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by rathboma 4y ago
This is nice, but more of a console than a fiddle. When iterating on SQL for Beekeeper Studio I've been using https://dbfiddle.uk for a few weeks, it's super good. Supports PSQL, MySQL, Oracle, etc.
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Apple Silicon native release of Beekeeper Studio(beekeeperstudio.io)
5 points by rathboma 5y ago|1 comments
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by rathboma 5y ago
As the creator of a desktop app ( https://beekeeperstudio.io ) I can tell you there's no way I'd have been able to do it without electron. No way. Electron let's me provide feature parity for three platforms on a ni
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by rathboma 5y ago
It's super powerful, but with that power comes complexity. I found it too overwhelming to use when building Rails apps. I really missed SequelPro, so I built Beekeeper Studio to scratch my own itch. Others had the same itch I guess!
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by rathboma 5y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Lots of nice quality of life improvements for Postgres coming in the next couple of weeks :-)
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by rathboma 5y ago
Thanks so much! Lots more updates coming soon :-). Got a pretty meaty one coming in the next week or two
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by rathboma 5y ago
As a dev with a lot of experience in JS/HTML/CSS Electron makes things super easy, especially when it can be part of the regular build pipeline. Learning Qt means figuring out a whole new stack and build chain. Maybe the result wo
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by rathboma 5y ago
It wasn't available when I started Beekeeper Studio, so I never tried it. I used to hate native-apps-that-are-actually-web-apps, but I'm a full convert after using VSCode, that's what encouraged me to take the leap with BKS.
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by rathboma 5y ago
I can't speak for all Electron apps, but Beekeeper Studio is a true desktop app yes. All the assets (css, html, js) are bundled in the app, nothing loads from the web, it is truly 'local', and works 100% offline. It's po
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by rathboma 5y ago
I think it's a hugely overlooked market. Look at the sales numbers from Balsamiq for example: https://balsamiq.com/wireframes/#customers Personally there are loads of desktop apps I want, maybe after getting Beeke
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by rathboma 5y ago
Hey! Well I use Linux full time, so supporting Linux is a non-negotiable for me. Make the future you want to live in right? :-)
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by rathboma 5y ago
Some of us are. I make https://beekeeperstudio.io . I think there's a huge market need for good desktop apps, many folks prefer them to online tools. Bonus: It's never been easier to build a cross-platform desktop app.
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by rathboma 5y ago
AppImages are so good. They 'just work'. They're super easy to build and distribute too. I think more Linux distributions should embrace them as the de-facto app standard to replace snap and flatpak.
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by rathboma 5y ago
I can't help but feel that 'diversifying' Mozilla's product line up is one of the problems. I'd scrap everything else and just focus on the browser. I know I have a skewed view of the software market, but I'd p
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by rathboma 5y ago
Still working on an X1 carbon 5th. Screen isn't very good and the processor feels pretty slow. But it sleeps properly and the battery life is great (Ubuntu 20.04). Holding out until Framework gen 2 comes out, either with AMD or Intel 1
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How to distribute your electronjs app for Linux users(beekeeperstudio.io)
1 points by rathboma 5y ago|0 comments
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Beekeeper Studio 3.0 – workspaces, cloud storage for queries and connections(beekeeperstudio.io)
1 points by rathboma 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Any WebSockets-as-a-service offerings for REST integration?
1 points by rathboma 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What are you going to use instead of Docker Desktop for macOS?
22 points by rathboma 5y ago|15 comments
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by rathboma 5y ago
Glad to hear! Please file issues if anything is confusing or missing, it's a pretty friendly GitHub community.
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by rathboma 5y ago
Beekeeper Studio maintainer here. It's 100% FOSS and cross platform (Windows, MacOS, Linux). I love Postgres and started Beekeeper because I wanted 'Sequel Pro for PSQL on Linux'. We have a lot of users so seems like we&#x27
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by rathboma 5y ago
Did you ever consider bootstrapping the business after growing so quickly to 1m ARR after your seed round?
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by rathboma 5y ago
Typically linux users (like myself) enable S3 sleep mode, which does exactly what most folks expect it to (sleep until a user action is taken). It's rock solid and I've never had a problem with it in ~8 years.
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Beekeeper Studio just got Quick Search(beekeeperstudio.io)
1 points by rathboma 5y ago|0 comments
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by rathboma 5y ago
Getting front page on HN was one of the lucky breaks that helped Beekeeper Studio start growing when we launched. Thanks to everyone who voted us up back then, really we might not be here without it. OG Post easily dwarfed the traffic from
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Beekeeper Studio 2.0 – Celebrating 10x YoY Growth. We Have New Features Too(beekeeperstudio.io)
2 points by rathboma 5y ago|1 comments
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by rathboma 5y ago
Love your development videos. When do you think you'll be able to run your dev stack natively on serenity rather than in Linux and virtualizing serenity only for testing?
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SQLTools – relational database tools for the web, by Beekeeper Studio(beekeeperstudio.io)
3 points by rathboma 5y ago|0 comments
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by rathboma 6y ago
This just got patched, so electron apps are slowly able to update and fix this. VSCode has a beta version with the fix already
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by rathboma 6y ago
As a desktop app developer this is what I need. I publish a snap variation and so many edge cases break the security system and make the app unusable. Home perms? What if the user symlinks something into their home directory? Etc

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