Me
I am a latter day bugman. My pseudonym comes from Salvador Dalí, wali from the Arabic الولى.
I edit this site using GNU Emacs, there are no build tools used. Best way to get in touch may be via my Neocities profile.
Interests
Programming, art, cooking, 90s aesthetic, philosophy, politics, history, design, amateur mathematics, auto-didactism, music, keyboards, video gaming, outdoorsmanship, knives, guns.
Books (top picks)
- Franz Kafka - The Trial
- Michel Houllebecq - Whatever
- Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground
- Arthur Schopenhauer - Essays
- David Benatar - Better to Have Never Been
- Costin Alamariu - Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy
- René Guénon - The Crisis of the Modern World
- Ted Kaczynski - Technological Slavery
Musical artists
Amenra ⬤, envy ⬤, Alcest, TR/ST ⬤4, Drab Majesty ⬤2, Kontravoid ⬤, Boy Harsher ⬤, Schwefelgelb, Whirr ⬤, yeule ⬤2, HEALTH ⬤2, Loma Prieta ⬤3, Daïtro, Suffocate For Fuck Sake, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Boris ⬤2, Chelsea Wolfe ⬤2, Emma Ruth Rundle ⬤, Unwound ⬤, Slint, Raein ⬤2, Have A Nice Life, Heaven In Her Arms, Deftones, Alice In Chains, Deafheaven ⬤2, Музыка для грузовых лифтов, Кино, Wisp ⬤, julie, LLLL, Aphex Twin, toe, My Bloody Valentine ⬤, Slowdive ⬤, Chernikovskaya Hata, Electroforez, Still Life.
⬤ - seen live
Video games
Atelic: Armored Core VI, Metal Gear Solid, Death Stranding, Grand Theft Auto V, Red Alert 2 + Mental Omega, Total Annihilation, StarCraft 1 & 2, Fallout 1 & 2, Portal 1 & 2, Half-Life series, classic Doom, H3VR.
Telic: CS2, Fortnite.
Films
★ Dark City, Eyes Wide Shut, The City of Lost Children, Pi, No Country for Old Men, A Scanner Darkly, ★ American Psycho, 12 Angry Men, 回路, ★ 自殺サークル, ★ Ichi the Killer, ★ Ghost in the Shell I & II, ★ Neon Genesis Evangelion, In the Mood for Love, 2046, Training Day, Sicario, Blade Runner 2049, ★ Dune Pt. I & II, ★ Matrix trilogy + Animatrix
★ - all time favorite
Politics? L O L
Civil society is based on the fundamental hypocrisy of one set of rules for the in-group, another set of rules for the out-group.
Left or right, I'm against authoritarianism and statism.
Education
BA, Mathematics.
Birth
China, 199X.
Death
Summary execution by ████████, 20XX.