Martin Wimpress
@wimpys.world
Long-time #Linux user, developer, and community builder 🐧 Flake wrangler ️❄️ Maker 🪛 Aspiring game developer ️🕹️ Linux Matters podcast presenter ️🎙️
Stop staring at diffs like they owe you money 💸
faff - another bloody AI commit generator (yes, we definitely needed one more!) after GitKraken's AI ate my credits but refused to write conventional commits 😡
wimpysworld.com/posts/faff-o...
Drop the faff, dodge the judgment, get back to coding 🦙
faff - another bloody AI commit generator (yes, we definitely needed one more!) after GitKraken's AI ate my credits but refused to write conventional commits 😡
wimpysworld.com/posts/faff-o...
Drop the faff, dodge the judgment, get back to coding 🦙
June 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Stop staring at diffs like they owe you money 💸
faff - another bloody AI commit generator (yes, we definitely needed one more!) after GitKraken's AI ate my credits but refused to write conventional commits 😡
wimpysworld.com/posts/faff-o...
Drop the faff, dodge the judgment, get back to coding 🦙
faff - another bloody AI commit generator (yes, we definitely needed one more!) after GitKraken's AI ate my credits but refused to write conventional commits 😡
wimpysworld.com/posts/faff-o...
Drop the faff, dodge the judgment, get back to coding 🦙
Tired of "no space left on device" errors when building #NixOS configs in GitHub Actions? ️❄️
I've created Nothing but Nix, a GitHub Action that ruthlessly reclaims disk space 🪓 Get up to 130GB for your #Nix store instead of the measly 20GB default!
Learn more 👇
wimpysworld.com/posts/nothin...
I've created Nothing but Nix, a GitHub Action that ruthlessly reclaims disk space 🪓 Get up to 130GB for your #Nix store instead of the measly 20GB default!
Learn more 👇
wimpysworld.com/posts/nothin...
May 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Tired of "no space left on device" errors when building #NixOS configs in GitHub Actions? ️❄️
I've created Nothing but Nix, a GitHub Action that ruthlessly reclaims disk space 🪓 Get up to 130GB for your #Nix store instead of the measly 20GB default!
Learn more 👇
wimpysworld.com/posts/nothin...
I've created Nothing but Nix, a GitHub Action that ruthlessly reclaims disk space 🪓 Get up to 130GB for your #Nix store instead of the measly 20GB default!
Learn more 👇
wimpysworld.com/posts/nothin...
May the 4th be with you!
May 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
May the 4th be with you!
The second keyboard is built. Also a Crush 80 modified from US ANSI 🇺🇸 FR4 switch plate to UK ISO 🇬🇧 PP switch plate with Akko Roseword switches and GMK Hammerhead Light keycaps ⌨️
Much Thocc 🧱
Much Thocc 🧱
April 8, 2025 at 6:34 AM
The second keyboard is built. Also a Crush 80 modified from US ANSI 🇺🇸 FR4 switch plate to UK ISO 🇬🇧 PP switch plate with Akko Roseword switches and GMK Hammerhead Light keycaps ⌨️
Much Thocc 🧱
Much Thocc 🧱
The finished build. Crush 80 converted to UK ISO 🇬🇧 Replaced the FR4 switch plate with a PP switch plate and swapped the Kailh Cocoa switches for Akko Rosewood to bring the "Thocc" 🧱 Keycaps are Cherry profile GMK 8008 🍒
April 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The finished build. Crush 80 converted to UK ISO 🇬🇧 Replaced the FR4 switch plate with a PP switch plate and swapped the Kailh Cocoa switches for Akko Rosewood to bring the "Thocc" 🧱 Keycaps are Cherry profile GMK 8008 🍒
I had one switch more than the keyboard needed, and yes, I bent the pins on one switch 😰
I suspose I should test the switches and make sure everything works 🤞⌨️
I suspose I should test the switches and make sure everything works 🤞⌨️
April 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I had one switch more than the keyboard needed, and yes, I bent the pins on one switch 😰
I suspose I should test the switches and make sure everything works 🤞⌨️
I suspose I should test the switches and make sure everything works 🤞⌨️
The US ANSI 🇺🇸 FR4 switch plate has been removed and the stabilisers mounted on a UK ISO 🇬🇧 PP switch plate ready for filling with Akko Rosewood switches ⌨️
April 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The US ANSI 🇺🇸 FR4 switch plate has been removed and the stabilisers mounted on a UK ISO 🇬🇧 PP switch plate ready for filling with Akko Rosewood switches ⌨️
I don't know how this happened but I appear to have fallen head first in to the custom keyboard ⌨️ rabbit hole 🕳️🐇
Send help 🛟 And a decent switch remover 😧
Send help 🛟 And a decent switch remover 😧
April 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I don't know how this happened but I appear to have fallen head first in to the custom keyboard ⌨️ rabbit hole 🕳️🐇
Send help 🛟 And a decent switch remover 😧
Send help 🛟 And a decent switch remover 😧
I name my computers after Sith Lords 😈 We all have a system, right?
