hi, i'm rafael camargo

i make computers do things

apparently 587.35571568 Fortnights old. next up: . forever a student, and a hacker in the original sense of the word: i build things, break things, and keep asking why long after the how makes sense

i spend a lot of time around React, Next.js, and the edges between product and platform, but the stack is usually just the starting point. what i really care about is making things scale without becoming slow, fragile, confusing, or painful to work on

i'm at my best in small, highly collaborative teams that move fast and ship frequently. i build software that stays clear as it grows, fast where it matters, and polished enough to feel effortless

if you look closely enough, though, you'll see that i get paid to add, change, or preferably remove text from some files

recently written

things i kept thinking about until writing them down became easier than letting them go, mostly to find out whether i understood them at all

i spend a lot of my time building things for developers, then a little more building things for myself. the two overlap more than that makes it sound. something i learn at work might become a talk because explaining it usually shows me what i missed. a small idea or stupid joke might turn into a project for no better reason than wanting to know whether i can make it work

attention map

the last 30 days on my computer, broken down by how long each app held my attention and how often i returned to it

the attention map is a temporary record of where that time went over the last month, at least while i was sitting at a computer. it cannot tell the difference between a productive afternoon and several hours spent making the wrong thing work, but the hours count all the same. when i'm not making something myself, though, i'm usually reading, listening, watching, or keeping track of things other people made that i don't want to lose

things that stayed

books, records, movies, and shows i remember for the feeling, question, place, or moment i found them in. maybe you'll enjoy them too

on my side of the screen, it is 00:00, and Florianópolis is keeping the weather to itself for a moment.

you're roughly from Florianópolis and reading this at . neither number is especially useful, but here they are. this place has been years in the making and still refuses to be finished.

it holds work, experiments, stories, other people's fingerprints, and a few things that don't entirely belong anywhere else. not everything needs to. anyways, i hope you enjoy :))

since you read all the way down here, you might as well leave a little proof you were here in the guestbook