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Technical writing stays up front: old debugging scars, new build notes, and a few browser toys from the bench. Julien writes the kind of thing he wished the error message had said in the first place.
Latest writing
The first Hephaestus build log sets the stage for the medieval economy game, why it is being built in the open, and what future entries will track without pretending a status dashboard has a personality.
A little character carries a log upstairs. GPT-6 Astra helped build the Blender scripts, visual review tools, and export workflow behind it—and the assets went on to star in two client prototypes.
Have you ever been annoyed with having to implement the cumbersome plumbing required for INotifyPropertyChanged ? Well, I have. So I tried to find a way to make authoring bindable objects better. The typical example:
Current work
The writing is the main event. The rest is what is currently in progress: game-build notes and small toys that are ready to poke at from the public side of the workbench.
Hephaestus build log
The first Hephaestus build log sets the stage for the medieval economy game, why it is being built in the open, and what future entries will track without pretending a status dashboard has a personality.
Current toy
A browser sandbox for drawing cells, pressing play, and learning whether your pattern is secretly soup.