About me
I'm Kenson.
I am a developer, community owner, streamer, dinosaur nerd, and the kind of person who can spend way too long tweaking a feature because one tiny part of it feels wrong.
Most of what I build starts with one of two thoughts:
"Why does this need to be so complicated?"
or:
"I could probably make a version of this that fits me better."
That is more or less how Pryven happened.
I like software that respects people
A lot of modern software assumes everything should live in the cloud, every useful feature should require an account, and every app should eventually become a subscription.
I do not really like that direction.
For my own projects, I try to lean toward:
- offline-first design where it makes sense;
- local data instead of automatically sending everything somewhere else;
- accessibility as part of the actual product, not an afterthought;
- useful free versions;
- one-time purchases for features that do not actually require an ongoing service;
- subscriptions mainly when there is a real ongoing cost, like cloud sync.
Basically, I want software to feel like something you own and use — not something that is constantly trying to upsell you.
Dinosaurs are absolutely going to sneak into things
I have been into dinosaurs for a long time.
I am not going to pretend I am a paleontologist, because I am definitely not, but I enjoy learning about prehistoric life and sharing that interest with other people.
That is a big part of why Mesozoic Haven exists.
It also means you may occasionally notice a slightly Jurassic-looking heading, a fossil joke, or some other dinosaur-adjacent detail around this site.
I promise I am showing restraint.
Probably.
What I do
My main projects right now are:
- Pryven — privacy-friendly productivity software;
- Mesozoic Haven — my dinosaur and prehistoric-life community;
- Kenson Labs — experiments and smaller projects that do not need their own giant website.
This site ties all of that together.