Birthday

Thursday was a double-header: it was my birthday and also the night of the 2026 ARIAS at the Roundhouse in London. I spent the evening managing the social media coverage and tracking the winners for the Audio Academy. A huge highlight was seeing Trevor Nelson receive the Special Recognition Award from Craig David.

I spent some time making a second word game too. You might know alphaguess. Now it has a spiritual cousin, Wordrune. The underlying logic behind the wordlist is the same but the game mechanics are fundamentally different. It has been nice to work on something that thousands of people don’t play a day – there’s much less pressure to not break the thing every time you hit deploy. That said, its first 24 hours were very successful.