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Good evening, Europe.

Well, Mamma Mia, here we go again.

This may not be a game made by FromSoftware, but the game developers clearly understand the Soulsborne formula.

I’ve been in the office on Thursday and Friday this week.

It’s been a short working week this week and, mercifully, a relatively quiet one.

This game is so simple and yet so addictive.

The Nintendo Game Boy is more than 35 years old.

On 03 April 2025, John Peart at Enabling digital identity posted: The digital identity and attribute services register is now in public beta The register of digital identity and attribute services is now in public beta.

The highlight of my week, this week, has been a chat with Graham.

I had last week off – and boy did I need the break.

You wait 10 years to see one of your all-time favourite artists on tour; and then you get the chance to see her at least 3 times in 6 months!

This week at work I’ve been on training this week.

Last year, I added a new collection to my blog filled with games I’ve been playing.

Warning: Spoilers ahead!

I missed a couple of week notes.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with two things: video games and LEGO.

Lots of things happened this week.

On 31 January 2025, John Peart at Enabling digital identity posted: How we’re maintaining a trustworthy register of digital identity services It’s important that those who want to use a digital identity service know which ones are following the UK governm…

This game is not as bad as the critical reviews would have you believe.

This week I was told that I was God.

Friends to visit This past weekend, one of my best friends was over visiting from Ireland.

I am, in a word, knackered.

Bitmap Books at Bitmap Books posted: Game Boy: The Box Art Collection Despite the fact that we live in a world where the average smartphone makes the Game Boy look like an abacus, in purely technical terms, Nintendo’s trailblazing handheld still manages to

This week at work Pretty much everyone is back to work this week, so things are really kicking back into gear.

Carrion is a Metroidvania style game with a twist.

The Plucky Squire is a game of enormous charm, but also enormous bugs and hand-holding.

On 03 January 2025, John Peart at Enabling digital identity posted: Certification: independent assurance that the rules are being followed Our trust framework sets out the rules digital identity and attribute services should meet.

It’s the first Friday of 2025 and my first weeknote of the year.

On 01 January 2025, Lynn Fisher posted: Lynn and Tonic Lynn Fisher.

Rather than “resolutions”, I have an annual tradition of setting myself several specific, measurable goals that I can form new habits around across the year.

Bloodborne Elden Ring The Plucky Squire Death’s Door Control Dredge Metroid: Zero Mission Tunic Hermano Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land

On 1 January 2024, I set myself 4 goals for the year ahead.

The games in the Super Mario Land series that I played the most as a child were Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land.

This is quite possibly the hardest PlayStation Platinum trophy I have yet to achieve.

This is not a weeknote, this week.

On Friday, I popped along to the Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End to watch Stranger Things: The First Shadow.

On 25 November 2024, Charlie Smith at Enabling digital identity posted: Announcing the gamma (0.4) trust framework So far, we’ve published three versions of the UK digital identity and attributes trust framework.

It’s my birth-week I turned 34 this week.

On 24 August 2024, XOXO at YouTube posted: Cabel Sasser, Panic - XOXO Festival (2024) Cabel Sasser’s talk at XOXO Festival in August 2024.

On 19 November 2024, Katie Sunley at Enabling digital identity posted: Monitoring inclusion in the digital identity market This week my team has published a report on the results of an inclusion monitoring survey.

On 24 October 2024, John Peart at Enabling digital identity posted: What we mean when we say “digital identity and attributes A “digital identity”, then, is just a way to prove who you are, things about you and things you might be eligible for.

This is a game based on a film based on a game that was originally released on the PlayStation 2.

I have bounced off this game twice before, but now that I’ve finally gotten into it – this game is epic.

I hoped this entry in Marvel’s Spider-Man series on PlayStation would be shorter than the previous one.

You may have noticed my weeknotes have been absent for the past month.

Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land is one of the earliest games I ever remember playing.

This is a really good game that’s a lot of fun to play, but oh boy is the platinum a long, old slog of busy work.

Over the past year I’ve started adding different ‘collections’ to my blog, so that I could share stuff in new ways.

Private beta starts… now!

Just one thing I want to share this week: final preparations for our new digital service.