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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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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”…
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Unexcused Absences
My therapist and I are working on the premise that the things that trigger us are rooted in childhood in some way. My mom passed away earlier this month, and my children attended the funeral. She died on Wednesday evening, and we had her funeral on Monday. They missed school from Friday through Tuesday. We’re…
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Bobbie Kraft, 1944-2025
My mom passed away almost two weeks ago.