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
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 24: Don't worry whether it will be any good. Whatever it is, write it first. You can always fix it later.
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Clean energy is the cheapest and fastest way to meet rising electricity demand, but the Trump admin is choosing to prop up expensive, polluting fossil fuels instead. Earthjustice is fighting to keep us on a path toward a cleaner, more affordable energy future.
3 Ways We're Keeping Trump from Raising Electricity Bills Further
Earthjustice has won some key victories, including the first court case challenging the Trump administration’s abuse of emergency powers for coal.
earthjustice.org
I think if Google had manufactured their own premium Googlebook, I wouldn't hesitate to buy one. But I've had too many Dell, HP, Lenovo clunkers over the years to trust them or want their branding on my laptop. Maybe we can get a Framework Googlebook!
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NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: Industrial heat without burning fossil fuels? Use cheap renewable electricity to heat cheap materials. Store the heat. Use when needed. It’s already happening: 50+ thermal battery projects have been built worldwide. More here: janrosenow.substack.com/p/thermal-ba...
Thermal batteries aren’t coming. They’re already here.
Half of all operating thermal batteries came online since 2025. Policy, not technology, is now the main constraint.
janrosenow.substack.com
Renewables can improve lives, clean the atmosphere, and eliminate a lot of dependencies and conflict around the world. Glad more Republicans are starting to see that, even if they're motivated mostly by profit instead of a desire to help humanity.
A solar industrial complex is turning Republicans into believers
A Georgia solar-panel factory — and the jobs it provides — is making renewable energy fans out of state Republicans.
politico.com
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If you had to host PDS, Relay, labeler, CDN, client, and an AppView just to run an Atmosphere application, I would never recommend AT Protocol and tell you to find a better stack. But like the Atmosphere solves the cold start problem for having users, it does the same for devs.
📚 This one has been on the TBR list for a long time.
Range Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World • Notes by Kevin Koperski • Popfeed
This one has been on the TBR list for a long time.
popfeed.social
With a pint of ale and a smelly blanket, I don't think I've contributed much to these victories, but I am no less willing to partake in the celebration. Now I've got some arrows, har har har. Stand back.
🗡️ the black-armored ranks of Mordor have beaten back ⚔️ the horse-lords of the Riddermark by a copse of ancient trees. Mordor seizes victory!
Wasn't there supposed to be a media event for Googlebooks tonight? I just read that preorders open Sept 21, but any news before then? I'm an Android user, and I want to believe, but I'm not convinced a Googlebook will meet my use cases any more than a Chromebook. Hard to be convinced with no data.
My first attempt at an Atmospheric blog, throwing it back to 1995, when I built my first website on the internet. The possibility. The potential. That's how I feel about the Atmosphere today.
A Bit of Backstory
Wherein I breathe atmospheric possibility
atmos.pckt.blog
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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.
Kevin Koperski
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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.
