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Written by Isaac Halvorson on 2025-01-27 at 16:31

"A More Personal Database" https://hisaac.net/blog/a-more-personal-database/

A blog post in which I daydream about what a personal database app could look like.

mentioned: @obsidian, @kepano, @simon, @datasette

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Written by Helge Heß on 2025-01-27 at 16:49

@hisaac I want to build this for a very, very long time 🙂 The original is DabbleDB, btw.

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Written by Isaac Halvorson on 2025-01-27 at 16:58

@helge Oh wow, DabbleDB looks great! I'd never heard of this before. It looks a lot like @datasette, but with the ability to edit the data.

I hope you some day get the time to build something like this. I would certainly use it.

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Written by Helge Heß on 2025-01-27 at 18:29

@hisaac I really, really want to and have made plenty of architecture designs and implementation plans over the years (easily 10+) 🙂

An obscure thing about DabbleDB itself is that it was build in Smalltalk! (using Seaside, the Smalltalk web framework)

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Written by Isaac Halvorson on 2025-01-27 at 18:49

@helge Have you checked out Beekeeper Studio at all? https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/

It's not exactly the same thing, but it has some elements in the right direction. And it's open source, perhaps you could contribute 😅. Not Swift/ObjC though, so maybe a non-starter haha

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Written by Helge Heß on 2025-01-27 at 18:58

@hisaac I've looked at a lot of "competitors", likely this one as well, but from the homepage this is definitely not what I want. I want DabbleDB for the desktop (and maybe a server side variant). I.e. a user centric app, not a database manager.

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Written by Helge Heß on 2025-01-27 at 19:01

@hisaac FWIW one thing I dislike about the (my own as well) concept of using SQLite for this, is that it doesn't do git well. I think SQLite has an own versioning thing builtin, but a beauty of the straight Markdown based solutions is that they just work w/ versioning. (and with any editor, another pro)

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Written by dasdom on 2025-01-27 at 19:26

@helge @hisaac Maybe it works well with Fossil...

https://www.sqlite.org/whynotgit.html

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Written by Helge Heß on 2025-01-27 at 19:29

@dasdom @hisaac It's not git specifically. It comes down to being easily able to diff or edit readable files with arbitrary Unix tools or editor like desktop apps. SQLite is weak on that specific part.

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