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Wimpy's World

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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!

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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?

GitHub Contribution Snake

Recent project contributions 🏗️

  • wimpysworld/nix-config (3 days ago)
    • Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️
  • wimpysworld/brook (1 week ago)
    • Wayland experiments 🖥️ 🧪
  • wimpysworld/sidra (1 week ago)
    • An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
  • linuxmatters/jivefire (2 weeks ago)
    • Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser with Cava-inspired real-time audio frequencies 🔥
  • linuxmatters/jivedrop (3 weeks ago)
    • Drop your podcast .wav into a shiny MP3 with metadata, cover art, and all 🪩

Recent pull requests 🛠️

Recent releases 📦️

Recent starred projects ⭐️

  • danny-avila/LibreChat (35416)
    • 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 (12)
    • An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
  • castlabs/electron-releases (271)
    • Castlabs Electron for Content Security
  • mksglu/context-mode (6860)
    • Context window optimization for AI coding agents. Sandboxes tool output, 98% reduction. 12 platforms
  • wimpysworld/nix-packages (1)
    • Nix packages published by Wimpy's World ️❄️

🎙️ Podcast

Linux Matters Podcast

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

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  1. nix-config nix-config Public

    Wimpy's NixOS, nix-darwin & Home Manager Configurations ❄️

    Nix 665 28

  2. deb-get deb-get Public

    apt-get for .debs published via GitHub or direct download 📦

    Shell 1.6k 158

  3. nothing-but-nix nothing-but-nix Public

    Create a 130GB Nix ️store in GitHub runners ❄️ Multi-partition BTRFS RAID-0 for /nix 💪 Brutally purges unnecessary software 🪓 Dynamically grows the Nix store 📈

    218 8

  4. ia-get ia-get Public

    File downloader for archive.org ⬇️

    Rust 249 33

  5. faff faff Public

    Drop the faff, dodge the judgment. Another bloody AI commit generator, but this one stays local 🦙

    Shell 46 8

  6. glyph-party glyph-party Public

    Finally, a Unicode search tool that sparks joy instead of despair. 10,000+ characters, zero tears 😂

    JavaScript 15 2

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