I am missing an archive of old versions, so I can run it on Mac OS 10.14.
There’s an archive of older versions here: https://files.menial.co.uk/base/
Readit News__bb commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb
This app is great for writing code comments when you hit one of those “1000 words or 1 picture” cases for an explanation of something.
Just checked and my most recent document is a diagram of data flows between two services.
Highly recommended.
__bb commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb
I would love for you to make the code source available if you pay.
Or are you worried about people stealing and making pirated copies?
If the code were available I would 100% expect that someone else would distribute a binary with the paywalled features unlocked and that my original version would be relegated to secondary.
I know you could make the argument “the right license wouldn’t allow that”, but that would only be enforced if you follow up through the courts, perhaps internationally. I just can’t be doing with the hassle unfortunately.
__bb commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb
Looks like the homebrew formula is one behind the latest, 3.0.0 vs 3.0.1 on your site - is the homebrew formula maintained by you or someone else?
That’s not me. I was quite surprised - in a good way - to find it there.
__bb commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb
Thanks for offering this app outside of the App Store too. Why don't you support older versions of macOS though? Does this app really rely on any new macOS APIs that it has to be built only for macOS 15+?
One of the things I found limiting in previous versions was supporting older versions of macOS. I’ve decided this time round to only try to support the latest and previous versions. Since the release of Tahoe is probably quite soon, I’m starting with just macOS 15 and will support that and macOS 26 to start.
__bb commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb
TBH the author asked for feedback and I provided it.
There’s a ton of work that’s OSS. There’s also a ton of work that’s not.
This is a tool that I’d happily pay double the amount that they’re asking if it was OSS. I also regularly fund OSS maintainers.
Heck I’d even be fine with a closed source by default, but pay to get source code access too.
And I welcome the feedback, even if I probably won’t follow it.
If everyone thought like you do, then it’d be far nicer to publish the code and maybe charge for support. I’m fairly confident that not enough people feel the same way to make it work.
As to pricing, I need to be able to financially justify the time spent working on the app, and the price is one that I hope will let me do that.
__bb commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb
__bb commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb
Customer here, from previous versions. Could you expand on the reasoning of not offering an upgrade price? Is it just to messy nowadays on the technical side, especially with the Mac App Store?
Will be upgrading in the future, congratulations on the launch!
There’s two main reasons. One is that this is the first paid update in 14 years. The second is that it’s just such a pain to do that on the App Store and I don’t want to have a two-tier system. I’ve tried to strike a balance on the price bearing this in mind.
__bb commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb
can someone tell me what are some common use cases of such a tool? may be i'm not the intended customer base, but am curious to know what others are using it for.
To add to what xmprt and msephton have said, people have told me they use it for:
- Storing results for scientific research
- Local analysis of data exported from server-based databases
- Experimenting with database designs before exporting SQL to codebases
- Maintaining relational data where a website or app are not needed (eg. tutors keeping client records)
- Recovering data from databases used by other products (eg. phone backups, discontinued apps)
> So crap filtering became important. Businesses were built around it. Some of those businesses came up with a clever plan to make more money: they poisoned the well. They began to put crap on the Reticulum [internet] deliberately, forcing people to use their products to filter that crap back out.
When I'm in a tinfoil hat sort of mood, it feels like this is not too far away.
EDIT: There's more in the book talking about "bad crap", which might be random gibberish, and "good crap" which is an almost perfect document with one important error in it.