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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 little worker has a workshop now. It also has a roof, which immediately creates a new problem: seeing what is going on. A playable terrain experiment with stairs, cutaways, and outlines for things hidden behind walls.
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.
The coding-agent scores I watched kept telling me frontier models were near peers; my repository work did not. DeepSWE was the first ranking that matched my experience—and its success-versus-cost view made it more useful than another winner’s podium.
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 little worker has a workshop now. It also has a roof, which immediately creates a new problem: seeing what is going on. A playable terrain experiment with stairs, cutaways, and outlines for things hidden behind walls.
Current toy
A browser sandbox for drawing cells, pressing play, and learning whether your pattern is secretly soup.