Nausherwan Korai - nkorai

Nausherwan Korai

Some CX suggestions for Carvana

Some CX suggestions for Carvana

Background I've recently had to start commuting to work again for the first time in around ~5 years - I've been working remotely for the bulk of that time and prior to that I was lucky enough to walk to work for bit. I gave the Pittsburgh bus system a

Building a Twitch Chat Plays Game - Snake

Building a Twitch Chat Plays Game - Snake

I streamed building this game on Twitch, throw me a follow if that is something you are interested in: https://www.twitch.tv/sadboifeverdreamz If you want to skip all the narration you can go straight to the source code for the project: https://github.com/nkorai/TwitchPlaysSnake Background Ever

Going 3D with OpenGL

Going 3D with OpenGL

So far in my adventures with OpenGL I have more or less been kludging things together, albeit following some great resources to do the kludging. I decided to really start following and learning through one of these resources, as I have a project in mind that I want to build

Improving my workspace

Improving my workspace

Building a workbench and improving the lighting in my office!

Making a concrete coaster

Making a concrete coaster

Follow my journey as I struggle bus through making a concrete coaster in the hopes of one day pouring some concrete flower pots.

Gradients, animation and more fun with OpenGL

Gradients, animation and more fun with OpenGL

Continuing on the theme of my previous OpenGL post, I wanted to share some notes on more OpenGL experiments I tried my hand at. In this round I wanted to setup a sort of playground for me to be able to simply create new directories and start writing some code

Prepping and smoking 8 racks of ribs!

Prepping and smoking 8 racks of ribs!

I've always wanted to prep a large batch of something and this was a great opportunity to do it! Smoked on our Weber Smokey Mountain 22-inch.

Backyard cleanup, cooking burgers and putting together a grill!

Backyard cleanup, cooking burgers and putting together a grill!

Cleaning up our backyard with a new tool: a Milwaukee M18 Fuel leaf blower. I think I get why people buy a bunch of tools now, its pretty nifty. We also grilled some burgers for the 4th of July on our smoker - Weber Smokey Mountain 22 inch - before

Having fun drawing triangles with OpenGL

Having fun drawing triangles with OpenGL

Now that I've built my first PC with a dedicated graphics card, I want to try out some OpenGL projects to get my feet wet with graphics programming.

First PC Build!

First PC Build!

I've been collecting PC parts on the cadence of one every month/every two months and finally got all I needed to build my first PC. I made some mistakes but overall it was pretty fun. I put together a build video for it, if you're interested please check it

seattle trip, i said 'wow' a million times

seattle trip, i said 'wow' a million times

went to seattle for a week long trip, spent some time with new friends and old, did a lot of touristy things

This blog is now self-hosted

This blog is now self-hosted

Doing a reset on the blog since the last time I posted was 2017. I'm taking the opportunity to learn some new stuff and set things up a little differently.