◈ Cowork/2026-10-22Intermediate
Half My Scheduled-Task Logs Were Unreadable, So I Added One Mark Line Instead of Widening the Regex
Only about half of 1,076 daily log entries yielded a result. Widening the regex recovered 35 and raised false alarms, so I wrote a fixed one-line mark per run and a morning check script.
⟐ Claude Code/2026-07-17Advanced
My Nightly Subagents Ran, and I Couldn't Retrace Them — Trimming the Logs That --forward-subagent-text Unleashed
Subagent text and thinking can now flow into stream-json output, and unattended log volume climbs sharply with it. Here are measured numbers, a three-tier retention filter that keeps only what postmortems need, and a correlation ID design that survives missing fields.
⟐ Claude Code/2026-07-16Intermediate
Switching Claude Code to Plain-Text Rendering — Three Ways In, and What Your Logs Actually Weigh
I opened last night's Claude Code log and found the same spinner line stacked dozens of times. Here are the three ways to turn on screen reader mode, a short script that measures what escape sequences and redraws really cost you, and what you give up when the rendering goes plain.