Blog posts by Mark Howells-Mead at Permanent Tourist

The beginning of 2019 saw a huge change for me; both having an office close to where I live and gaining the freedom to work wherever I want to be.

Often, it’s nature and not the camera which creates a photographic effect.

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Back in May, Sardinian ”open source evangelist and programmer” Matteo Enna got in touch and interviewed me for his blog.

After buying a Fujifilm X-T3 camera, I took it out into the Scottish Highlands between Garve and Torridon to capture the remote landscape.

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck […]

How to mock up a website design when every page can be built individually and controlled completely by the editorial staff.

Hiking along the milky Oberaarsee to the ice cave at the terminus of the Oberaar glacier.

I met with a client yesterday at their modern office in a part of central Bern which is a former hipster area and which is plagued by graffiti artists and substance abusers. Although the building is new and freshly-finished with some attractive brickwork, it’s only a matter of time before it, too, will be sprayed […]

If you’re huffy, you get what you deserve.

Letter size comparison by Alexander Andrews @ Unsplash

There are three main options for setting the size of text in the web using CSS. The font size can be set in “pixels”, in “EM”s or in ”REM”s. It can be a little difficult to understand where the differences lie, and which unit of measurement is correct.

The monumental lighthouse statue “Winged Victory” atop the Maddalena Hill in Turin.

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Photographing the crocuses and the view from Rämisgummen in Emmental.

Since the release of WordPress 5.2, authors and editors can put together their own reusable content components without needing to do any programming work. This is thanks to a powerful combination of Reusable Blocks and the Group Block.

Editing multiple shots of the same scene together to get a massively-improved level of sharpness throughout the image.

Screenshot of the Gutenberg colour picker

Using CSS variables through the WordPress Theme Customizer to make custom colour schemes in the Gutenberg Editor.

I bought a bike because it’s fun, it will improve my fitness rapidly – thereby helping me to get ready for hiking season – and because it means that I don’t have to rely on public transport or on my car for my daily trip to work and back. It also allows me to enjoy the local scenery more; getting me further more quickly than on foot.