Logging Posts

Having a file provider extension with multiple domains and processes and even more enumerators logging in parallel can become a mess. Leveraging the subsystem and category fields to the rescue.

I was very excited about macros because they allow the reduction of boilerplate code like handling signposts. This macro reduces signposting in a method to a single word expression.

While I am still convinced the unified logging system is great, the masking of value interpolations gets into my way often enough, too. The way to unmask those values has changed drastically from macOS release to macOS release.

With the introduction of Swift macros in 2023, I have came across a few situations in which they have become useful. One is the reduction of boilerplate code. In example the automatic declaration of a Logger property on a type.