Kevin Koperski — Latest posts

Rendezvous

Sep 5·2 min read

WordsSnippets

Death is not an end to hope, nor is birth the beginning of misery. Life, at all moments, continues the pain of ages past and harbors the hopes of all to come. Thus, as Fate decries on lonesome shorelines, the passing of one vessel in the night need not be dismissed as coincidence if another vessel happens to be near. Life, we’ve established, is not the messenger of accident but the distiller of contrivances into elixirs of pure miracle. And as it works with ships in the night, so too does it wo

A Broken Amulet

Jul 22·5 min read

DoingsBusinessNewsMaking

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

Knicker von Nickel

Jun 16·4 min read

WordsSnippetsShort Story

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

My Daughter and I Drove Across the Country

May 20·1 min read

DoingsLife

Watch our adventure from Seattle to Champaign, Illinois.

Strings

May 18·5 min read

WordsSnippets

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

Going Full Keyboard

May 15·2 min read

DoingsLifeTechnology

Less mouse. More fulfilled me.

Website Update 2026 - Hello, AT Proto

May 11·4 min read

DoingsNewsMaking

In which I redesign, self-host, and add a bit of federated social content

A Fool's Game

May 7·3 min read

WordsSnippets

A short scene I wrote years go. I don't even remember the secret.

No More Keys, Please.

Feb 26·2 min read

ThoughtsLifeTechnology

I prefer a world without a pocketful of keys.

The Great Note Migration

Feb 7·4 min read

ThoughtsTechnology

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