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bobjordantoday at 1:10 AM3 repliesview on HN

Not sure you’ve actually tried using it, but beads has been an absolute game changer for my projects. “Game changer” is even underselling it.


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wild_eggtoday at 1:36 AM

Beads was phenomenal back in October when it was released. Unfortunately it has somehow grown like a cancer. Now 275k lines of Go for task tracking? And no human fully knows what it is all doing. Steve Yegge is quite proud to say he's never looked at any of its code. It installs magic hooks and daemons all over your system and refuses to let go. Most user hostile software I've used in a long time.

Lot of folks rolling their own tools as replacements now. I shared mine [0] a couple weeks ago and quite a few folks have been happy with the change.

Regardless of what you do, I highly recommend to everyone that they get off the Beads bandwagon before it crashes them into a brick wall.

[0] https://github.com/wedow/ticket

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mattgreenrockstoday at 1:21 AM

How do you handle the dogs ignoring the deacons and going after the polecats though? Seems like the mayor should get involved to me.

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wenctoday at 1:29 AM

I'm not entitled to your time of course, but would you mind describing how?

All I know is beads is supposed to help me retain memory from one session to the next. But I'm finding myself having to curate it like a git repo (and I already have a git repo). Also it's quite tied to github, which I cannot use at work. I want to use it but I feel I need to see how others use it to understand how to tailor it for my workflow.

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