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Martin Wimpress

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Hampshire, UK.

Hello, I'm Martin Wimpress, also known as Wimpy 👋

In my spare time, I like to make things with software 👨‍💻 I am working towards a goal of covering annual fees to enable signing macOS and Windows releases of my projects. Funds 💰 generated via GitHub sponsorship will be put towards that once the goal is met. Any surplus will be put towards:

  • Keeping me caffeinated ☕️
  • Funding subscriptions, tooling and infrastructure for new and existing projects 📈
@flexiondotorg

Unsigned releases force macOS users to strip quarantine attributes and Windows users to click through SmartScreen warnings - friction that makes freely available Open Source projects feel untrustworthy even though they aren't. Code-signing removes both barriers entirely. The annual cost is $99 for Apple Developer Program membership, ~$170 for a Certum OV certificate for Windows, and $165 for GoReleaser Pro, the tooling that automates the signing pipeline for both platforms - plus a one-time ~$100 hardware token now required by all certificate authorities. That comes to ~$435/year ongoing and ~$535 in year one, which $45/month covers. Reaching this goal means signed releases on all platforms, no workarounds required.

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Featured work

  1. quickemu-project/quickemu

    Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

    Shell 14,976
  2. wimpysworld/deb-get

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

    Shell 1,633
  3. wimpysworld/ia-get

    File downloader for archive.org ⬇️

    Rust 255
  4. wimpysworld/nothing-but-nix

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

  5. linuxmatters/jivetalking

    Raw microphone recordings into broadcast-ready audio in one command. No configuration, and no surprises🕺

    Go 65
  6. wimpysworld/sidra

    An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎

    TypeScript 39

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Sign of the Times

Less than a coffee, but it pays for the code-signing certificates that keep your Mac and Windows installs free of Gatekeeper tantrums and SmartScreen paranoia. Properly signed releases across my open-source projects, for everyone.

$5 a month

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Money for Nothing

Free and open source software isn't free to ship. Code-signing certificates, a hardware token, and GoReleaser Pro are what stand between your users and a wall of security warnings. This tier keeps the lights on so the software stays free and the releases stay trustworthy.

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Apple Developer Program membership, a Certum OV certificate, and the tooling to wire it all together - that's what turns a download into something your OS actually trusts. This tier covers the infrastructure that means nobody has to override their security settings just to run good software.