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:
- Desaceleradas, by Debit
- End of the Middle, by Richard Dawson
- TIMESOFPERIL, by Sleep Sinatra
- Municipal Dreams, by Low End Activist
- The Ultimate '80s Medley #2, by Martin Miller
Albums I've been digging in the past month, according to Spotify:
- HAYWARDxDÄLEK, by dälek, Charles Hayward
- Desaceleradas, by Debit
- Tranquilizer, by Oneohtrix Point Never
- Mercy, by Armand Hammer, The Alchemist, billy woods, E L U C I D
- The Night Green Side of It, by R.A.P. Ferreira, Kenny Segal
- Implosion, by The Bug, Ghost Dubs
- The Long Procession, by Amia Venera Landscape
- 28 (Remaster 2025), by Tujiko Noriko, Aoki Takamasa
- Stardust, by Danny Brown
- TIMESOFPERIL, by Sleep Sinatra
- 馬, by betcover!!
- World Maker, by Psychonaut
- Supreme Blientele, by Westside Gunn
- I Am a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience, by To Be Gentle
- Forgetting Is Violent, by Patrick Shiroishi
- Dancin' In The Streets, by Rat Heart
- Things We Lost in the Fire, by Low
- End of the Middle, by Richard Dawson
Just finished reading Among the Thugs, by Bill Buford (link). It's a good book.
Gotta finish 25 books before 2026-01-01. I've read 18 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.