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       Show HN: Teemux - Zero-config log multiplexer with built-in MCP
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       I started to use AI agents for coding and quickly ran into a
       frustrating limitation - there is no easy way to share my
       development environment logs with AI agents. So that's what is
       Teemux. A simple CLI program that aggregates logs, makes them
       available to you as a developer (in a pretty UI), and makes them
       available to your AI coding agents using MCP.  There is one
       implementation detail that I geek out about:  It is zero config and
       has built-in leader nomination for running the web server and MCP
       server. When you start one `teemux` instance, it starts web server,
       .. when you start second and third instances, they join the first
       server and start merging logs. If you were to kill the first
       instance, a new leader is nominated. This design allows to seamless
       add/remove nodes that share logs (a process that historically would
       have taken a central log aggregator).  A super quick demo:  npx
       teemux -- curl -N https://teemux.com/random-logs
        
       Author : gajus
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2026-01-23 15:49 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (teemux.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (teemux.com)
        
       | zareith wrote:
       | Cool utility. Horrendous name.
        
         | gajus wrote:
         | lowkey thought it is a genius name
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         | tee (Unix command that splits output) + mux (multiplexer) =
         | teemux
        
           | cap11235 wrote:
           | Pronounced tmux. That's a thing. A very related thing. A very
           | well-known thing. It's a bad name. I do like the concept
           | though (haven't tried using it yet).
        
             | gajus wrote:
             | Fair point
        
       | jelder wrote:
       | Couldn't coding agents just run `tail -f *`?
        
         | gajus wrote:
         | That would require restarting your services to redirect their
         | output. Fine for one-off scripts, but impractical when you have
         | long-running processes and don't want to restart them every
         | time an agent needs to read logs.
         | 
         | With teemux, a persistent MCP server gives multiple AI agents
         | access to logs as needed--without interrupting your development
         | flow.
        
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