How It Started
I was using Chrome one day and noticed something that looked like a UI bug in the bookmarks side panel, a small visual inconsistency after moving a bookmark. As a developer, my first instinct was to look at the source and see if I could fix it.
I found the relevant code, understood the likely cause, and thought: "This is probably a one-line fix." Then I looked at what it takes to actually build and test a Chromium change.
100+ GB of disk space. Hours of build time. Dozens of dependencies. On my machine, that wasn't realistic.
I could have stopped there. Most people do. But then I thought: what if I ran the build in the cloud? And more importantly, what if someone turned that into a reusable image so that no contributor ever has to go through the full setup again?
