Wimpy's World

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 da-moon 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/nothing-but-nix (2 days ago)
- Create a 130GB Nix ️store in GitHub runners ❄️ Multi-partition BTRFS RAID-0 for /nix 💪 Brutally purges unnecessary software 🪓 Dynamically grows the Nix store 📈
flexiondotorg/flexiondotorg.github.io (2 days ago)
- My personal blog
DeterminateSystems/determinate-nix-action (3 days ago)
- The Github Action for Determinate Nix
wimpysworld/nix-config (3 days ago)
- Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
DeterminateSystems/ci (3 days ago)
- Determinate CI is the one-stop shop for effortless Nix CI in GitHub Actions.

Recent pull requests 🛠️

feat(apt): minimal purge for cleave hatchet protocol on wimpysworld/nothing-but-nix (2 days ago)
fix(btrfs): prevent TRIM during balance operations on loop devices on wimpysworld/nothing-but-nix (2 days ago)
refactor: simplify snapd removal, the snap apt package has full purge logic on wimpysworld/nothing-but-nix (2 days ago)
feat(inputs): add customizable safe haven disk space reservations on wimpysworld/nothing-but-nix (3 days ago)
feat(action): add post-run script on wimpysworld/nothing-but-nix (3 days ago)

Recent releases 📦️

DeterminateSystems/nixos-amis (v3.5.2, 1 day ago)
wimpysworld/nothing-but-nix (v5, 2 days ago)
- Create a 130GB Nix ️store in GitHub runners ❄️ Multi-partition BTRFS RAID-0 for /nix 💪 Brutally purges unnecessary software 🪓 Dynamically grows the Nix store 📈
DeterminateSystems/determinate-nix-action (v3.5.2, 3 days ago)
- The Github Action for Determinate Nix
wimpysworld/nix-config (v24.11.20250514, 3 days ago)
- Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
DeterminateSystems/nix-installer (v3.5.2, 5 days ago)
- Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 7 million installs.

Recent starred projects ⭐️

DeterminateSystems/determinate-nix-action (2)
- The Github Action for Determinate Nix
wimpysworld/nothing-but-nix (43)
- Create a 130GB Nix ️store in GitHub runners ❄️ Multi-partition BTRFS RAID-0 for /nix 💪 Brutally purges unnecessary software 🪓 Dynamically grows the Nix store 📈
popey/youtube-chapter-generator (2)
- Python script that uses yt-dlp and Google Gemini models to auto generate chapter markers for YouTube video descriptions.
picolove/picolove (802)
- PICO-8 Reimplementation in Love2D. Chat: https://discord.gg/jGEMUse6RM
feditext/feditext (201)
- A free, open-source iOS client for Mastodon, Glitch, GotoSocial, Iceshrimp, Akkoma, and other Mastodon-API-compatible Fediverse instance servers.