Permanent Tourist
is the personal website of Mark Howells-Mead
Photo: First snow in Graubünden, November 2023
Photographic archive
Recent additions to an ever-growing collection of photos I’m sharing publicly here on the site. (Don’t be surprised if the latest additions are older. I’m adding them from my personal archive in a pretty random order.)
Blog posts
Recent writing on the site.
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Beauty in the Melancholy
I used to avoid Radiohead back in the 1990s, because my youthful inexperience made me think their songs were miserable. I’m so glad that I’ve grown up to hear the…
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PHP Traits and dynamic object properties in PHP 8.2+
How to work around PHP’s deprecation of dynamic class properties without refactoring your whole codebase.
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Adapting into the new season
Reminding myself that although mountain hiking season is over now, there are still wonderful opportunities to walk and clear the mind.
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Videos
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Lots of work stopped me from going out so much, but we did get in a great trip to canton Wallis.
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Making more of an effort to publish moving pictures, including one from Dartmoor in June.
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With a name like “Ice Path”, you know before you arrive that a hiking route is going to be a pretty spectacular one.
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Walking in the snowy landscape of Axalp, high above Lake Brienz in the Swiss Bernese Oberland.
About me and the site
I’m Mark; a photographer, web developer and blogger living in Switzerland. Permanent Tourist is my personal website. I came up with the name because I try to live like an interested visitor, whether at home or elsewhere.
WordPress
WordPress is currently the most popular content management system in the world. I’ve been using WordPress for personal and business projects since 2003, both as part of my day job and also as a freelancer. I have been an active member of the Swiss WordPress community since the first official Swiss WordCamp in 2014, co-organising and presenting at conferences across the country.
