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
edit, forgot to add: should have a gallery of dependency towers for a few different projects to illustrate the programs ability.