Why Venomade?

“Venomade” comes from a song I quite like.
I picked it because it rolls off the tongue easily enough, it’s not entirely unique but it’s still memorable, and most importantly it’s .com domain was available.

Which programming languages do you use?

I started programming in Javascipt and Python at school. I then discovered Go in 2018 and it quickly became my favourite programming language. Learning Go inspired me to work with C. In order to program more efficiently in C, I studied Haskell, which flowed nicely into programming Rust.

Nowadays however, I prefer to stick with C because it’s where I feel most comfortable, though I have been enjoying Lua as of late.

What Music do you listen to?

I listen to quite a wide range of genres so instead, here are some artists I particularly like:

  • Tatsuro Yamashita
  • Masayoshi T akanaka
  • Night Tapes
  • modest by default
  • Hallowed
  • Буерак
  • Источник
  • Terno Rei
  • Tim Maia
  • Legião Urbana

I have purchased albums from most of the above artists and keep lossless digital copies in my collection. I do not stream music.

What setup do you use?

I used to use a T440P but the battery life and power consumption along with the lackluster performance unfortunately became too much of a burden to bare in 2025 so I finally upgraded and picked up a Macbook. I still maintain the T440P was however, the last truly great laptop. No matter how amazing Apple Silicon is, there is nothing that hurts me more than glue and solder.

Hardware:

  • Macbook Pro
    • M1 (8 core CPU + 8 core GPU)
    • 16GB Ram
    • 1440p Screen
    • 512GB SSD
    • Touchbar™
  • Feker Alice 80 Keyboard
  • Deft Pro Trackball Mouse

Software:

  • MacOS
  • Kitty
  • Emacs
  • Orion

Can I copy your configs?

Sure! You can find my current dotfiles here: dotfiles

I also have an archive of my old dotfiles here: dotfiles-archive

Why does your website look so old/ugly cool/fashionable?

While I enjoyed writing my old website in pure HTML, it made it quite cumbersome to update. I wanted something that was easier to update but I didn’t want to make JS a hard requirement so this iteration of the site is generated by Hugo.

Like my old site, It keeps most of it’s advantages over modern websites:

  • It uses no JavaScript
  • Loads superfast (even on dial-up)
  • Can display fully almost anywhere!

but now also:

  • Generates HTML from Markdown
  • Doesn’t bug out
  • Supports both English and Português