Kaspars Dambis
Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.
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Uses Bluetti EB3A
Bluetti EB3A 600W 268Wh portable power station (Amazon).
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Disliked Fjallraven Skogso Padded jacket
Fjallraven Sten jacket (Amazon) for summer and Skogso Padded (Amazon) jacket for winter which I don't recommend (sleeves too long and size too small).
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Uses Fjallraven Raven 28
Fjallraven Raven 28 (Amazon) backpack as a daily driver.
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Uses DeLonghi Dedica espresso machine
DeLonghi Dedica espresso machine (Amazon).
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Uses Rigol DS1054Z
Rigol DS1054Z 4-channel oscilloscope (Amazon). Newer version is Rigol DHO800 series (Amazon, AliExpress).
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Uses Makita 18V series power tools
Uses Reeder
Reeder on iOS and macOS with iCloud sync for following news and blogs.
Uses Backblaze
Uses Strongbox
Strongbox for password management (synced over iCloud).
Uses Zen browser
Zen browser (primary) and Chrome for web performance work.
Uses DigitalOcean
Uses Tower
Uses Visual Studio Code
Uses Dell UltraSharp 27 inch 4K U2723QE
Dell UltraSharp 27 inch 4K U2723QE monitor (Amazon) which requires this configuration fix.
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Uses Mikrotik RB5009UPr+S+IN
Mikrotik RB5009UPr+S+IN (Amazon) router with UniFi U6+ (Amazon) access-point (see the related blog posts).
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Uses QNAP TS-435XeU
QNAP TS-435XeU (Amazon) home-lab server for Home Assistant and Scrypted along with Time Machine backups and local file sharing.
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Uses Apple Watch Series 8
Apple Watch Series 8 for tracking sleep, gym, walks and bike rides.
Uses MacBook Pro
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Site kaspars.net His blog: WordPress, electronics, home automation and his /uses page.
Link verified 5 Sept 2026.
x.com @konstruktors His X account.
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- What do you use for testing pre-release versions of your WordPress plugins? I wonder if anyone else would benefit from having plugin support added to the Beta Tester plugin used for WP core testing https://t.co/bdOlZxTZtb Blueprints are good but having a real hosting environment pull in any version of the plugin would be pretty cool, right? 25 Sept 2026
- > Fair challenge on both. Short answer: one is load-bearing, the other is cheap insurance... Do we all eventually start talking like that after looking at these for days? 25 Sept 2026
- if you're getting hit with openai/anthropic security guardrails, try starting the session with an open weight model and then switch to the other. 10 Sept 2026
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- Today I learned that @OpenAIDevs MCP client https://t.co/nhRPF6KVEf lists private_key_jwt for the token endpoint auth while the CIMD endpoint is actually public (auth=none). So your MCP OAuth must be able to skip private_key_jwt, if unsupported. 10 Sept 2026
- Hey @apple, 80% of these apps in the macOS top list are fake! 8 Sept 2026
- Pretty cool to see your WordPress site as a connector in the Claude mobile app. It is a streamable-http MCP server by Agent Pilot plugin combined with OAuth Pilot for seamless auth. Also works with the official MCP-adapter feature plugin. 7 Sept 2026
- Seemed like a naming convention at first but this is actually cool! 5 Sept 2026
- Naming things is hard. OAuth is a friendlier version of Application Passwords (less manual work) but there are clients, tokens and applications. How to make it easy for users? 5 Sept 2026
- is seam the new load-bearing? or has it always used it? 4 Sept 2026
- With Agent Pilot you can create and manage agent skills in WordPress (just like blog posts) and publish them as standard Agent Plugins. Now with OAuth Pilot you get one-click authentication for all the MCP clients (Claude, ChatGPT, etc). No more application passwords! 4 Sept 2026
- Hey @OpenAI, would it be possible to use the OS language settings for the date format in the app? Or at least spell out the month? 4 Sept 2026
- Did you know that the creator of ManageWP @vladquant also created Kagi search engine and the associated products? So cool! 2 Sept 2026
- All the frontier companies are cooked. With the open weight models we're approaching a world where models are a commodity run by thousands of operators at very thin margins just like web hosting today. 29 Aug 2026
- During the weekend I built a contextual search tool for a photo library with 42k images across 2.8k galleries. The results are amazing! Turns out the AI models that generate embedding vectors from images directly are BAD at capturing the image contents, so I had to first generate captions and then generate the embeddings for the captions instead. Total cost: $30 for both captions (gpt-5-mini) and embeddings (text-embedding-3-large with 3072 dimensions). 24 Aug 2026
- How do people use macOS with multiple desktops (workspaces)? Opening new windows or using the dock becomes so unpredictable as it jumps across the desktops. 24 Aug 2026
- Trying out Agent Pilot WordPress plugin prototype to self-host host AI skills. Let's you manage and publish agent skills without having to figure out Git or GitHub. 10 Aug 2026
- There is now a standard for bundling agent skills and MCP configurations as portable plugins (zip files) https://t.co/eAxXQQXWZg This is amazing for self-hosting your AI tools and not needing to publish to individual vendor marketplaces. 7 Aug 2026
- We often overlook how WordPress was THE vibe coding of the previous decades. Now there are just way more options available. 21 Jul 2026
- Somebody should unleash AI agents on the WP trac backlog, have it track all steering decisions and see where we land. We sure could get a core committer skill out this 😅 20 Apr 2026
- Apple updates be like “8 new emojis” 1.2GB… 25 Mar 2026
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GitHub kasparsd His open-source work, mostly WordPress plugins.
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- New repomagplay — Torrent client with streaming video playback 19 Oct 2026
- mirror — Mirror of my sites. 19 Oct 2026
- code-prettify — WordPress plugin for automatic code highlighting using the Prettify library. No shortcodes, no classnames, pure awesome. 13 Oct 2026
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- widget-context-wporg — Widget Context for WordPress 10 Oct 2026
- goodshelves — Goodreads bookshelf plugin for WordPress. 20 Jul 2026
- comment-notifications — Notify blog comment authors when their comments are approved 9 Jul 2026
- akordi — Latviešu dziesmu akordi pārskatāmā formātā 22 Jun 2026
- fair-testing 22 May 2026
- besst-reference 21 Dec 2025
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