Brandon Kraft
Brandon Kraft
@kraft.im
With Automattic working on the Jetpack & WooCommerce plugins for WordPress. Husband & father x6 Catholic; Oblate of St. Benedict, St. Meinrad's Archabbey. 🐴 - MSU Texas (MBA '24) 🤘 - UT-Austin (BA, '10) https://kraft.blog https://gravatar.com/kraftbj
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Middle School Homecoming Game #txfb
I’m glad I got to see him in January in person one last time, not very long before he found out he had cancer. I rarely recommend people to Automattic’s hiring team. I was honored to know him for that long. Rest in peace, Eric. https://profiles.wordpress.org/ebinnion/ #wordpress #memorial
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In talking to my oncologist today, he said something along the lines of: “We threw our best option, and then our second best option, and then our third best option. Those are some hearty tumor cells.” It made me giggle because I imagined my tumor as stubborn and I think that that’s a trait that […]
@capmetroatx.bsky.social - Can you ask the data folks to check on data.texas.gov/dataset/CapM... the json file for positions is stuck starting around noon. The pb is still being updated regularly.
My bond portfolio does not seem to like what he’s doing. When POTUS, who directs the Treasury secretary, has had as many bankruptcies as I have kids, hearing them wanting to intervene makes me nervous. #uspol https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/business/scott-bessent-economy-markets.html
@capmetroatx.bsky.social has been particularly bad this first week of school, canceling trips that are special (one bus will serve a school stop, but the rest of that route's runs will not). I was annoyed enough while trying to help my kid this week that I made a bus tracker. bus.dillo.dev #atx
It is a weird feeling to have a kid who is a high school senior. Excited for her and realizing how different home life will be a year from now. #parenthood
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$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"
Homan on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."
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"The president’s international licensing business, which looked nearly dead a few years ago, generated $61 million in 2025, according to a financial disclosure report released last week. That’s up an estimated 30% from 2024 and 900% from 2023. " ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
FOX NEWS: The money Trump has made while in office -- there's also a story about his sons making money off a deal in Kazakhstan. What's the White House's response? WH SPOX ANNA KELLY: Americans wanted a businessman in office. He's had a tremendously successful career.
I need ProtonVPN to have a “Censorship” option (fastest other than your own country) but to change state. I’m not going to age-auth for Bluesky. Mexico VPN FTW. #tech
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The @texastribune.org is investigating this ICE shooting, along with that of Ruben Martinez last year in South Padre Island. We are seeking any cell phone footage of either events and you can share anonymously to me at 832-729-3421 or on Signal or WhatsApp.
Sons of man killed by ICE in Houston demand investigation: “My father would have complied." “To have been killed by our own federal government, aided by federal policies that are deliberate choices, just makes me so angry,” another said. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/08/t...
The concluding prayer from Midday Prayer (Sext) today: God of mercy,this midday moment of restis your welcome gift.Bless the work we have begun,make good its defectsand let us finish it in a way that pleases you. #catholic
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The Texas attorney general and Republican nominee for a US Senate seat appears to have used an address where he didn’t llive while voting in six recent elections — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” www.texastribune.org/2026/07/07/k...
You could listen to President Trump’s speech (eventually) or you could listen to the Declaration of Independence. #july4 https://one.npr.org/i/419692406:419692407