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Frank Wiles
Personal blog · frankwiles.com/posts · on HN as frankwilesprogrammingcareer
Frank Wiles writes FrankWiles.com, a personal blog at frankwiles.com about programming and career. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Lets Just Try It”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by HN readers as a source of Django project-starting advice from a Django consultant. One commenter cites his recommendations and adds their own, such as using uv and a custom user model.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Internet consultant, founder of REVSYS, Django Steering Council member, and open source software expert.
Most-linked posts?
- Lets Just Try It2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-25
- I got targeted: Trying to get your credentials via a Git post-checkout hook2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-03
What Hacker News says?
https://frankwiles.com
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted The day I did something as a story · 205 points
HN discussionhttps://frankwiles.com/posts/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted I got targeted: Trying to get your credentials via a Git post-checkout hook as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSome more Django recommendations from Frank Wiles of Revsys (Django consultancy): https://frankwiles.com/questions/starting-django-projects/ I'll add a few of my own: * Set up the project using uv * I name the django project "project"; so settings are project/settings.py, main urls are project/urls.py, etc * I always define a custom Django user model even if I don't need anything extra yet; easier to expand later *…
Comment linking /questions/starting-django-projects/
on “Notes on Starting to Use Django”Submitted Lets Just Try It as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lets Just Try It as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I got targeted: Trying to get your credentials via a Git post-checkout hook as a story · 1 points
HN discussion