About
The (not so) secret lifeline of Aigars Sukurs also known as 130db.
Aigars Sukurs is a software developer and tester who has established four radio stations: Radio 101, Rīga Radio, Pieci, and Radio Nemiers. He has been honored with Jānis Linters' medal, recognizing his contributions to the development of digital radio.
Life
Born in Cēsis, Latvia
School
Experienced DJ-ing with two deck cassette player
School
Started carpenter studies at craft school
School
Experienced first interaction with PC. Tech: Windows 95
School
He attended to tech courses for the first time in life. Tech: Word, Excel, Powerpoint
Life
Founded a rock band Scream (fna Western) with friends. Vocals
Life
He broke his father's nose and left home. They resolved this incident a few weeks later. 'On the day we resolved our conflict, I ended up breaking my schoolmate's nose. Since then, I have actively avoided any involvement in fights'
School
Dropped studies at craft school. Disbanded Scream
Life
First time at the radio station. Radio 3, Cēsis
Life
First IRC experience. 'ASL?' all night long
Life
Started work at Reifeks (car wash attendant), Cēsis, Latvia
Life
Drafted into the army for a year
Work
Started work at Radio 3 (on-air personality)
Life
Fired form Radio 3 for playng too heavy music (Korn, Godsmack, Staind, Machine Head) on-air.
Life
First experience with Flash/ActionScript
Life
Moved to Liepāja, Latvia
Work
Started work at Rietumu Radio (on-air personality)
Work
A long list of first experiences. Server building, LAN configuration, Linux, MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS, Postfix, Icecast, web development, streaming, etc. During those days, he absorbed as much technical knowledge as possible. That is he's golden age of test & trial
Work
Started work at Studio7 (full-stack dev). Tech: HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL
Life
Moved to Riga, Latvia
Work
Started work at Bulterjers advertising company (front-end dev, Flash dev). Tech: CSS, PHP, Flash/ActionScript
Work
Started work at Radio SWH Rock (on-air personality). After becoming fascinated with RCS, a radio automation system, he read its manual cover to cover. This helped him to transition from an on-air personality to a technical officer. Tech: RCS Sound Software.
Life
Discovered world of torrents and Scene. Tech: rtorrent, IRC, EAC (Exact Audio Copy)
Life
Met hes future wife, friend, and mother of four *dragons*. In 2021, she will become an excellent rock & metal DJ, by the way
Work
Started work at Grafton/Tvnet (front-end dev). Tech: CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Postgres, Linux, GIT
Life
Father of one 🤘
Work
Started work at Radio 101 (technical officer). Implemented audio and video web streaming. Wrote stream splitter plugin for Wowza. Wrote custom metadata extracter from RCS to feed multiple destinations with data. Created Latvian Dvorak keyboard layout for Mac and PC. Climbed multiple radio towers. Etc. Tech: RCS Sound Software, Wowza, OpenBSD, Qt, Perl, Java, PHP, Python
Work
Started work at Rīga Radio (technical officer). Tech: RCS Sound Software
Project
Launched Latvijas Radio 5 - Pieci.lv as an internet-only radio station. Wrote first Latvijas Radio 5 API. Integrated RCS Zetta and RCS GSelector into LR5 workflow. Tech: Liquidsoap, PHP, Python, RCS Sound Software
Life
Got married for the second time in my life
Work
Started work at Latvijas Radio (technical officer). Tech: RCS Zetta, RCS GSelector, Linux, Python
DJ
Started professional DJ career as DJ 130db. First club: Omas Briljants
Life
Father of two 🤘
DJ
Started using turntables for DJ-ing
Life
Father of three 🤘
Life
Got a driver's license
DJ
Started to play DJ sets all over the country 3x times a week
Life
Lost hes tonsils
Life
Father of four 🤘
Project
Launched Radio Nemiers. Modern rock, metal, and alternative radio inspired by former Radio Wazee. Tech: RadioDJ, Icecast, FFMPEG, Python, MQTT, React
DJ
Fully transitioned to rock and metal only DJ
Life
Moved to Dole Island, Latvia
Project
Got into the crypto space. Mining and IoT. Tech: Ethereum, Helium
Project
Wrote personal crypto grid trading bot. It sucked at keeping earnings ... Tech: Bitcoin, Binance, Node
Life
Got vaccinated against COVID
Life
Moved to Riga, Latvia
Project
Launched Cake Cutters LLC and installed IoT routers at two local towers, including heights of 225m and 135m, as well as several other high locations. He converted all of the indoor IoT routers (using technologies such as RAK, Linxdot, Bobcat, and Syncrob.it) into outdoor devices. Although the project was enjoyable to work on, it was not successful financially.
Life
Got COVID I
Life
*From this day on I own my father's gun ...*
Work
Launched Latvijas Radio app (technical project manager). Tech: Swift, Java, MQTT, Python, Docker, Postgres
Project
Rewrote personal crypto grid trading bot. Improved logic. It works profitably. Tech: Bitcoin, Binance, Node
Work
Rewrote Latvijas Radio 2 and Latvijas Radio 5 SMS gateway client. Tech: Go, Makefile, Systemd
Life
Divorce... is the black hole of life and there is no life in that hole. Embrace the impact
Life
First stage dive. [**Turnstile**](https://turnstilehardcore.com). Astra Kulturhaus, Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
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Stage diving like a mad man at PND. Festival Laba Daba
Life
Got COVID II
Work
IBC 2022. Amestrdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱
DJ
Started VDJ-ing at Nemiers. Tech: DaVinci Resolve, Serato DJ Pro, MixEmergency
Life
Migrated Dod Pieci's search functionality from MySQL's full-text search to the Typesense search engine. Technologies used: Linux, Typesense.
Work
Rewrote the Latvijas Radio 5 web player using React/NextJS, MQTT, and Python.
Work
Launched the Latvijas Radio app for Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and Android Automotive as a technical project manager. Conducted extensive testing on cars, emulators, and a custom-built Android Automotive tablet. Technologies involved: Swift, Java, LineageOS, Snapp Automotive.
Project
Took over social media management for Nemiers.
Project
Started working on his social media profile: X/AigarsSukurs.
Project
Started Dev Latvia community on X.
DJ
Last gig as a professional DJ. From now on I play only on special occasions.
Life
With the end of Nemiers (bar) ends a whole chapter of my life.
Project
Become the owner of Radio Nemiers, a radio station I built, managed, and cherished for years.
Project
Launched Radio Nemiers v2.0. Moved Radio Nemiers to a new physical location, separated Radio Nemiers from Nemiers, and moved the site to a new domain. Added donation options to the website for community support. Replaced the MQTT server and sound processing. Implemented numerous automations in the daily workflow.
Life
Left Riga to live in the countryside.
Work
Experimenting with SwiftUI, mostly on POC projects. Forcing myself to practice test-driven development by writing and adding unit and integration tests to both old and new projects.
Life
Realized that all the trauma and post-divorce struggles have faded away. I am living my best life on my own. It took a very long time to disconnect from the past and move on, but I did it. Happiness is within ourselves.
Life
My ankle is finally healed after hard fall in April. Back to slooooow running 🏃♂️➡️
Work
Released tool called: Bitcoin profit/loss calculator. It calculates investment profit/loss using Binance's past data. It is quite useful tool to see how DCA (dollar-cost average) affects investments.
Work
Closed deal with customer that came out of nowhere - follower on social media.
Work
Experimenting with AI agents using tools like VoiceFlow, Agentive, Make, AirTable, and ChatGPT.