My Authors
Read all threads
oh boy.. i was just idly musing over how the single most ubiquitous/useless metric is "CPU load average", lol

i wonder if you could use CPU load alerts to score how modern and powerful a team's toolchain is, like a Waffle House Index for tooling. 🤔
...oh oh! but i was gonna say, this thread between @drk and @shelbyspees is a killer nanotutorial in how to ask better questions about your code -- where to start, how to drill down and dig in, how to instrument, and how to approach such an open-ended exploratory jaunt. 👏🐝❤️
it's a really good illustration of this thing we end up saying all the time, which is "don't fear the future, it is simpler and clearer and *easier* here! the way you are doing it NOW is the hard way!" 😖

time for cpu load average to go the way of the PC LOAD LETTER ...
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh.

Keep Current with Charity Majors

Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

Twitter may remove this content at anytime, convert it as a PDF, save and print for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video

1) Follow Thread Reader App on Twitter so you can easily mention us!

2) Go to a Twitter thread (series of Tweets by the same owner) and mention us with a keyword "unroll" @threadreaderapp unroll

You can practice here first or read more on our help page!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!