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by Mark Howells-Mead

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  • Let Down

    Let Down

    14th March 2023
    Video

    The great thing about this Radiohead song is that the lyrics are largely unintelligible, so you can just sit back and enjoy it. Via Dooce.

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  • Random things in December

    5th March 2023
    Documentary photography

    The “random things” posts are primarily about random stuff I’ve seen in the course of a month. The random stuff I saw in December was spread over four countries.

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  • WordPress expert Mark Howells-Mead

    Storing credentials securely in WordPress plugin settings

    3rd March 2023
    WordPress

    If you’re writing a plugin which needs to connect to a third-party service, there’s a relatively high chance that you’ll need to store credentials securely.

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  • Automating visual comparison checks of your website

    13th February 2023
    WordPress

    Using a third-party service to compare your website before and after a technical update.

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  • Above the clouds en route to Beatenberg

    Random things in November

    8th February 2023
    Documentary photography, Hiking and walking, Landscape photography

    Little photography and a big loss.

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  • WordPress expert Mark Howells-Mead

    Block Patterns and Block Variations of the Query Loop

    8th February 2023
    WordPress

    Block Patterns, Block Variations and Reusable Blocks. How and why they’re useful and implementable.

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  • WordPress expert Mark Howells-Mead

    Updated Gutenberg category selector

    27th January 2023
    WordPress

    Building a single-selection category selector for WordPress Gutenberg using React.

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  • Calendar for my aunt

    22nd January 2023
    Landscape photography

    Selected images for the 2023 calendar I made for my aunt.

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  • Calendar for Mum

    22nd January 2023
    Landscape photography

    My selected images for Mum’s 2023 calendar.

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  • WordPress expert Mark Howells-Mead

    Using useSelect in Gutenberg to fetch data from the REST API

    12th January 2023
    WordPress

    A simpler alternative to wrapping a Gutenberg edit component with a higher-order component.

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  • Pools of light

    10th December 2022
    Documentary photography

    A good pool of light and a wet street will always draw my camera more quickly than a quaint festive scene.

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  • Screenshot of the WordCamp Switzerland website

    Building a multilingual WordCamp website

    1st December 2022
    WordPress

    How I used manual content structuring and the power of the WordPress Site Editor to set up what we believe to be the first non-plugin-based multilingual WordCamp website.

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  • Mark Howells-Mead on the shores of Lake Thun in Switzerland

    Adventure is an attitude

    6th November 2022
    Life (and how to live it)

    Going on large and small adventures has always made my life a little richer.

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  • Random things in October

    5th November 2022
    Reviews and random things

    A trip to England, a lack of autumn feeling despite the vivid colours and learning how to set a fire.

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  • Driving a tank through a miniature world

    Driving a tank through a miniature world

    22nd October 2022
    Video

    Using 1970s technology to drive a tank through a miniature landscape.

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  • Random things in September

    21st October 2022
    Reviews and random things

    The gradual arrival of autumn; clouds clinging to the mountains, fresher air and a wider variety of colours in the landscape. My favourite time of the year is coming.

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  • Buttermere in heavy rain

    Around Buttermere in the rain

    20th October 2022
    Hiking and walking

    A wind-swept, soggy, lovely walk around Buttermere in the English Lake District.

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  • Windows of Brantwood

    13th October 2022
    Documentary photography

    Visiting the former home of John Ruskin, near Coniston.

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  • Latrigg from Applethwaite

    10th October 2022
    Hiking and walking

    An autumn ramble from our holiday rental to the top of the nearby Wainwright Fell above Keswick.

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  • Unendearing travel

    9th October 2022
    Travel

    Relying on others for our journey and a problematic experience stretching over two days is no way to begin a relaxing holiday.

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  • Random things in August

    15th September 2022
    Reviews and random things

    A lovely month full of experiences, but fewer random photographs than usual.

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