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:
- Diamond Eyes, by Deftones
- I Guess U Had To Be There, by E L U C I D, Sebb Bash
- Cutting the Throat of God, by Ulcerate
- Lateralus, by TOOL
- Salix, by Loula Yorke, Charlotte Jolly
- My New Band Believe, by My New Band Believe
- Wendy Eisenberg, by Wendy Eisenberg
- Heat of Ritual, by Mere of Light
- idea 1, by Kelela
- Deliverance, by Opeth
- Seismo, by upsammy, Valentina Magaletti
- Pain to Power, by Maruja
- The Red Album, by Baroness
- And Where Is The Heart? I've Searched My Entire Home, by Fire-Toolz
- Peel (Loidis Remix), by james K, Loidis
- Our Hyper, by HYPER GAL
- Trying Not to Have a Thought, by Algernon Cadwallader
- TIGRAY FUNK, by Sideshow
Albums I've been digging in the past month, according to Spotify:
- L'inéluctable pulsation du temps, by Delphine Dora
- 144 Pulsations of Light, by Ethernet
- II, by Paperclip Minimiser
- Pain to Power, by Maruja
- EVEN COLDER SPRING, by Cities Aviv
- Kammerkonzert, by Squarepusher
- Dos Moons (Full Moon), by Dos Monos
- Deliverance, by Opeth
- The Red Album, by Baroness
- Whatever the Weather II, by Whatever The Weather
- I Guess U Had To Be There, by E L U C I D, Sebb Bash
- TIGRAY FUNK, by Sideshow
- Lateralus, by TOOL
- Diamond Eyes, by Deftones
- Music for Intersecting Planes, by Kali Malone, Leila Bordreuil
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.