Frank Wiles

Expert in building, scaling and maintaining complex web applications - Founder of
REVSYS (https://www.revsys.com), Django Steering Council, PSF Fellow, and Former President of the Django Software Foundation

Homepage: https://www.frankwiles.com
Work: https://www.revsys.com
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2026-02-22 14:01:59 UTC

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yeah I think the near future is something like “frontier model make me a plan and solid tests” (or human hahaha) -> super fast model/hosting that can just iterate on it until success.
With Cerebras it can take 10-20 stabs at the code and still be WAY faster in wall time than Sonnet for example.

2025-12-25 18:19:19 UTC

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did you print those spikes? That’s genius!

2025-12-10 01:41:11 UTC

Ok time for some venting! What is the worst tech tool or process you ever used?

2025-12-08 17:11:38 UTC

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interesting you both leave the coughs in! *cough* 🤣🤣🤣

2025-11-18 21:31:16 UTC

Extended one more day! Spread the word! https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/promo/support-django/?utm_campaign=pycharm&utm_content=django25&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=dsf-banner The DSF could use this for great things!

2025-11-02 14:58:53 UTC

People who are newer to Django often do not know about these great resources and the richness of the Django ecosystem. Spread this link please! #python #django https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/nov/02/five-ways-to-discover-django-packages/

2025-10-29 11:13:09 UTC

Very proud of the PSF, but not that surprised on the decision. It's who we are. Python IS the community even more than the technology and I've personally watched it improve as the diversity has improved. https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/psf-withdrawn-proposal/

2025-10-17 17:00:13 UTC

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Link to the podcast near the specific quote https://youtu.be/P-D7DtGJqzY?si=HUtr9Nl0FsXPN7LU&t=630

2025-10-17 17:00:13 UTC

Completely agree! Contributing and participating in OSS has done more for my career than anything else.
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2025-10-13 10:14:40 UTC

Feeling like a lucky parent. Teens usually pull away. Our newest official teen has started a tradition of going for an early morning walk with me. Guess we're doing SOMETHING right at least!

2025-10-09 12:18:52 UTC

If I ever write a book or course on Git, I’m going to have to title it: Go on, git! 🤣

2025-09-26 14:10:25 UTC

In case you missed it yesterday, PostgreSQL 18 is a big release! Should provide huge performance improvements for most users, don't sleep on this one. https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-released-3142/

2025-08-26 12:27:02 UTC

Think we’re at maximum AI hype now. Just passed a small group of adults discussing how wrong AI has been for them in their fields. On a walk in the suburbs. In Kansas!

2025-08-16 20:37:02 UTC

I'll take "Things your English teacher never said for $400 Alex" ... What is "Write 1,000 words on LFU caches?" CORRECT!

2025-07-16 17:17:43 UTC

I want to attend a new conference this year. I usually just attend PyCon US and DjangoCon US. Probably has to be North America this year schedule wise. Where should I be going in your opinion?

2025-06-18 20:12:23 UTC

We have an ops project that is winding down so for the first time in awhile we have some availability for a new client. Reach out soon as this will get filled up quickly! #python #django #kubernetes
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2025-05-30 16:13:12 UTC

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yeah I keep meaning to check it out but switching feels like a bigger pain than I have energy for most weeks.

2025-05-30 15:11:41 UTC

Did you know I have a newsletter?!?!? I don't post a ton but I'm trying to be better about that. Signup or share with the people you know that might benefit from my posts. Thanks! http://eepurl.com/iNh166

2025-05-15 00:19:11 UTC

Coming to PyCon? Find me, just walk up, introduce yourself and tell me your work dumpster fire story and I’ll give you one of these!
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2025-05-05 11:43:20 UTC

I swear I’m a freaking child.
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2025-04-28 23:56:48 UTC

Internet I need your help. In trying to redeem a vbucks card I think I did the wrong steps and unlinked/lost my 9 year olds Fortnite (and my wife’s). This happened to his Roblox account a couple years ago and he’s never going to forgive me. Anyone know who I can call or bribe?

2025-04-16 18:58:39 UTC

Had the honor of being on DjangoChat again https://djangochat.com/episodes/coding-with-llms-frank-wiles
Listen to Will, Carlton, and I talk about various topics concerning the Django community and coding with LLMs.

2025-03-26 02:02:31 UTC

To assuage anyone’s fears this isn’t going to be a thing. DRF is most definitely going to find a safe, well maintained home.
From: [@python_discussions](https://mastodon.social/@python_discussions )
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2025-01-19 15:26:16 UTC

New laptop day is always so exciting! Which is funny because for this one it just means more CPU and RAM that I don't *strictly* need for anything in particular today. The extra speed is nice, but doesn't really justify this feeling.

2025-01-13 18:42:05 UTC

Warms my heart that the Linux window manager I used many many moons ago is still alive and kicking! https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2025-01-11-enlightenment-0.27.0

2024-12-27 13:07:59 UTC

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maybe a Sonos speaker? You can schedule any media to play on it.

2024-12-20 22:47:21 UTC

My town is pretty awesome https://lawrencekstimes.com/2024/12/20/lawrence-snowplow-name-24/

2024-12-20 15:04:49 UTC

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wow, I don't even use WordPress and I'm tempted to open a WPEngine account just to help out.

