[neilotoole]

> It's a weird trend that seems almost entirely motivated by people wanting open source projects in their resume

Developer here. I can't speak to what you see as the weird trend, but I can speak about sq's history:

- I created the first version of sq circa 2013 as my own personal dev tool to address some pain points (amongst other things: getting JSON out of various DBs from the command line in a consistent manner, and wanting an easy way to inspect DB schemas, i.e. "sq inspect")

- It was starting to be a minor PITA dealing with colleagues asking for the latest revision of the tool, so I open-sourced it. In 2016 or so I think?

- sq is FL/OSS and will remain so, no funding is sought, not even one of those "buy me a coffee" thingies

- I didn't create this HN post about sq, nor do I know the person who did. But thanks for sq's 15 mins of fame, kind stranger

[syndicatedjelly]

Thank you for creating a composable, simple to grok Unix tool. sq is an example of what is so great about the Unix philosophy.

Personally, I can see a spot for sq in my developer toolbox. Instead of reaching for DBeaver’s bloated interface, or psql’s perplexing TUI, I like the idea of picking up an sq multitool to answer some simple questions quickly about my databases.

Thanks again!