Frank Wiles

youtube.comBatteries vs. Speed: The Django/FastAPI Debate with Calvin Hendryx-Parker and Frank WilesFew debates in the Python world generate more discussion than Djang...

Calvin and I talked about Django vs FastAPI at DjangoCon 2026 this year. There are good reasons to go with each depending on your situation. Watch to learn more www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0J...

rechenwerk.appRechenwerk — a programmer’s calculator for hex, binary and RPNA programmer’s calculator with a soft spot for the classics: hex, decimal, octal and binary on one screen, RPN or algebraic. For iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android.

A good friend of mine who has been doing some weird assembly bits with old C64 hardware realized there were not good hex/octal/binary calculators for mobile out there so he built one. Check it out! rechenwerk.app

dataforprogress.orgAmericans’ Social Activity Has Steeply Declined in the Past 30 YearsOur survey finds significant, double-digit declines in Americans’ participation in key social activities from 1995 to 2026.

This is just sad. Put yourself out there folks. We don’t bite and we’re a ton more fun than short form videos. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/9...

Was trying to have a computer free day, but apparently Kubernetes had others ideas for me! 🤣

Who knew they made ENERGY Stroopwaffels and didn’t tell me?!!!?

youtube.comBen Affleck’s Turbulent Year: Navigating Grief & The Art of Not CaringGQ’s Zach Baron sits down for a tête-à-tête with American actor and...

Jeff shared this with me, turns out Ben Affleck codes in Python. Who thinks we should get him to do a PyCon talk? youtu.be/HzraLR2VkNM...

Found some old RAM in the REVSYS supply closet. Wonder if I can sell it on the blackmarket and pay off my mortgage???

I made a fun little video for Gander gandercpg.com

OH: Claude said... Claude the person, not Claude the AI

Wow just realized the Perl book I co-authored in 2001 is now old enough to get a discount on it's car insurance. 🤣

frankwiles.comI got targetedSomeone targeted me in an attempt to gain access or credentials because of my Open Source and/or consulting roles

I guess on one hand it's an honor to be targeted like this? Be super careful with your credentials everyone. They're targeting people and they're sneaky! frankwiles.com/posts/i-got...

frankwiles.comSendgrid is bad at spending their marketing moneySendgrid is bad at spending their marketing money

Wow, companies really often shoot themselves in the foot over $10 frankwiles.com/til/sendgri...

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frankwiles.comWe live in interesting times.We live in interesting times.

dev.toDEV CommunityA space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career

I realized I haven't re-posted any blogs to dev.to in a long ass time. So I did my recent post on oss maintainership in an LLM world and have now gotten several spam "Ask Frank" questions wanting to do work for us. Guess I won't be making THAT mistake again!

ted.comHow to turn off work thoughts during your free timeFeeling burned out? You may be spending too much time ruminating about your job, says psychologist Guy Winch. Learn how to stop worrying about tomorrow's tasks or stewing over office tensions with three simple techniques aimed at helping you truly relax and recharge after work.

I USED to be really bad at this. I mean, I'm still bad at it, but I *USED* to be even worse! www.ted.com/talks/guy_w...

Sometimes my Apple Watch makes me look like an idiot to friends, clients, and in this case Square

To be clear, I DO love their coffee, but yeah...

I turn coffee into good ideas.

The “Great Seal of the State of Kansas” makes me curious about what the Lesser Seal looks like…

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frankwiles.comOpen Source Maintainership in an LLM worldSuggestions and techniques you can use to keep your sanity in a sea of issues and PRs

A couple of weeks ago I gave a short talk on Open Source Maintainership in an LLM world, I turned it into a blog post because I wanted to be able to share the advice to a wider audience. frankwiles.com/posts/open-...

frankwiles.comOpen Source Maintainership in an LLM worldSuggestions and techniques you can use to keep your sanity in a sea of issues and PRs

Do you have any other good examples of techniques you've seen other communities use? I'd love to expand the advice so reply and let me know about them.

I just jokingly said "since dinosaurs roamed the Internet". Then realized that's me! I'm the dinosaur. #OldNerd

21 Sept

Dear Email Marketers, the VERY first thing I do if I'm even mildly interested in what you're saying is copy the domain you sent from into my browser to learn more about you. When this doesn't redirect that tells me all I need to know about you and move on.

