Firefox 69 is shipping with protection from cryptocurrency mining running without the user's knowledge: https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/09/firefox-will-now-let-you-block-fingerprint-tracking-and-cryptojacking/
I know CI services like Travis have to worry about this, but I wouldn't have thought JS mining would be anywhere near worthwhile.
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I frequently find myself running:
$ slowish
$ slowish | jq
$ slowish | jq | grep
I feel there must be a better way to build up pipelines incrementally without re-running.
I could save each output to a file, but it's more verbose, and most of these tools have nicer output when stdout is a TTY.
Delighted to see that Typescript 7 is moving to conventional LSP for its IDE services!
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/progress-on-typescript-7-december-2025/#resetting-language-service-issues
Coming from JS or Python, imports in Rust feel weird. They're entirely optional aliases for fully qualified symbols, which are always available.
I don't know of many other languages where you can just start using libraries. Java is the only one I can think of.