I’m a full-stack developer with over 20 years of experience designing and building enterprise web solutions for global publishers and businesses. After nine years at XWP (WordPress agency) I’m now building online courses for experienced WordPress developers to share that knowledge with the wider community.
I live in Latvia with my wife Baiba and our two kids.
In 2019 we discovered the FIRE movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early) and are still interested into all areas of personal finances and future planning. I highly recommend the Choose Fi podcast, The Simple Path to Wealth book by J.L. Collins, and the Bogleheads community.
On January 1st, 2017 I started my video blog because writing regular blog posts was no longer as exciting and took more time. The most popular episode is about adding a display to the Orange Pi Zero micro-computer.
I’m a big fan of the POSSE which is why every video has a blog entry on this site and all content is available through ActivityPub on Mastadon and other networks via ActivityPub kaspars.net/@kaspars.
I’m also interested in cryptography and digital identity after getting my Latvian ID card in the summer of 2015. This led me to discover Yubico, FIDO U2F, PGP and everything related to JavaCards, encryption and authentication. I contribute to the two factor authentication plugin for WordPress.
In 2007 I started this blog to document my adventures with WordPress and open-source, electronics, passive house and home automation.
You can find most of my projects on GitHub. Here is what I’m working on right now and how to get in touch. See the tools and services I use and my reading list.
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This website is powered by WordPress and my own List theme. It runs on Ubuntu Bionic (yes, that old), Nginx, PHP 7.4 and is hosted in Latvia by Tet Cloud.