19 Sept

Made a fun little utility for myself over the last hour or so. Using Adam Johnson's new django-mcpz created an MCP in my personal cluster to collect "notes" and then an iOS shortcut to launch Claude in voice chat mode so I can add/edit/retrieve notes while on the go

19 Sept

Also of course built a web UI for them as well as well as a Rust CLI and accompanying skill to reduce some bits of friction in my day. This was quickly recorded from my lock screen while pacing around the office.

18 Sept

Time to start my morning ritual a nice iced coffee plunge! 🤣

frankwiles.comIf it annoys you, automate it!If it annoys you, automate it!

16 Sept

Testing our a new website section/feature for me to share quick little thoughts. frankwiles.com/thoughts/0002/

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15 Sept

THIS 👇 HERE.......

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Andrew Weinstein

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15 Sept

There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but a Russian oligarch bankrolling the wedding of the president’s son is the kind of story that should dominate headlines in any functioning political culture.

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Alt National Park Service

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22 Aug

Thank you for everything. 💚💚💚 Tomorrow, there will be more of us.

frankwiles.comContact Frank WilesTalk software, open source, or life with Frank Wiles. Find the right email, connect on social media, or ask a question.

11 Sept

Hey friends, I worked up a new design for my contact page. Is it too busy? is it clear? Happy to receive any feedback you have. frankwiles.com/contact/

meetup.comKC OSS Happy Hour, Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 7:00 PM | MeetupWe’re gathering for a night of Open Source camaraderie around KCDC. Join us for talks about working with OSS software. If you use open source, work on an OSS project, or wa

10 Sept

Hey Kansas City area friends and anyone attending #KCDC me and some friends are giving some talks on Open Source at the KC OSS Happy Hour tonight at 7pm www.meetup.com/kansas-city... come hang out and have a beer or something if you're able.

7 Sept

ooh I have an hour until my token allowance resets. Time to cram in some work!

frankwiles.comNavigating Tons of Github ReposGithub Search and their UI choices just don't work optimially at a certain level

Oh look I finally have nice OpenGraph images on my site! frankwiles.com/posts/navig...

Keeping types in sync across languages is hard. I've run into this exact problem on a few client projects. Typewriter would have been very handy! frankwiles.com/til/multi-l...

What if the fix is easier than you think? Delayed telling building maintenance about my office door sticking because it wasn't a BIG problem and they'd have to take this big metal door off and add a shim to fix the situation and that's a lot of work and a big disruption...

Two minutes with a crowbar and that little problem that has been bugging me for months is fixed. What little thing that bugs you could fix in two minutes today?

dwayne-mcdaniel.comDjangoCon 2026: The Web Is Getting Simpler, Smarter, and More InterestingRecap of DjangoCon US 2026: Django 6, HTMX, PostgreSQL, AI agents, testing, and code review.

Here is a great recap of DjangoCon 2026 if you missed it! dwayne-mcdaniel.com/blog/Django...

3 Sept

It's a huge oversight that no one really offers craft/artisanal tater tots.

2 Sept

Dear GMail Team, there is a feature that would make me VERY happy and ensure I don't leave your platform. I need a way to turn of all AI writing help. The key combos are too similar and I end up destroying my draft with horribly written AI and don't have a good way to revert.

2 Sept

And I say this as a big AI proponent. I just want a way to turn it off in GMail is all. Pretty please?!?!?!

2 Sept

As a business owner I don't like that AI has removed a ton of traffic to our website but man it's nice to be able to use ChatGPT or something to simply FIND that one company you're thinking off based on a vague/weird description that Google came up with all the wrong things.

1 Sept

Being able to customize your @pidotdev agent is fun and brings me joy!

31 Aug

We could solve obesity in this country if you were required to do 20 jumping jacks every time you prompted AI

24 Aug

Dawn Wages starting off DjangoCon for us all.

23 Aug

Be careful out there folks. I just merged a PR and if it wasn't for my clanker I wouldn't have noticed that while the PR is closed and merged in the Github UI it was NOT in fact merged to the main branch. Not inspiring much confidence these days there Github...