creaking

!I keep restarting Apache but my God, my server is creaking!Ling

I go crazy with floor boards creaking above me but I work best in a co-working space.

We try not to get involved in the actual machinery, which is full of loud noises and creaking cogs.

But the solution is not to keep the Shuttle program creaking along, but to work on a new program.

No longer do I have to search through the standard library only to be met with an aging, creaking model which doesn't quite fit my needs.

I've made multiple attempts to learn Go, but for the life of me I can't; it seems so byzantine and archaic, like a creaking, inconsistent Rube Goldberg machine.

Go write your initial version in Python or Ruby or Lisp or something that lets you quickly try out new ideas, and once it starts creaking under load, then you rewrite it in Java or C++.

Just typing this, laptop keys clicking, fan whirring, electrical timer creaking, crows squawking, the uncouth hollering of neighbors outside, cars rumbling in the distance, I am longing to experience such silence again.

I picture you going "downstairs", your wooden steps creaking as you go down, past the various two-decade old metal cans of cleaning/household lubricating products on a shelf, into your computer room, with the wood paneling on the walls, the small basement window with the hand-crank, the slight smell of mildew and dryer sheets...

If you move too high up the abstraction layer while trying to still serve a wide audience you end up with the kind of morass that is Drupal, where the system can do almost anything adequately, but it doesn't do a great job of anything because of the creaking weight of the infrastructure that attempts to be everything to everyone.