hello.

about me

i am ilo Kali. i go by just Kali, however.

perhaps you know me through toki pona. perhaps you know me in real life. perhaps you know me elsewhere, such as through Desmos or OCaml. if you know me both online and in real life, i probably act somewhat differently.

hobbies

i play video games upon occasion. Noita is my favorite singleplayer game of all time. the depth of creativity and exploration is completely unparalleled in any game i'm aware of. the more you play it the more you realize it's secretly an open-world metroidvania even though initially it feels like a dungeon crawler roguelike with a fun gimmick (that every pixel is physically simulated). the art and music are also extraordinarily good—volume 2 of its official soundtrack is one of the very few genuine 10/10 albums for me and has a sort of sound i've never heard anywhere else. Hollow Knight and Rain World are also both very fun and have beautiful art and music as well. i haven't beaten Rain World yet, though. Baba is You, from one of the developers of Noita, is also very fun, but can be quite puzzling at times. i also haven't beaten it yet. Untitled Goose Game is great for laughs but can get a little old after the first playthough. now that it has multiplayer the replay-ability is much higher, so that's nice.

i love programming in Lua, whether that be LuaJIT, Löve2d, PICO-8, or just plain-old Lua. i also love using OCaml, a functional, object-oriented, imperative programming language that inspired many features in Rust and in fact was the original source language of the Rust compiler. it's currently my favorite programming language, but i learned it after Lua, so i am mentioning it after Lua.

my current interests involve the Bohlen-Pierce scale, the Prolog programming language, नेपाली (Nepali), stenography, and music.