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)

  • Coffee is Nourishment ☕️

    One year ago at this time, we were on the 2nd floor of Seton Medical Center waiting for Ana and Dorothy to be born. This sign is outside of their “Nourishment” room, which had an empty fridge, an ice machine, and plenty of coffee. I defer to their determination that coffee is, in fact, nourishment.…

  • Thanksgiving Dinner

    The “Picture of the Week” for this week is the Thanksgiving spread at my in-laws house.

  • HTTP/2

    A very quick aside to note that kraft.im is now running on HTTP/2 as of a week or so ago. I had been on the stable build of Nginx that ships with Ubuntu, which is pretty outdated. I updated to the Nginx mainline repo and changed one line in my .conf file— spdy to http2. I’m exploring…

  • Calypso: Write Once…

    One thing that hasn’t been discussed much in today’s coverage of the new WordPress.com and the WordPress.com Mac app is how incredibly easy it is to port something from one interface to another—something new for the WordPress world. Calypso, the codename for the new WordPress.com interface, had 140+ developers working on it. Constant changes, commits, reviews,…

  • WordPress.com Desktop App

    Automattic released a WordPress.com app for Mac OS X today. I’ve been using it for some time now during development and it has found a wonderful place into my regular workflow. Download the WordPress.com OS X app now! A Feed Reader I have a love/hate relationship with Feedly. I migrated all of my RSS feeds…

  • Future of Work and the Future Generation

    “You’re going to go somewhere to work with your coworkers? Why?”