I add a little Dark Side flair to the computers I build. Here's Revan the new home lab server, all finished, ready for racking and sporting a Darth Revan decal 🎨
What is your host naming convention?
I add a little Dark Side flair to the computers I build. Here's Revan the new home lab server, all finished, ready for racking and sporting a Darth Revan decal 🎨
What is your host naming convention?
June 22, 2024 at 2:11 PM
I name my computers after Sith Lords 😈 We all have a system, right?
I add a little Dark Side flair to the computers I build. Here's Revan the new home lab server, all finished, ready for racking and sporting a Darth Revan decal 🎨
What is your host naming convention?
I add a little Dark Side flair to the computers I build. Here's Revan the new home lab server, all finished, ready for racking and sporting a Darth Revan decal 🎨
What is your host naming convention?
While testing the CPU underclocks and undervolts I saw some of the M.2 SATA SSDs on the PCIe adapter were approaching 80°C ⚠️
I've put 0.5mm thermal pads under each SSD and now adding these Akasa heat sinks to help drop the temps 🧊
I've put 0.5mm thermal pads under each SSD and now adding these Akasa heat sinks to help drop the temps 🧊
June 10, 2024 at 7:47 PM
While testing the CPU underclocks and undervolts I saw some of the M.2 SATA SSDs on the PCIe adapter were approaching 80°C ⚠️
I've put 0.5mm thermal pads under each SSD and now adding these Akasa heat sinks to help drop the temps 🧊
I've put 0.5mm thermal pads under each SSD and now adding these Akasa heat sinks to help drop the temps 🧊
Here's the final internals of the new home lab server 🩻 This adds the drive shelf with my 2x 12TB spinning rust drives, that act as internal snapshot targets 💾
I'm not thrilled 🫤 about the SATA data cable routing. Longer cables ordered 🛍️
Time to underclock and undervolt the snot out of the CPU 📉
I'm not thrilled 🫤 about the SATA data cable routing. Longer cables ordered 🛍️
Time to underclock and undervolt the snot out of the CPU 📉
June 8, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Here's the final internals of the new home lab server 🩻 This adds the drive shelf with my 2x 12TB spinning rust drives, that act as internal snapshot targets 💾
I'm not thrilled 🫤 about the SATA data cable routing. Longer cables ordered 🛍️
Time to underclock and undervolt the snot out of the CPU 📉
I'm not thrilled 🫤 about the SATA data cable routing. Longer cables ordered 🛍️
Time to underclock and undervolt the snot out of the CPU 📉
PCIe slot load out in the new home lab 🥼 From left to right:
- 8TB storage slice (2 PCIe lanes)
- 4TB storage slice (1 PCIe lane)
- NVIDIA T400 (8 PCIe lanes) for NVENC and CUDA
- 8TB storage slice (1 PCIe lane)
- 8TB storage slice (2 PCIe lanes)
The 4TB slice will be upgrade to 8TB soon.
- 8TB storage slice (2 PCIe lanes)
- 4TB storage slice (1 PCIe lane)
- NVIDIA T400 (8 PCIe lanes) for NVENC and CUDA
- 8TB storage slice (1 PCIe lane)
- 8TB storage slice (2 PCIe lanes)
The 4TB slice will be upgrade to 8TB soon.
