They can save even more if they cancelled the subscription altogether. And if they got back in time to before they started firing their employees to ‘replace’ them with AI they’d still have people who know how to do their job without it. Regrets, yet?

The Human Story of the Open Web STOP ME if you’ve heard this one: The members of an extended family spend years curating a shared online photo album. Then the website they posted on vanishes, flushing their collective memories away forever....

«Du bist der Stradivarius aller Arschgeigen.»

I have loved the optimism of that lock since my school days in the 1980s.

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

“I’ve got travel tummy.” “No, you’ve got three quarters of a box of salt and vinegar Pringles tummy…”

I've taken a moment to update my company website with another example of a comparatively recent WordPress project, in which I stripped back the editorial experience to make management of the site more simple. sayhello.ch/en/portfolio...

(not mine)

Sitting amongst a group of international work colleagues yesterday afternoon, discussion turns to arranging a time to meet for dinner. The German said, “let’s meet up at 1945”. Hilarity all round!

The prompts/placeholders in the new post screen in the Indigo app are so good. 😆

Tickets are now available for WordCamp Switzerland in September! #WCCH switzerland.wordcamp.org/2026/06/regi...

Finding a walk harder than it should've been last autumn has inspired me to get proper regular exercise. permanenttourist.ch/2026/06/a-wa...

This is the way. If using HTML5-standard functions and then enhancing them in a graceful way makes “a lot more work for you” then you have over-complicated your solution, and need to take a detailed look at how to use the features which web browsers already have built-in.

The greatest plague humanity has known is the invention of knowing what's going on in everyone's minds, often as soon as it happens. Don't forget: you don't HAVE to pay attention to it. Fifty years ago, no-one knew or cared about a whack-job radio DJ's opinions on cattle de-worming medication.

Just realized that one of my favorite easter eggs I made while at Stripe is still on the /jobs page… The monitor in the photo mimics everything you do on the page itself. 🥚💅 (only visible on Firefox because it uses an experimental feature)

A mundane day is sometimes fine. permanenttourist.ch/2026/06/mund...

This is a terrific resource and well worth a read. Each topic is covered in enough detail, but not so much that you'll get overloaded with information.

Bloody hell. I started building websites when PHP was only 1 year old!

The gift of rose-tinted glass. permanenttourist.ch/2026/06/the-...

Finding Michael Stipe in the background of a Blue Aeroplanes song. permanenttourist.ch/2026/06/what...

Bei guter Technologie geht es nicht darum, die meisten oder die teuersten Funktionen zu haben. Es geht darum, die richtigen zu haben. sayhello.ch/2026/06/einf...

A new blog post on this subject: "Simplicity is a feature". sayhello.ch/en/2026/06/s...

I sometimes get the feeling that I'm the only person in my industry who strives to avoid unnecessary costs for clients. At least, that's the impression I get when clients react to a suggestion for a less expensive option or piece of development, when it's definitely the right one.

Washing the stress away. permanenttourist.ch/2026/06/wash...

Kids. Allow me to introduce you to the 1990's. Everything from Chris Evan's hat to the font in the credits is incredible. I miss this crazy energy.

Fuck off, SiteGround.

How's it going, Google AI?

Very nice indeed. I wish I had a normal-sized head. “Ampersandwich”? COME ON!

“…the robots can have my emdashes when they pry them from my cold, dead hands…”

the hungry observatory

Right then lads, I said I wanted to go to the Krakow pinball museum during #WCEU, so I'm putting an open invite for folks to join me on the 3rd June for an evening of pinball, followed by beers and Zapiekanka in the Jewish quarter. www.rhyswynne.co.uk/wordcamp-eur...

Trump's phone is a re-painted two-year old HTC U24 Pro model from Taiwan, and the flag on the back does not contain the correct number of stripes for the American flag. You stay classy, MAGA.

A very well-written and insightful article about the current state of responsibility in AI-assisted coding and code management.

I listened to a large number of these when they were initially published, and I can highly recommend them. Wonderful stuff.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a non-Apple 5K display? Preferably between 27 and 32 inches.

You might need to wear less armour if you stop going around bullying people into punching you. Just saying. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Someone with contacts at Kadence has confirmed that the change is official, but that it has not been communicated in advance. (FYI @mikehindle.uk.)

Solid WP is now redirecting to Liquid Web / Kadence with no warning and no reference to another rebranding. Has anyone seen anything about this?

WTF of the day: if you're using Gravity Forms in WordPress, some fields might have a custom field validation message "We need to know your name. What if we wanted to send you a birthday cake?". This was removed from the code in Feb. 2025 but might still be in your database.

Being a photographer is trying to work out which of these two photographs is the better composition.

“Use real life to escape the internet.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFHx...

Kevin McCloud is now working with #WordPress clients, I see.

I think everyone who thinks that it is no longer necessary to understand software engineering principles because of AI should spend a few minutes every day browsing /r/vibecoding. It's so so clear that technical skills are still worthwhile.

Have you always dreamed of organising a WordCamp? Or perhaps you have already helped organise such an event and would now like to support a new team? Then do not hesitate to get in touch with us! switzerland.wordcamp.org/2026/04/call...

Dark patterns galore—with receipts. That Privacy Guy: Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop... #privacy #ai #anthropic #ClaudeDesktop #antipatterns #spyware #claude h/t @monchomad.bsky.social

One from the archives: how to deliver a design mockup for the WordPress Block Editor, when so many editorial possibilities are available. sayhello.ch/en/2020/08/p...

Even on projects where Say Hello doesn't deliver the design, real-time collaboration with external specialists is key for top-notch results. sayhello.ch/en/2026/04/w...

Silicon Macs running macOS 26 (Tahoe) ship with a built-in on-device LLM, but it’s locked behind Swift APIs with no terminal or HTTP access. apfel breaks it open, exposing the model as a CLI tool, an OpenAI-compatible HTTP server, and an interactive chat. Private, secure, no token costs. #OnDeviceAI

That build up and bass twang between 2:19 and 2:42 though… makes me fizz every time… play it loud. open.spotify.com/track/4VVtU8...

WordCamp returns to Switzerland for 2026. Save the dates: 11th and 12th September in Murten/ Morat. switzerland.wordcamp.org/2026/03/cent...