Random Musings by Kraft

Latest status:

  • I’m really unsure how I lived before our tamale angel started making random visits to our home.

    And I’m stoked she’s kept raising her price over the years. Too many people undersell the fruit of their labor.

  • Personal Web Presence

    Personal Web Presence

    I’m in the midst of an identity crisis. Regarding Internet identity and community, my presence on Twitter felt most interconnected. I’ve had my website(s) longer, and they mean more to me than Twitter. But with the changes over there and the disruption to much of my community, coupled with a general dislike for Musk’s governance…

  • ADHD

    ADHD

    I don’t post on here as often as I used to. In the early days of the site (like 20 years ago? What the hell?), I would post just random things all the time. Twitter, I think, gave me a different place to scratch that itch coupled with the movement that everyone needed their own…

  • Joining the Student Advisory Board

    Joining the Student Advisory Board

    In addition to my full-time work at Automattic and the family, I am also a MBA student at Midwestern State University. I’m proud to share that I’m joining the Student Advisory Board for the Dilliard College of Business Administration. MSU is primarily a traditional campus-based university, but their MBA program does offer all courses required…

  • Statement on Frank Pavone

    Statement on Frank Pavone

    News broke that that Vatican has removed from the clerical state (e.g. defroked) Frank Pavone. Pavone is most known for founding “Priests for Life” as a pro-life group, which has been extreme in some tactics—including a video with an aborted child on a “table that is sometimes used for Mass”, the explanation he gave when…

  • Now Using 2023

    Now Using 2023

    I switched the site over to using Twenty Twenty Three yesterday with my first “real” experience with the Site Editor. I’ve created some small single-page sites with the Block Editor, but hadn’t spent real time with it. It’ll take me a little bit to get used to it, but this is overall a positive move…

  • ActivityPub

    ActivityPub

    What the hell—added ActivityPub support to the site so you can follow the site via @kraft@kraft.blog via Mastodon or your favorite ActivityPub-powered social site.