June 8, 2024 at 5:17 PM
PCIe slot load out in the new home lab 🥼 From left to right:
- 8TB storage slice (2 PCIe lanes)
- 4TB storage slice (1 PCIe lane)
- NVIDIA T400 (8 PCIe lanes) for NVENC and CUDA
- 8TB storage slice (1 PCIe lane)
- 8TB storage slice (2 PCIe lanes)
The 4TB slice will be upgrade to 8TB soon.
- 8TB storage slice (2 PCIe lanes)
- 4TB storage slice (1 PCIe lane)
- NVIDIA T400 (8 PCIe lanes) for NVENC and CUDA
- 8TB storage slice (1 PCIe lane)
- 8TB storage slice (2 PCIe lanes)
The 4TB slice will be upgrade to 8TB soon.
With some preliminary cable management in place the base system boots and works 🎉 Time to load up the slots with GPU and storage alices then drop the drive shelf in 🫳
June 8, 2024 at 2:25 PM
With some preliminary cable management in place the base system boots and works 🎉 Time to load up the slots with GPU and storage alices then drop the drive shelf in 🫳
This was tricky 😤 The Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 is mounted in a push-pull fan configuration 🌪️🌪️🌪️
I added 3 additional Arctic P12 fans to reduce fan noise 🤔 This sounds unintuitive, but 6 fans can be run at far lower RPM to get better static pressure and achieve lower noise than 3 fans🧑🔬
I added 3 additional Arctic P12 fans to reduce fan noise 🤔 This sounds unintuitive, but 6 fans can be run at far lower RPM to get better static pressure and achieve lower noise than 3 fans🧑🔬
June 8, 2024 at 11:31 AM
This was tricky 😤 The Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 is mounted in a push-pull fan configuration 🌪️🌪️🌪️
I added 3 additional Arctic P12 fans to reduce fan noise 🤔 This sounds unintuitive, but 6 fans can be run at far lower RPM to get better static pressure and achieve lower noise than 3 fans🧑🔬
I added 3 additional Arctic P12 fans to reduce fan noise 🤔 This sounds unintuitive, but 6 fans can be run at far lower RPM to get better static pressure and achieve lower noise than 3 fans🧑🔬
This is 32TB of unorthodox storage for the home lab. Everything is SATA III, there is no NVME 🫢
Each "slice" is 8TB and uses either 1 or 4 PCI lanes. I can pack lots of "fast" storage in commodity computers. Fast enough, silent, and lower heat 🧊 and power ⚡when compared to NVME and spinning rust 👍
Each "slice" is 8TB and uses either 1 or 4 PCI lanes. I can pack lots of "fast" storage in commodity computers. Fast enough, silent, and lower heat 🧊 and power ⚡when compared to NVME and spinning rust 👍
June 7, 2024 at 8:09 PM
This is 32TB of unorthodox storage for the home lab. Everything is SATA III, there is no NVME 🫢
Each "slice" is 8TB and uses either 1 or 4 PCI lanes. I can pack lots of "fast" storage in commodity computers. Fast enough, silent, and lower heat 🧊 and power ⚡when compared to NVME and spinning rust 👍
Each "slice" is 8TB and uses either 1 or 4 PCI lanes. I can pack lots of "fast" storage in commodity computers. Fast enough, silent, and lower heat 🧊 and power ⚡when compared to NVME and spinning rust 👍
Shuffling storage around some drives to DIY 4x 2TB 2.5" SATA SSDs to be used as one of the storage slices in the server 💾
June 7, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Shuffling storage around some drives to DIY 4x 2TB 2.5" SATA SSDs to be used as one of the storage slices in the server 💾
The "new" home lab server is coming together 👍 Designare Z390 motherboard mounted in the Silverstone RM44 chassis with Corsair RM750x PSU hooked up 🔌 From now on, it is going to get interssting...
June 7, 2024 at 10:07 AM
The "new" home lab server is coming together 👍 Designare Z390 motherboard mounted in the Silverstone RM44 chassis with Corsair RM750x PSU hooked up 🔌 From now on, it is going to get interssting...
