Announcing some improvements to `renovate-pretty-log-tui`

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.

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. While 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. Last week, I finally sat down to listing out some of the key improvements I'd like to have completed on renovate-pretty-log-tui . 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. I'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. Some of the key changes can be seen in this Asciicast: As you can see, there's now a summary view, and an improved UX for viewing the logs. I'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. In this, we also surface errors more clearly, i.e. Although 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/ . With 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. I'd also decided to add renovate-pretty-log -html option, 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.