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:
- As If, by Miki Yui
- End of the Middle, by Richard Dawson
- Decide Which Way The Eyes Are Looking, by Lina Tullgren
- Ballads of Harry Houdini, by Papa M
Albums I've been digging in the past month, according to Spotify:
- Only Good Dreams for Me, by Zaumne
- Skinned, by ML Buch
- Decide Which Way The Eyes Are Looking, by Lina Tullgren
- Muuntautuja, by Oranssi Pazuzu
- HEAL, by Pavel Milyakov, Lucas Dupuy
- End of the Middle, by Richard Dawson
- 城堡, by Jolin Tsai
- Ephemera, by Fergus Jones, Perko
- 浪費愛情, by 小安
- Strange Meridians, by upsammy
- Peasant, by Richard Dawson
- Intrinsic Rhythm, by Perila
- CODE NOIR, by Quinton Barnes
- If I don't make it, I love u, by Still House Plants
- Energy! Come On!, by Energy
- Ballads of Harry Houdini, by Papa M
- Endlessness, by Nala Sinephro
- Area Silenzio, by eat-girls
- Umbilical, by Thou
Just finished reading 金融狂熱簡史A Short History of Financial Euphoria, by John Kenneth Galbraith－著╱許雅淑、李宗義－譯 (link). It's kinda bad.
Gotta finish 25 books before 2026-01-01. I've read 6 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.