Brandon Kraft
Brandon Kraft
@kraft@kraft.blog

My life is an open-source book.

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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)

  • 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…

  • Someone Going To Emergency

    As a freelancer, one of the most stressful parts of the job is the lack of a safety net. When life happens, there is no one else in the office to take on a little more work to keep projects flowing through the pipeline. Support requests are delayed. Deadlines are impacted. This weekend, the biggest…

  • Genesis eNews Extended v1.1 Released

    Version 1.1 of Genesis eNews Extended went out today with two features that will help you better customize your widget.

  • Book Review – Redemption

    I recently read Redemption: A Rebellious Spirit, a Praying Mother, and the Unlikely Path to Olympic Gold by Bryan Clay, which struck me in light of Lance Armstrong and, to a point, the Manti Te’o girlfriend developments. Clay is a gold-medal decathlete, winning in Bejing in 2008 and released this autobiography prior to his 2012 Olympic attempt.…

  • I’ve Made WordPress Better (And You Can Too!)

    I did it. WordPress, as many of you know, is an open-source project. The WordPress community maintains it. Anyone can report a bug directly into the development tracking tool (Trac), anyone can submit a patch. It’s great. I’ve been wanting to contribute to core (as the “core” WordPress software is known, as opposed to plugins,…

  • Genesis eNews 0.1.6 and Genesis Minimum Images Extended

    Two new releases in the plugin department. I released Genesis eNews Extended 0.1.6 over the weekend. This enables, for all users, the ability to add fields for first or last name. If you downloaded the beta version (0.2-beta1 or similar) there are no changes. I downgraded the version number as my roadmap for 0.2 was…