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:
- Skylla, by Ruth Goller
- forge, by KMRU
- How to Rescue Things, by Bill Orcutt
- New Songs & Variations, by TLF Trio, Moritz Von Oswald
- Palookaville, by Serengeti
- Endlessness, by Nala Sinephro
- Trellis, by Lifted
- Intrinsic Rhythm, by Perila
Albums I've been digging in the past month, according to Spotify:
- 馬, by betcover!!
- 卵, by betcover!!
- Intrinsic Rhythm, by Perila
- Seven Reorganisations, by Beatrice Dillon, Explore Ensemble
- Endlessness, by Nala Sinephro
- Mahōgakkō, by Hakushi Hasegawa
- Leave Another Day, by Milan W.
- sentiment, by claire rousay
- Damaged, by Ghost Dubs
- False 02, by Selfsame
- Trellis, by Lifted
- Skylla, by Ruth Goller
- Palookaville, by Serengeti
- How to Rescue Things, by Bill Orcutt
- Naya, by Dawuna
Just finished reading Hatred of Translation, by Nathanaël (link). It's OK I guess.
Gotta finish 25 books before 2026-01-01. I've read 3 so far.
I'm currently reading these books (lower down = less likely I remember much about the content):
- Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson (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, and friends (link)
- A Thousand Plateaus, by Gilles Deleuze (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.