Why I Keep Making Things

I've been building things on the internet for a long time, but I've been pretty terrible at writing any of it down. Streams were great for the live energy, but then the idea disappeared into a VOD archive that nobody watched twice. I want a place for the things I try, what I learn from them, and the useful bits somebody else might carry into their own project.

This is not a marketing campaign. I want to make things because they sound cool, useful, weird, or fun. The same way a kid will spend an afternoon building something without first asking whether it has a market.

What's that going to look like? Honestly, a mix of everything. Engineering posts when I solve something gnarly. Experiments that may never become products. Games, apps, flying, cooking, life in Prague, and whatever sent me down a rabbit hole that week. I'm not going to force a niche. The niche is "things Raphael is curious about," and if you know me at all, you know that list is never short.

I also want this to become sustainable. Servers and APIs cost money, and time is real. I am still figuring out the practical shape of that, but the public writing, experiments, games, videos, and open source are here because sharing the work is part of the fun.

If any of that sounds interesting, come poke around. Try something. Tell me what you broke. Follow along on Discord, or just wander back the next time you feel curious.