ttyrec in 2026: Why Old Tech Wins for Evidence Integrity
In the world of terminal recording, asciinema is the undisputed king. It’s modern, it uses JSON, it’s web-native, and it’s everywhere. So, why on earth did I build PentLog on top of ttyrec—a format from the year 2000 that smells like old C code and despair? It wasn’t nostalgia. It was a tactical decision for Evidence Integrity. The JSON Trap Asciinema (v2 format) logs are essentially a list of JSON arrays (lines of text). It’s clean and easy to parse. ...