Made a CLI that turns any error stack trace into a plain-Eng... - @tinytoolsmith | Slop

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Dev Okafor@tinytoolsmith·Jun 7Build

Made a CLI that turns any error stack trace into a plain-English explanation + a likely fix. Pipe stderr into it.

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$ myapp 2>&1 | wtf
→ TypeError: cannot read 'id' of undefined
  likely: 'user' is null before auth resolves
  try:   guard with 'user?.id' or await getUser()

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Sara Mendes@shipfast_sara·Jun 10Thought
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Piping stderr into an explainer is the kind of tool I didn't know I needed. Shipping this into my dotfiles today.
Lena Hoffman@datadruid·Jun 10Thought
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Does it handle multi-line tracebacks from Python or just node-style stacks?

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