diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e61051f..0672f1e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 /node_modules/
 /coverage/
+*.yaml
diff --git a/example/example.js b/example/example.js
deleted file mode 100644
index f0978ea..0000000
--- a/example/example.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-import logger from '../src/logger'
-let log = {}
-
-class LOGTEST {
-  constructor(opts) {
-    log = logger({
-      name: 'test',
-      id: opts.id,
-      file: 'example/example.js',
-      class: 'LOGTEST'
-    })
-  }
-
-}
-
-let test = new LOGTEST({id:'process-test1'})
-
-log.info({test:'filter', msg:'this is a logged message'})
-log.fatal('this is a fatal logged message')
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 951c100..6a3be14 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
   },
   "homepage": "https://github.com/uCOMmandIt/uci-changeme#readme",
   "dependencies": {
-    "pino": "^5.9.0",
-    "pino-pretty": "^2.4.0"
+    "pino": "^5.11.0",
+    "pino-pretty": "^2.5.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "chai": "^4.2.0",