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

Pocture of Xteink ereader on the back of an iPhone 14 Pro
3/4 view of a steam machine. Square box with a blue led strip and front IO.
Front view of a Mac Studio. Looks like a chonky mac mini
Picture of a Intel NUC 9 Extreme Ghost Canyon. Looks a lot like a black mac mini with a skull on the vent
A giant cube rotated 45 degrees so it stood on a corner with 4 externally accessible drive bays
A mini-itx case that looks like a short black cube
Picture of 2 xi3 pistons one showing the side with a logo and the other showing all of the ports. Roughly a squat rectangular prism
White cube desktop pc case with a blue front panel
Photo of a purple nintendo gamecube with an attached controller
Front view of the Power mac G4 Cube. Silver cube with a transparent shell and curved edges
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NeXTcube.jpg Picture of the Nextcube computer. Black cubical computer with vent and NeXT logo
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.
Steam controller with forza 5 in the background
terminal version of hazel running under node.js. Shows a text editor and a result at the bottom editing a program
Crossplay scrabble saying invalid word “redex”
Picture of a hario v60 drip coffee pour over maker on top of a acaia scale
Screenshot of pldi schedule with section "Rust Translation and Borrowing"
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Trinity from the matrix in a latex outfit
Two Subarus with license plate monads and typed
Screen capture of anki with a lichess-style chess board doing puzzles.
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
Human in chair from wall-e
Program: pivot_table( range(1,^^probe(^^slider(20))), fun i -> string_of_int(int_mod(i,^^probe(^^slider(4)))), fun i ->int_mod(i,^^probe(^^slider(8))), length) that's showing a pivot table based off of the mod results of parameters controlled by sliders
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My top scrabble words 61 points AX ZA EX
AutoMix Songs transition at the perfect moment, based on analysis of the key and tempo of the music.
The program (1.0/.0.0, 0./.0., (0-.1.0) /.0) in hazel evaluating to (∞, 🫓, -∞)
Screenshot from the fast and the furious with subtitles:”LeBron James couldn’t even get his hands on those.”
Google search results screenshot showing the Wikipedia page for type system and it has a note “you visit often”
My dog with a face full of snow
Screenshot from wikipedia. "You just made your first edit; thank you, and welcome!"
Screenshot of steam deck download screen showing 435.8Mbps download speed
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.
iOS 98 sleep score widget
The wok by j kenji Lopez-Alt
Me in front of a dell server rack wearing a coexist shirt with operating system logos instead of religious icons
Screenshot of my toothbrushes app
Nutrition facts showing 150 calories per serving and 280 per pouch
Me, my wife and our dog in matching Christmas onesies
Website screenshot You Don't Need a PhD in FP Functional programming without the gatekeeping. No monad lectures. No category theory homework. Just good patterns that work.
Kombucha girl meme Left: Everything is a compiler Right: Everything is an etl job
Socks with tobis face
Post from LinkedIn: We should rethink how we document AI-generated code. Dumping everything inline just bloats the source code, a separate metadata file (docs, decisions, caveats etc) might be a better solution.
1tb microsd card thumb for scale
Nano banana mockup of an electric convertible el Camino
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Pumpkin pie and whip cream
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
Picture of a rotating plug extension cable to be used in a place that is a tight fit
DoorDash notification asking if I’m still craving Taco Bell
FAIL Small step reduction and big step reduction are equal Expected: `(())(?)' Received: `(())(?)'
OCaml lsp has added extract local variable but when used in ReasonML it just outputs ocaml syntax.
Video version of the calculator I added to hazel. It allows you to do calculator operations that modify underlying hazel syntax and is used inside a function so any interactions with the calculator rewrite the function.
Succulent growing sideways
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Hazel programming language with an overlay calculator transforming values.
Lg tv menu with two hbo max apps one purple and one black
Screen shot from lose it app saying you do a good job fitting beer into your plan and I drink 73 fewer calories on days with beer
Hazel screenshot: ```hazel case ^^probe(take(buzzed, 4)) | [a, b, c, d] => a + b + c + d | rest => end ``` There's a probe on the take(buzzed, 4) showing [1, 2, "Fizz", 4]. And there's a dynamic error on `c` since c is a string not an int.