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Mark Howells-Mead

@permanenttourist.ch

Looking for as many little adventures as possible. Personal website: permanenttourist.ch, WordPress design, programming and consultancy: sayhello.ch/en

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Why can't extroverts be told to step outside their comfort zone for a change?

11.03.2026 08:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I really need to practise cooking big curved bratwurst in a pan so that they cook more evenly on the outside. Thinking of trying the steam-sear approach with some beer next time. Thanks for any suggestions, โ€œcooking Blueskyโ€.

10.03.2026 19:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™ve been building a tool for simple financial projections.

Things like:
โ€ข Could I afford to go part-time?
โ€ข Should I downsize?
โ€ข What if I overpay my mortgage vs invest more in a pension?

Scratching my own itch, but itโ€™s turning into something that might help others too.

Hoping to share it soon.

10.03.2026 16:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Faulensee - Permanent Tourist Faulensee is a small village on the shores of Lake Thun in Switzerland, which I have called home since 2011.

Home, sweet home. permanenttourist.ch/exploring/fa...

05.03.2026 21:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

All the best!

04.03.2026 10:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Flooding at Verdun A photograph by Mark Howells-Mead.

A4 motorway viaduct passing over the floods in France last week permanenttourist.ch/photos/82044/

03.03.2026 18:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GitHub - SayHelloGmbH/sht-fakerpress Contribute to SayHelloGmbH/sht-fakerpress development by creating an account on GitHub.

If you're using Fakerpress to create dummy content for your WordPress website during development phase, here's an MU plugin which adds WP CLI support. github.com/SayHelloGmbH...

03.03.2026 17:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?

03.03.2026 10:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 867 ๐Ÿ” 292 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 59 ๐Ÿ“Œ 39

Once again, proof, if you need it, that the best use for AI tools is to educate yourself and make your own way and your own future. If you put your eggs in someone elseโ€™s basket, itโ€™s all-too easy for them to dash it to the ground.

01.03.2026 20:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
kSuite โ€“ The ethical and secure collaborative solution Adopt a 100% Swiss Cloud with local support. Included: storage space, messaging, videoconferencing and everything you need to make your projects a reality.

www.infomaniak.com/en/ksuite

28.02.2026 14:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No problem โ€“ I think youโ€™ve achieved that for sure. If I ever get around to implementing dark mode on my agency or personal website, that balance of contrast and personal branding is the most important thing to me.

24.02.2026 21:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Use Subdomains Listen to Jim: Get a personal domain and start all your side projects as a subdomain of that top-level domain. Do not buy a custom domain for every little idea you have. Save your money, give your โ€ฆ

โ€œDo not buy a custom domain for every little idea you have. Save your money, give your project the longevity it deserves, and show off who made the dang thing implicitly.โ€ chriscoyier.net/2023/09/21/u...

24.02.2026 21:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nice to see an implementation of dark mode in which the background isnโ€™t so dark that it makes the white text difficult to read!

24.02.2026 20:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I donโ€™t hate it but Iโ€™ve been twice and donโ€™t think Iโ€™ll be back.

22.02.2026 21:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wow fancy. ๐Ÿ˜‚

22.02.2026 18:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

More importantly: where the hell do you find cereal in an airport?!

22.02.2026 18:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's a wonderful musical haven, for sure!

21.02.2026 11:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
CHOO CHOO band portraits โ€“ Permanent Tourist

I was perusing my own website this week and noticed that, at some point, the blog posts which contain an old ACF field of gallery images were no longer showing the images (because I'd omitted the output from the block theme). So I fixed it: an example is permanenttourist.ch/2009/02/choo....

21.02.2026 11:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My musical happy place Delving for treasured albums amongst piles and piles of vinyl and CDs.

YES! Mine also has Spotify, internet radio etc. and I LOVE it. permanenttourist.ch/2024/04/my-m...

21.02.2026 10:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have an old iMac at home and a Macbook Air for work, which I dock when I'm in the office. I've just found out that if I have the Macbook connected to the same wifi network at home, I can move my mouse between the two freely. The Bluetooth keyboard works on whichever device has mouse focus. ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

21.02.2026 10:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Going all-in on the WordPress Site Editor - Say Hello GmbH Building a new website for Bern software company Edorex and implementing custom code for striking page animations.

A new WordPress portfolio piece from my agency this evening: Building a new website for Bern software company Edorex and implementing custom code for striking page animations. sayhello.ch/en/portfolio...

20.02.2026 23:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œThe billionaires want us to believe AI will 'optimise' society, but there is a massive flaw in that logic. If you automate away the โ€œmundaneโ€ jobs that allow people to earn a living and contribute to the economy, the whole system risks a collapse.โ€

20.02.2026 17:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"the great strength of the web is if you don't see what you like, you make your own"
~ @zeldman.bsky.social
๐Ÿคญ

20.02.2026 14:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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WordPress, Your Way Create your site. Share your voice. Earn online.

Tbh, the only deal-breaking issue I have with using WordPress.com is that the servers are in the U.S., which contravenes data privacy laws for most of my clients here in Europe.

20.02.2026 16:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Stack problems ...

Check out codepen.io/permanenttou...: the definition for the large stack affects its own distance from the preceding element.

20.02.2026 15:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@bell.bz This looks great and I've been a big fan of The Stack since it was published. However, using CSS Custom Properties is problematic when dealing with nested stacks: is that something which your approach has solved?

20.02.2026 15:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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WordPress, Your Way Create your site. Share your voice. Earn online.

I'm not criticising the service, but if it's on WordPress.com then the data is still being hosted on someone else's platform. I'm assuming that the opportunity to export everything at will in e generic format is part of the deal?

20.02.2026 14:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Combining WordPress Theme Settings and WordPress Blocks - Say Hello GmbH Extending the WordPress Button Block with a custom link URL attribute.

Extending the WordPress Button Block with a custom link URL attribute. sayhello.ch/en/2026/02/c...

20.02.2026 10:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
GitHub - SayHelloGmbH/babysteps: Bare minimum theme to get you going with the WordPress Site Editor. Bare minimum theme to get you going with the WordPress Site Editor. - SayHelloGmbH/babysteps

Did you know that you can build an entire, attractive WordPress website using just five files and then clicking around in the Block and Site Editors these days? (Although you may well need other stuff to do a professional job.) github.com/sayhellogmbh...

19.02.2026 15:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Over 22 years into using WordPress and I still have things to learn. Super-useful geeky post from Rhys.

18.02.2026 19:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0