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:
- Ten Sixty, by Joey, Octoptic
- Sysivalo, by Ø, Mika Vainio
- Fobia, by Aylu
- Nocturne, by Onmutu Mechanicks
- Decoys, by No Sir
Albums I've been digging in the past month, according to Spotify:
- 28 (Remaster 2025), by Tujiko Noriko, Aoki Takamasa
- hooke’s law, by keiyaA
- Desaceleradas, by Debit
- Sonder, by Small Crab
- Decoys, by No Sir
- Luster, by Maria Somerville
- Collide, by Leif
- In For a Dime, by Joey
- Ten Sixty, by Joey, Octoptic
- The Ultimate '80s Medley #2, by Martin Miller
- End of the Middle, by Richard Dawson
- Hometown Girl, by U.e., Ulla
Just finished reading Introduction to civil war, by Tiqqun, Alexander R. Galloway, and friends (link). It's OK I guess.
Gotta finish 25 books before 2027-01-01. I've read 2 so far.
I'm currently reading these books (lower down = less likely I remember much about the content):
- What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?, by Raja Shehadeh (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.