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New comment by tconbeer in "Write some software, give it away for free"

tconbeer — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:40:39 +0000

The assholes outnumber the good ones, and it feels like all of humanity is transactional and extractive.

At first all engagement is exciting and validating. You work nights and weekends to please people you’ve never met, sure that one good turn deserves another.

Then you get your first jerk, then your second, then your third, while your father is in the hospital. You feel pressure to ship a feature you never wanted. Your issue tracker is demoralizing. You get a PR! Maybe someone is coming to your rescue. It sucks. Now you need to figure out how to respond. You’re alone. Your passion project has become your albatross.

New comment by tconbeer in "DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear power systems"

tconbeer — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 01:05:13 +0000

It’s an RFI, not an RFP. They are basically looking to build a list of vendors who might be interested in bidding an RFP or competing in a domain-relevant contest.

New comment by tconbeer in ""My Bike Is Everything to Me""

tconbeer — Thu, 30 May 2024 03:45:01 +0000

Reggie is on the board of USA Cycling: https://gravelnats.usacycling.org/article/feature-reggie-mil...

New comment by tconbeer in "Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal"

tconbeer — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 23:20:21 +0000

harlequin-odbc was released today. https://harlequin.sh/docs/odbc/index

New comment by tconbeer in "Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal"

tconbeer — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 02:58:32 +0000

Not yet. What order would you like to see?

New comment by tconbeer in "Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal"

tconbeer — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:21:39 +0000

You can install adapters for pg, MySQL, big query, and trino, with others coming soon. harlequin.sh for more info

New comment by tconbeer in "Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal"

tconbeer — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:09:29 +0000

A. I was using the DuckDB CLI and kept hitting walls on analyses. Had a shower thought of “I wonder if anyone has used Textual for a DuckDB client” and decided to build one myself. B. This uses Textual, a python framework for TUIs. Python is my language of choice. C. Hoping for more db adapters soon. Canceling queries is a missing piece I have yet to figure out E. Maybe if you don’t use Python apps and do have another sql client you really like.

New comment by tconbeer in "Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal"

tconbeer — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:06:37 +0000

Wow, I had no idea. Thanks!

New comment by tconbeer in "Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal"

tconbeer — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:42:23 +0000

I originally wrote this because sometimes a CLI or TUI is just super convenient. I used to use the DuckDB and Sqlite CLIs a lot, but was frustrated by their limitations, especially for doing data analysis work (my background).

New comment by tconbeer in "Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal"

tconbeer — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:41:13 +0000

Author here. Thanks for more love for Harlequin. I’ll be checking back and responding to feedback and questions for the next few hours.

New comment by tconbeer in "Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal"

tconbeer — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:39:32 +0000

Author here. If that disappointment fuels a half day of dev time, anyone who knows Python can just create their own adapter.

New comment by tconbeer in "Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal"

tconbeer — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:38:15 +0000

Fair enough (author here). I just launched support for any databases other than DuckDb and published a guide to create adapters for new dbs. I’m expecting the community to step up here, since I’d rather spend my time adding features to Harlequin. ODBC should be coming shortly. The hard part is honestly just having access to a DB server for testing.

New comment by tconbeer in "Adapters and Config: Multi-Database Support in Harlequin"

tconbeer — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:04:34 +0000

The Harlequin v1.0 release made it to the Front Page -- I'm back to announce v1.5, which adds support for other databases (and addresses the biggest feedback I got on HN).

Adapters and Config: Multi-Database Support in Harlequin

tconbeer — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:04:34 +0000

Article URL: https://harlequin.sh/blog/announcing-adapters-config

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38519827

Points: 2

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New comment by tconbeer in "Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminal"

tconbeer — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:56:41 +0000

Textual provides a utility for screenshotting apps. I loop over a list of themes and take the screenshots. You can see the code for that here: https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin/blob/e666319b7a964f026...

New comment by tconbeer in "Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminal"

tconbeer — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:55:12 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by tconbeer in "Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminal"

tconbeer — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:54:56 +0000

Thanks! Hopefully coming to v2 ... https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin/issues/230

New comment by tconbeer in "Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminal"

tconbeer — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:54:32 +0000

DuckDB provides some really nice python APIs that other databases don't have, so it was a very easy way for me to get started. I'm considering/planning extending to other DBs using plugins. More info here: https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin/issues/230

New comment by tconbeer in "Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminal"

tconbeer — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:52:13 +0000

Thanks for the feedback; gotten some of the same here.

I've tried to be really thoughtful about using space and getting value out of every pixel. There are some features in Harlequin that make it nice on small screens, even with the padding:

1. Scrolling is supported in every widget 2. You can show or hide the left side bar with ctrl+b or F9 3. You can enter "full screen mode" in the query editor or results viewer with F10

Beyond the main screen, the interface could be more compact. Especially the export and help modals. I'm considering tweaks to the design.

New comment by tconbeer in "Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminal"

tconbeer — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:47:26 +0000

Right now there is no autocomplete inside the text editor, but that will be added soon. DuckDB itself provides an extension that adds a table function that can be queried for completions like so:

select * from sql_auto_complete( 'select ra' )