Our Rust file watcher ate 23.6 GB of RAM, and our ignore rules never had a chanc

<p>It was past midnight and my Mac threw a box I had not seen in years.</p> <p>Your system has run out of application memory.</p> <p>Force Quit Applications.</p> <p>I had four

<p>I run a scheduled agent that writes and publishes dev.to articles twice a day. Every run, before it does anything else, it reads <code>docs/project_notes/issues.md</code> — the

<p>I was writing a storage analyser, which means walking every file on the disk<br /> and adding up what it costs. Somewhere around the 140,000th file the progress<br /> line