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1. bbor+UD5[view] [source] 2026-01-06 06:15:21
>>wild_e+(OP)
Oh my lord it's written in bash. That's incredible. Well done! It's good to feel like the new kid sometimes as I approach 30 and ossify technically -- I'm sure this will develop a healthy fanbase of senior engineers, if the one's I've known are anything to go off of.

More relevantly: I've spent way too long rolling my own issue tracking systems (plural!) over the years, and it's good to see someone else share my intuition that dependencies and tagging are by far the most important part of solo-ish issue trackers. You'd be shocked how many massive tech companies publish issue trackers where dependencies are an afterthought (or worse: a paid upgrade).

My only tiny, soft suggestion would be mention "Unix Philosophy" rather than just the MVP link, tho it is indeed cute. As I alluded to above, the former has a dedicated cult behind it already ;)

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2. wild_e+gF5[view] [source] 2026-01-06 06:31:31
>>bbor+UD5
Thanks! I agree completely. Dependency tracking is such a vital part of organizing work and it's hard to find good tooling for that. Beads started out as one and I wanted to maintain the simplicity it used to offer.

And I may just go make a README tweak re: unix philosophy... The MVP story floated up from the back of my mind when I went to go build this but you're totally right.

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