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)

  • Uninstalling Twitter

    Uninstalling Twitter from my phone for the last week has been a surreal experience. It has been a primary news sourcing method and a primary communication vehicle for years. I’ve wanted to check my phone often to see what’s going on, but not nearly as interesting nor updated as often as before.  

  • President Trump

    This isn’t what I was expecting. There was no way Trump would win. He’s not going to win the primary. He did? He’s not going to win the general. But, he did. I’m not sure how to proceed. If I lived in a vacuum and “Clinton” and “Trump” were just random names, I would say…

  • Happy Anniversary to Me!

    I would have never guessed nine years ago that trying out this WordPress thing would end up like this. From toying a bit when all of the Movable Type help I sought online suggested WordPress to having 70 core commits so far and providing the income for my family for years. My only regret was…

  • Stats in the Open

    John James Jacoby had the idea for an open stats platform. A Google Analytics that was open for anyone to see any site’s stats. Experimenting with opening things up and transparency is interesting to me, so after he floated the idea and then tweeted this: https://twitter.com/JJJ/status/792096310862184452 What the hell, let’s give it a go. I…

  • Not Necessarily To Go

    At least they give you options. Photo taken at: Once Over Coffee Bar View in Instagram ⇒

  • Ruby Bridges

    We watched this powerful film about elementary school integration with the girls tonight. Lovely that the two top-billed leads of the movie are the two white people in the movie.