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:
- Vooid (2025), by VOOID
- Clube da Mariposa Mórbida, by Akira Umeda, Metal Preyers
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
- Lifetime, by Erika de Casier
- smallest things, by Memotone
- Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity, by Jasmine Guffond
- Vooid (2025), by VOOID
- Basictonalvocabulary, by Surgeon
- Cadejos + Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words (Remastered 2025), by Mamaleek
- Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!, by Orchid
- THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED, by The Armed
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.