Dan Phillips

@d-philla.bsky.social

Software Engineer. Wasm-stan. Team Vim and Italian Beef. Interested in WebAssembly? Join us at twitter.com/WasmChicago.

~Project Cycle 2026~ "Oh nice, check out interesting/cool/new project claiming to do novel systems thing" **looks at code. "Ah looks 1 or 2 shotted w/Claude, probably doesn't work" Tries code. Doesn't Work. Next week: "Oh nice, check out interesting/cool/new project..."

if you or a loved one have been harmed working with oauth, you may be entitled to compensation

Man, the divide that exists between the dev experiences of SV/venture-backed Cos and Cos from The Rest Of America™️ never ceases to amaze Fr, infra founders should be required to do a tour in a bread-and-butter US/Ca/EU Non-SV company to understand how the world actually works

One beautiful thing about WebAssembly is that we are still so very early. Yes. Early. An ISA that comprises a novel compute paradigm where advances in size, safety, speed, and universality are virtually unmatched by orders of magnitude in most cases? Yeah, very early.

Everyone's releasing cool AI stuff, but I'm wondering: where's the next k8s coming from? the next Docker? or even the next Linux kernel or FreeBSD? Innovation in systems work is so siloed, hidden, often so much less fanfare asking for a friend

You could seamlessly deploy across heterogenous environments, with ease + simple orchestration, with artifacts smaller/faster/safer/more universal than ever. But you don't wanna do that, do ya champ, your helm charts are too perfect. You're terrified of how simple it could all be

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*Update*: I've decided to take a sabbatical to recharge, explore, and push forward some ideas. Apart from taking some initial time to focus on health, and my family, I’ll be spending a lot more time on things I simply did not have the bandwidth for while working long days,

Is there such a thing as "burnout" ? Or is it just white-collar privilege masquerading as a legitimate mental health/life issue. This is an honest question -- I go back and forth on this myself, so I'm curious what people think

It's painfully obvious that Wasm is the ideal sandbox for not just agents, but also (and especially) executable artifacts produced by agents. but damn, if it isn't a shame we haven't made it accessible enough that developers leverage it for such by default

Hey y'all, I'm looking for my next role! - 💻 Staff/principal Software Engineer or DevRel - 🧰 Mostly focused on JavaScript tech stacks - 👨🏻‍💼 I'm also open to moving into management - 🎮 Bonus points if it's #GameDev or adjacent If you know of something, my DMs are open. ❤️

People aren’t ready for the next blog post from @loopholelabs.io If you thought the XDP post was interesting (linked below) this next one is going to blow your mind. Here’s a hint: What do chess engines and NAT’s have in common?