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:
- Anemones, by Xylitol
- Love Is Not Enough, by Converge
- Strata, Act (Joy Contemporary)*, by Pat Thomas, XT
- Autechre Guitar, by Shane Parish
- K2 Central, by Squarepusher
- URGH, by Mandy, Indiana
- Kin, by KMRU
- Cutting the Throat of God, by Ulcerate
- Crown and Country, by Crown and Country
- Wuthering Heights, by Charli xcx
- Street Druid, by Ben Vince
- Endless Motion, by Siu Mata, Croixrouge
- Let Us Clap, by Lamisi
- Sexistential (Arca’s Take), by Robyn, Arca
- Til The Day I'm Gone, by Finding Ways, Sebastian Rochford
- DIRTY TECH, by Kim Gordon
- Numerology, by My New Band Believe
- the apple tree under the sea, by hemlocke springs
- Euphoria Bound, by Shackleton
- DISCOMBOBULATED, by Hen Ogledd
- Keepsake, by Ana Roxanne
Albums I've been digging in the past month, according to Spotify:
- Changes in Air, by Kara-Lis Coverdale
- Cutting the Throat of God, by Ulcerate
- Momoko, by Momoko Gill
- Kin, by KMRU
- How to Win At Solitaire (Deluxe Edition), by Sophia Stel
- URGH, by Mandy, Indiana
- I'll Call You Later, by Xterea
- African Skies, by Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy
- Soul vs. Math, by Napoleon Da Legend, Dub Sonata
- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, by Outkast
- Showbiz! (Deluxe), by MIKE
- Sonder, by Small Crab
- Showbiz!, by MIKE
- 冀西南林路行, by 万能青年旅店
- Wuthering Heights, by Charli xcx
Just finished reading The Movement of the Free Spirit, by Raoul Vaneigem, Randall Cherry, and friends (link). It's OK I guess.
Gotta finish 25 books before 2027-01-01. 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: 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.