My name is Lucas and I live in Lisbon. When I’m done with my day job as a software engineer, I usually go focus on one of my several hobbies, and this page includes a catalogue of random things I made.

I like to write, and while I used to enjoy writing fiction a few years ago I’ve stuck mostly to journalling as good ideas for fiction have been hard to come by. There are some random samples of it on the catalogue. They’re in Portuguese because that’s my native language and to write prose without using it sounds a bit insincere to me.

I’ve also worked for some time on a first-person stealth game set on a post-apocalyptic, half-frozen, half-scorched planet. You can find the latest gameplay video for it here. Making games is quite difficult and I’ve sadly lost the love for it over the years. A side-project born out of this game project was a steam-audio extension for the Godot game engine, which provides spatial audio to it. I don’t maintain it regularly, but if you want try it, it’s up on GitHub. Someone has told me about a similar project that is currently maintained here. I’ve played many, many games, but lately I mostly play games by creators that I already trust, or titles that really pique my interest. Video games are sadly a very time-consuming hobby and I just feel like there are more interesting and fulfilling things do with most of my time. Who knows, call it “getting to the back half of your 20s”. I have a Backloggd if you want to check my ratings on the hundreds of games I’ve played.

In the last few years I’ve devoted a lot more of my time to playing piano and writing music, and on my YouTube channel you’ll find a lot of videos of me playing stuff I wrote. If I write something about a piece it’ll be on the Catalogue as well. My pieces tend to have a mix of emotional warmth, passion, and melancholy. Don’t ask, that’s what the muses tell me to write and I won’t argue with them.

The photo on the top-left is a highly edited mirror selfie which I took somewhere on Planet Earth. I really like photography, and I’ve often considered whether I should put my Instagram here. At this point who cares. Enjoy some pics. I used to have a Canon EOS-2000D, now I have a Fuji X-E1, and I use Darktable to make some pictures with interesting colors and a filmic look (compensating for the fact that shooting film looks like a pain in the ass and I don’t want to do it).

Feel free to contact me through [email protected]. I no longer have a Twitter account it because Twitter is a sanity-draining cesspool full of LLM slop comments. I highly recommend not using it, leaving has greatly improved my overall mood.