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?
- linuxmatters/jive-encoder (1 day ago)
- Drop your podcast .wav into a shiny MP3, AAC or Opus with metadata, cover art, and all 🗜️
- linuxmatters/jive-vocals (1 day ago)
- Raw microphone recordings into broadcast-ready audio in one command. No configuration, and no surprises 🗣️
- linuxmatters/ffmpeg-statigo (1 day ago)
- Real FFmpeg bindings for Go. Not a wrapper. Not a CLI tool. The actual libraries 📚
- wimpysworld/nix-config (1 day ago)
- Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
- linuxmatters/jive-visualiser (1 day ago)
- Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser with spring-driven real-time audio frequencies ✨
- refactor: remove dead code and simplify internal structures on linuxmatters/jive-vocals (1 day ago)
- refactor: fix peer review findings across audio, encoder, UI, and too… on linuxmatters/jive-visualiser (1 day ago)
- test: address peer-review findings across all modules on linuxmatters/jive-encoder (1 day ago)
- fix(encoder): preserve frontmatter while updating stats on linuxmatters/jive-encoder (1 day ago)
- refactor: split CLI setup and pass 2 orchestration on linuxmatters/jive-visualiser (1 day ago)
- linuxmatters/jive-vocals (0.7.0, 1 day ago)
- Raw microphone recordings into broadcast-ready audio in one command. No configuration, and no surprises 🗣️
- linuxmatters/jive-visualiser (0.5.0, 1 day ago)
- Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser with spring-driven real-time audio frequencies ✨
- linuxmatters/jive-encoder (0.5.0, 1 day ago)
- Drop your podcast .wav into a shiny MP3, AAC or Opus with metadata, cover art, and all 🗜️
- linuxmatters/ffmpeg-statigo (v8.1.2.0, 1 day ago)
- Real FFmpeg bindings for Go. Not a wrapper. Not a CLI tool. The actual libraries 📚
- kenn-io/agentsview (v0.36.1, 3 days ago)
- Local-first session search, analytics, insights, and token use statistics for coding agents, supporting Claude Code, Codex, and more than 20 other agents.
- kenn-io/agentsview (3742)
- Local-first session search, analytics, insights, and token use statistics for coding agents, supporting Claude Code, Codex, and more than 20 other agents.
- rvaiya/keyd (5700)
- A key remapping daemon for linux.
- emkey1/ish-AOK (198)
- Linux shell for iOS with additions
- getpaseo/paseo (9787)
- Orchestrate multiple coding agents from desktop and mobile
- kmscon/libtsm (26)
- Terminal-emulator State Machine
I co-present Linux Matters podcast with my friends @popey and @marxjohnson. Here are some recent episodes:
- DOSing about with games (2 weeks ago)
- snap install flatpak (3 weeks ago)
- Ditching Grammarly for Open Sauce (1 month ago)
- Cooking up a framework desktop (1 month ago)
- Passing the Gourd (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 (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)