No affiliation with the developer, just wanted to give a shout-out to a high quality piece of software that I've really appreciated using.Sequel Pro is a great GUI MySQL tool in macOS (it's open source and of course totally FREE) !īut from last year, their automated build system has been broken, so their built versions are outdated : Robust and performant import/export tools There's also good management of query history and saved queries. Multiple query tabs - I used to spawn multiple Sequel Pro instances because this was so hard to live without. Arbitrary WHERE clause support in the data view, so you don't need to switch to a full manual query as soon as you need slightly more complex conditions Some very basic features that felt like a big upgrade from Sequel Pro: It's Mac native, performant, and very stable. Interface-wise I found it to be easier/more familiar to switch to from Sequel Pro, as compared to some of the alternatives mentioned above - more on the light and nimble side, less on the heavy interface enterprisey-feeling side if that makes sense. It's not free in either sense of the word but well worth the ~$50 USD license IMO. I used and loved Sequel Pro for years, but interface limitations and crashes finally set me off looking for a replacement after some stressful production debugging sessions.Īfter trying a few like MySQL Workbench and Navicat, I landed on Querious and haven't looked back since. I see some convenience value in a tool like Ulysses, even if Org-mode could be used to achieve similar results, I don't see the value in utilities like BetterSnapTool and PDF Expert, since there's no extra polish that's not available on Linux as free software. Right, and my point is that on Linux utilities akin to BetterSnapTool, Alfred, Keyboard Maestro tend to be free software and not particularly worse in terms of polish. > From what I've seen, people on macOS are mostly paying for software like BetterTouchTool, Alfred, Keyboard Maestro, Hazel, Carbon Copy Cloner, Ulysses. When it comes to customer-facing apps, it is nowhere near Linux level and given the many more devs on the platform that speaks for something. There's many open-source libraries sure, but that's because of convenience. So yes, I meant those developing customer-facing software specific to the platform, not say webdevs on a Mac. Perhaps I worded this poorly, but I meant macOS developers as in Swift/ObjC/Cocoa, not developers in general who happen to be using a Mac. Just because it's not translating into free and open source consumer-facing projects on macOS does not imply that devs do not care about open source. > I see plenty of developers on mac or developing for mac using it to contribute to open source projects. Right and there are many basic file managers for Linux too, but there are also advanced ones that you don't have to pay for, which was my point. A vast majority of people are using the file manager for basic stuff. I use both platforms daily and while I agree that macOS has more 'polish' in terms of being more uniform, I don't think am overselling that there are many tools on Linux for which I have to pay on macOS to get similar capabilities. > You're overselling linux but underselling macOS. People are paying for options, convenience and polish. Few of these have convenient or easy to use alternatives on other platforms. Software which extends the core OS in a set of ways fitting a myriad set of needs - not for basic stuff. In fact most of the important projects put instructions for developing on and for macOS first.įrom what I've seen, people on macOS are mostly paying for software like BetterTouchTool, Alfred, Keyboard Maestro, Hazel, Carbon Copy Cloner, Ulysses. I see plenty of developers on mac or developing for mac using it to contribute to open source projects. > (lack of) ideology when it comes to macOS developers, as in, they don't feel strongly about advancing free software etc. Not everyone needs a feature packed one for day to day operations. > You even have to pay for a decent file manager on macOS and it usually still doesn't come close to Dolphin, which is a pure joy to use on Linux, Compared to Windows, macOS support a lot more out of the box. Karabiner is a free tool for remapping keyboard keys. Preview supports a lot of file formats and even allows PDF stitching (few platforms support this out of the box). It's not terrific in every aspect (window snapping being one) but you don't have to pay for every basic utilities on mac. You're overselling linux but underselling macOS.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |