This is such an obvious simplification that is also empowering, I'm surprised it isn't standard. Am I missing something here? Or is everyone else?

So too do most programming languages have good JSON support these days. And if all you need is "Got here!", I comment that JSON has simple strings. OK, you're adding two extra bytes to the log message. If you're producing enough log messages for this to matter, you have other problems.

And pretty much all databases have good JSON handling these days. I am unabashedly a Postgres partisan in the database wars, but MongoDB, ElasticSearch, and MySql all have good JSON support. Hell, writing JSON logs to a file and using jq gives an enormous amount of power.

I don't see saving them in a database to be all that difficult. I mean, in most environments that need powerful log querying your going to have a database kicking around anyways.

Maybe this is where I go off the rails, but the value add I see them providing is parsing the logs. Which is very much the hard part (unless you cheat by having your logs be JSON).

Bet we now have several dozen companies (at least- this is only counting the ones who have snuck into my youtube ads) whose core product is taking your logs and trying to do something with them.

Why are we making our lives unnecessarily difficult? I know how things got this way- we started with printf logging and just never rethought things.

I mean, any log message more complicated than "Got here!" is going to have more data associated with it. So we do a bunch of string interpolation to slam it down into a simple string, and then do enormous work on the back end to parse the extra data out again.

After all, they've been putting up with NYC's increasing inaffordability for decades now.

OK, some of the numbers that their account shows them at the end of the year will be somewhat smaller- but that's a small price to pay for all the NYC offers (especially the wealthy).

Because, at the end of the day, what Mamdani is proposing won't actually effect their lives, the lives of the seriously wealthy, all that much.

I will bet cashy money that most of the people threatening to move won't. And of the few that do, most will be back in a year or so. I mean, they'll scream from the rooftops that they're leaving, but quietly slink back.

(Except Sting lives in Central Park South, but you get what I'm going for).

"Well, the spouse works downtown on Wall Street, and I work on Madison Avenue, so of course we live Central Park West in the same building as Sting."

And don't underestimate the value of cachet here. Notice how many of these places are self descriptive. I can just mention 30 Rock or Madison avenue, and you immediately know what I'm talking about. Bragging rights ain't nothing, especially to these people.

Say goodbye to all of your friends and acquaintances. Say goodbye to all those hole in the wall restaurants where they know you now. And remember, we're talking about the 1% here, so say goodbye to that 80th floor view out your office of the Manhattan skyline.

I mean, think about it for a minute. Moving to Florida or Texas means no more Wall Street jobs, no more Madison Avenue jobs, no more Thirty Rock jobs. No more MOMA, no more Met galas, no more Met, no more Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music hall, or Broadway plays.

The threat to up and move to Florida or Texas is a total joke- these people refuse to move to Connecticut or New Jersey.