I don’t use social media much. I have no Facebook presence, I think I’ve maybe made at most 3 tweets, and I definitely don’t TikTok.

I do, however, have a long history of following Hacker News. I was a lurker for years before I created an account. I decided to join the community recently and was pleasantly surprised when a former student of mine responded to one of my comments on Comp Sci education.

Recently the Hacker News front page featured a web site dedicated to “niche museums.” I felt I had to comment and mention OUR museum, which is basically run by 3 people, including me, and the help from student interns from time to time.

Turns out the NICHE Museums site was created by Simon Willison, who is the co-creator of the Django Web Framework, something I actually used in the past.

Simon only features museums that he has visited, so I commented on the thread (my username is my old gamer tag: mFragin) that I would hope he’d consider coming to Pueblo and seeing our museum in the future. He actually responded and said he’d add it to his list of museums he plans on visiting! That made my … week!