Hi! I'm Nisala Kalupahana. I currently work for Saikat Chakrabarti, where I'm building software to help progressives win elections. Formerly at Neuralink....
Listen, I love building cool and useful things as much as the next person. You can look at my GitHub if you want proof. Building interesting things is why I got into programming in the first place. Being able to write words on my computer that turn into something that anyone, anywhere can access and use is so incredible. But for me, the joy isn't merely in the final product. I get a lot of joy and…
When I was in eighth grade, I made a discovery that I've been thinking about ever since: you can just buy glass, and it's really not that expensive.
Proximity voice chat is a popular part of multiplayer video games these days, and for good reason. With it, you can talk to other players naturally, as if they were in the real world: loud when they're next to you, and quieter as they move away, until you can't hear them at all. But for some reason, proximity chat has only really been done in video games. It's time we bring it to more multiplayer…