Along with it being Cinco de Mayo and Taco Tuesday today is ALSO the 19th anniversary of me starting REVSYS. It's been a crazy ride and only getting crazier in these weird AI times. Have a taco in our honor today!

For the first time I think I've gotten caught by a Django release coming out JUST as I was updating my locked dependencies AND the new release isn't quite cached by PyPI yet leading to a very confusing error message.

DjangoChat Podcast: E201: https://micro.webology.dev/2026/04/30/djangochat-podcast-e/ This week, I joined the DjangoChat podcast episode discussing DjangoCon Europe, recent developments in Django, AI workflows, and shared recommendations for projects and books.

Yay! Someone liked my `kube-secrets` CLI that makes it easier to see the useful secrets in Kubernetes that they submitted a PR! Thanks Baptiste Roux! New version 0.7.0 released. github.com/frankwiles/...

Typo of the Day: RIP instead of WIP in a commit message

I believe one day Github will get to the unenviable five 8s of reliability once again!

Actually useful, accurate, and in hindsight funny git commit message on a bit of Terraform for a kubernetes cluster: Remove entirely unuseful taint

Oscar's Law: The distance to the dumpster is inversely proportional to your willingness to take out the trash.

me: Does this test even make sense? Claude: You're exactly right — it's circular and pointless. Seeding the values and then asserting they were saved correctly just tests Django's ORM, not your pipeline. me: Moron

Wise words this morning from my Todoist app

Not sure if it's the impact of AI or what but I've managed to keep my INBOX < 50 for all of 2026 so far. New personal record!

Hey ya’ll Daughter #2 is $450 away from her fundraising goal for her High School Pom fundraiser. If you wanna make her day you know what to do! www.raise-365.com/shop/09su-h...

This is your monthly reminder that Microsoft Teams costs your company far money in lost productivity than whatever alternative chat and meeting tool you might pick. FAR FAR more.

SecKC is so awesome and fun. I came to accompany my oldest to the first few meetups but I think I’ll be back on my own!

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I left Pi + gemma4 running on a task for a bit and apparently it's having a case of the Mondays 🤣

In my last manager job at the LJW/Sunflower (which released Django) I wasn't very hands on toward the end. When people asked me what I did I used to joke that I "talked about computers". In this new AI landscape, I just realized I now just talk to computers about computers.

Family just discovered that peeps are pretty good on wood oven pizza. Who knew!

Life at my house. Dad can we make homemade marshmallows at 9pm on a school night? Ummm… sure

ClawAlert saves a life every 200k tokens! #80sTech

Dear Lazy Web, while I'm VERY familiar with Wagtail CMS I don't think I'm completely up on best practices around making the Editing interface super slick for less technical users. I'm aware of blocks and page types, etc. but are there any good posts, docs, or talks I should see?

You just there is some idiot out there equating that the Artemis II launch being on April 1st is evidence the Apollo moon landings were faked.

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

Let's focus on something we ALL agree on: #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Had some time to answer a couple more "Ask Frank Anything" questions. Today's is on imposter syndrome and becoming an expert. Warning, I channel Yoda briefly at one point. frankwiles.com/questions/i...

Had some time to answer a couple more "Ask Frank Anything" questions. Today's is on imposter syndrome and becoming an expert. Warning, I channel Yoda briefly at one point. frankwiles.com/questions/i...

Just finished watching an interview with Steve Yegge on The Pragmatic Engineer. I've read various blog post by him over the years, but he seems like he would be a real fun guy to hang out and nerd with.

I've been busier than usual lately but here is another fun Ask Frank Anything question on how to develop software as environmentally friendly as possible. frankwiles.com/questions/e...

Family wanted steak tonight.

Good morning bots! Hope you have a productive day.

Typo of the day: Typing your next AI prompt into your IPython shell and then being confused when it says "SyntaxError: invalid syntax" 🤦

OH on YouTube, "You're never going to be able to .... well ok for the 18 months you're not going to be able to" hahaha yep I think 'never' is getting redefined a bit in our current world.

Time to prompt the donuts... www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyZ...

If you're building an agent and haven't checked out pydantic-deep yet you're missing out! A LOT of cool agents are going to be built on top of this. pydantic.dev/articles/py...

"We’re still in the dorks-only phase of model-assisted programming..." craigmod.com/essays/soft... Weirdly was working on a custom accounting thing for REVSYS as I rediscovered this open tab. hahaha it's a good read. Thoughts?

Do you like watching files? C'mon admit it. If you don't you should and here is a tool I use along with two different alternatives I found today! frankwiles.com/til/cli-fil... First TIL I've written in awhile, sorry been too busy with client stuff lately!

Lovely day for a Guinness!

Maybe this is all just a simulation. Just characters in someone’s complicated Tamagotchi aboard a ship somewhere. Maybe the Beatles were right and we all live in a Yellow Submarine!

Things you don’t expect to hear from your 8th grader on Sunday morning: Dad I need rum. Turns out she’s making tiramisu 🤣

I'm coding hard today. Three concurrent sessions. Three different LLM models. Two different coding harnesses. The future is weird, but I like it.

On today's episode of This Old Code we're working with two Django projects that are older than many popular frameworks. Doing some light refactoring and updates and both are around 10 years old! After a little sanding and finish we'll have two beautiful pieces of software!

Remember when Domino’s used to promise 30 minutes of its free? Hoping their delivery tracker is just drunk because it’s gonna real cold when it gets here in Kansas if it’s just now leaving San Francisco….

Some days you're like man these LLMs are amazing. And then you fight with one to build a simple Grafana dashboard and realize there is still quite a ways to go! 🤣

Reminder that OFTEN you're wrong about what the 'longest string' is for various human things. 50 character city is not enough for example www.newzealand.com/us/feature/... Also most modern databases the extra space allowance doesn't usually cost you actual storage overhead.

Morning friends! As you start your day take a big deep breath and THEN figure out how you're gonna spend your morning tokens.

Finishing watching Python Unplugged on PyTV this morning www.youtube.com/live/qKkyBh... Great talks and what a fun and novel format. I'm going to have to start calling Will "Kurt Loder" from now on.

Making some pre-coding green tea with the fancy tea kettle Heroku bought us like 12 years ago…

Couldn’t agree more! blog.system76.com/post/system...

my kids are going to get so excited over GPT-6.7