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:
- Flickering Resonance, by Pelican
- Music From The Merch Desk (2016 - 2023), by Aphex Twin
- Every Bridge Burning, by Nails
- Days With Dr. Yen Lo, by Dr. Yen Lo
- Obzen, by Meshuggah
Albums I've been digging in the past month, according to Spotify:
- Dos Moons, by Dos Monos
- Only Dust Remains, by Backxwash
- Rest Symbol, by rest symbol
- Totality, by Natural Information Society, Bitchin Bajas
- From Where You Came, by Kara-Lis Coverdale
- Somoku Hodo, by Hakushi Hasegawa
- 卵, by betcover!!
- 馬, by betcover!!
- Every Bridge Burning, by Nails
- Void Patrol, by Void Patrol
- Cult Subterranea, by Celestaphone, Dealers of God
- Music From The Merch Desk (2016 - 2023), by Aphex Twin
- Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night, by Night Verses
- IOX, by LA Timpa
- Pearl, by Dos Monos
- Under Tangled Silence, by DjRUM
- Demilitarize, by Nazar
Just finished reading The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt (link). It's just meh.
Gotta finish 25 books before 2026-01-01. 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, 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.