Frank Wiles

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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
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Frank Wiles23h ago
Show threadEntertainment Porpoises Only1d ago
"How observing Vibe Coders cured my Imposter Syndrome"
Frank Wiles1d ago
Simon Willison1d ago
Warning to open source maintainers: the Axios supply chain attack started with some
very sophisticated social engineering targeted at one of their developers https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/supply-chain-social-engineering/
The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering

The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved …

Simon Willison’s Weblog
Show threadFrank Wiles2d ago
@djpeacher thank you! Someone got it!
Frank Wiles2d ago
Life at my house. Dad can we make homemade marshmallows at 9pm on a school night? Ummm… sure
Show threadFrank Wiles2d ago
Apparently 80s jokes don’t land here at all 🤣
Frank Wiles2d ago
Django News2d ago

[Articles] Give Django your time and money, not your tokens

The Django community wants to collaborate with you, not a facade of you. #djangonews

https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/03/16/give-django-your-time-and-money/

Give Django your time and money, not your tokens

The Django community wants to collaborate with you, not a facade of you.

Better Simple
Frank Wiles2d ago
ClawAlert saves a life every 200k tokens! #80sTech
Show threadFrank Wiles2d ago
@adriano @janl @jacob I recently got some blood work done and I’m very Vitamin D deficient so I’m personally quite glad I can’t photosynthesize as my vampire ass would be dead 🤣
Show threadFrank Wiles2d ago

@janl @jacob can I ask the last time you used genai for some code? Maybe not even your main/work codebase just anything even a toy script?

I’ve found that often the people who hold this opinion tried it for a couple hours a year or more ago and formed an opinion.

Frank Wiles2d ago
jacobian2d ago

Look this isn’t at all a defense of slop code, but it has me thinking — how much does code quality matter, and why?

It’s maintenance, right? We care about readability because we know we’ll have to make changes, fix bugs, etc.

But so … imagine a codebase that’s magically bug-free and feature-complete. (I’m aware this is a strawman - that’s the point, it’s a thought experiment.) Does it matter if this codebase is well-written? I’m not sure it does! (1/5)