typelevel / typelevel/skunk

Add option to turn off emojis in exceptions

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Description

The flood of 🔥 emojis looks cool and definitely draws attention when you hit an issue in local development, but it's not well supported in all CI systems, and certainly not in all logging systems. There should be a way to tweak this behavior, perhaps even with sane defaults such as disabling the fires when CI=1 or based on some terminal variables.

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Research direction

No file or test is named. Start by locating the exception-rendering entry point and any tests covering its message output; then trace how runtime environment values are handled. Done means the emoji behavior can be configured, with documented defaults for CI or unsupported logging environments and tests covering the chosen behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
scala
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
48/100

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