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:
- new avatar, by Kelela
- ...Beginning of the End, by Portrayal of Guilt
- All The Cages Holding Us Will One Day Turn To Dust, by Snag
- Nightbringers, by The Black Dahlia Murder
Albums I've been digging in the past month, according to Spotify:
- Midnight Zone (Original Soundtrack to the Film by Julian Charrière), by Laurel Halo
- Warm Shadows, by Memotone
- new avatar, by Kelela
- Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!, by Horse Lords
- Musique pour 3 femmes enceintes, by Marc Leclair
- Nightbringers, by The Black Dahlia Murder
- Tragic Magic, by Julianna Barwick, Mary Lattimore
- Hum of Hurt, by Converge
- Potpourri, by Debit
- For Love of Grace & the Hereafter, by Iceage
- 歪曲, by Shing02
- Body of Work, by Edward Skeletrix
- Here In the Valley, by helllhound, Nailah Hunter
- ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE, by BROCKHAMPTON
- ...Beginning of the End, by Portrayal of Guilt
- The weathervane is my body, by Truck Violence
- Leave Another Day, by Milan W.
- WHACK'S MUSEUM, by Tierra Whack
- Hidden Fires Burn Hottest, by Bosse-de-Nage
- You Can't Kill God With Bullets, by Conway the Machine
Just finished reading Dictee, by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (link). It's a good book.
Gotta finish 25 books before 2027-01-01. I've read 10 so far.
I'm currently reading these books (lower down = less likely I remember much about the content):
- Essays Two, by Lydia Davis (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: 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.