The City Wire
The City Wire is Beads 1.3 brings migration support, an experimental Dolt proxy, and an ordered event journal. Gas City 1.5 uses Beads 1.3.1 and adds proxy support.. It is ranked #4956 on the Dev Radar, in Databases, first seen 22 days ago and shared in 2 posts (16.1k views).
Beads 1.3 and Gas City 1.5: Support For 300+ Beads Schemas and 75% Kinder To Your Computer! | The City Wire Gas City, Inc. ← The City Wire Beads 1.3 and Gas City 1.5: Support For 300+ Beads Schemas and 75% Kinder To Your Computer! Beads 1.3 brings migration support, an experimental Dolt proxy, and an ordered event journal. Gas City 1.5 uses Beads 1.3.1 and adds proxy support. October 7, 2026 by Wesley Davidson Welcome to Beads… 1.3? What happened to 1.2? A Bee! Curious? Read the incident report . For those new to Beads , it is a vendor-neutral, durable task tracker for coding agents. Each bead records a state such as open , in_progress…
What people said about The City Wire on X
Exactly a year ago, I launched Beads, my agentic memory layer, issue tracker, and knowledge graph. I built a sketch of it in fifteen minutes with Claude Sonnet 4.5, and the rest was history. Today Beads has a sophisticated, scalable backend, a strong contrib team, and 1.5M downloads. You may have your own favorite…
— @Steve_Yegge, 14 days ago · 212 likes · see the post
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The City Wire in numbers
- Rank on the Dev Radar: #4956 of 8801
- Shared in 2 posts by 2 accounts: @Steve_Yegge
- 16.1k views on those posts
- First seen 22 days ago, last shared 14 days ago
- Pricing seen by AGK Intelligence: not stated
- Market: Databases
FAQ
What is The City Wire?
Beads 1.3 brings migration support, an experimental Dolt proxy, and an ordered event journal. Gas City 1.5 uses Beads 1.3.1 and adds proxy support. It was first shared on X 22 days ago and is ranked #4956 on the Dev Radar.
Is The City Wire free?
Pricing is not stated on the page we read.
Who shared The City Wire?
2 accounts on X, including @Steve_Yegge, in 2 posts totalling 16.1k views.
Every post is read and classified by AGK Intelligence: what it is, which market it belongs to, and whether the link is a real tool. 31.2k posts from 5k X accounts over the last 21 days, 8.8k tools, 12 markets. New posts are collected several times an hour and the full ranking is recomputed every hour — last update 2026-10-30 21:12 UTC. Full method.