I've dusted off 🧹 the old Gigabyte Designare Z390 motherboard with the essential components of i9 9900K CPU, 64GB RAM plus 500GB and 1000GB NVME SSDs for root and home 💾
June 7, 2024 at 6:53 AM
I've dusted off 🧹 the old Gigabyte Designare Z390 motherboard with the essential components of i9 9900K CPU, 64GB RAM plus 500GB and 1000GB NVME SSDs for root and home 💾
The Silverstone RM44 stripped down is cavernous 📏 Here's hoping for an easy build 🏗️
June 6, 2024 at 11:19 PM
The Silverstone RM44 stripped down is cavernous 📏 Here's hoping for an easy build 🏗️
My old workstation is about to get a new life as home lab server. The only new component is this Silverstone RM44 4U chassis. It's a chonker 🗄
June 6, 2024 at 9:19 PM
My old workstation is about to get a new life as home lab server. The only new component is this Silverstone RM44 4U chassis. It's a chonker 🗄
I've been making my Quickemu project macOS-compatible; meaning it can run on a macOS host 🍎
This is NixOS ❄️ running a virtual machine of macOS Ventura 🍏 via Quickemu, which is running a virtual machine of Alpine Linux 🐧 via Quickemu #linux #qemu
The project is here: github.com/quickemu-pro...
This is NixOS ❄️ running a virtual machine of macOS Ventura 🍏 via Quickemu, which is running a virtual machine of Alpine Linux 🐧 via Quickemu #linux #qemu
The project is here: github.com/quickemu-pro...
May 14, 2024 at 8:20 PM
I've been making my Quickemu project macOS-compatible; meaning it can run on a macOS host 🍎
This is NixOS ❄️ running a virtual machine of macOS Ventura 🍏 via Quickemu, which is running a virtual machine of Alpine Linux 🐧 via Quickemu #linux #qemu
The project is here: github.com/quickemu-pro...
This is NixOS ❄️ running a virtual machine of macOS Ventura 🍏 via Quickemu, which is running a virtual machine of Alpine Linux 🐧 via Quickemu #linux #qemu
The project is here: github.com/quickemu-pro...
Ubuntu MATE 🧉 24.04 LTS is released and ready for download 📀
See the release notes for more information, upgrade instructions and get the download 👑 #ubuntu
ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-...
See the release notes for more information, upgrade instructions and get the download 👑 #ubuntu
ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-...
April 25, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Ubuntu MATE 🧉 24.04 LTS is released and ready for download 📀
See the release notes for more information, upgrade instructions and get the download 👑 #ubuntu
ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-...
See the release notes for more information, upgrade instructions and get the download 👑 #ubuntu
ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-...
Complete this short 🤏 Nix survey and get a link to the Etsy store 🛍️ where you can buy the NixOS case badges I've been handing out at NixCon NA ❄️
I still have a few my pocket for those of you at NixCon 🙂 #nixcon #scale21x
forms.gle/NHVP7kxLEyyG...
I still have a few my pocket for those of you at NixCon 🙂 #nixcon #scale21x
forms.gle/NHVP7kxLEyyG...
March 15, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Complete this short 🤏 Nix survey and get a link to the Etsy store 🛍️ where you can buy the NixOS case badges I've been handing out at NixCon NA ❄️
I still have a few my pocket for those of you at NixCon 🙂 #nixcon #scale21x
forms.gle/NHVP7kxLEyyG...
I still have a few my pocket for those of you at NixCon 🙂 #nixcon #scale21x
forms.gle/NHVP7kxLEyyG...
NixCon NA Day -1 ❄️
Here's Eelco Dolstra (creator of Nix) getting settled in a day early thanks to the SCaLE infra team already having the network up and running 💖 Appropriate considering most of the infra is powered by Nix 💪
Nix workshops in room 106 tomorrow #scale21x
Here's Eelco Dolstra (creator of Nix) getting settled in a day early thanks to the SCaLE infra team already having the network up and running 💖 Appropriate considering most of the infra is powered by Nix 💪
Nix workshops in room 106 tomorrow #scale21x
March 13, 2024 at 11:08 PM
NixCon NA Day -1 ❄️
Here's Eelco Dolstra (creator of Nix) getting settled in a day early thanks to the SCaLE infra team already having the network up and running 💖 Appropriate considering most of the infra is powered by Nix 💪
Nix workshops in room 106 tomorrow #scale21x
Here's Eelco Dolstra (creator of Nix) getting settled in a day early thanks to the SCaLE infra team already having the network up and running 💖 Appropriate considering most of the infra is powered by Nix 💪
Nix workshops in room 106 tomorrow #scale21x