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:
- Whatever the Weather II, by Whatever The Weather
- Overspace & Supertime, by Cryptic Shift
- Cutting the Throat of God, by Ulcerate
- Touch, by Tortoise
- Revocation (Deluxe Version), by Revocation
- Some of Us Stay, Some of Us Go, by Atomiste
- Themes for Dreams, by Resavoir
Albums I've been digging in the past month, according to Spotify:
- Blumenfantasie, by Xylitol
- An Undying Love for a Burning World, by Neurosis
- Kin, by KMRU
- Revocation (Deluxe Version), by Revocation
- New Heights, by Defeat The Giant
- Whatever the Weather II, by Whatever The Weather
- Anemones, by Xylitol
- L'inéluctable pulsation du temps, by Delphine Dora
- KAK, by KAKUHAN
- Sidera, by Miserere Luminis
- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, by Outkast
- Teratogenesis (Deluxe Edition), by Revocation
- Seeing Is Forgetting, by Elori Saxl, Henry Solomon
- Libres antes del final, by Colleen
- Themes for Dreams, by Resavoir
- Overspace & Supertime, by Cryptic Shift
- Some of Us Stay, Some of Us Go, by Atomiste
- Trying Times, by James Blake
Just finished reading Anarchy and Insurrection, by Alfredo M. Bonanno (link). It's a good book.
Gotta finish 25 books before 2027-01-01. I've read 7 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.