Proposal: Ditch this "GHz" rubbish, switch to a new universal method of measuring CPU speed in "mistakes per second". My CPU can also make 32 mistakes concurrently with Hyperthreading!

Anyone else have weird massive GPU usage that makes their Mac unusable in the afternoon/evening? Been driving me nuts for a week. Well, it's Night Shift triggering around sunset: discussions.apple.com/thread/2506459… 🤯

Really fantastic talk by Melissa Perri today about The Build Trap - So many feels about building and shipping the wrong(?) stuff in our teams and how to even measure if that's even happening. Read the book! amzn.to/39baiFn

Bonus funny/accurate photo (any talk that involves an Office Space gif/reference is a great talk IMO, that was the next slide) WHAT HAVE WE BUILT?! - credit Melissa Perri

NYC: Where it's below freezing and half the population is still drinking ice coffee. England, can't we have this too please?

OH: "Why is that a story and not a task?" Stuart Sears : "Because stories have happy endings and tasks rarely end that way" #agile

Time flies when you're using databases! #nosql #devops #hasitagedwell

Sure I'll get right on that eBay UK

By popular demand, I've updated howfuckedismydatabase.com to clarify whether Excel is a good database after the NHS COVID-19 test results debacle #databases #excel #covid (credit luna was here)

DoS in your own home: When your Sky Q box takes out your network by a daily cycle of steadily increasing SSDP multicast packets. Do I know anyone who works at Sky?! Help plz Sky

Blasted cold aisle!

An internal part of my past-life webops engineer self is twitching this morning at this Fastly outage, thoughts with all of you inside and out. Super weird getting push notifications from Bloomberg on my phone that Fastly is down!

OH: "eventually coherent"

"I'm good at pivot tables, but not like, dragging shit around" #nocontext

We've been shifting Bloomberg to be open source first. New hire ramp up period reduced, less code duplication, etc. The benefits have been known for some time, but imaging shfiting a 40 year old company to them! bloomberg.com/company/values… (p.s. I'm hiring) #OpenSource

Is anyone else getting a kernel panic every time they plug or unplug Thunderbolt from their MBP? Haven't moved this Mac for 2 years, making RTO a bit painful when it crashes any time I move it 🤦

OH: "jq is even easier than sed!"