2024-12-17 17:18:46 UTC

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does that mean all PSF Members have to like pineapple on their pizza?!?!?

2024-12-14 16:38:36 UTC

Too good not to share https://www.reddit.com/r/foundsatan/comments/1hdwwzg/devil_is_in_the_details/
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2024-11-25 19:14:14 UTC

Are you working with PostgreSQL in a Python Docker project? Running into client-server version mismatches? Here's my detailed guide on installing a specific PostgreSQL version in your Dockerfile. Save it for when you need it! https://frankwiles.com/posts/specific-postgresql-docker-python/ #python #django #postgresql

2024-11-07 12:23:44 UTC

Dressing like a lumberjack made a little more sense when I used the lumberjack protocol. Maybe I need to rename my laptop “chainsaw” or something.
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2024-11-04 12:45:16 UTC

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I still had to make my own coffee this morning. C’mon uv, get your shit together. 🤣

2024-11-01 13:30:40 UTC

Know someone who should be a PSF Fellow? You have until November 20th to nominate them. Jon has a great post on the topic https://www.jonafato.com/2024/10/31/psf-fellow-nominations-q4-due-date?utm_campaign=Django%2BNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Django_Newsletter_257
See someone who should be on this list but isn't? Nominate them!

2024-10-31 15:49:01 UTC

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hah! I know how voter registration works so I don't need to test it. Kris Kobach deep dove (as KS Sec. State) on the issue, his pet issue, and only found a rounding error of a rounding error in the results across 25 years.

2024-10-31 14:51:52 UTC

I got to vote TWICE this week! No election fraud, just happened to be the obvious US political election and the Django Software Foundation election for next years Board of Directors.

2024-10-28 23:48:40 UTC

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shall we call this Martin’s Law? 🤣

2024-10-25 02:30:03 UTC

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honestly this is why I never configure local memory caching at all in projects. The debugging nightmares are just not worth it.

2024-10-13 03:23:25 UTC

I sort of jokingly thought about Django and/or Wagtail “taking over” when this all first started, but now…. Keep it up Matt and it very well may happen.
From: @npub1w9t…a2ap
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2024-09-17 00:46:54 UTC

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you’re confusing me with @npub1nsp…ahke 🤣

2024-09-16 20:30:13 UTC

I know I'm late to the party, but I think I'm FINALLY Team pre-commit

2024-09-12 18:55:28 UTC

Apparently I'm excited for this next meeting, nearly threw my mouse across the room reaching for something else.

2024-09-08 00:14:20 UTC

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I am also a fan of copier these days. I don’t feel I’ve mastered it (especially the update feature) but it’s nearly a drop in replacement and a little bit better all around IMHO

2024-09-06 12:09:22 UTC

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dude I’m in Kansas. Only saw mud and gease. Oh I guess if I had gone wildly off my path I could have fallen into a sand trap on the golf course hahaha

2024-09-06 11:55:27 UTC

All those hours of patiently waiting for the Mario obstacles (fire ropes etc) has paid off years later in my early morning walks through the neighborhood sprinklers. #NotADrop

2024-09-06 10:50:06 UTC

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yeah in retrospect it might not be clear I'm talking about when Redis is the broker.
Long term I imagine most everyone moves to valkey, just haven't had a reason to yet so don't think to push it in content like that.

2024-09-05 20:17:03 UTC

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sssh! The first rule of REVSYS Mug Club is you do not talk about Mug Club.

2024-08-30 21:08:38 UTC

Ran into an issue with Celery+Redis+Gevent that was surprising and difficult to debug. If you see your Redis connection counts growing without limits you might need this one small config change. https://www.revsys.com/tidbits/redis-connections-growing-unbounded/

2024-08-07 20:07:49 UTC

No idea why this afternoon my Mac reset the key repeat settings which completely broken moving around in VS Code with vim mode. That was an unnecessary 30 minutes of my life.

2024-08-07 00:47:41 UTC

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OMG was so good. Taking an afternoon to make homemade yellow curry paste last month and freezing into cubes is one of my new favorite things. 45 minute homemade Thai for the win.

2024-08-07 00:38:40 UTC

I love me some tacos but starting Thai Tuesday as a thing for awhile at my house.
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2024-08-03 18:24:03 UTC

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yeah I do 99% of everything in Docker these days so I’m not really managing virtualenvs anymore which is why my set up works for me

2024-08-03 12:37:50 UTC

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I also used to be a heavy “workon” user but now I use a combo of zoxide and direnv which I really like.

2024-06-22 00:42:47 UTC

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actually I’m wrong, it was some other site Jeff had me register on. I think the fact that THIS is confusing is a bad thing and should be easier IMHO.

2024-06-22 00:41:11 UTC

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yeah that’s the site I couldn’t figure out how to show non-monetary contributions and I gave up. If I can’t figure it out, it’s bad as I’m willing to put up with a fair bit of bad UX.

2024-06-22 00:27:38 UTC

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I’m very out of the loop on this one but can you give me the gist sometime? I saw @npub1qtw…umz5 mentioned it but as a non-voting member (because it’s too hard to do in 15 minutes the last two times I’ve tried) and not a Fellow. PM is fine but curious who I should be avoiding if nothing else.