Author: Brandon Kraft
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Walking Dublin 🏃
Last week, I was in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 for a meetup with the teams that support a variety of our plugins and services for self-hosted WordPress sites, like Jetpack, Akismet, VaultPress, Sensei, Gravatar, etc etc. Usually, on meetups, I wake up extremely early, since I do at home, geek out doing random PRs or whatever,…
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Belize 🇧🇿
In February, I traveled to Belize to meet up with members of the Jetpack development team at Automattic. We worked on various things—outlining the next few versions, building out some enhanced debug/support tools—but also able to enjoy the beautiful Belizean coast. Next up, recap of our Dublin meetup last week. P.S. We’re hiring.
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Connections at SXSW
This is what I love about representing WordPress(.com) “in the field” at SXSW. After a long evening working an event, we had a couple of guys sit at the bar with myself and a couple of coworkers. When we were asked what we do, we answered “Vague Internet Things”. “That’s great—as long as it isn’t…
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Credit Confusion
I have an old credit card. I got it in college and I almost never use it. Every blue moon, I’ll use it when making a purchase and the funds aren’t immediately available. See, I have a checking and a savings account and all the money is in the savings account… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhM1dGyUca4 Anyhow and in other…
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Shrove Tuesday Pancake Cake
Today is Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday—whatever you call it, it is the last day before Lent begins. Traditionally, the day is celebrated in some way, often pancakes as a way to use and enjoy eggs, milk, sugar and other foods that were often abstained from during Lent. For us, every season is Lent…
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That Time CNN Interviews You…
Don’t tweet @Velveeta about Super Bowl queso – Video – Technology Around Thanksgiving, Abby from CNN reached out wanting to do a story about my Internet-famous Twitter confusion and when she realized that both @Velveeta and I lived in Austin, it was the tipping point for her to fly out to visit with us. It…