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I liked it so much I ended up porting it to Python, which I find easier to read than awk/sh, and tweaking the command surface over dozens of iterations of trying to make the design more \u2018self-explanatory\u2019 for coding agents. https://github.com/a3lem/tiquette (Excuse the vibe-coded README) Anyway, even though I\u2019m using it every day, I\u2019m beginning to doubt the core idea of tracking hundreds of .md", "context": "", "use_case": "Git-friendly ticket tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git"}, {"id": 797541904, "item_id": 49846369, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846369", "by": "dizzard", "date": "2026-09-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "My favorite VCS friendly ticket tracker is https://github.com/wedow/ticket", "excerpt": "My favorite VCS friendly ticket tracker is https://github.com/wedow/ticket It's human-readable, simple, and easy to work with. Basically there's no magic.", "context": "", "use_case": "VCS-friendly ticket tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git"}, {"id": 770583009, "item_id": 48161438, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161438", "by": "wren6991", "date": "2026-05-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "is a minimal and sane implementation of the same idea", "excerpt": "There's an antipattern where everyone wants to invent new interfaces to connect things LLMs when CLI tools are already right there, transparent, and usable by humans as well as LLMs. I think it's partly the origins in web chat applications. Beads kind of does \"LLM memory over CLI\", or there is https://github.com/wedow/ticket which is a minimal and sane implementation of the same idea.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "\u0394-Mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models"}, {"id": 760358097, "item_id": 47522381, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522381", "by": "wild_egg", "date": "2026-03-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Minimalist alternative with no hooks or dependencies for the curious", "excerpt": "Have a read through everything that's needed for a full uninstall: https://gist.github.com/banteg/1a539b88b3c8945cd71e4b958f319d8d Minimalist alternative with no hooks or dependencies for the curious: https://github.com/wedow/ticket", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Thoughts on Slowing the Fuck Down"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["git-friendly ticket tracking", "vcs-friendly ticket tracking"], "compared": [{"slug": "beads", "name": "Beads", "co": 4, "switched_from": 2, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 751691906, "item_id": 46980744, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980744", "by": "wild_egg", "date": "2026-02-11", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "considering `ticket` to be a smash hit at this point", "excerpt": "`br` is still massively larger than necessary for the feature set. I didn't mention above but I made https://github.com/wedow/ticket as my beads replacement back at the end of December. I have zero reach compared to Jeff there so I'm considering `ticket` to be a smash hit at this point ;)", "context": "", "use_case": "Beads replacement issue tracker", "switched_from": "Beads", "story": "Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents"}, {"id": 746785697, "item_id": 46674106, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46674106", "by": "wild_egg", "date": "2026-01-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I shared mine [0] a couple weeks ago and quite a few folks have been happy with the change.", "excerpt": "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. 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I liked it so much I ended up porting it to Python, which I find easier to read than awk/sh, and tweaking the command surface over dozens of iterations of trying to make the design more \u2018self-explanatory\u2019 for coding agents. https://github.com/a3lem/tiquette (Excuse the vibe-coded README) Anyway, even though I\u2019m using it every day, I\u2019m beginning to doubt the core idea of tracking hundreds of .md", "context": "", "use_case": "Git-friendly ticket tracking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git"}, {"id": 797541904, "item_id": 49846369, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846369", "by": "dizzard", "date": "2026-09-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "My favorite VCS friendly ticket tracker is https://github.com/wedow/ticket", "excerpt": "My favorite VCS friendly ticket tracker is https://github.com/wedow/ticket It's human-readable, simple, and easy to work with. 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