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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
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🛠️ 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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This seems like the silliest way to encode a partial order
Hoogle documentation of a partial order typeclass with 2 methods leq :: a -> a -> Bool The relation that induces the partial ordering comparable :: a -> a -> Bool
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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ember.pet
you know, how someone responds to “I just lost the game” tells me a lot about whether they’re one of my social peers
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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I wonder when learning CORBA is going to come in handy
November 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Rotating 90 degree plugs are incredible
Picture of a rotating plug extension cable to be used in a place that is a tight fit
November 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Some peoples IKEA hacks are more work than building furniture from scratch
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Leave yourself a treat and make sure your toString() updates some state so you can't debug without changing the program
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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I can’t wait until LeBron and Michael Jordan’s jerseys are hanging in Miami
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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p1xelher0.com
PO: "We have KPIs to reach, put an `unwrap` there now!"
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Annotate your lambdas
November 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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imessage just fixed my acshually typo to actually 😞
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Idk why but this should be illegal
DoorDash notification asking if I’m still craving Taco Bell
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Now github is having issues. I'm being sent a sign to take a nap.
November 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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I thought cloudflare wasn’t allowed to go down
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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gordon.bsky.social
we should decentralize the internet somewhat
November 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Make all your commits compile so you can use bisect
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Can valve's steam frame arm translation be used to get x86 games on mac in the future?
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Thanks I hate it.
FAIL Small step reduction and big step reduction are equal Expected: `(())(?)' Received: `(())(?)'
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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8k virtual reality Galaga
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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steamdb.info
Steam Frame, Steam Controller, Steam Machine announcement is expected soon, here's a first look!
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I'm sure this works fine with ocaml and not reason syntax but it's pretty funny
November 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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just searching for posts including nico harrison and chuck schumer
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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If you're making a build tool please keep the old artifacts around and atomically replace them so I can still use the old version while the next compiles.
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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OCaml real pain points
This blog post got some views in HN lately. There is not much value in it, but it got me thinking: I have my own list of pain points with the language, I wonder what others lists look like. So, here...
discuss.ocaml.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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nutty.land
I think you fix the moral panics about the energy use of this vs. the energy use of that by imposing a carbon tax. You levy it at the mine, the wellhead, and the port. Done.
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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nanoraptor.danamania.com
What they took from us.
A promo style photo of a Newton WatchPad on a wrist. It's a wrist-sized Newton with a digital crown, and a rainbow Apple logo. On the screen are Newton OS icons for Bluesky, Mastodon, Kindle, Escape Velocity, BBedit, Marathon, and Chelsea Bridge.
June 15, 2024 at 1:04 AM