I'm a software engineer from Taipei, Taiwan that mostly do backend & data related stuff. Python is my go-to game but I'm also cool with (ordered by my familiarity) TypeSript, Scala, Rust and C++. Currently on my umpteenth attempt to learn Haskell.
My personal website, mostly just my thoughts on music I enjoy or do not enjoy.
Albums I've been listening to recently:
- The Revolving Star : Archive & Practice 002, by Cities Aviv
- Goodness, by feeo
- Ghosted III, by Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin
- Aeropsia, by Steve Hauschildt
Albums I've been digging in the past month, according to Spotify:
- たのしみ, by U-zhaan, Tamaki Roy, Chinza Dopeness
- SEQUENCE 01, by f5ve
- Anything Can Be a Hammer, by bloodsports
- 10:44, by Brahm
- Speak Daggers, by Elias Rønnenfelt
- Don't Trust Mirrors, by Kelly Moran
- Liminality / Dream State Return, by Elder
- HUMAN ERROR CLUB AT KENNY'S HOUSE, by HUMAN ERROR CLUB, Kenny Segal
- Absurd Matter 2, by Shapednoise
- Youth Novel, by Youth Novel
- Periphery, by Periphery
- Electric Chair, by Cities Aviv
- Black Messiah, by D'Angelo
- Bounce N Break Yo Back, by DJ Spinn, Teklife
- The Smashing Machine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), by Nala Sinephro
- Early Recordings 1994-95, by Kreidler
Just finished reading Among the Thugs, by Bill Buford (link). It's a good book.
Gotta finish 25 books before 2026-01-01. I've read 17 so far.
I'm currently reading these books (lower down = less likely I remember much about the content):
- The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism, by Georges Bataille, Michael Richardson (link)
- Genesis and Trace: Derrida Reading Husserl and Heidegger, by Paola Marrati, Simon Sparks (link)
- Philosophical Chemistry: Genealogy of a Scientific Field, by Manuel DeLanda (link)
- Political Categories: Thinking Beyond Concepts, by Michael Marder (link)
- Regeneration, by Pat Barker (link)
- K-punk, by Mark Fisher (link)
- A Biography of Ordinary Man: On Authorities and Minorities, by François Laruelle, Jessie Hock, and friends (link)
- A Short History of Decay, by Emil M. Cioran, Richard Howard (link)
- Anti-Oedipus, by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (link)
- A Thousand Plateaus, by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (link)
GitHub says "usefulalgorithm/usefulalgorithm is a special repository", but every repository is special to me insofar as they've all induced different pain and suffering to my life.