Capture One might cost more, but it's a one off payment. I'm still happily using CO11 (8 or 9 years old?) and if it was good enough for professional use when it came out, it's more than enough for me now.
You don't 'often' need a new version, if you bought Pro today it'd work with all current gen cameras from the major manufacturers, and probably get updates for a couple of years.
I understand that Capture One aren't going to support old software for decades, and I'm fine with that.
You can follow, star, favourite and comment on things, you get a feed where recent updates on stuff/people you've interacted are listed, you can customise your profile page with snippets about yourself, a photo, a status, contact info and add whatever else you want (including more photos, images, charts etc) in markdown. It now has discussions which are essentially a forum.
It's as much a social network/collaboration tool as it is place to store your code these days.
This looks great, definitely going to take it for a spin tomorrow.
I'm pretty happy at the moment editing in vim invoked from psql with \e - which has been my setup for way more than a decade now, but I do miss isql (Query Analyzer) from SQL Server 2000, which was just about perfect.
I took it for a test spin just now and I'm impressed. Some notes:
- to get it to run (on Fedora) I had to manually installed python3-keyring first
- connected with ease, that part is really smooth
- I like the ability to easily flick through the tabs on objects and see the relevant data
- took me a while to work out how to create a new query, expected to be open a query window then save the file rather than create a file/query at once (unless I'm missing something)
- usually I want to query first and only save if needed
- UI is really nice, fits in perfectly
- would be nice to be able to collapse/hide the file chooser in the bottom left when I'm not using it
Also, and I understand it's probably a pile of work, but a graphical view of explain would be amazing. This isn't a feature request, I'm sure there's plenty of other stuff that needs attention first :)
Thanks. To be honest I'm going to start using it already. I think being able to easily open a new blank query is the main thing. ctrl+n. That's how I start most of my investigations.
I use Excalidraw extensively at work. For me, it's really close to perfection.
It has an excellent UI, selections work way better than Lucid or Figma etc, the sketchy look makes it clear designs are rough and not blueprints, it's private and loads instantly.
The one negative is that it's a pain to get the multiplayer self-hosted version running.
Yeah, Excalidraw is really nice diagramming tools that I frequently used as well on my day-to-day works.
For the self-host, finally I build the solution myself so I can self-host Excalidraw and several other plaintext diagramming format while still able to working with my peers using realtime collaboration.
The company where I'm contracted retired Excalidraw in favor of Lucid and, while I understand that big companies are going to go with big, enterprise-y solutions, what went from a weekly "sketch something out to help with communicating my ideas" turned into "once every few months I begrudgingly document something".
Excalidraw is excellent for low-friction sketches.
I also have a standing desk, and my desktop computer is still on the floor. That way I can just route all the cables to the back and then under the desk to my PC. Looks very clean as well.
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