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:
- Here In the Valley, by helllhound, Nailah Hunter
- Inferno, by Boards of Canada
- You Can't Kill God With Bullets, by Conway the Machine
- Body of Work, by Edward Skeletrix
- Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!, by Horse Lords
- ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE PLUS PACK, by BROCKHAMPTON
Albums I've been digging in the past month, according to Spotify:
- rain music, by Duval Timothy, Carlos Niño
- Musique pour 3 femmes enceintes, by Marc Leclair
- Body of Work, by Edward Skeletrix
- Hum of Hurt, by Converge
- Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!, by Horse Lords
- ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE, by BROCKHAMPTON
- You Can't Kill God With Bullets, by Conway the Machine
- Inferno, by Boards of Canada
- When Does This Place Become Our Scene, by Hammok
- Potpourri, by Debit
- REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE, by Genesis Owusu
- Leave Another Day, by Milan W.
- Ev'ry Portal Past, by Dialect
- For Love of Grace & the Hereafter, by Iceage
- FLYGOD, by Westside Gunn
- Warm Shadows, by Memotone
- Alfredo 2, by Freddie Gibbs, The Alchemist
Just finished reading No Windmills in Basra, by Diaa Jubaili, Chip Rossetti (link). It's a good book.
Gotta finish 25 books before 2027-01-01. I've read 9 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: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and friends (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.