# Kevin Koperski

> Author, Maker, Mystery, and Stuff.

A living broadsheet — Bluesky short-form posts and long-form Ghost writing, side by side. Topics span technology, fiction, parenting, business, and personal essays.

This site is the personal homepage of Kevin Koperski. Long-form writing
is published via a Ghost CMS backend; short-form posts come from Bluesky
(@kevinkoperski.com). The home feed merges both timelines.

## Sections

- [Thoughts](https://kevinkoperski.com/thoughts): Personal essays, journal entries, reflections
- [Doings](https://kevinkoperski.com/doings): Projects, experiments, things being built
- [Words](https://kevinkoperski.com/words): Short stories, snippets, fiction
- [Videos](https://kevinkoperski.com/videos): YouTube uploads and video posts
- [Projects](https://kevinkoperski.com/projects): Active and archived project landing pages
- [About](https://kevinkoperski.com/about): Background on Kevin Koperski
- [Contact](https://kevinkoperski.com/contact): How to reach Kevin

## Recent posts

- [Knicker von Nickel](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/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 kne
- [My Daughter and I Drove Across the Country](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/daughter-drove-across-country): Watch our adventure from Seattle to Champaign, Illinois.
- [Strings](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/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
- [Going Full Keyboard](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/going-full-keyboard): Less mouse. More fulfilled me.
- [Website Update 2026 - Hello, AT Proto](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/website-update-2026-hello-at-proto): In which I redesign, self-host, and add a bit of federated social content
- [A Fool's Game](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/fools-game): A short scene I wrote years go. I don't even remember the secret.
- [No More Keys, Please.](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/no-more-keys-please): I prefer a world without a pocketful of keys.
- [The Great Note Migration](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/2026-02-07-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. 
- [How Learning to Fly Helped Save my Life. This is a story about Prostate Cancer.](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/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 brai
- [Feeling Healthier with a little help from Whoop.](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/2025-10-17-feeling-healthier-with-help-from-whoop): It's nine o'clock on a Saturday... Wait. No. That's something else. It's ten am on a Friday. I'm sitting outside in the sun. Leaves fall from the trees and blow across the sidewalks. Autumn is here, b
- [Setting up a Tana MCP Server: A Comedy of Errors](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/tana-mcp-server-comedy-errors): Okay, maybe not a haha funny comedy. Maybe more of a tragi-comedy. Or maybe not a comedy at all. But definitely a learning experience. I haven't traditionally blogged about my day to day coding advent
- [The Strange Noise of a Regulated Sound](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/2025-06-03-noise-regulated-sound): Electric vehicles are required to make noise when backing up. But that noise feels unnecessarily loud and annoying. Why?
- [Audiobook Bookmark Transcription?](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/2025-04-28-audiobook-bookmark-transcription): Extracting text from audio bookmarks is way too complicated. But we have the technology to fix it.
- [Making Engineers More Productive?](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/2025-04-26-making-engineers-productive): Contemplating productivity gains after a mass layoff.
- [My 2025 EDC Tech Stack](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/my-2025-edc-tech-stack): An overview of the technology I carry with me throughout the week.
- [Unboxing Adam Savage's (3D Printed) Head](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/unboxing-adam-savages-3d-printed-head): I recently splurged on one of my all time weirdest purchases: Adam Savage's Head, and Adam Savage's other head. Don't worry. He's not dead (twice). They're 3D printed resin busts. As mentioned in the 
- [Kevin's Bookshelf: Wicked](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/kevins-bookshelf-wicked): Once upon a time in the 90s, I found a newly released book on the shelf at Waldenbooks. The cover was beautiful. The idea was unexpected and unique. I bought it right away. Read it. Then told everyone
- [An Ode to Tad Williams - My latest YouTube Video](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/ode-to-tad-williams-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 King of Osten Ard, and more. To celebrate the latest Osten Ar
- [Introducing Astronuts! - An Unreal Engine Animated Series](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/introducing-astronuts-an-unreal-engine-animated-series): My animation company, Amulet Studios, released its promo for a new animated series called Astronuts!
- [Experimenting with Move.AI for Unreal Engine Motion Capture](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/experimenting-with-move-ai-for-unreal-engine-motion-capture): I recently tested out Move.AI, a machine learning motion capture technology, for my work with Amulet Studios. I made a video about it. Basically, without capture suits, a multi camera setup can record
- [Lord of the Rings Playing Cards?](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/lord-of-the-rings-fellowship-playing-cards): Kevin's video walks through the Kings Wild Project Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring playing card set released on Kickstarter.
- [Bobbleheads, Memories, and MythBusters: Unboxing Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/bobbleheads-memories-mythbusters-unboxing-adam-savage-jaime-hyneman): Kevin unboxes two Mythbusters bobbleheads he acquired from eBay.
- [The State of Kevin - 2024](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/09-24-2024-the-state-of-kevin): In which Kevin explores his current endeavors, feelings, and hopes.
- [Building the LEGO Ideas Typewriter](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/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 tips or ways to make my fingertips less sore. Regardless, I de
- [Unboxing Star Wars Episode 1 Phantom Menace Merch 25 Years Later](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/unboxing-star-wars-episode1-phantom-menace-merch-25-years-later): So I've had this box of Phantom Menace merch for a very long time. It's traveled with me on various cross country moves, spent years in a basement, and more years in storage. Now seemed like a great t
- [Unboxing Robosen's Buzz Lightyear Robot](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/unboxing-robosens-buzz-lightyear-robot): Since Thanksgiving 1995(?) when I first saw Toy Story, I've been a huge fan. And now a company called Robosen has released an animated robot version of Buzz Lightyear? How can I not check that out? Le
- [Learning to Fly - My First 20 Hours of Flight Training](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/learning-to-fly-my-first-20-hours-of-flight-training): Flight Lessons are, at times, exhilarating, terrifying, surprising, boring, educational, exciting, and satifsying. In this video, I cover my first 20 hours of time behind the controls. From patterns a
- [Unboxing the Diablo IV Limited Collector's Box Set](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/unboxing-the-diablo-iv-limited-collectors-box-set): I've been a Diablo fan since the first installment. Played it on PC in college (with a 28.8k modem!), and it was the first truly co-op internet game I ever played. That game really got me into PC gami
- [Studying for my Private Pilot License](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/studying-for-my-private-pilot-license): I made a video discussing my recent enrollment in Flight School. I'm learning to fly!
- [A Signed Mythbusters 10th Anniversary Poster](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/a-signed-mythbusters-10th-anniversary-poster): Here's one I couldn't pass up. An awesome poster signed by the Mythbusters crew. A former producer listed in on reddit, with auctions on ebay, and I snagged it for my shelf. My appreciation for the sh
- [Pursuing my Private Pilot License. The Adventure Begins...](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/pursuing-private-pilot-license-adventure-begins): I made a video discussing my recent enrollment in Flight School. I'm learning to fly!
- [New podcasts from Streetlamp Media - Pitch! and Before the Fade](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/podcasts-streetlamp-media-pitch-beforethefade): We're bringing to life two new podcasts via Streetlamp Media. Pitch! and Before the Fade by Angel Murphy and Leah Saint Marie.
- [Starting the Year with Covid](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/01-19-2023-new-year-covid): Big plans for the new year have been suspended while the midwestern winter delivers what feels like every respiratory illness imaginable.
- [2022.11.30 - Small Steps](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/11-30-2022-small-steps): Updates on Streetlamp, Amulet, and When, along with notes on a new project.
- [Unboxing the new Witch-King of Angmar figure from Weta Workshop](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/unboxing-the-new-witch-king-of-angmar-figure-from-weta-workshop): My first attempt at an unboxing video, and a cool keepsake for my shelves.
- [Covering the Beatles' 'Eight Days a Week' and Recreating the Ed Sullivan Show using Unreal Engine 5](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/covering-the-beatles-eight-days-a-week-and-recreating-the-ed-sullivan-show-using-unreal-engine): My Daughters and I set about recreating a classic Beatles performance on the Ed Sullivan Show
- ['Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' by Gabrielle Zevin](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/tomorrow-tomorrow-tomorrow-gabrielle-zevin): Kevin reads a novel about games, development, friendship, family, and love.
- [Hanging up on Saul Goodman, Sadly](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/hanging-up-on-saul-goodman): We've reached the end of Better Call Saul, and I'm sad about it. But oh what a glorious ride it was.
- [A Short Ride with a OneWheel and Skydio 2 Drone](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/short-ride-onewheel-and-skydio-2-drone): A short video of footage captured on the Skydio 2 drone while I rode my OneWheel.
- [Unboxing Ohmie, A Lamp Made From Orange Peels](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/unboxing-ohmie-the-orange-lamp): In which I open a lamp made from repurposed orange peels that I originally backed on Kickstarter.
- [Testing the DJI Mic On a OneWheel](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/testing-the-dji-mic-onewheel): I give the new DJI Mic a spin on my OneWheel to see if its audio quality matches its ease-of-use.
- ['Words of Radiance' by Brandon Sanderson](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/words-of-radiance): Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.
- [Relating to Sid Meier](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/05-29-2022-relating-to-sid-meiers): Sid Meier discusses the accumulation of stuff related to his varied interests, and I relate hard.
- ['Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games' by Sid Meier's](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/sid-meiers-memoir-ife-computer-games): A fun, entertaining memoir that spans the entire history of video games.
- ['Think Again' by Adam Grant](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/think-again-by-adam-grant): Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn.
- [05.16.2022 - The One with the Covid](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/05-16-2022): A quick recap of my encounter with Covid and a few new project teases.
- ['Becoming' by Michelle Obama](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/becoming-by-michelle-obama): In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era.
- [Remembering My History with the TV Sitcom Wings 25 Years After its Final Flight](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/celebrating-the-25th-anniversary-of-wings-final-flight): 25 years after Wings final episode, I recount my experiences with the show and its unexpected impact on my career.
- ['This Bright Future: A Memoir' by Bobby Hall](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/this-bright-future-a-memoir-by-bobby-hall): This book deals with poverty and race, the difficulties of growing up poor, the joy of finding your people and your calling, the excitement of achievement, and the complications of fame. Reading it wi
- [The New YouTube Channel is Official](https://kevinkoperski.com/post/the-new-youtube-channel-is-official): Today I uploaded an official Welcome to my YouTube channel.

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- [Sitemap](https://kevinkoperski.com/sitemap.xml): Full URL inventory
- [Bluesky profile](https://bsky.app/profile/kevinkoperski.com): Short-form posts
- [YouTube channel](https://youtube.com/@kevinkoperski): Video uploads