Show HN: Xkcd #2347 lived in my head, so I built the dependency tower for real

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Found: December 04, 2025
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Show HN: Xkcd #2347 lived in my head, so I built the dependency tower for real I finally got tired of XKCD #2347 living rent-free in my head, so I built Stacktower: a tool that takes any real package’s dependency graph and turns it into an actual tower of bricks. Along the way I had to wrestle some surprisingly spicy problems.

Full blog post here: https://stacktower.io

The result is half visualization tool, half love letter to the chaos of modern dependency trees. Open-source, works with PyPI, Cargo, npm, and more.

Code: https://github.com/matzehuels/stacktower

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