Janis Erdmanis

A time comes when computation is too expensive to run.

Like many, I serve my website with GitHub Pages, greatly reducing the burden.

At a nanoscale at cold sub kelvin temperatures and large magnetic fields, an electron for a few centimetres flows like photons on optical fiber coherently.

Around four years ago, I began exploring electronic voting (e-voting) systems by scratching an itch I had.

Every time when I hear about upcoming elections, I imagine a future where I can vote from anywhere for officials who truly represent our state's interests.

Dropbox offers a great alternative to hosting your own SAMBA server and provides a stable and user-friendly experience, but the space limitations without a subscription plan and being into vendor lock-in led me to the search for alternatives.

In this technical guide, I document my process of building a reliable NVR system using a LePotato board, inexpensive IP cameras, and Frigate software.

A foundation for an electronic voting system could be established through a git-based repository, with contributors possessing merge rights functioning as a governing body.

I lost my interest in making things with Arduino due to an ugly Arduino ide, debugging frustrations and lack of easy options for deploying what I make.

In my master's project, I investigated the behaviour of magnetic fluid droplets formed through induced phase separation under varying magnetic fields.

Superconductors exhibit unique charge transport, leading to intriguing interface phenomena with normal metals.

I remember that after the first month, I promised to make a blog post on my studies here every month.

It was a stressful but successful year.

Inspired by Monero cryptocurrency's transparency and anonymity, I propose a decentralized voting scheme based on universal ring signatures.

I have always kept multiple options available and diversified my activities so that failure in one would not bring me down if it were to occur.

I used to be a Python advocate as having an interpreter, meaningful error messages, docstrings, and easy library installation made the scope of what I could build expand tremendously.

This web page is hosted with Github Pages from my GitHub repository for free.

There is a great difficulty in designing an electronic voting system that combines transparency, user verifiability, anonymity, and resistance against bribery.

The user faced usability issues with the Gmail web application, which led me to explore email client alternatives on Ubuntu like Geary and Nylas1, but those also had limitations and bugs.

I used to spend countless hours to make reading and note-taking experience better with the tools I had, a laptop and Kindle eink reader, but the efforts I was investing made me unsatisfied with the result.

This reflection on the AppBundler project examines its role in simplifying GUI application deployment for Julia, addressing cross-platform challenges and integration with modern sandboxed formats.

About six months ago, I came into difficulties while making a presentation with LibreOffice and started exploring alternatives like LaTeX Beamer and ipe.

For two months this summer, I was part of the CERN summer student program.