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Alexander Bandukwala

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💻 Pursuing the Future of Computing 🔬 PhD Student @ University of Michigan (Future of Programming Lab) 🪄 Building Hazel: Live Functional Programming & Malleable Systems 🐾 Dog Parent 🛠️ Ex-Software Engineer 🌟 Computing Maximalist

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · Nov 15

Tell me who to add to this #ProgrammingLanguages go.bsky.app/KPyf9X8

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Tomas Petricek @tomasp.net · 3d

I'm teaching 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺(𝘀)! again. I'll be posting the videos & tasks on YouTube too.

In the first lecture, I explain what's a tiny system, why write one and show plenty of demos!

🎞️ Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
👉 More info: d3s.mff.cuni.cz/teaching/npr...

Write your own tiny programming system(s)! - YouTube

The goal of this course is to teach how fundamental programming language techniques, algorithms and systems work by writing their miniature versions. The cou...

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 15h

The capitalization consistency of a company with a trillion dollars of assets under management

Market movers

Current strategy
Personal Strategy

Net worth

cash flow

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 1d

Turns out I’m a third Canadian

Ancestry.com showing I’m 34% Acadia from French Canada

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 1d

I’m already a convert

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 1d

We don't need reproducibility where we're going

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 1d

we need a package manager manager

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 1d

When you inherit a Jupyter notebook

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 1d

I didn’t google this at all before I said it so it’s possibly already done 😅

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 1d

Statically typed Excel

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 2d

The type abbreviation is cyclic 😒

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 2d

Cool will try it out. Thanks!

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 2d

I still can’t tell if I find it very useful. If I ended up paying for it, it probably is.

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 2d

TIL

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 3d

We’ll see if I put my money where my mouth isn’t

“Your free GitHub copilot access is ending soon”

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 3d

And I thought bandukwala was violent

Screenshot from deli boys with the subtitle: “I already called the Murderwalla to handle the body”

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 3d

Only discrimination is those who hate chocolate

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 3d

In addition to

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 3d

Out here tabulating

Further implementation of the pokemon example with a pivot table showing the counts of pokemon by type1 and type 2

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 3d

I can finally do some real work.

Hazel programming language with a parsed csv and table of pokemon

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 4d

I want to be the house that offers candy to teenage and adult trick-or-treaters

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 10d

Just bring back the choco taco

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dan @danabra.mov · 12d

ever since i saw this i keep thinking about it every once in a while i guess maybe it is worth actually checking out strudel

Kinell @sinistercinemastudios.art · Aug 28

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 14d

Me after doing anything remotely difficult: “light weight baby”

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 15d

I just realized an underrated part of dependency injection is getting your compilation errors in the main path of the code before the dependencies.

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 16d

I’m being called out in every venue