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:
- Tanoshimi, by U-zhaan, Tamaki Roy, Chinza Dopeness
- SEQUENCE 01, by f5ve
Albums I've been digging in the past month, according to Spotify:
- The Spiritual Sound, by Agriculture
- Liminality / Dream State Return, by Elder
- Wide Awake, by Mechatok
- たのしみ, by U-zhaan, Tamaki Roy, Chinza Dopeness
- wishful thinking, by Duval Timothy
- Mossbane Lantern, by Sallow Moth
- SEQUENCE 01, by f5ve
- Absurd Matter 2, by Shapednoise
- A Danger to Ourselves, by Lucrecia Dalt
- Friend, by james K
- 11-1988, by Kareem
Just finished reading Bad Infinity: Selected Writings, by Aria Dean (link). It's a good book.
Gotta finish 25 books before 2026-01-01. I've read 16 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.