[dimonomid]

That's good news that we have /var/log/socklog/everything/current, but I'm also trying to figure the format. Is it like this? (sourced from chatgpt)

2025-04-21 12:34:56 myhostname myservice: Something happened

If so, then yeah it's totally doable to make this format supported.

Re: config.yaml, yeah I thought of that, but in the long term I rather wanted it to be nerdlogrc.lua, so a Lua script which nerdlog executes on startup. Similar to vim (or rather, more like neovim in this case since it's Lua). Certainly having config.yaml is easier to implement, but in the longer term it may make things more confusing if we also introduce the Lua scripting.

[johnisgood]

Sadly no. The format is (with examples):

  2025-04-21T19:18:15.09577 user.notice: Apr 21 21:18:15 root: ACPI group/action undefined: jack/lineout / LINEOUT

  2025-04-21T19:18:15.98845 daemon.debug: Apr 21 19:18:15 rtkit-daemon[1368]: Supervising 0 threads of 0 processes of 1 users.

And yes! That is even better for configuration!

[johnisgood]

Maybe the format could be customizable per log file, too.

[dimonomid]

I don't think there's anything wrong with this format, it looks good. The most important thing for nerdlog is that all components of the timestamp must be at the fixed offsets from the beginning of each line. So I believe it can be implemented, I can look at it on the weekend. Feel free to create an issue on Github (I won't be able to test it for real, so would need your help with that)

[johnisgood]

I have a radial nerve injury, which makes it difficult to code, and I got a lot going on in my life at the moment, but hopefully I can come around it.

[dimonomid]

Damn I'm sorry to hear that. I'll see if I can get void linux installed somewhere to test it.

Good luck with whatever you're going through!

[johnisgood]

Thank you! :(. It is also referred to as wristdrop.

> If you sleep in a position that causes radial nerve compression, you may wake up experiencing numbness and tingling along the back of your arm, forearm, and hand. With more severe compression, you may also experience “wrist drop”. With wrist drop, your wrist becomes limp, and is unable to extend up.

This is what happened. It happened to me before 2 times, but this time it was only about 30 mins long compression so it is not THAT severe as it was the previous 2 times.

The reason I expanded on it is that just mere 30 minutes of sleeping on your arm may damage the nerves which results in radial nerve palsy. I would have never imagined it would happen to me, heck, I had no idea it was a thing. I had limp arms before from compression but that was related to only blood circulation, not nerve damage.

Radial nerve palsy is a nightmare for programmers. The first one was so severe that I lost my muscle memory, meaning I could not access some of my accounts.

Treatment is rest, selective electrical stimulation, and B1-B6-B12 combination, ideally injected IM. The faster the better. The first incident took months to recover, this one may only last 3 weeks.