Author: Brandon Kraft
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Meetup Opening
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Kickstarter is Throwing Away Your Money
When you back a project on Kickstarter, you might as well think of it as throwing your money away. With the latest chatter about Pressgram, which ink spilled elsewhere is sufficient, one simplistic summary is some folks expected one thing and the end result delivered another. I’m a Kickstarter fan. I’ve backed numerous projects (though,…
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WordPress Bag
One perk of working for Automattic is a WordPress-branded Timbuk2 bag.
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Portland
Portland is a beautiful city with a great feel.
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Automattically Kraft
I’m proud to announce that, as of today, I am now working full-time for Automattic, the makers of WordPress.com, the Jetpack plugin for WordPress.org sites, Akismet, Gravatar, and more, as well as a major contributor to the self-hosted WordPress.org software and related open-source projects. I can’t begin to express my excitement about joining the team…
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Why I Show Pictures Of My Kids
Have you ever prepared a post on a topic, then in the time between you wrote it and had it scheduled to publish, an authority in your world published a post on almost the same topic and do it better than you? That was me with this post. I wrote this originally on May 23rd…