stacktower

Daily dependency towers 🏗️
Visualizing who's holding up your stack.
Inspired by XKCD #2347.

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This is what @FastAPI's dependency tree actually looks like as an XKCD-style tower. Wanna build yours? @stacktower

https://t.co/Zr1ZsVY1XP

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Tower of the Day:
Kubernetes Python Client the official Python library for the Kubernetes API that lets you manage clusters, deploy resources, automate operations, and build powerful K8s tools directly in Python!

Check out the dependency tower for Kubernetes Python Client! https://t.co/s9dJePAQYn

Big thanks to @kubernetesio and the whole Kubernetes Python Client team / SIG API Machinery for building such a clean, powerful framework!#Kubernetes #K8s #Python #CloudNative #DevOps #ContainerOrchestration #CNCF #KubernetesPython

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Tower of the Day:
PyTorch Lightning ⚡the lightweight PyTorch wrapper that lets you scale models, train on any hardware, and eliminate boilerplate while keeping full flexibility!

Check out the dependency tower for Lightning! 📷
https://t.co/yNVFIIhN4m

Big thanks to @LightningAI @williamfalcon @lantiga and the whole Lightning team for building such a clean, powerful framework!

#PyTorch #PyTorchLightning #DeepLearning #MachineLearning #AI #MLOps #LightningAI

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Tower of the Day:
Typer, the elegant, modern CLI framework for Python!

Check out its dependency tower here https://t.co/K6G2X7dcCB

Big thanks to @tiangolo for keeping it so clean and enjoyable to use!

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Just discovered Pino, the super fast, all natural JSON logger for Node.js. Check out the dependency tower🏗️

https://t.co/JyA1rpLyUN

Big thanks to the maintainers keeping it sharp: @matteocollina @davidmarkclem @jsumners79

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Check out the dependency tower for Seaborn, one of the most popular statistical visualization libraries in the Python ecosystem! @seaborn (via @michaelwaskom)

Seaborn is beautifully built on top of Matplotlib and Pandas, exactly as the tower shows!

https://t.co/3XNAETLq7L

#Python #DataScience #DataViz #Seaborn #Matplotlib #Pandas #OpenSource #PyPI #SupplyChain

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Check out the dependency tower for the most popular real-time library in the JavaScript ecosystem!
@SocketIO @darrachequesne

Looks solid at the top, but the foundation has visible cracks — especially base64id, object-assign, and a few others showing their age.

https://t.co/mHfbtgvi4H

#NodeJS #JavaScript #WebSockets #RealTime #Dependencies #OpenSource #npm #SupplyChain

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@_KanyeDev Yeah, most teams don’t audit deps, they skim lockfile noise and hope nothing bad slipped in.

We're building Stacktower to make that visible: dependency towers with CVEs, license issues, brittle deps, and PR diffs.

https://t.co/JSi4dwiCoJ

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Love the full pipeline approach. If you’re already running Snyk-style scans, Stacktower adds the missing visual layer, shows the entire dependency tower with prioritized risk alerts (brittle packages, CVEs, licenses). Makes the scanning output way more actionable: https://t.co/htVOYumLMg

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Exactly. The supply-chain angle on transitive deps is scary. Stacktower gives you a literal tower visualization of every layer + scores the brittle/single-maintainer packages and CVEs so you can actually enforce those cooldowns intelligently. Free for public repos: https://t.co/htVOYumLMg

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Totally feel this. Transitive deps can flood you with alerts that never end 😩 Stacktower builds the full visual tower of your dependencies (direct + transitive) and highlights the actual risky ones. Makes prioritization way easier. Works with npm, Cargo, PyPI etc.: https://t.co/htVOYumLMg

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@CrispinCowan0 @sec_hub93028 @bryanbrake If your deps feel exactly like this tower, Stacktower visualizes the whole thing (direct + transitive) and flags CVEs, single-maintainer risks, license issues etc. Try it out here: https://t.co/4GTusvipot

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@markusdd5 If your deps feel exactly like this tower, Stacktower visualizes the whole thing (direct + transitive) and flags CVEs, single-maintainer risks, license issues etc. Try it out here: https://t.co/4GTusvipot

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@hatyanezu_mouse If your deps feel exactly like this tower, Stacktower visualizes the whole thing (direct + transitive) and flags CVEs, single-maintainer risks, license issues etc. Try it out here: https://t.co/4GTusvipot

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Tower of the Day: claude-agent-sdk 🏗️📷

Check out the dependency tower for Anthropic’s Python Agent SDK! @AnthropicAI @claudeai @ClaudeDevs @alexalbert__

Looks solid, but we spotted a brittle dependency hiding in there: h11 0.16.0 (low maintainer activity)

This is exactly how you can use Stacktower to surface risky transitive deps before they cause trouble.

https://t.co/MCr6ykVMNA

#Python #Anthropic #Claude #Agents #AIAgents #Dependencies #OpenSource #PyPI #SupplyChain