Alexander Bandukwala

Tell me who to add to this #ProgrammingLanguages go.bsky.app/KPyf9X8

@vanhentenryck.bsky.social have you seen this? OpenAI claims to have refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. (They're putting together a community effort to validate and explain.) github.com/openai/math/...

Drunk Model UN for adults

opus 5.5 comments are actually decent

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So great seeing folks at OOPSLA in Oakland a few weeks back! In case you missed my talk on "Direct Manipulation and Natural Language Programming, Together at Last?", slides are finally up: parkie-doo.computer/talks/oopsla... And the paper, of course! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

dragging out a helper, hoisting dependencies along with it

Doing an implementation of Sam and Ravi's Ragged Blocks in Hazel to help visualize some stuff

Xfinity is so unreliable I've enabled full monitoring/alerting

I'm in an emotionally abusive relationship with Duo

How far away are we from vibecoding our own tv firmware to remove all the bloat

More than half my food spending for the past 5 days is popcorn

With it being so easy to have a blog or medium account I don’t understand why newspapers have guest opinion sections which lend validity towards insane positions without taking any accountability for them.

I need a GitHub PR viewer that makes a DAG based on pr stacks.

Just in case it wasn’t clear, I’m not selective with this. Just lmk if you’re missed.

As a PL student I now have more Jane Street tshirts than the trading firm I actually worked at for 7 years.

what if the outline view acted bidirectionally as an bulleted outline editor?

Jevons paradox for type system expressibility

I don’t disagree. I’ve been trying to think of something I’d rather have, and all I can admit is that if I had an infinite churro machine, I’d die a happy man.

I just setup a local forgejo git mirror of all my GitHub projects and it's crazy how much snappier it is.

Hello St Louis! RIP Strange Loop, you are missed.

Firefox requiring a extension to set the default url for a new tab is insane.

I find it difficult when people follow up with me after meeting at a conference but their website and online profiles have no pictures for me to connect a name with a face.

something feels disturbing about adding public ssl certs for my homelab

why is the closest nando's 4 hours away

I'm creating a corpus of Python programs that run successfully but with misleading mypy types

Nice value you got there. Would be a shame…

configurable hotkeys

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We should address sign pollution

I want to change my pfp but I’m afraid people won’t remember who I am

No one seems to use leashes for their dogs in San Francisco

codex usage limits reset

“I follow the oatmeal subreddit because I like oats” -Maddie

Thinking about getting into photography

What happened to radial menus

Steam sales are class warfare

Can you have a open nonalcoholic beer in a car 🤔

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

The rails subreddit is becoming my new favorite soap opera

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.

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