{"id":29364,"date":"2020-06-26T16:16:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T20:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29364"},"modified":"2020-06-26T16:16:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T20:16:26","slug":"console-the-vital-tool-that-apple-abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/26\/console-the-vital-tool-that-apple-abandoned\/","title":{"rendered":"Console, the Vital Tool That Apple Abandoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2020\/06\/14\/last-week-on-my-mac-console-the-vital-tool-that-apple-abandoned\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2020\/06\/14\/last-week-on-my-mac-console-the-vital-tool-that-apple-abandoned\/\">\n<p>What makes me most angry at what has happened to the log and Console is that Apple&rsquo;s concepts and engineering are outstanding: the log has a remarkably low latency, retains a great deal of invaluable data in structured and compact format, and should be an essential resource to anyone who takes their Mac seriously. Instead of building on those unique strengths, Apple has provided token support which must leave even its own engineers wishing for better, as they wade through the logarchives supplied in <code>sysdiagnose<\/code> dumps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>macOS 11 continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/videos\/play\/wwdc2020\/10168\/\">improve the logging APIs<\/a>, but from what I can tell it&rsquo;s still difficult to actually use the log from Console.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/06\/problems-with-os_log\/\">Problems With os_log<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: What makes me most angry at what has happened to the log and Console is that Apple&rsquo;s concepts and engineering are outstanding: the log has a remarkably low latency, retains a great deal of invaluable data in structured and compact format, and should be an essential resource to anyone who takes their Mac [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-06-26T20:16:30Z","apple_news_api_id":"77b936f7-cf4b-4048-ac75-1295b77c8d8f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-06-26T20:16:30Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ad7k2989LQEisdRKVt3yNjw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[384,30,1666,1891],"class_list":["post-29364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-console","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-macos-11-0"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29365,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29364\/revisions\/29365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}