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:
- 呪詛告白初恋そして世界, by moreru
- THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED, by The Armed
- Vooid (2025), by VOOID
- 我又沒有做錯事, by MassMan
- smallest things, by Memotone
- Seas of Triple Consciousness, by Jordan Deal
- Lifetime, by Erika de Casier
Albums I've been digging in the past month, according to Spotify:
- Diamond Eyes, by Deftones
- Let God Sort Em Out, by Clipse, Pusha T, Malice
- 臺北人文地景, by COLD DEW
- 人工島, by 電球
- Shards, by Tim Hecker
- Tranzkript 1, by Actress
- smallest things, by Memotone
- Basictonalvocabulary, by Surgeon
- Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity, by Jasmine Guffond
- こわさについて／窓, by 電球
- Cadejos + Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words (Remastered 2025), by Mamaleek
- hexed!, by aya
- Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!, by Orchid
- 第五作品集『無題』, by downy
- 集合, by 電球
Just finished reading Omnicide II, by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh (link). It's just meh.
Gotta finish 25 books before 2026-01-01. I've read 12 so far.
I'm currently reading these books (lower down = less likely I remember much about the content):
- The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays, by Simon Leys (link)
- 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.