Website Update 2026 - Hello, AT Proto
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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 thought I saw someone building a white label PDS hosting service for #atproto apps that didn't want the hassle of building/managing their own. Was I imagining that? Can't seem to find it.
Deadwood is easily one of the best shows ever made. From dialogue to subtext to grit to cinematography to costume and set design... It may not be for everyone, but that's their loss.
HBO’s ‘Deadwood’ Officially Finds New Life 22 Years Later
One of the greatest Western series ever made, Deadwood, has had a resurgence on the PVOD charts. Find out more.
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This morning I'm revisiting my #wip novel for the first time in about five years. My notes are more thorough than I remember. I still love the idea. And I'm far more excited about it than I was yesterday. That's delightful progress. #amwriting
I'm still at the stage of trying to make sense of #atproto for myself as well as people around me. This post is an attempt to think up a relevant analogy to help the process. It's rough. Go easy on me. (I wasn't going to post it, because it needs more thought, but this a blog, not a research paper.)
Welcome to the Atmosphere. Here's a Free Suitcase!
So you want a free suitcase? I thought so. Who doesn't? And I will give you one. Or, more accurately, I will tell you about the suitcase you may already own. But first, please settle in for some silliness. Over the past year, I've developed a true appreciation for AT Protocol. Consider me converted. To understand why, here's A Bit of Backstory. But every time I try to explain why the Atmosphere excites me, I come up short. Most of my family and friends are not super technical. They're passive so...
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It's been a few years, but tonight I'm reviving my annual autumn Deadwood rewatch. Pour the whiskey!
@svenbeckert.bsky.social Took me a while, but I finished Capitalism: A Global History this morning. What an achievement! (The writing, not the reading.) I learned an enormous amount and have so much to consider. Thank you for delivering such an important book to the world.
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Atmosphere update: atproto apps are growing 20% month over month, and last week we passed 1,000 daily active apps.
Is it weird that the minute Google is forced by courts to allow other app stores in the Play Store, Amazon abandons their own app store and releases tablets with Google Play access? Google must have paid them a fortune, right? Is there another explanation?
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Rendezvous
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
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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
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.
