Stacktower Blog https://stacktower.io/ Visualizing software dependencies as XKCD-style towers — engineering deep dives from Stacktower. en-us Stacking Dependencies: What happens when you take an XKCD joke too literally https://stacktower.io/ https://stacktower.io/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT How an XKCD comic led to teaching myself graph theory — a journey through NP-hard problems, PQ-trees, and layered graph algorithms, ending in a tool that renders real dependency graphs as physical towers.