeg bindings for Go. Not a wrapper. Not a CLI tool. The actual libraries 📚
• linuxmatters/jivefire (0.4.0, 3 days ago)
  • Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser with spring-driven real-time audio frequencies 🔥
• linuxmatters/jivedrop (0.4.0, 3 days ago)
  • Drop your podcast .wav into a shiny MP3, AAC or Opus with metadata, cover art, and all 🪩

• lazypower/continuity (17)
  • Give claude the memory of a pair-programmer. No serious dependencies, all substance
• JuliusBrussee/caveman (71343)
  • 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman
• danny-avila/LibreChat (38892)
  • Enhanced ChatGPT Clone: Features Agents, MCP, Skills, 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 (219)
  • An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
• castlabs/electron-releases (277)
  • Castlabs Electron for Content Security

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

• snap install flatpak (2 days ago)
• Ditching Grammarly for Open Sauce (2 weeks ago)
• Cooking up a framework desktop (1 month ago)
• Passing the Gourd (1 month ago)
• Pouring out the Sidra (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)