iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 6h

I can't wait until Hollywood Ending gets a film adaptation and that film gets a press junket

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 29/09/2026

The rails subreddit is becoming my new favorite soap opera

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 29/09/2026

The Apple ecosystem can be pretty overrated. Fitbit let you set alarms on your phone a decade ago; Apple still doesn’t let you configure Apple Watch alarms from an iPhone.

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 26/09/2026

I feel like I would be happier if I had a few swords

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 24/09/2026

what model performs best at simon says?

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 22/09/2026

these nations aren't feeling very united

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 19/09/2026

Finally have a use case for multiuser on my linux desktop. Going to just do different ssh logins for my separate claude accounts.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"your holiness, it's called a sankey diagram"

a photo of someone explaining something to pope leo while the pope makes a face of slight discomfort

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 18/09/2026

I think we need to figure out how to articulate why the coupling of accounts to apps/platforms is where they derive their power rather than the regulation of cookies, feeds/algorithms, and data exports, which isn't curbing their power.

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 18/09/2026

People please give your website favicons

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 18/09/2026

If I were on the openai/anthropic marketing team instead of sayign AI creates new jobs I'd at least be pretending to lobby hard hard for doubling social security and lowering the retirement age.

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 17/09/2026

Has anyone wrote a good piece on how agentic usage is fundamentally different than previous moves up to the abstraction ladder, such as using compilers?

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 16/09/2026

My Reddit is exclusively The Wolverine and Ed Sheeran Palestine drama

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 14/09/2026

Never more have I needed a global capability system with on-behalf-of support.

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 11/09/2026

If Steve Jobs was alive would the duo be left-handed only?

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 09/09/2026

The apple keynote walking shots make me deeply uncomfortable

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 09/09/2026

Reading anthropics economic scenarios page. I haven't read the whitepaper or finished but there model of the economy seems to completely ignore the demand side. The economy is a set of tasks with no notion of those tasks being generated because people have enough money to pay for stuff.

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 08/09/2026

/goal prove P=NP. make no mistakes and do NOT prove P != NP

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 08/09/2026

that's not what I meant when I said an "explicit" API

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 07/09/2026

I don’t need a practical magic 2 wine glass popcorn bucket. But I do want one

Large practical magic 2 wine glass popcorn holder

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 07/09/2026

Maddie made the mistake of asking what I was working on and got a full rant on ad-hoc vs subtype polymorphism.

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 05/09/2026

Sometimes I'm jealous of my dogs stretching

My black and tan shiba inu doing a very stretchy down dog

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 03/09/2026

Going to be in Oakland October 4-9 for SPLASH and am thinking of staying an extra few days if anyone in the bay area wants to hang out.

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 03/09/2026

Let me set my own preferences for lake naming in maps

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 31/08/2026

Today we're officially sharing the "Introducing Patchwork-26" video from Lab Day at this year's @localfirstconf.com We bring you the first look at Patchwork-26, the latest in our ongoing effort to realize Malleable Software, Universal Version Control, and Local-First Software.

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Introducing Patchwork-26

YouTube video by Ink & Switch

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 31/08/2026

A terminal app where I type commands and it asks Claude for its permission before running them.

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Absolutely nothing radicalised me more than learning about Fred Hampton

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 28/08/2026

Anyone have a way to mount a 65” tv vertical for doomscrolling?

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 27/08/2026

My latest interactive explainer all about the technology behind record players is done! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 26/08/2026

MyChart is the SalesForce of my body

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 25/08/2026

We need to talk about AI: Adversarial Interoperability

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futur 🔹 @futur.blue · 21/08/2026

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 21/08/2026

You listen to one Naruto playlist on Apple Music and it decides you exclusively want Japanese suggestions

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"spreadsheet people"—please. they're called cellcels. put some respect on their name

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 21/08/2026

It's funny when people say you don't need refactoring tools because of LLMs when I'm watching my agent build refactoring tools so it can migrate some code.

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 20/08/2026

I got Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds to pretend I'm playing Mario Kart on the steam machine.

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Mike Samuel 🟣 @mvsamuel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

@kotlinlang.org's DSLs are just unreasonably nice. I've been using one to build ASTs in a compiler. class TreeFarm uses class Planting to allow specifying AST nodes as block structures, and there's some automagic that propagates node position metadata from injected AST nodes to synthesized nodes.

[pretty printed Kotlin code with IDE overlays showing that the `this` type for block lambdas is "this: Planting" in all four nested lambdas]

val ifStmt = macroEnv.treeFarm.grow(macroEnv.pos) {
Block {
If(
cond = {
Call {
V(vIsNullFn)
Rn(name)
}
},
thn = { Replant(freeTree(macroEnv.args.valueTree(1))) },
els = { Rn(name) },
)
}
}

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Kiran @kirancodes.me · 20/08/2026

Ever functional programmer that spends long enough in deep functional programming, eventually overflows back into a C dev

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Very obviously the outcome of people mobbing those who publicly admit they use AI is everyone continuing to use it but hiding it

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

kinda wild that a baby stroller, an iphone, a day of private college tuition, and a routine doctor appt all cost about the same

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 18/08/2026

We really went wrong with the way CI works

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 18/08/2026

Sometimes I think I’m young, then I use a Rolodex as an analogy.

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Douglas Creager @dcreager.net · 15/08/2026

My team shipped that 5-6 years ago, but it got un-shipped as part of the new Code Search experience / React-based code viewer. 🤷 It was some really cool tech, and drew on some state of the art academic research. I gave a talk on it if you want to learn how it worked! dcreager.net/talks/stack-...

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Incremental, zero-config Code Navigation using stack graphs.

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 14/08/2026

Turns out so does the ACMs publishing system ✘ Warning: A total of 1 unresolved cross-references or citations ('??' or '[?]') found on page(s) 12. Please fix the '??' and '[?]' occurrences in the PDF.

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 13/08/2026

reviewing the first while loop I've looked at in a while

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 13/08/2026

show vs to_string is a battle for the ages

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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 13/08/2026

Incredible to me that Microsoft owns GitHub and VS Code, yet I can’t Ctrl+click a name in a PR to jump to its definition

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