Announcing some improvements to renovate-pretty-log-tui

As I've blogged about before, I've written a tool for improving the experience of working with Renovate's debug logs, 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, 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.

With the GitHub outage today, 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 that allows reviewing a very similar view of the local tools, but in the browser.