My life is an open-source book.
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B.A., Sociology with a minor in Science, Technology, and Society, 2010, The University of Texas at Austin
M.B.A., Business Analytics, 2024, Midwestern State University (TX)
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Go Forth, Christian Soul
A year after my mother’s death, an attempt to write about the liturgy that walked her out of this life and about the part of it I still can’t quite believe
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Morning View
Not a bad view with your morning coffee.
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Remembering Loss
Today is the 5th anniversary of losing a friend and mentor. Toward the end of her life, we interacted far less than when we shared a wall in the office. When we worked together, it was a quiet joy of the job to share our morning coffee and catch up, touch base on the day…
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Press This 2.0.2: Major Bug Fixes and Improvements
A bug fix release for Press This went out and I forgot to post about it… The biggest fix: saving posts that contained external images was throwing a critical error through the REST API. That’s gone now. Also fixed is an annoying one where scraped media was getting inserted at the bottom of the post…
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Introducing FediBoost
A few months ago, I turned on the ActivityPub plugin for this site. I loved it—my blog became followable from Mastodon, posts federated out automatically, and people could reply to my posts from their own instances. This is what indieweb is all about. But something bugged me. My posts were federating from my site’s identity—@kraft@kraft.blog—which…
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Press This + Gutenberg = ❤️
Almost a decade ago, I helped rebuild Press This for WordPress 4.2. It was one of my favorite contributions—a tool that embodied what I love about WordPress: making publishing frictionless. Select some text, click a bookmarklet, and you’re blogging. I even wrote Press This Extended to add the customization options that the “Decisions, Not Options”…