Keith Kurson

personal account for internet sensation keith kurson 🏡 oakland, ca 📥 Software dev helping states respond to HR1 (2025) Prev: Fastly, Glitch, Nava, built the websites you love/hate https://pollen.place/@keithlaugh.love https://keith.is he/him

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your app can run its own pds

5d ago·6 min read·1051 words

ask me anything: private data on pollen.place

pollen just got an AMA feature, and it works differently from everything else on the site. everything else — posts, reblogs, follows, reactions — is written directly to your PDS.

Apr 13·5 min read·845 words

the media problem

right now you can upload blobs to the PDS with no limitations. that'll have to change some day

Feb 2·5 min read·963 words

third-party apis: community infrastructure on atproto

you can just build things from an open set of tools

Feb 1·4 min read·648 words

labels: content moderation that doesn't suck

not saying that it's perfect (it's not)

Jan 29·3 min read·535 words

Building LinkRing

Building a "link in bio" & webring builder in a day

Jan 7·6 min read·1072 words

advent of code: day 1

the elves have already caused too much chaos in my life

Dec 2·2 min read·297 words