The summer of 2026 was unusually hot in the UK. Properly hot. As a teacher, I had the luxury of looking ahead to several weeks without lessons, marking or the usual school routine, and I had already decided what my main summer project was going to be. I run a
The games on esheets.io began with some very old technology: sheets of paper, pencils, dice and two students arguing about whether a move was legal. Long before I attempted anything resembling an online multiplayer game, I was interested in the classic pen-and-paper games that occasionally appear in
On 21 February, I published a post about what I had been building with artificial intelligence. I ended it with a fairly specific intention: “The next stage is structured progress tracking.” Then I stopped writing. This was not because I had lost interest in AI. The more mundane explanation is
When I started experimenting with AI, I wasn’t trying to build a brand. I was trying to build a better worksheet. I’m a secondary maths teacher. No computer science degree. No formal coding background. Just curiosity, patience, and a willingness to break things and fix them. What began
Artificial intelligence is everywhere at the moment. Depending on who you ask, it’s either about to revolutionise everything or destroy half the workforce. The tone is often breathless. Occasionally apocalyptic. Rarely calm. I’m a secondary mathematics teacher. I’m not a technologist, a startup founder, or an AI