Jennifer Liang

Software Engineer

Misc

Books, movies, podcasts, and other things I enjoy

Books

Fiction

  • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  • Horse by Geraldine Brooks
  • The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Non-Fiction

  • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  • The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
  • Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatema Mernissi

Movies & TV Shows

Movies

  • Hi, Mom (2021)
  • Past Lives (2023)
  • 3 Idiots (2009)
  • The Prestige (2006)

Podcasts

  • Drumtower by The Economist
  • The Retrievals by Serial Productions
  • Search Engine
  • Modern Love
  • Today, Explained by Vox

Travel

Apps I Use for Planning

  • Polarsteps tracks routes and builds a map of past trips
  • Wanderlog itinerary builder with shared trip planning
  • Citymapper best transit directions in cities
  • Flighty flight tracking with delay predictions
  • Airalo eSIMs for international data
  • Rome2Rio compares transit options between any two places
  • Travel Planner a planner I built that generates personalized itineraries

Other Interests

Hobbies

  • Running
  • Spin/Cycling
  • Walking all the streets of NYC