{"slug": "announcing-some-improvements-to-renovate-pretty-log-tui", "title": "Announcing some improvements to `renovate-pretty-log-tui`", "summary": "Developer Jamie Tanna released v0.6.0 of renovate-pretty-log-tui and renovate-pretty-log, adding a summary view, improved UX, clearer error surfacing, and a new -html option that converts debug logs into self-contained HTML files. The release was assisted by AI models Claude Opus and Claude Fable, and was finalized during a GitHub outage.", "body_md": "As I've blogged about before, [I've written a tool for improving the experience of working with Renovate's debug logs](https://www.jvt.me/posts/2025/05/18/renovate-pretty-log/), providing a more targeted experience for viewing the logs.\n\nWhile there are a few options out there at the moment, including part of our products at Mend, it's also nice having an agnostic tool I can use across different products, or where a customer or a user has provided logs to us.\n\nLast week, I finally sat down to listing out some of the key improvements I'd like to have completed on `renovate-pretty-log-tui`\n\n. As I'm not that familiar with Bubble Tea, which it's based on, I decided to set Claude Opus and Claude Fable on the work, as well as seeing if they could see any additional improvements.\n\nI've just shipped [v0.6.0 of my renovate-pretty-log-tui and renovate-pretty-log utilities](https://gitlab.com/tanna.dev/renovate-pretty-log/-/releases/v0.6.0), including a whole host of changes - check out the release notes for more.\n\nSome of the key changes can be seen in this Asciicast:\n\nAs you can see, there's now a summary view, and an improved UX for viewing the logs.\n\nI'm still working on how this works on smaller screens (i.e. in a Tmux pane) but it works nicely when it's rendered on a half-screen window size.\n\nIn this, we also surface errors more clearly, i.e.\n\nAlthough I'd mostly completed this last week, I needed to put [the last touches to the commit messages](https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/17/hand-write-commits/).\n\nWith [the GitHub outage today](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330597), I decided to finish getting these changes complete, as they've very useful for working with debug logs.\n\nI'd also decided to add `renovate-pretty-log -html`\n\noption, which allows converting a debug log into [a single-page, self-contained HTML file](/casts/2026-08-renovate-pretty-log/renovate-debug-out.html) that allows reviewing a very similar view of the local tools, but in the browser.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/announcing-some-improvements-to-renovate-pretty-log-tui", "canonical_source": "https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/17/renovate-pretty-log/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss", "published_at": "2026-08-17 20:47:36+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-17 21:42:15.683686+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Jamie Tanna", "renovate-pretty-log-tui", "renovate-pretty-log", "Claude Opus", "Claude Fable", "GitHub", "Mend"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/announcing-some-improvements-to-renovate-pretty-log-tui", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/announcing-some-improvements-to-renovate-pretty-log-tui.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/announcing-some-improvements-to-renovate-pretty-log-tui.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/announcing-some-improvements-to-renovate-pretty-log-tui.jsonld"}}