Author: Brandon Kraft
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Falling Off The Social Graph
After blogging for over 13 years on this site and having a personal web presence (“being my own webmaster” as I imagine cool kids said back then) for years before that, I have rode a wave of how much to make your site an expression of yourself and how much to make it something for…
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Keyboarding Failure
Sometimes, I try something that I can just work harder at, spend more time practicing, and reach a level where I’m happy with myself. Sometimes, I am not so sure it is worth it. I wanted to pick up Dvorak. I really wanted to. I like being an edge case. I like that I run a…
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PHP 7!
After running HHVM with a PHP 5.6 fallback for about six months, I switched over to PHP 7. Initially, left HHVM on as a fallback to PHP (ha), but after a week, Nginx never attempted to use HHVM. Checking the average memory consumption, on an average day, never-used HHVM was using more memory than serving-everything PHP…
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Future Hall of Famers
This week’s Picture of the Week is of Teresa trying on football shoulder pads. The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum had a special exhibit from the NFL Pro Football museum. The museum does a good job of trying to balance having things that both adults and children would enjoy. In particular, they had a…
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Turning cupcakes into compassion
When we use food to define culture, we declare that those who can’t eat the way we do are no longer part of that tribe. Source: Turning cupcakes into compassion My eldest suffers from food allergies. Originally, she was allergic to milk and all dairy (including casein, often found in “alternative ” cheeses), eggs, tree…
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Dvorak Frustration
I absolutely underestimated my level of frustration from not being able to get my ideas out of my head.