Frank Hecker

Since they replied to one of my Math Academy posts to promote their own service (which I don't mind, incidentally), I took a look at @consiliae.bsky.social, another in a growing list of sites using MA-style principles (knowledge graph, spaced repetition, etc,) to teach math & other STEM subjects, 1/

My personal wish: a service that goes beyond Math Academy to teach all the math and related topics I'd need to know to read and evaluate social science papers in areas like economic history, learning science, etc. Like the "I want to be a data analyst" goal but much more in-depth. 6/

Since they replied to one of my Math Academy posts to promote their own service (which I don't mind, incidentally), I took a look at @consiliae.bsky.social, another in a growing list of sites using MA-style principles (knowledge graph, spaced repetition, etc,) to teach math & other STEM subjects, 1/

Overall impressions of @consiliae.bsky.social: another interesting entry in the field of Math Academy-inspired small-team efforts to support online STEM learning. (See also, e.g., PhysicsGraph, Nodeledge). Competitive pricing vs. Math Academy ($10/mo vs. $49/mo) but less math coverage as of now. 4/

Since they replied to one of my Math Academy posts to promote their own service (which I don't mind, incidentally), I took a look at @consiliae.bsky.social, another in a growing list of sites using MA-style principles (knowledge graph, spaced repetition, etc,) to teach math & other STEM subjects, 1/

Initial feedback: Good: @consiliae.bsky.social identifies your goal(s) upfront, uses MA-style diagnostic testing to place you at the right place on the right path to achieve your goal, then makes that path through the knowledge graph visible to you. Initial "scan" to determine that is free. 2/

Well, well, well. It's interesting to see my former employer, Infoblox, at #31 on the Fortune Future 120 list, "Companies ranked by vitality, or long-term growth potential", ahead of Anthropic, Anduril, and Tesla, to name but three much-hyped companies. fortune.com/ranking/futu...

Pretty good for a 25-year-old company, especially given that Infoblox specializes in "Internet plumbing" (DNS, DHCP, and IP address management) that can seem as boring as real-life plumbing. But DNS in particular can be key to detecting security threats, for example: www.infoblox.com/blog/threat-...

Remembering #Cohost, day 6: You should write a book. Not because anyone will buy & read it (they won't), but because it's fun & you'll learn a lot. If you're too easily distracted to start writing a book, let alone finish it, here's my advice on how to do it anyway. frankhecker.com/2023/06/16/h...

Remembering #Cohost, day 2: Another one of my favorite posts rescued from Cohost and now on my website. This one is about the girls and young women who worked (and work) in textile mills and, like many of my Cohost posts, has a connection to the #yuri genre. frankhecker.com/2022/12/07/o... 1/

While corporate anime and manga magazines keep going belly-up, independent sites keep plugging away producing great articles and reviews. Anime Herald turned 16 this year, Yatta-Tachi is 11 years old, and today marks the 10th anniversary of @animefeminist.com. 1/

While corporate anime and manga magazines keep going belly-up, independent sites keep plugging away producing great articles and reviews. Anime Herald turned 16 this year, Yatta-Tachi is 11 years old, and today marks the 10th anniversary of @animefeminist.com. 1/

I believe this is the first article ever published on @animefeminist.com. Props to the site staff for maintaining consistent URLs that still work 10 years later, and don't get 404s or redirects to home pages (like lots of news/review sites). www.animefeminist.com/review-dream... 2/

Remembering #Cohost: Today is the 2-year anniversary of the day that the most fun site I've ever written for stopped allowing people to post to it. In remembrance of it, for the next few days I'll be posting some of my favorite bits of writing I did on the site (now hosted on my own website). 1/

Here's a fun bit of Internet history from the dawn of the World Wide Web: I couldn't find an online copy of the 1995 annual report for Netscape Communications Corporation (its first annual report post-IPO), so I scanned mine and uploaded it to the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/nets...

An excellent proposal, which gets at the key issues why other mechanisms (e.g., "source available" licenses) won't work. Also, supply chain risk is a major hot topic now, e.g., with government contractors, so I think the willingness to have a "supply chain" item in a budget is only getting greater.

2) Worked at CollabNet with (the original) Sourcexchange service, found that companies were not willing to directly pay open source developers to write open source code for them.

An excellent proposal, which gets at the key issues why other mechanisms (e.g., "source available" licenses) won't work. Also, supply chain risk is a major hot topic now, e.g., with government contractors, so I think the willingness to have a "supply chain" item in a budget is only getting greater.

One of my favorite bands ever, queercore legends Team Dresch, has a new album out, their first in 30 years (and it sounds great!). You can get it from @jealousbutcher.bsky.social and watch and listen at www.youtube.com/channel/UCvp...