So yeah, I vibe-coded a log colorizer—and I feel good about it
The author admits limited coding experience but used large language models to tackle a small, practical project rather than learn a full development stack. The result was a Python-based Nginx log colorizer, a roughly 400-line single-file script developed in Visual Studio Code with Claude Code.
The author supplied a sanitized access.log example and asked the model to prioritize efficiency and readability; Claude suggested Python for its regex support. The work was motivated by an intermittent caching problem on the Space City Weather site, where Cloudflare sometimes served pages with an outdated WordPress comment area instead of the Discourse comments.
A previously added PHP mu-plugin mitigated the symptom but did not reveal the root cause, so digging into server logs became necessary.
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