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)

  • Gratitude

    Over the weekend, Olivia went to the hospital. Like her previous hospital admit, she had an asthma attack at home we couldn’t get under control so we went to Dell Children’s Medical Center’s ER. Like last time, she needed to more medicine than we could administer to her at home so she was admitted. Four…

  • Christmas Food

    I was doing pretty good on eating semi-decently over the holidays so far. Christmas Day…not so much. Need a food vacation to recover from today.

  • The Toy Aisle

    In the final days before Christmas, I found myself in Target on a late-night hunt for a few last presents for the kiddos. It has been a long time since I’ve been in the toy section of any store, much less alone in one without any kids. The last few times I’ve been in the…

  • Spam Everywhere

    I logged into Google Analytics for a site that I never touch anymore with no real traffic. The dashboard with the browser languages of my visitors was quite depressing.

  • New WiFi

    I swapped my old WiFi access points that never really worked that well together for a pair of Google WiFi mesh network APs. No complaints so far. I always anticipate WiFi connection issues will hit at some point, so I named the primary network “xmlrpc”. The guest network is welcometomy.casa, which, you guessed it, is…

  • Mueller: Kitty Hawk of Self-Driving Cars

    Google announced this week that it spun off their self-driving car division into a new company within the Alphabet umbrella, Waymo. With the announcement, they also announced that they completed the first driverless event on a public roadway—transporting a blind gentleman alone in the car—in 2015 in my neighborhood. I’ve enjoyed our little Google Waymo friends…