{"id":34737,"date":"2022-01-18T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34737"},"modified":"2022-01-18T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T21:53:00","slug":"backlog-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/18\/backlog-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"BackLog 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.eternalstorms.at\/2022\/01\/18\/introducing-backlog-a-freeware-developer-tool-for-mac\/\">Matthias Gansrigler<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eternalstorms\/status\/1483451113420505095\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.eternalstorms.at\/2022\/01\/18\/introducing-backlog-a-freeware-developer-tool-for-mac\/\"><p>It&rsquo;s complicated, or at least cumbersome, to get logs that predate you clicking &ldquo;Start streaming&rdquo; in Console.app &#x2013; <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-gb\/guide\/console\/cnsl4f3fc2df\/mac\">Apple&rsquo;s recommendation<\/a> for it is to <em>create an entire system diagnostics report<\/em> and look for files in there. Madness.<\/p><p>I wanted a quick and easy way to, for example, get all log entries from all processes that happened from boot time to 5 minutes after.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Numerous times I&rsquo;ve had to deal with obscure app-sandbox or keychain access issues in Yoink, and having to tell customers to please open Console, filter for Yoink, and then (hopefully) reproduce the issue is just bad UX.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I can send them this app with a backlog:\/\/ link, with a time range pre-defined, and all they have to do is copy-paste the results into a response to my mail. And best of all &#x2013; they don&rsquo;t have to reproduce anything, the logs already contain all the info I need from the last time the issue occurred.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eternalstorms.at\/backlog\/\">BackLog<\/a> is free.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/10\/oslogstore-on-monterey\/\">OSLogStore on Monterey<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthias Gansrigler (tweet): It&rsquo;s complicated, or at least cumbersome, to get logs that predate you clicking &ldquo;Start streaming&rdquo; in Console.app &#x2013; Apple&rsquo;s recommendation for it is to create an entire system diagnostics report and look for files in there. Madness.I wanted a quick and easy way to, for example, get all log entries from all [&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":"2022-01-18T21:53:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"32bb29f1-7e83-4b3f-9d4d-5219d4ccc9c1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-01-18T21:53:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AMrsp8X6DSz-dTVIZ1MzJwQ","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":[30,32,1666,2077,1504],"class_list":["post-34737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-15","tag-macos-12","tag-os_log"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34737","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=34737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34738,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34737\/revisions\/34738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}