The Journeyman – Brandon Kraft

I’ve been writing this post in some form for nearly a year.

Not a bad view with your morning coffee.

Today is the 5th anniversary of losing a friend and mentor.

A bug fix release for Press This went out and I forgot to post about it… The biggest fix: saving posts that contained external images was throwing a critical error through the REST API.

A few months ago, I turned on the ActivityPub plugin for this site.

Almost a decade ago, I helped rebuild Press This for WordPress 4.2.

My therapist and I are working on the premise that the things that trigger us are rooted in childhood in some way.

My mom passed away almost two weeks ago.

Starting this Sunday, you’ll hear about a few liturgies to formally begin Pope Leo XIV’s ministry.

Many blessings to our new Holy Father Leo XIV!

Tomorrow afternoon for those in Rome or tomorrow morning for those in the U.S.

As the second day in Rome—and the first full day—without a Pope comes to a close, a few things have happened or been announced since yesterday’s message.

The Apostolic See is Vacant.

Last week, my employer, Automattic, announced a restructuring.

I’ve been on a quest for over 20 years now (what‽) to eat a hot dog in every state.

I submitted my resignation as the Travis County Chair of the American Solidarity Party today.

At Roman Noon today, Pope Frances named Austin’s Bishop Joe Vasquez as the Archbishop-Elect of Galveston-Houston.

Short-form communication hurts.

Life flows through seasons, which feel completely normal while you’re in the midst of them, but looking back, it’s hard to remember what they were like.

The last few weeks have been hard for those in the #WordPress community.

I know the big dogs are fighting (and disclaimer I work for one of the big dogs and I used to make my living building websites using a theme framework the other one owns now), but a ton of contributors contribute because they want to help the community.

The first couple weeks of school have been an eventful one for our kiddos.

I’m proud to share that I walked the stage at commencement a little over a week ago to be awarded a Master of Business Administration in Business Analytics from the Dillard College of Business Administration at Midwestern State University.

I’ve been with Automattic for nearly 11 years.

I’m in the midst of an identity crisis.

I don’t post on here as often as I used to.

In addition to my full-time work at Automattic and the family, I am also a MBA student at Midwestern State University.

News broke that that Vatican has removed from the clerical state (e.g. defroked) Frank Pavone.

I switched the site over to using Twenty Twenty Three yesterday with my first “real” experience with the Site Editor.

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

After avoiding a positive test result for over two years, the walls fell and I contracted COVID-19.

At my kids’ elementary at dismissal time, there was an incident of someone approaching the gate where “walkers” are dismissed to their parents.

Today’s horrific shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde is a tragedy beyond words.

When a small organization that I’m involved with wanted to move from text messages or Telegram to a more robust real-time chat platform, we had a few options.

I’m sadden by the developments in Ukraine.