Brandon Kraft
Brandon Kraft
@kraft@kraft.blog

My life is an open-source book.

1,483 posts
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Blog

kraft.blog

Home Base

Austin, TX

Education

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)

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Genesis eNews Extended 1.3 Released

    The latest and greatest version of Genesis eNews Extended has been pushed to the WordPress.org repo.This release adds two primary new features: Genesis 2.0/HTML 5 support and “userproofing” the Feedburner field. Genesis 2.0 and HTML 5 The next version of Genesis is in beta now, which means it’ll be released soon (likely around the same…

  • @chriswiegman at WordCampATX

    Liveblog on moving sites and managing domains.

  • Dorian Speed at WordCampATX

    A liveblog of Dorian’s talk on collaborative website.

  • Why Not Open Source?

    In the WordPress world, a recent piece of news is WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg cancelling his $10,000 Kickstarter pledge for Pressgram, an Instagram-style iOS app that would allow you to save your photos to a WordPress blog (that you own and control) instead of a third-party service that you don’t. Matt cancelled his pledge because…