Frank Hecker

Interests: education as talent development, the fate of artists in a log-normal world. Former work: @FrankHecker. Elsewhere: @frankhecker.com on the azure site.

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

Yesterday I celebrated my one-year anniversary on Math Academy. Five courses completed, another almost complete, 19519 XP thus far. 1/2

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

If you're a developer, sales engineer, in software marketing or sales, I recommend you check out @Infoblox. It's a mature company run by adults, with great culture and lots of opportunities. Currently 80+ open positions worldwide: https://t.co/ea9IAKjAib 3/3

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

Well, well, well. It's gratifying 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, Cloudflare, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks, and others that attract more attention. 1/

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

Pretty good for a 25-year-old company, especially given that @Infoblox specializes in Internet plumbing (DNS, DHCP, & IP address management) that can seem as boring as real-life plumbing. But DNS in particular can be key to detecting security threats before they threaten you. 2/

[Infoblox @Infoblox]

We’re proud to share that Infoblox has been named to @FortuneMagazine's 2026 Future 120 list of companies best positioned for long-term growth.

[Virginia Postrel @vpostrel]

The Fabric of Civilization is on sale for $2.99 on Kindle (useful for search even if you have hard copy--I bought it and paid full price!). No idea how long the sale lasts. Link follows.

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

This is a big deal for security firms that manage security for lots of other firms: Now they can take advantage of @Infoblox's DNS-based security technology and services to protect all their customers under a unified policy and security operations framework.

[Infoblox @Infoblox]

Enhanced multi-tenancy for Infoblox Threat Defense™ extends the MSSP program we announced earlier this year, with general availability on October 15.

Read the blog and talk to your Infoblox partner team to learn more: https://t.co/D63vNpCREc

[Baiheverse @baiheverse]

looking for a new place to read? hi 🤍

we’re Baiheverse, a small team who fell hard for Chinese #GL in English.

everything here is officially licensed, and what you spend goes back to the people who made it.

more about us: https://t.co/iBooTLlKnX

[Infoblox @Infoblox]

200+ cybersecurity leaders. One blog. For @vmblog, Infoblox CISO Henrik Smith joined this snapshot of where the industry’s collective head is at right now: https://t.co/1ksePHP9rJ

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

Anime Feminist, like other indie anime/manga news/review/analysis sites, e.g., Yatta-Tachi (11 years old), Anime Herald (16 years), and Okazu (24 years), depends on readers for funding. If you like this kind of media journalism you can support it here: https://t.co/Ma2kHuWLEc

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

In a time when corporate media outlets are shutting down left & right, especially for niche genres, it's worth noting that the indie anime review site Anime Feminist (original slogan: "Japanese pop culture through a feminist lens") published its first article 10 years ago today.

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

Today's ex-#Cohost post came about when I wondered why people were so obsessed with fictional magic and magicians in recent decades, and relatively uninterested in the real magic that real people have created over the past 200 years. https://t.co/cd1SiHwLnE

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

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. 1/

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

Just finished Probability & Statistics. Now at 8 Math Academy courses completed and 27,473 XP. I'm also running out of courses I want to take. Differential Equations is next, but after that? Who knows...

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

My Math Academy update #7: https://t.co/MYBTzW4DNv

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

I've just finished my 8th Math Academy course, Probability & Statistics. For my activity stats, thoughts about my future MA plans, and additional musing about Justin Skycak's "education as talent development", see my latest post at frankhecker[.]com (link in next tweet). 1/

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

Unfortunately I don't have paper copies of the Netscape annual reports for 1996 on, and I can't find online copies of those either. If anyone has copies, I encourage you to scan and upload them for posterity.

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

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 post-IPO), so I scanned mine and uploaded it to the Internet Archive: https://t.co/IJZWJd28WC

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

I just voted in the @subvertworld board elections! There was a good set of candidates & approval voting meant I didn't have to narrow it down to just one person. If you like music & want to support (& participate in!) a member-owned coop, check it out: https://t.co/iA993yGb53

[Frank Hecker @hecker]

Agent action #10: "Agents used DNS requests to exfiltrate data" Paging @Infoblox :-)

[Jeffrey Ladish @JeffLadish]

Here's some of the agent actions we observed by reconstructing payloads. You can also explore the data yourself here: https://t.co/K33TIxnhsX

[Infoblox @Infoblox]

Quiz time: which of these domains is impersonating Apple? 🧵

quizearny[.]shop, rewardquiz[.]org look like generic quiz sites. applerewards[.]net is more obvious.