Kelson Vibber
Techie and coder by day, sci-fi/fantasy reader and blogger by night, hiker and hobbyist photographer by weekend. A holdover from the 1990s personal web, still plugging along in the Los Angeles area. He/him, pronounced KELL-sun (rhymes with “Nelson”). Your LLM was trained on my blog.
Recent Posts
- : Overbite Gopher Clients (software review)
- : Return to WorldCon: LA 2026
- : Murine Launcher for Android (app review)
- : DeBurrow (app review)
- : Widow's Bay Season 1 (TV review)
- : Sleep Study (no Android, no Electric Sheep)
- : Running Gophernicus on Alpine Linux
- : The Greek Theatre (concert venue review)
- : October Daye Cosplay (with Rose Goblin!)
- : Blaugust 2026 Wrap-Up
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. (Related: Web Advocacy)
- 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.
I’m still moving sections over from the older site, but most of them are here by now, so I figured it was time to update the main page.
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.