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Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

261 points david927 | 2 comments | 23 Feb 25 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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elric ◴[24 Feb 25 09:27 UTC] No.43157477[source]▶
Working on a new Java logging tool. I'm basically yak shaving, really. Was unhappy with the existing solutions for a new project I'm working on. Depending on how it goes and how the customer feels about it, I'll try to open source it.
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1. p2detar ◴[24 Feb 25 14:35 UTC] No.43160026[source]▶
Do you mean like a library, alternative to log4j2 or some sort of frontend tool to view logs?
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2. elric ◴[24 Feb 25 20:59 UTC] No.43164866[source]▶
Something of an alternative to log4j, yes. On every project I've worked on, the vast majority of logs are useless. They're either too verbose, or not verbose enough. It's never clear who they're meant for. Log levels are very hard to get right. Is this really a warning? Or an error? Should someone do something? And when?

So I'm experimenting with ways of making it easier to write useful logs.