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When you’ve learnt your craft, you become much more boring at your job.

As I write this, the UK is experiencing the heat death of the universe, as we enter our second month of near-continuous heatwaves.

On 13 July 2026, John Peart at Enabling digital identity posted: Digital verification at scale: our keynotes at the European Identity Conference and Identity Week Europe Over the past month or so, the OfDIA team has attended some digital identity industry…

Marvel Entertainment at YouTube posted: Marvel Animation's X-Men ‘97 | Intro Da nanana naaaa na na.

On 11 July 2026, Russell Davies at undermanager posted: Fredkin’s; the best paradox The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them — no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.

On 06 July 2026, Ari Notis at Polygon posted: Dark Souls popularized the worst control scheme and I'm sick of it Put those attack prompts on the face buttons On 07 July 2026, John Peart shared and commented I could not disagree more strongly with this.

What.

On 29 June 2026, Sherif Saed at Eurogamer.net posted: It looks like PlayStation 6 is going to cost Sony about $1,000 to make, which likely means it will cost more than that at retail The cost to make a single unit of the PlayStation 6 has gone up, accordi…

I would not ordinarily consider myself to be an international man of mystery but for the past 6 weeks, I have spent just as much time outside the UK as I have in it.

On 22 May 2026, Giles Turnbull posted: gilest.org: Working in the open ≠ comms Decide to do “comms”, and you’ll get one thing.

On 16 May 2026, John Peart at John Peart posted: Douze points Vote for your favourites.

It’s 2019 and the week before the Eurovision Song Contest.

Good evening, Europe!

Is it that the job is hard, that I can’t do it, or that I don’t want it now that I have it?

Robin Payot at Wind Waker JS - Robin Payot posted: Wind Waker JS Zelda: The Wind Waker is one of my favorite game and I tried to remake the ocean part of it using Three.js I hope you’ll like the result!

(For the avoidance of doubt you should read what follows in a vaguely Yorkshire accent).

This frantic, first-person, puzzle platformer in the lineage of Mirror’s Edge is quirky, stylish and challenging.

There should be more games with cats as protagonists.

Child-aged me was obsessed with this game.

Whilst my heart belongs to the sci-fi futurism of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, its alternate-timeline sequel; Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is truly the zenith of the Real-Time Strategy (RTS) genre.

These “weeknotes” are meant to be weekly.

Somehow it’s already the end of the second, full, working week of 2026.

Resource management and a driving simulator put the fun in functional like no other survival game I’ve ever played.

Lies of P Crow Country Split Fiction Humanity Mario Kart World Is this seat taken?

This is a nice, slow-paced puzzle game that’s just the right balance of challenge to keep it interesting, but not so difficult that you ever need hints or a guide book.

The real-time strategy (RTS) genre may be commercially dead in 2025, but in the early 2000s it was alive and kicking.

When this game was originally released on the Nintendo GameCube way back in 2002, I was… well, I was about as good at this as you would expect a 12 year old to be.

Oh hi!

What’s the stuff I rely on to get stuff done?

On 30 September 2025, Iain Thomson at The Register posted: Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name Microsoft is testing talking avatars for Copilot to see if users feel more at ease chatting wi…

It’s Mario Kart.

Home After two years of “doing long-distance”, I’m now – finally – living with my partner, Matt.

I’ve never gelled with the survival-horror genre.

You are a dog.

On 24 July 2025, Giles Turnbull posted: Doing Open This is a resource for people who find themselves looking for examples and links about working in the open and agile communication.

On 06 September 2025, PlayStation Access at YouTube posted: Game Remakes That Blew Us Away Inspired by the incredible Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, this episode of The PlayStation Access Podcast see the gang chatting all things remakes: their favou…

Make my wish come true… If you were in Brighton this past Saturday, at about 11:00PM, and heard a unfathomably high-pitched sound; fear not, I can explain.

I mentioned that I’ve been updating the illustrations on my website as part of a site design refresh; for consistency.

Getting everyone together This week, we got about 80 or so of our stakeholders together for the afternoon to update them on our policy and delivery work, and to solicit feedback on some emerging areas.

Another week, another weeknote.

This is Elden Ring.

Today, 28 June marks the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising and the birth of the pride movement.

It’s been a minute since my last weeknote.

For the past couple of months, I’ve been rethinking the visual style of my home on the internet: this website, the one you’re on right now.

A much better way to say “I told you so.”

This month marks the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising; or as you might more commonly hear it referred to, “Pride Month”.1 Several years ago, I was asked at the last minute to present to around 100 civil servants about pride… in no more than 5 minutes.

From a very young age – as far back as I can remember – I’ve watched the Eurovision Song Contest.

“Viennese” whirls (British) “Danish” pastries (Austrian) “French” fries (Belgian) “Madeira” cake (British) When people go to other countries, they often like to eat “traditional” foods.

On 03 April 2025, Emma Roth at The Verge posted: WhatsApp is officially getting ads Meta says it will tailor the ads to your interests by using “limited” information, including your country or city, language, the channels you follow, and how you interact…