Hi, I'm Lucas

Software Engineer

Building reliable systems and considered interfaces.

I design and build software that is reliable under load, pleasant to use, and easy to evolve.

Selected work

A few projects I'm proud of.

A bilingual personal blog and portfolio built with Astro, focused on performance, a great reading experience, and zero runtime JavaScript.

Notes on engineering and craft.

Why zram beats a traditional swap partition or swap file, and how to set it up on Arch Linux with zram-generator.

A step-by-step guide to migrating a Hugo site from Tailwind CSS v3 to v4 with the new CSS-first configuration.

Speed up the pacman package manager with parallel downloads, nearest mirrorlists, and faster AUR compilation.