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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.

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My personal website, mostly just my thoughts on music I enjoy or do not enjoy.

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Albums I've been listening to recently:

• Sortilège, by Preservation, Gabe 'Nandez
• Sunshine and Balance Beams, by Pile
• God Does Like Ugly, by JID
• Carry Me Along, Blind Dog, by page girl
• Cleaning Out The Empty Administration Building, by R.J.F.
• Alfredo 2, by Freddie Gibbs, The Alchemist

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

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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)

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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.