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
- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, by Outkast
- PLAY ME, by Kim Gordon
Albums I've been digging in the past month, according to Spotify:
- Changes in Air, by Kara-Lis Coverdale
- Anemones, by Xylitol
- Momoko, by Momoko Gill
- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, by Outkast
- Kin, by KMRU
- Cutting the Throat of God, by Ulcerate
- URGH, by Mandy, Indiana
- New Heights, by Defeat The Giant
- Spirits, by Gil Scott-Heron
- Showbiz! (Deluxe), by MIKE
- How to Win At Solitaire (Deluxe Edition), by Sophia Stel
- African Skies, by Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy
- Showbiz!, by MIKE
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.