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> The manganese nodules that I learned about in geoscience classes decades ago are targeted by miners today who will have no qualms about scraping the seafloor clean This (and the …

The other replies make fair points, but tillage does still have it's uses. Quick examples: - Inversion tillage (ploughing) to bury green manure crops or bulky organic manure - Subs…

Whenever I read about poisoning LLM inputs, I'm reminded of a bit in Neal Stephenson's Anathem, where businesses poisoned the the internet by publishing bad data, which only their …

There’s an archive of older versions here: https://files.menial.co.uk/base/

This app is great for writing code comments when you hit one of those “1000 words or 1 picture” cases for an explanation of something. Just checked and my most recent document is a…

If the code were available I would 100% expect that someone else would distribute a binary with the paywalled features unlocked and that my original version would be relegated to s…

That’s not me. I was quite surprised - in a good way - to find it there.

One of the things I found limiting in previous versions was supporting older versions of macOS. I’ve decided this time round to only try to support the latest and previous versions…

And I welcome the feedback, even if I probably won’t follow it. If everyone thought like you do, then it’d be far nicer to publish the code and maybe charge for support. I’m fairly…

In this case, no. It would be nice if it did though.

There’s two main reasons. One is that this is the first paid update in 14 years. The second is that it’s just such a pain to do that on the App Store and I don’t want to have a two…

To add to what xmprt and msephton have said, people have told me they use it for: - Storing results for scientific research - Local analysis of data exported from server-based data…

Thank you. I don't have any other public apps at the moment.

Because I don't have the capacity for maintaining compatibility between too many versions of macOS. For v3, I've stated the goal - not guarantee - of supporting the current and pre…

I realise you’ve hinted at it, but also think it’s worth explicitly pointing out that it’s more about the number of users writing than just user count. It can handle concurrent rea…

Thanks! While it has been quite the career change, I am absolutely up for discussing both dairy farming, software development and their overlap. That’s where Base came from!

It's a bit too soon to tell reliably, since I've shipped v3 as a new app and it hasn't settled down yet. For v2 it used to be 60% App Store and the remainder direct/Setapp. So far …

Thanks! Auto-enabling foreign keys absolutely should be an option. I'll make a note of it. I don't know about auto-loading extensions though. Will have a look. That might not mix w…

Sort of, yes. But mostly that I don't want the app to become the "everything to everyone" style of editor. I want it to remain tightly focused on the features that SQLite provides.…

Thanks, I'll make a note of that. It's not a behaviour I've seen before.

Thank you for the support :)

To my (biased) mind the advantages are: - It fits with the system better and behaves more like other macOS apps - I believe Base has better create/alter table support However Base …

A lot of people use it as a step up from Excel. I’ve got quite a few scientists using it for data analysis, a whole bunch of people importing sales data for querying. A good number…

It's not required, but you can if you want :)