Brandon Kraft ❤️‍🔥🧡

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🚀 - With Automattic working on the Jetpack & WooCommerce plugins for #WordPress.

🤵👰🏽👧 - Husband & father x6

⛪ - #Catholic
🙏 - Oblate of the Order of St. Benedict, St. Meinrad's Archabbey.

🐴 - MSU Texas (MBA '24)
🤘 - UT-Austin (BA, '10)

⚾ - Watcher of baseball and youth league admin.

⚽ - FC Bayern and FC Austin casual fan.

🐘 - Admin of religious.social instance.

🏠 - Austin, Tex.

Formerly at @kraft

#fedi22 #utexas

Webhttps://kraft.blog/
GitHubhttps://github.com/kraftbj/
Gravatarhttps://en.gravatar.com/kraftbj
Techy Account@kraft
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

FLR-CDG-ATL-AUS

First leg delayed enough that I have a negative 14-minute layover. Hope they hold since the alternative flights are all tomorrow.

AUS-MSP-CDG-FLR

Austin: O- and O+ blood donors are particularly requested to donate if able after this morning’s shooting.

Donor Portal

#atx #austintx

Donor Portal - We Are Blood

We Are Blood
Governments must pass the highest bar to justify war and, even if justified in conducting warfare, must follow the highest of ethical standards when doing so. I have no faith in either today with the CIC and SecDef we have.
Anthropic being kicked out of the US government because it won’t allow Claude to be used for domestic surveillance or controlling autonomous drones makes them my favorite big AI company. #AI
Air France, this is the weirdest way to add AI to your site:

I discovered the `caffeinate` command yesterday to keep the computer awake during long-running scripts, e.g. `caffeinate long-script.sh`

Love it.

Introducing FediBoost

A few months ago, I turned on the ActivityPub plugin for this site. I loved it—my blog became followable from Mastodon, posts federated out automatically, and people could reply to my posts from their own instances. This is what indieweb is all about. But something bugged me. My posts were federating from my site's identity—@kraft—which is great. But my Mastodon followers on @kraft weren't seeing anything unless they happened to also follow my blog. Two […]

https://kraft.blog/2026/02/introducing-fediboost/

I have developed my new grading scale on AI models.

  • F – F’ing waste of time.
  • D – Dumbass
  • C – Completely ineffective
  • B – Basically a toddler
  • A – Actually not too bad.

#ai