Hyperborea: Kelson Vibber

Techie, software developer, hobbyist photographer, sci-fi/fantasy & comics fan in the Los Angeles area. He/him.

What’s on Here?

This has been my main personal website for ages, and it’s grown weirdly over the years. I have a more focused IndieWeb-style page at KVibber.com, but most of my actual stuff is here, including...

K² Ramblings, my personal blog covering a wide range of topics in technology, entertainment, and everyday life. (In theory it’s a shared family blog, but I’m the main one who posts there these days.)

Tech Tips, Troubleshooting and How-Tos, a collection of computer problems I've run into and how I solved them (or how I found the solutions).

Reviews of books, movies, software, etc.

Creativity

• Short stories and poetry
• Scenic photos from the 1990s. I have tons more photos on Flickr.
• The Music Hall - MIDI files I put together from madrigals so I could use them for choir practice

Fandom

• Re-Reading Les Misérables - A blog in which I comment on the novel and review various adaptations.
• 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. (The Speed Force blog spun out of it, and is still going.)
• Fan Convention Reports & Photos

Humor

• Humor Files Funny quotes and other random amusements collected from 1998-2005.
• Googolplex Theaters - a 2005 April Fool’s joke that seems more plausible now than it did at the time.

My Gemini Capsule contains a subset of this website in Gemini, an ultra-light protocol and format that’s somewhere between Gopher and a minimalist Web. For surfing the "smol internet" I recommend Lagrange on both desktop and mobile devices and Amfora for terminal access. Buran's a close second on Android.

I have a bunch of articles from my Web Advocacy days. And in case you’re wondering: What the heck is a Hyperborea?

Where You May Find Me

• GoToSocial: @kelson@notes.kvibber.com (microblogging, kind of like Twitter, compatible with Mastodon)
• Flickr: KelsonV (TONS of scenic photos, oddities, and pictures from fan conventions.)

I’m an active contributor to iNaturalist and OpenStreetMap. And yes, you can find me on LinkedIn. (I no longer use Twitter/X, Facebook or Instagram, and I'm not on Threads either.) And occasionally I sell stuff on eBay.