Kelson Vibber

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Yep, it's a personal website!

I've had my own site since the 1990s, jumping from various school-related and AOL pages to my first domain name, Hyperborea.org, back in 2000. Some highlights:

• Reviews of books, movies, software and more. Book reviews are also mostly cross-posted to Bookwyrm at @KelsonReads.
• Tech Tips and Troubleshooting articles I've written over the years when some problem just vexes me and I figured someone else might want to know how I eventually fixed it.
• Re-Reading Les Misérables - extensive commentary on the two versions I've read, along with reviews of various movie, TV and other adaptations.
• K-Squared Ramblings, my personal blog covering a wide range of topics in technology, entertainment, and everyday life since 2002. (In theory it’s a shared family blog, but I’m the main one who posts there these days.) Currently running on ClassicPress.
• Linkblog powered by Postmarks, so you can follow it on the Fediverse.

Some older stuff I haven't really updated in a while:

• Creative Writing - short stories and a few poems from back when I thought I wanted to do that sort of thing, plus some fanfic and filk.
• Scenic Photos - these days I tend to post to @kelson_photos on the Fediverse and my extensive Flickr gallery.
• Flash: Those Who Ride the Lightning - Fan reference site for DC Comics’ speedsters, their enemies, and supporting cast up through 2011, when I ran out of free time to maintain it.
• Madrigal MIDI from when I used to sequence the songs we were singing in choir to help me practice.

Where else?

• I actively contribute to iNaturalist and OpenStreetMap.
• Mastodon/Fediverse: @kelson@notes.kvibber.com is my main account, and I post photos at @kelson_photos. They're both running GoToSocial.
  Some of my older accounts are still up, but dormant.

  @KelsonV@Wandering.shop was my previous main Mastodon account, @KelsonV@photog.social is where I used to post the "good" photos, and @KelsonV@Pixelfed.social for the casual ones. And now that I think about it I haven't really used @KelsonV@lemmy.world in a while.
• Codeberg is where I prefer to publish the handful of open-source tools I've released. (Yeah, I write software for a living, but the stuff for work is proprietary and most of the stuff I write for myself is specific to my own use case.)
• Bluesky: occasionally at @kvibber.com.
• I have a Gemini Capsule.
• Speed Force is a comics fan blog following the Flash. Still running (no pun intended), but I don’t write much for it anymore.

I've mostly moved away from the more "mainstream" social networks. I'm technically still on LinkedIn, but I no longer use Facebook, Instagram or Twitter/X, haven't been on Reddit in ages, and I'm not on Threads or TikTok.