I've not heard of tattoy but I'm glad I ran across it. Most of its usage is not to my taste, but it appears to scratch an itch I've had for some time. I've been chewing on this idea for a... terminal emulator? shell? editor plugin?... something where you could annotate an error message with something like:

> This is fixed in the next release, nothing to see here

> I think think one is actually a problem, see issue 1657

And then your coworkers could view the logs in some way (special terminal emulator? piped through some kind of filter? idk) and your annotations would appear in a column next to the logs, perhaps with some background coloring to indicate which annotation goes with which log message. This way you don't all duplicate the effort of deciding whether this particular error is worth worrying about--instead you'd leave notes right there on the error (anchored via context triggered piecewise hashes).

The tattoy protocol seems like it be a good way to apply the highlighting on the logs whenever one that has a matching annotation appears on screen (https://tattoy.sh/docs/plugins/).

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DiggyJohnson 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

That would actually be cool. We have a couple issue patterns with the interface between front and backend that leads to our frontend guys always misinterpreting the reason their API call are failing. Wound be cool to annotate “this error message is usually caused by another error message in <this controller>. Please check for this before assuming…”

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__MatrixMan__ 6 days ago | parent [-]

It's part of a bigger vision, a sort of general-purpose digital spraypaint, where you don't need write access to the data in order to annotate it and we use patterns in the data itself to index the annotations such that you can direct any bitstream into the app and ask:

> do any of my peers have annotations on any of this?

But I think the way to get there is to make a variety of purpose built apps which all follow the same pattern, and I figure annotations on logs is one of the first ones I'll do. It has been slow going though, holidays and weekends, so it'll be a while.

	▲	DiggyJohnson 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Best of luck! I know how hard it can be to find time and energy for these sorts of projects, but this is cool

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tombh 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This is exactly the kind of creative thinking I want Tattoy to both inspire and make easy to implement.