Hello.

I'm Dan Stowell, a software engineer at BuildBuddy.

I've worked on a few different internet things over the years, including:

• letting anyone write code at Replit,
• Fresh Finds and Daily Mix at Spotify,
• and playlist engines at The Echo Nest.

To talk builds, Bazel, or BuildBuddy, please write me at dan@buildbuddy.io.

For everything else, use dstowell@gmail.com.

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Life outside the internet

I follow God and attend North Suburban Church.

I live on Chicago's North Shore with my wife, four children, and golden retriever.

I grew up in New England and root for the Red Sox (90%), Celtics (9%), Patriots (1%).
I have not yet had time for the Bruins in this life.

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Notes and experiments

Shrinking the container

For years I've worked on systems that shuttle large blobs of state around: container images, filesystem snapshots, listening histories.

I'm interestested in reducing that complexity to its core.

What happens if the filesystem state lives in sqlite?
What if execution is limited to small WebAssembly modules?

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