htop to show processes and trees, top to show IO wait, iotop to show IO per process. I wish there was a single app that did everything.
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I've been experimenting with LLM autoresearch. I prompted Sol to make difftastic faster without changing output on the test suite, and log everything it tried:
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/blob/c6e9c6fed4c71276a8b0e377c92695c3d929dc7f/PERF_RESEARCH_LOG.md
It found some interesting performance tweaks, although it's too tolerant of complexity.
Today I learnt that a continually blinking caps lock on Linux signifies a kernel panic: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3840/the-caps-lock-and-scroll-lock-lights-are-flashing-and-everything-is-frozen
(On the plus side, it's the first time I've encountered this despite using Linux for years.)
Tried `just` (the task runner) today, and I really like it. npm has scripts, but `just` works anywhere.
Editor integration is also excellent: you can get by with Makefile highlighting, but in Emacs you can even run everything interactively!
https://github.com/casey/just