🏳️Hyperborea: Kelson Vibber

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Personal website of a programmer and sci-fi/comics fan from Southern California: creative writing, photography, humor, and fan activities.

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Hyperborea: Kelson Vibber

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

What’s on Here?

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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](https://kvibber.com), but most of my actual stuff is here, including...

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### Latest

*   Mar 13: [Waterfox](https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/waterfox/)

*   Mar 12: [Kristall (Gemini client)](https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/kristall/)

*   Mar 11: [Geopard (Gemini client)](https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/geopard/)

*   Mar 10: [NetSurf](https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/netsurf/)

*   Mar 07: [LibreWolf](https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/librewolf/)

**[K2 Ramblings](journal/)**, 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](tech-tips/)**, a collection of computer problems I've run into and how I solved them (or how I found the solutions).

**[Reviews](reviews/)** of books, movies, software, etc.

### Creativity

*   [Short stories and poetry](writing/)

*   [Scenic photos from the 1990s](photos/). I have [tons more photos on Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/).

*   [The Music Hall](midi/) - MIDI files I put together from madrigals so I could use them for choir practice

### Fandom

*   [Re-Reading Les Misérables](les-mis/) - A blog in which I comment on the novel and review various adaptations.

*   [Flash: Those Who Ride the Lightning](flash/) - 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](https://speedforce.org/) blog spun out of it, and is still going.)

*   [Fan Convention Reports & Photos](cons.html)

### Humor

*   [Humor Files](humor/) Funny quotes and other random amusements collected from 1998-2005.

*   [Googolplex Theaters](googolplex-theaters/) - a 2005 April Fool’s joke that seems more plausible now than it did at the time.

[**My Gemini Capsule**](gemini://hyperborea.org/) contains a subset of this website in [Gemini](https://geminiprotocol.net/), an ultra-light protocol and format that’s somewhere between Gopher and a minimalist Web. For surfing the "smol internet" I recommend [Lagrange](https://git.skyjake.fi/skyjake/lagrange) on Windows, macOS and Linux, [Amfora](https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora) for terminal access, [Seren](https://orllewin.uk/) on Android, and [Elaho](https://apps.apple.com/app/id1514950389) on iOS.

I have a bunch of articles from my [Web Advocacy](web-advocacy.html) days. And in case you’re wondering: [What the heck is a Hyperborea?](whatisit.html)

Where You May Find Me

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*   [GoToSocial: @[email protected]](https://notes.kvibber.com/@kelson) (microblogging, kind of like Twitter, compatible with Mastodon)

*   [Flickr: KelsonV](https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/) (TONS of scenic photos, oddities, and pictures from fan conventions.)

*   [PixelFed: @KelsonV](https://pixelfed.social/KelsonV) (Photo stream like Instagram)

I’m an active contributor to [iNaturalist](https://www.inaturalist.org/) and [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/). And yes, you can find me on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kvibber). (I no longer use Twitter/X, Facebook or Instagram, and I'm not on Threads either.) And occasionally I sell stuff on [eBay](http://www.ebay.com/usr/kvibber).