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:
- Sunshine and Balance Beams, by Pile
- God Does Like Ugly, by JID
- Cleaning Out The Empty Administration Building, by R.J.F.
- Alfredo 2, by Freddie Gibbs, The Alchemist
- GNX, by Kendrick Lamar
- Diamond Eyes, by Deftones
Albums I've been digging in the past month, according to Spotify:
- Sunshine and Balance Beams, by Pile
- Vooid (2025), by VOOID
- THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED, by The Armed
- God Does Like Ugly (Preluxe Edition), by JID
- Lifetime, by Erika de Casier
- 人工島, by 電球
- smallest things, by Memotone
- Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity, by Jasmine Guffond
- Let God Sort Em Out, by Clipse, Pusha T, Malice
- Alfredo 2, by Freddie Gibbs, The Alchemist
- Never Die, by Matt Jencik, Midwife
- Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!, by Orchid
Just finished reading 像這樣的小事, by Claire Keegan, 彭玲嫻 (link). It's a good book.
Gotta finish 25 books before 2026-01-01. I've read 13 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.