antonycourtney

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by antonycourtney 3y ago
Yes, Tad should be pretty easy to embed -- in the github repo there's a React component (TadViewerPane), and a fairly modular API for adding a new data source. I'm happy to work with you on this, this should be a fun exercise!
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by antonycourtney 3y ago
Very impressive project and vision! Love the demo! I am also ex-GS and worked on what I am fairly sure is the table display tool you're describing. I tried to carry the essential aspects of that work (multi-level pivots, with drill-do
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by antonycourtney 4y ago
I think you're referring to Tad ( https://www.tadviewer.com ), which I developed. Tad isn't "the GUI tool for DuckDb"; it's a desktop app that provides a pivot table based viewer for tabular data files (CS
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by antonycourtney 4y ago
I can understand how the older callback API for node.js might form a negative impression, but it's really not indicative of the maturity of the core db engine at all. And remember: the vast majority of users use the Python API. Even b
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by antonycourtney 6y ago
For what it's worth, since folks are mentioning other extensions, my full-featured tab manager extension, Tabli ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabli/igeehkedfibb... ) provides a "Copy Win
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by antonycourtney 9y ago
I don't want to dissuade you if curses-based UIs are your thing. But one thing that's been crucial to me from Day 1 is that you can type "tad foo.csv" at the command line and immediately get a usable view of your data wi
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by antonycourtney 9y ago
Absolutely all the analysis (including filtering) works by generating SQL queries and that SQLite evaluates. Tad doesn't generate any table indices, and I'd be reticent about adding that. However you should be able to Tad as a sql
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by antonycourtney 9y ago
Really sorry about this! I do specify Tad as a handler for CSV files, but becoming the default handler was not my intent at all; I will look into what's causing this.
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by antonycourtney 9y ago
All great feedback, thanks! Some quick replies: - The omission of '<>' from the operator list was just an embarrassing mistake on my part. #facepalm #WILLFIX - Also agree that a drop-down list of checkboxes (ideally a se
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by antonycourtney 9y ago
Good points and great suggestions, thanks!
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by antonycourtney 9y ago
I don't think I ever claimed it was better than Excel, which is targeted at different set of users and use cases. That said, here are some reasons why some users might prefer Tad to Excel: It's free and MIT licensed with the sourc
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by antonycourtney 9y ago
I invested some effort to keep it performant even with fairly large CSV files, including a custom port of some C++ code for fast CSV import. My current favorite example is the Met Museum's 228MB 450k row collection data set; takes abou
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by antonycourtney 9y ago
Great suggestions for the landing page, thank you!
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by antonycourtney 9y ago
This died on the vine when initially posted two months ago; main comments then were complaints it was "mac only". Yesterday's release (0.8.4) includes binaries and installers for macOS, Windows and Linux.
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Show HN: Tad – A fast, free cross-platform CSV viewer(tadviewer.com)
6 points by antonycourtney 9y ago|1 comments
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by antonycourtney 10y ago
Tough crowd! Code is not OS-dependent in any way; I just haven't tested or pre packaged binaries for these other platforms yet. Anyway, sources all on github; I would welcome your PR for other platform builds.
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by antonycourtney 10y ago
Thanks for pointing this out! Was due to some unfortunate scaling happening because the image was just slightly bigger than the CSS for the page would accomodate; now fixed.
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by antonycourtney 10y ago
Thanks! Will definitely aim for Windows and Linux builds in the near future. The app itself is built in ES6 on Electron and has virtually no OS-specific dependencies, so I don't anticipate any difficulty. Also: If any enterprising hack
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Show HN: Tad – A Desktop App for Viewing and Analyzing Tabular Data (CSV Files)(tadviewer.com)
15 points by antonycourtney 10y ago|9 comments
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by antonycourtney 10y ago
Hmmm, this seems like a minimalist version of my tab manager, Tabli: http://www.gettabli.com Tabli is based on a similar concept (being able to save sets of tabs with a meaningful name), but is a full-featured tab manager, allow
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by antonycourtney 10y ago
Thanks for the bug report. I have seen that happen intermittently but have never managed to find a reliable repro. There's a long-standing open issue on github for it: https://github.com/antonycourtney/tabli/i
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by antonycourtney 10y ago
Another useful tab manager extension for Chrome is Tabli ( http://www.gettabli.com ), which I created and submitted as a "Show HN" last October ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10464603 ). Helps you
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by antonycourtney 11y ago
There's another extension that does something like what you propose called one-tab: http://www.one-tab.com/ Those that use One Tab seem to love it, and if it fits the way you want to work...great! One concern with what
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by antonycourtney 11y ago
Thanks! This was not my first project with React, but it was a playground for me to experiment with some novel React ideas (like css-in-js) and different ways of structuring the application. After some frustrating attempts to organize Tabli
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by antonycourtney 11y ago
Thanks, glad you like it. Tabli wasn't searchable in the Chrome store for the rather silly reason that I hadn't gotten around to making promotional tiles. I just made some mediocre ones for now and made it public / searchabl
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by antonycourtney 11y ago
Glad you like it. You're correct, Tabli is only intended to help you manage windows and tabs within the current browser session on your current machine. Saved Windows ( http://antonycourtney.github.io/tabli/tabli-u
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Show HN: Tabli – A Tab Manager for Google Chrome(antonycourtney.github.io)
52 points by antonycourtney 11y ago|21 comments
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by antonycourtney 11y ago
OP here: I developed this to meet my own needs as a developer to help keep me from getting lost in the sea of tabs that inevitably accumulated when using Chrome. Includes some hacker friendly features like keyboard shortcuts and ability to
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Show HN: Tabli – A Tab Manager for Google Chrome(antonycourtney.github.io)
12 points by antonycourtney 11y ago|1 comments