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For ages now, this humble website has been built using Jekyll – a static site generator – and hosted on GitHub Pages.

The sequel to inFAMOUS Second Son, focusing on the backstory of a character featured in that game.

I’ve neglected to ‘weeknote’ for the past couple of weeks, so consider this some “weeks notes”.

InFAMOUS was one of my favourite games on PlayStation 3.

Now that I’ve gotten my first clutch of Platinum trophies on PlayStation, I had had an itch to go back to some other games and finish off ones that I “completed” but didn’t “100%”.

It’s August.

This must be the hardest, most infuriating game I have ever played.

Alright, fine, last week I was a bit grumpy.

This week has been a gruelling slog to the end, that has been ameliorated by a prideful weekend with friends.

On 29 July 2024, Hidde de Vries at Hidde posted: 30 times easier Accessibility is easier when you do it earlier, I can’t emphasise that enough.

This week has been an incredibly busy week where I have done lots, but I can’t really remember a lot of what I’ve done.

Since 2017, I’ve been keeping track of the number of LGBT+ MPs that have a seat in the UK House of Commons.

The pace of work has certainly picked up again, following the election; it’s been another very busy week!

All about the vibes I mentioned last week that colleagues had told me about how the tone and culture of the Civil Service changed dramatically the last time there was a wholesale change of government in 2010.

I’ve been a bit quiet for the past 6 weeks.

On 29 May 2024, Joe Jennett at simply. posted: So I’ve been sorting out why sending webmentions was failing and may have fixed the problem.

Today, there are 64 Members of Parliament who are LGBT+.

I’ve missed a couple of weeknotes.

On 11 May 2024, Simon Hardwick posted: Why Did the Eurovision Song Contest Look Odd This Year?

On 14 May 2024, Thomas Ricker at The Verge posted: We’ll sell 25 million PS5 consoles, no 21M, actually 20.8M.

On 10 May 2024, Joe Jennett at simply. posted: When someone says “Send me a (Web)mention,” I like to oblige.

On 10 May 2024, Colin Morris at Professor von Explaino posted: I say we send all the webmentions.

A while ago, I added support for Webmentions to this site.

I’m still on my adventures in the IndieWeb.

I’ve had a pleasant change of pace this week: fewer internal meetings, a bit more time for thinking and planning, and lots of time to speak to some of our programme’s stakeholders opinion-havers.

On 05 April 2024, Antoine Mayerowitz posted: Mario meets Pareto Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method.

This week I’ve been using spare seconds in the fringes of the day job to run the Civil Service LGBT+ mentoring programme.

It’s Eurovision time once more and Europe, it seems, is stuck on Sweden like a tattoo-oo-oo, as we return to Sweden for this year’s contest.

Today’s the day!

This week I’ve been discovering how I make decisions.

Joe Biden is now in the fediverse.

This week I’ve been thinking a lot about the future.

This week, I’m going to start to weeknote.1 I’ve created a new post format and a page where all my weeknotes will go.

On 24 March 2024, Thomas Hobbs at the Guardian posted: RollerCoaster Tycoon at 25: ‘It’s mind-blowing how it inspired me’ RollerCoaster Tycoon didn’t just give millions of fans an infinite toolbox of fun to build the theme parks of their candified dreams…

On 11 March 2024, Giles Turnbull posted: Doing Weeknotes What weeknotes are, how weeknotes work, and how to start writing weeknotes of your own On 22 March 2024, John Peart shared and commented I’ve never managed to get into the habit of weeknoting; but G…

This week I had the pleasure of working with Giles Turnbull again, as he led a session for our team about how we could do “agile comms”.

On 09 March 2024, Marisabel Munoz at Indieweb.Social posted: @johnpeart I did something similar cause I think it’s fun.

Back in March, I added a new way to share music I’d been enjoying on my blog.

Hot on the heels of discovering the ‘Now’ page, I’ve also discovered the concept of an ‘Ideas’ page, thanks to the folks behind About Ideas Now.

On 02 March 2024, Matthias Ott at Own Your Web posted: Own Your Web – Issue 10: Links Worth Sharing With the recent revival of personal websites and blogs, however, a lot of people are rediscovering a more thoughtful and persistent alternative: sharing li…

This is a “Now” page: a look at what’s going on in my life right now.

I recently upgraded my phone.

On 01 March 2024, Eurovision Song Contest at YouTube posted: Olly Alexander - Dizzy Olly Alexander will represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest with his song Dizzy.

Over time, I’ve been collecting catchphrases and tiny philosophies that I try to live by.

On 06 February 2024, Matt Burgess at WIRED posted: WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps Soon, though, WhatsApp will do the previously unthinkable for its 2 billion users: allow people to message you from another app.

On 23 January 2024, Giles Turnbull posted: Corporate training needs content design I don’t have a problem with being reminded of the rules - but I do have a problem with almost all of these training modules, and it’s this: they tend to treat grown adults…

On 06 November 2023, Robb Knight posted: Please, Expose your RSS I noticed a lot of people don’t have a link to their RSS feeds on their sites or have the correct metadata for auto-discovery On 16 January 2024, John Peart shared and commented This post has

‘Do Interesting’ by Russell Davies ‘The agile comms handbook’ by Giles Turnbull ‘Good Services’ by Lou Downe ‘Making It So’ by Patrick Stewart ‘The Internet Con: How to seize the means of computation’ by Cory Doctorow ‘Foundation’ by Isaac Asimov ‘Platfor…

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