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. 🤣

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...

I got targeted

Someone targeted me in an attempt to gain access or credentials because of my Open Source and/or consulting roles

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

Sendgrid is bad at spending their marketing money

Sendgrid is bad at spending their marketing money

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We live in interesting times.

We live in interesting times.

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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!

DEV Community

A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career

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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...

How to turn off work thoughts during your free time

Feeling 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.

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

I turn coffee into good ideas.

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

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-...

Open Source Maintainership in an LLM world

Suggestions and techniques you can use to keep your sanity in a sea of issues and PRs

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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-...

Open Source Maintainership in an LLM world

Suggestions and techniques you can use to keep your sanity in a sea of issues and PRs

frankwiles.com

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

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.

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

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

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

If it annoys you, automate it!

If it annoys you, automate it!

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THIS 👇 HERE.......

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.

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

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/

Contact Frank Wiles

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

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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.

KC OSS Happy Hour, Thu, Sep 10, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup

We’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

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

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

Navigating Tons of Github Repos

Github Search and their UI choices just don't work optimially at a certain level

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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...

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

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

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.

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.