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I recently released v3 of Base, my SQLite editor for macOS.

The goal of this app is to provide a comfortable native GUI for SQLite, without it turning into a massive IDE-style app.

The coolest features are

- That it can handle full altering of tables, which is quite finicky to do manually with SQLite.

- It has a more detailed display of column constraints than most editors. Each constraint is shown as an icon if active, with full details available on clicking the icon.

This update also adds support for attaching databases, which is a bit fiddly with macOS sandboxing.

I'd love to hear any feedback or answer any questions.

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earthnail ◴[] No.45014961[source]
It would be amazing if it could display UUIDs. SQlite doesn't support them natively, but many people store them as binary blobs.

Jetbrains products realize that these binary values are UUIDs and let me edit them easily.

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1. klabb3 ◴[] No.45016676[source]
I didnt know there are dozens of us! When I saw the lack of native support i decided to use binary blobs. I mean, why waste many bytes if few bytes do trick? In the SQLite studio app im using its garbled and annoying to browse.

Too bad this is mac only. I mean, im a mac user (among other things) but i don't want to depend on platform specific tooling.