Kevin Koperski

This year, I've officially become an @obsidian.md convert, I've installed Linux on my desktop for the first time because @reckless.bsky.social said this was the year to do it, and I'm slowly moving my entire online identity to #atproto. Feels good. Exciting times.

Brilliantly hilarious.

Not a fun day at Railway.

I love that song. "And instead I pour the milk..." www.theverge.com/column/10035...

So starts another day of prioritizing poorly. They tend to be the most fun days.

Novel research. Victorian England. #wip #amwriting

This is so much better than my old smelly hat. And while the stats are significantly better with the longbow, the pint of ale remains my favorite weapon to date. I wielded that thing like a pro. @middleearth.quest

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.

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.)

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.

More! More! More!

YouTube thumbnails for the win. Steve Jobs watching that flying Tesla demo.

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?

After more than a year of working out of my dining room, I now once again have a home office. And a whiteboard. And I already feel more productive. I'll probably celebrate this new productivity by scrolling Bluesky and watching YouTube videos.

The crossroads are no longer forgotten. They shall live on in the triumphant performance of "Mordor on Broadway," wherein we orcs belt jovial accounts of our victories to the music of various Gondorian and Rohirrim showtunes.

I'm afraid @attie.ai needs to improve their onboarding. This is where I landed after signing up. Reminds me of the scene in My Cousin Vinnie where the menu says, "Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner."

A good reminder about polls.

Text message political fundraising spam is so broken. I've texted STOP or END to well over 250 phone numbers, but the onslaught never ceases. Same candidates, same messages, different phone numbers. It needs to end.

Looking through the @propstoreauctions.bsky.social auction catalog for The Wheel of Time TV Series just makes me sad. So much potential, gone. #fantasy

Tad Williams ( @tadwilliams.bsky.social ) has a new Osten Ard novel out this week. I highly recommend anything Tad writes. #books #fantasy #fantasybooks #novels #booksky bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I don't mind the Bears losing to Green Bay, but I'm not a fan of them getting embarrassed. Bagent was obviously off today. Should've made the QB switch in the second quarter.

Ingest on the #atproto jetstream is wild.

I'm an Illinois fan. But Michigan State recovered that onside kick, and they were NOT offsides. That just shouldn't happen.

Want money to make your dream game? AT Jam Dole is funding two-week prototypes for unemployed game devs experimenting with #atproto on new titles! 👩‍💻 Selected games will receive cash, review from freelives.net and a festival showcase at playtopia.co.za Apply by Oct 25th: atmosphere.games/jamdole 👈

Claude Code's ability to spit out database diagrams in Obsidian Canvas format might be my favorite feature. I need to visually inspect a database diagram to fully understand and optimize it. I remember, back in the day, printing ten 8.5x11 sheets of paper and taping them together. This is better.

Set up my first repository on @tangled.org . The onboarding was confusing because I didn't understand knots or the need to register one on my profile. Maybe walk users through a knot workflow before letting them create a first repository? Or maybe I'm an anomaly. Wouldn't be the first time. 🤓

I'm an elf bard with a tricorn hat and a cup of coffee. This actually sums up my inability to focus quite well. --- Meet my new character on @rpg.actor. rpg.actor/kk.social

The lease on my Tesla finally ended. When the sales people and dealership asked how I felt about the car, I said, "It's been my favorite car ever. Full stop." They asked why I wasn't getting another. I summed it up, on multiple occasions, with various iterations of, "Elon Musk." And here we are.

Saw @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social at Northwestern University tonight with my daughter on her birthday. Great night. John is a fantastic speaker and genuinely good human. We had a lovely time. Three cheers for books!

I remember when the NFL required definitive proof to overturn a call. I didn't see it on that second Bears TD call. Bad call refs. #chicagobears

25 years ago this morning, the doctor put his arm around me and said, "You're gonna become a father today." It sounded weighty and momentous, and I thought I understood. But I had no idea. And I still can't put it into words. But I wouldn't trade it for anything. The years go fast, people.

Speed AND beauty. You don't deserve us, people of Middle Earth.

This is remarkable and fascinating.

Cheers to Mr Belding! deadline.com/2026/09/denn...

Huge win for the Chicago Bears tonight! Almost makes up for Rohan outlasting Mordor in @middleearth.quest.

11pm on a Friday night and the hot water heater decides it's a good time to start leaking. Fun times.

Serious question. Why do domain prices increase? Does the cost of administering a domain increase for a registrar? Is it purely profit motivated? Security costs? It all FEELS random, but maybe it's regulated?

@middleearth.quest I haven't received a "You found something" DM in two weeks, even though I still receive the battle DMs. Is that normal? Just curious. (Lies. I'm not just curious. I'm a greedy Uruk who wants better gear.) Thanks!

Listen, Google. Take all the nifty phone/app streaming tech in the new Googlebooks and add it to Android XR. The single best use case for streaming a phone interface is in VR. Passthrough isn't bad, but it's not the same. Let me flick my finger and look at my phone screen. That would be awesome.

The new Meta VR glasses look solid, but I just can't buy more Meta products. I love my Quest 3, and Meta has done as much as anyone to further VR/AR tech, but I don't want to support that company anymore. Maybe they'll change one day... Probably not.

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.

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.​

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!

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...

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.

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.

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.