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Alexander Bandukwala

@bandukwala.me

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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 · 10h

Spooky season is here

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 16h

Baby’s k8s cluster

Turing pi raspberry pi compute cluster with three CM4 compute modules

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 17h

Home lab is coming together

Dark-themed mobile dashboard for a Kubernetes cluster, viewed in Safari on an iPhone. Four resource summaries at the top show cluster (16%, 17 GiB), tp1 (18%, 5 GiB), tp2 (12%, 6 GiB), and tp3 (19%, 5 GiB), with CPU and memory usage bars. Below a search field and date/time of October 17, 2026, 12:15, a “Cluster” section lists five services—Forgejo (Git mirror of GitHub), FreshRSS (RSS reader), Grafana (cluster metrics), Headlamp (Kubernetes UI), and Uptime Kuma (up/down checks)—each with a green status indicator. The “Home” section begins at the bottom. The browser address bar shows home.abanduk.com.

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 15/10/2026

Apple Watch with Xfinity notification saying “A new Raspberry Pi connected to your home network with…”

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 14/10/2026

configurable hotkeys

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 14/10/2026

For you base16 people

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 14/10/2026

Colors

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

I may be abusing the feature

Screenshot of cleanup pr stack with 16 stacked prs

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

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

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

Tornado warning

My wife and dog in the basement for a tornado warning

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

We really went wrong with the way CI works

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 11/08/2026

My wife was not happy when she realized vs code and mypy were doing type inference differently

Person at a whiteboard writing down python expressions and their types

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 11/08/2026

I'm working on live typing in Hazel that reintegrates the dynamic types back into static type checking. We also don't have the separate compile/run step but the static distinction helps when parts of the program typecheck much faster than they run.

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 25/06/2026

If I’m going to watch the odyssey on my phone as Nolan intended I need to read it on this thing.

Pocture of Xteink ereader on the back of an iPhone 14 Pro

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 23/06/2026

2026: Steam Machine

3/4 view of a steam machine. Square box with a blue led strip and front IO.

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 23/06/2026

Also a bit on the shorter side 2022: Apple Mac Studio

Front view of a Mac Studio. Looks like a chonky mac mini

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 23/06/2026

Not quite a cube but still cubish 2020: Intel NUC 9 Extreme Ghost Canyon

Picture of a Intel NUC 9 Extreme Ghost Canyon. Looks a lot like a black mac mini with a skull on the vent

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 23/06/2026

2016: HP Omen X

A giant cube rotated 45 degrees so it stood on a corner with 4 externally accessible drive bays

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 23/06/2026

2014: Fractal Design Node 804

A mini-itx case that looks like a short black cube

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 23/06/2026

2013: Xi3 Piston

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 23/06/2026

2001: Shuttle XPC SS51G

White cube desktop pc case with a blue front panel

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 23/06/2026

2001: Nintendo GameCube.

Photo of a purple nintendo gamecube with an attached controller

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 23/06/2026

2000: The Power Mac G4 Cube

Front view of the Power mac G4 Cube. Silver cube with a transparent shell and curved edges

Angled photo of the power mac g4 cube upside down with a extended handle pulling the internal computer out of the case revealing the motherboard and ram

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 23/06/2026

1990: NeXT Computer AKA "The Cube"

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 17/06/2026

The time left on Liquid Glass is basically invisible on pocket casts

A screenshot of the podcast player Pocket Casts using Apple‘s new liquid glass. The contrast on the time bar with the glass is basically in distinguishable.

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 12/06/2026

I like it

Steam controller with forza 5 in the background

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 10/06/2026

we have hazel at home

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 29/05/2026

I would like to disagree

Crossplay scrabble saying invalid word “redex”

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 22/05/2026

It’s a v60 kind of a day

Picture of a hario v60 drip coffee pour over maker on top of a acaia scale

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 15/05/2026

Rewrite it in Rust has a whole slot at pldi

Screenshot of pldi schedule with section "Rust Translation and Borrowing"

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 15/05/2026

Interesting choice of "Opt-In"

Postal Mail Opt-In: ACM occasionally makes its conference attendee lists available to companies and other societies for IT related mailings. Please check the box below if you do not wish to share your mailing information.

Please do not release my postal address to third parties

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 11/04/2026

Trinity from the matrix in a latex outfit

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 10/04/2026

We parked backwards

Two Subarus with license plate monads and typed

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 30/03/2026

Switching from listudy to github.com/TowelSniffer... for my polgar puzzles. It works well but the whole ecosystem feels very fragile. Spaced repetition/learning tools seem ripe for experimenting with malleable computing

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 26/03/2026

Same claude, same.

Given the massive scope (39 files), I need to be much more efficient.
Let me launch multiple agents in parallel to fix the major files

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 15/03/2026

Said toilet

Human in chair from wall-e

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 12/03/2026

just modding around

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 10/03/2026

This is worse than when I lost my airline miles

The new Starbucks®
Rewards is here
Your starting status is GREEN.

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 07/03/2026

You: a big word scrabble player Me: a small word point maximizer

My top scrabble words
61 points
AX
ZA
EX

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 20/02/2026

The worst feature of Apple Music

AutoMix
Songs transition at the perfect moment, based on analysis of the key and tempo of the music.

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 12/02/2026

🪄

The program (1.0/.0.0, 0./.0., (0-.1.0) /.0) in hazel evaluating to

(∞, 🫓, -∞)

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 02/02/2026

LeBron so old he gets call outs in Tokyo drift

Screenshot from the fast and the furious with subtitles:”LeBron James couldn’t even get his hands on those.”

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 30/01/2026

Don’t shame me like this google

Google search results screenshot showing the Wikipedia page for type system and it has a note “you visit often”

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 21/01/2026

Frosted tips season

My dog with a face full of snow

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 19/01/2026

Just made my first Wikipedia edit

Screenshot from wikipedia. "You just made your first edit; thank you, and welcome!"

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 18/01/2026

Steam deck now pulling 400Mbps

Screenshot of steam deck download screen showing 435.8Mbps download speed

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 15/01/2026

Should I respond and tell them that the Ph.D. stipends are public.

Email screenshot:
Hi Alexander,

As the year comes to a close, have you considered how University of Michigan approaches pay transparency? At Optiver, we take a unique approach - progress toward our global P&L targets is shared openly with all employees each month. Engineers and technologists who directly contribute to systems supporting that P&L share in the success through transparent, performance-based profit pools.

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 12/01/2026

At least I’m crushing sleep

iOS 98 sleep score widget

Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 05/01/2026

Now I have the instruction manual

The wok by j kenji Lopez-Alt