diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 433d02d7..21a50829 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@
 .vim
 .DS_Store 
 /assets/man/zellij.1
-**/target
\ No newline at end of file
+**/target
+zellij.log
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1a51077b..a55e40da 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2277,8 +2277,6 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d54ee1d4ed486f78874278e63e4069fc1ab9f6a18ca492076ffb90c5eb2997fd"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if 1.0.0",
- "serde",
- "serde_json",
  "wasm-bindgen-macro",
 ]
 
@@ -2653,7 +2651,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "typetag",
  "unicode-width",
- "wasm-bindgen",
  "wasmer",
  "wasmer-wasi",
  "zellij-utils",
@@ -2663,7 +2660,6 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "zellij-tile"
 version = "0.14.0"
 dependencies = [
- "log",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "strum",
@@ -2702,7 +2698,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "strum",
  "tempfile",
  "termion",
- "typetag",
  "vte 0.10.1",
  "zellij-tile",
 ]
diff --git a/zellij-server/Cargo.toml b/zellij-server/Cargo.toml
index d06745de..442360d9 100644
--- a/zellij-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zellij-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ serde_json = "1.0"
 unicode-width = "0.1.8"
 wasmer = "1.0.0"
 wasmer-wasi = "1.0.0"
-wasm-bindgen = { version = "0.2", features = ["serde-serialize"] }
 cassowary = "0.3.0"
 zellij-utils = { path = "../zellij-utils/", version = "0.14.0" }
 log = "0.4.14"
diff --git a/zellij-server/src/wasm_vm.rs b/zellij-server/src/wasm_vm.rs
index 14823e52..0f676169 100644
--- a/zellij-server/src/wasm_vm.rs
+++ b/zellij-server/src/wasm_vm.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 use log::info;
-use serde::{de::DeserializeOwned, Serialize};
 use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
 use std::fs;
-use std::io::{Read, Write};
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 use std::process;
 use std::str::FromStr;
@@ -10,8 +8,9 @@ use std::sync::{mpsc::Sender, Arc, Mutex};
 use std::thread;
 use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
 
-use zellij_utils::{serde, zellij_tile};
+use zellij_utils::zellij_tile;
 
+use serde::{de::DeserializeOwned, Serialize};
 use wasmer::{
     imports, ChainableNamedResolver, Function, ImportObject, Instance, Module, Store, Value,
     WasmerEnv,
diff --git a/zellij-tile/Cargo.toml b/zellij-tile/Cargo.toml
index a2aaab1f..f4c73367 100644
--- a/zellij-tile/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zellij-tile/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ license = "MIT"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 strum = "0.20.0"
-strum_macros = "0.20.0"
-log = "0.4.14"
+strum_macros = "0.20.0"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/zellij-utils/Cargo.toml b/zellij-utils/Cargo.toml
index 42a74d54..bf7c60af 100644
--- a/zellij-utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zellij-utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ termion = "1.5.0"
 vte = "0.10.1"
 zellij-tile = { path = "../zellij-tile/", version = "0.14.0" }
 log = "0.4.14"
-typetag = "0.1.7"
 log4rs = "1.0.0"
 
 [dependencies.async-std]
diff --git a/zellij-utils/src/logging.rs b/zellij-utils/src/logging.rs
index eb736142..52e91497 100644
--- a/zellij-utils/src/logging.rs
+++ b/zellij-utils/src/logging.rs
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 //! Zellij logging utility functions.
 
 use std::{
-    fs::{self, OpenOptions},
+    fs,
     io::{self, prelude::*},
     os::unix::io::RawFd,
     path::{Path, PathBuf},
-    thread,
 };
 
 use log::info;