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:
- 海の動物園, by Masahiro Sugaya
- Visitations from Enceladus, by Cryptic Shift
- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, by Outkast
- Cardamom & Laudanum, by Mystic AM
- Through Global Frequency, by Michel Banabila
Albums I've been digging in the past month, according to Spotify:
- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, by Outkast
- Fobia, by Aylu
- Piñata, by Freddie Gibbs, Madlib
- Ten Sixty, by Joey, Octoptic
- How You Been, by SML
- In For a Dime, by Joey
- Sonder, by Small Crab
- Decoys, by No Sir
- Hostile Engineering, by Lt Headtrip, Steel Tipped Dove
- Songs and Bodies, by Piotr Kurek
- Luster, by Maria Somerville
- DRUG$$$, by Teller Bank$
- Through Global Frequency, by Michel Banabila
Just finished reading How to be a Nigerian, by Peter Enahoro (link). AHHHH everyone should read this book
Gotta finish 25 books before 2027-01-01. I've read 4 so far.
I'm currently reading these books (lower down = less likely I remember much about the content):
- The Movement of the Free Spirit, by Raoul Vaneigem, Randall Cherry, and friends (link)
- 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: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and friends (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.