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Apr 6, 2026 · one of the small things

Before TypeScript 7, find out who uses the compiler API

The Go port runs tsc ten times faster and does not ship a programmatic API until 7.1. The whole migration risk is the list of tools that import typescript as a library rather than run it as a command.

pnpm why typescript

Codegen scripts, custom transformers and type-aware lint rules stay on 6 until 7.1. Everything else is a version bump.

typescripttooling

Longer version: the post this came from.

~/tips/today — 2026-09-04

~cat tips/today

Session cookies: HttpOnly, Secure, SameSite=Lax

securityhttp

Three attributes, each closing a class of attack. HttpOnly keeps scripts from reading it. Secure keeps it off plain HTTP. SameSite=Lax stops it being sent on cross-site POSTs, which is most CSRF.

Set-Cookie: session=...; HttpOnly; Secure; SameSite=Lax; Path=/; Max-Age=1209600

Strict breaks arriving from an external link while logged in. Lax is the default worth keeping.

↵ open y yesterday l ls /tips

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