CRCraigJPerry·Jun 28, 2025
The UI looks a lot like Harlequin https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin
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harlequin
The SQL IDE for Your Terminal. Now with hsql, your agent's favorite sql client.
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8 sourcesHow is rainfrog different from harlequin[0]
[0] https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin
In Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)Textual trending to a new de-facto basis for cross-platform gui apps is a HUGE improvement from every new app being js and Electron!
Not to mention replacing heavy Java gui apps as well! The myriad DB guis for whatever historical reason have mostly been slow heavy, and paid, Java apps.
I'd actually written a thing that integrated cli db tools(eg [1]) with kitty[2] and visidata to show a query editor and then results underneath in a kitty split pane. Now I've been using Harlequin[3] in my terminal. So nice to have these apps be fast programs that live in a terminal tab instead of their own bloated poorly-keyboard-driven Electron apps.
[1] https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/main/HOME/.config/litecli/...
[2] https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/main/HOME/bin/kw
[3] https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin/
In Show HN: Posting v1 – The modern HTTP client that lives in your terminalHarlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal
183 points · Open discussionTextual provides a utility for screenshotting apps. I loop over a list of themes and take the screenshots. You can see the code for that here: https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin/blob/e666319b7a964f026...
In Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminalThanks! Hopefully coming to v2 ... https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin/issues/230
In Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminalDuckDB provides some really nice python APIs that other databases don't have, so it was a very easy way for me to get started. I'm considering/planning extending to other DBs using plugins. More info here: https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin/issues/230
In Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminalShow HN: Harlequin, the DuckDB IDE for Your Terminal
Hi HN -
For the past four months I've been working (part-time, this is OSS after all) on Harlequin, a SQL IDE for DuckDB that runs in your terminal. I built this because I work in Data, and I found myself often reaching for the DuckDB CLI to quickly query CSV or Parquet data, but then hitting a wall when using the DuckDB CLI as my queries got more complex and my result sets got larger.
Harlequin is a drop-in replacement for the DuckDB CLI that runs in any terminal (even over SSH), but adds a browsable data catalog, full-powered text editor (with multiple buffer support), and a scrollable results viewer that can display thousands of records.
Harlequin is written in Python, using the Textual framework. It's licensed under MIT.
Today I released v1.0.0, and I'm excited to share Harlequin with HN for the first time. You can try it out with `pi
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p install harlequin`, or visit https://harlequin.sh for docs and other info.