Website Update 2026 - Hello, AT Proto
In which I redesign, self-host, and add a bit of federated social content
Kevin Koperski — Latest posts
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How Learning to Fly Helped Save my Life. This is a story about Prostate Cancer.
In 2024, I was learning to fly airplanes, as one does. Jokes aside, it was amazing. And terrifying. Occasionally, while a thousand feet in…
My 2025 EDC Tech Stack
An overview of the technology I carry with me throughout the week.
An Ode to Tad Williams - My latest YouTube Video
It's no secret I'm a fan of Tad Williams, the lauded fantasy and sci-fi author of Memory, Sorrow & Thorn, Otherland, Shadowmarch, The Last…
Building the LEGO Ideas Typewriter
So I've long been fascinated by watching how other people put together LEGO. Not sure why. Maybe I'm looking for some secret productivity…
Covering the Beatles' 'Eight Days a Week' and Recreating the Ed Sullivan Show using Unreal Engine 5
My Daughters and I set about recreating a classic Beatles performance on the Ed Sullivan Show
I re-rolled because i didn't want to be an Isengard orc. Now we're getting somewhere. @middleearth.quest
How Fun.
Welcome to the Middle-earth labeler! 🌟 First, subscribe to the labeler to see roles and items. 🍎 Then, like the labeler to receive your Middle-earth role. You get ONE reroll - unlike and then relike again. 🔮 Finally, follow the labeler to receive item drops and quests and check your messages! ⚔️
Apparently I'm an orc. From Isengard. The most pathetic kind of orc. I may have to appeal. @middleearth.quest
This is a fun project.
inspiredby.social is ready to onboard some users. Please add your inspirations! First app on the atmosphere #atproto Any feedback welcome: UI, product, technical, visual design and new ideas!
Inspired — What inspires people who inspire you?Creating an inspiration graph on the atmosphere.inspiredby.social
I reposted
Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.imaginationlibrary.com
If user A posts a blog on Leaflet, and user B shares the post on bluesky, and a bunch of people Like user B's post, is there any way for user A to see that reaction/reach? Do the blog tools surface it? #atproto
Tried the Pebble ( @repebble.com ) Index 01 today on a walk. Mics picked up everything well. Transcribed accurately on my phone. Pushed notes as markdown to Obsidian. As someone who ideates on walks and hasn't yet found a frictionless capture workflow, I'm thrilled. This is close.
For the first time in 20 years, I don't have a kid starting school this Fall. Maybe I'll buy myself some new clothes and a lunchbox.
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A Broken Amulet
Experiments don't always produce the results we desire. Or, to quote Mythbusters, failure is always an option. Both are valid taglines for my first attempt at an animation studio. Several years ago, I set off on a path with a long time friend to build an animation company. Biggest problem: I had no animation experience. My friend, on the other hand, had spent years working on major animated motion pictures. He'll be the first to tell you he wasn't an animator. He was a lighting expert. But, in
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Knicker von Nickel
Knicker von Nickel had eleven reasons to be miserable and only one to be happy. The first reason mirrored the last. He was miserable simply because he was Knicker von Nickel, and misery was all he knew. The second reason was his face. In his own, well-informed opinion, Knicker von Nickel had the world’s most average face. His cheeks were neither round nor sunken, his eyes neither expressive nor mysterious, his nose neither hooked nor pug nor long nor short. His chin might be the most notable f
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My Daughter and I Drove Across the Country
Watch our adventure from Seattle to Champaign, Illinois.
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Strings
There's a piece of string I play with every time you run away. You know this. It’s not a fancy string. White and tightly rolled, about five inches long, it reminds me of you, and of you and me, and of you and me and a thousand lost opportunities. Remember the lake? Dancing on the beach with water to our ankles. Bonfires dotted the distant shore. Their flames licked the water's surface like the devil’s tentacles come to interrupt our own private rapture. We were well beyond the grasp of demons a
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Going Full Keyboard
Less mouse. More fulfilled me.
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Website Update 2026 - Hello, AT Proto
In which I redesign, self-host, and add a bit of federated social content
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A Fool's Game
A short scene I wrote years go. I don't even remember the secret.
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No More Keys, Please.
I prefer a world without a pocketful of keys.
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The Great Note Migration
I take a lot of random notes. Ideas mostly. Topics I want to write about. Thoughts on books I'm reading. Plans for the future. All the things most of us think about regularly. So I'm not unique here. The common problem many of us face involves keeping track of these notes, linking them, and surfacing them when most beneficial. That's why so many note taking and productivity apps exist, right? I used Evernote back when it launched. I loved it. But it enshittified quickly. I switched to Google K
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How Learning to Fly Helped Save my Life. This is a story about Prostate Cancer.
In 2024, I was learning to fly airplanes, as one does. Jokes aside, it was amazing. And terrifying. Occasionally, while a thousand feet in the air lining up with the runway, I'd have to remind my brain it was real. This wasn't flight simulator. I... me... shy little Kevin Koperski from Illinois... had the controls of an actual airplane, and the ground beneath me was solid and unforgiving. In my late 40s, I still wondered which adult allowed me to do such a thing. Before I could solo, I needed
Streetlamp Media
Streetlamp Media is my personal media production company. We've produced films, shorts, and podcasts. I have big dreams for it, but it's currently in an experimental phase as I learn about media production and the tools creatives might need.
Looking for a Dark Mystery?
My mystery novel, Amontillado, is available wherever you buy books. It's a tale of love and murder, with many an allusion to Edgar Allan Poe.
Amontillado On Sale Now
It’s been a long time coming, from story to script to novel, but Amontillado is now available.
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Here's the story about how I designed the book cover.
The Story of a Startup - From Concept to Covid
In 2016, I co-founded a short term rental company. I served as both Chief Technology Offier and Chief Product Officer and was in charge of design and engineering. We sold that company to Expedia Group in 2018, and we were later shut down during the Covid pandemic. This is that story, told in parts.
ApartmentJet
In which Kevin recounts the tale of his most successful startup to date.
