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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH

@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 @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 5h
What happened to radial menus
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 04/10/2026
Steam sales are class warfare
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 01/10/2026
Can you have a open nonalcoholic beer in a car 🤔
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 30/09/2026
I can't wait until Hollywood Ending gets a film adaptation and that film gets a press junket
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 29/09/2026
The rails subreddit is becoming my new favorite soap opera
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 29/09/2026
100% agree. Just showing both on both and allowing you to modify them would at least be an improvement. I seems like defaulting to just do both if the watch is worn would be fine and have options for phone/watch only though
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @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 @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 26/09/2026
I feel like I would be happier if I had a few swords
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 24/09/2026
what model performs best at simon says?
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 22/09/2026
these nations aren't feeling very united
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 22/09/2026
Blasphemy
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @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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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 19/09/2026
Chaotic neutral
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 19/09/2026
Also structured programming and functions
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 19/09/2026
Garbage collection
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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 @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 18/09/2026
This is why the strategy is just to pretend
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 18/09/2026
This has the feeling of eating something and halfway through you realize you ate the wrapper.
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 18/09/2026
grotesque
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 18/09/2026
People please give your website favicons
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @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 @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 17/09/2026
I also can just count the letters. The point is you don’t have to do it.
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 17/09/2026
But doing that training and external script fixes it for me
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 17/09/2026
Can we just put co- in front of this
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 17/09/2026
I always come back to djikstra “abstraction is a tool to create a precise new semantic level rather than to remain vague”. Whereas these tools operate in a position explicitly to be handle being vague.
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 17/09/2026
Like the interface that we have between us and an agent is very much, not a precise representation so you can’t have any real objective interpretation of the request and response.
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 17/09/2026
And get what you’re going for, but modern LLM tools don’t really have the issue with counting the Rs in strawberry. I think the distinction here has to more do with the relationship the user has with the tool rather than how the tool works.
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @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 @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 16/09/2026
My Reddit is exclusively The Wolverine and Ed Sheeran Palestine drama
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @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 @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 13/09/2026
If only we had a budget breakdown
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 11/09/2026
If Steve Jobs was alive would the duo be left-handed only?
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 09/09/2026
iphone duo coming with netflix shorts lol
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 09/09/2026
The apple keynote walking shots make me deeply uncomfortable
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 09/09/2026
Also the modest model is as impactful as the internet.
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @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 @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 09/09/2026
I may be abusing the feature
Screenshot of cleanup pr stack with 16 stacked prs
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 08/09/2026
/goal prove P=NP. make no mistakes and do NOT prove P != NP
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 08/09/2026
What gets me is this concept that "the law is too slow to keep up". Like it's obviously illegal, doing it with new technology shouldn't change that.
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 08/09/2026
What if taxis without medallions, hotels without licenses, sales without sales tax
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 08/09/2026
most modern tech unicorns are just techwashing regulatory avoidance machines 
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 08/09/2026
that's not what I meant when I said an "explicit" API
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @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 @ SPLASH @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 @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 05/09/2026
My form isn’t nearly as good though
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @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 @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 04/09/2026
Peak distracting time
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 03/09/2026
Tornado warning
My wife and dog in the basement for a tornado warning
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Alexander Bandukwala @ SPLASH @bandukwala.me · 03/09/2026
Still figuring out whether to go early or stay late
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