Nathan Wrigley

  • An English seaside town in the winter

    I’m exploring the beauty of the charming English seaside town nearby. It’s filled with lovely winter walks, historical sites, and captivating photography opportunities.

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  • Weird English stone carvings

    Explore the captivating gargoyles of York’s churches, offering a glimpse into the rich history and architectural beauty of these iconic structures.

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  • #WPLDN – November 2025

    #WPLDN is a meetup for WordPress enthusiasts where attendees enjoy pizza and drinks while learning from experts. Recent speakers Graham Armfield and Rhys Wynne discussed HTML accessibility advancements and Rhys’ freelancing experiences. We’re seeking 2026 sponsors and invite you all to a festive special on December 11, 2025, featuring an AI contest.

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  • Black Friday savings

    On the verge of Black Friday 2025, discover how I plan to save big by buying nothing! Ingenious.

  • Snow

    The UK in winter is not the cold place it was when I was a child. I have memories of frequent snow in the winter. Every year there was some. Many years there was a lot. These days, many years go by in which there is none. Children only see snow on the TV, or […]

  • Recycled churches

    In the UK, church attendance has been in decline for decades, possibly a century. Almost nobody I know, including myself, go to church for it’s intended purpose. Our villages, towns and cities are peppered with thousands of churches. Many of them are very old, expensive to maintain and trying to find a place in a […]

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  • The ubiquity of walking

    I’m lucky enough to live in, what we call in the UK, the countryside. There is very little of the UK which does not have the stamp of humanity upon it. Our countryside is composed of farmland, stone walls, managed forest and the like. In other parts of the world you have the chance to […]

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  • Being certain

    I’ve come to the conclusion that in almost every case, certainty is misplaced, unhelpful and sometimes downright harmful. I hate to break it to you, but almost every-single-thing that you hold as immutable truth is either wrong, subject to change or something that you’ve misunderstood.

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  • Have your own presence on the web

    A couple of years ago a friend of mine had his Facebook account suspended. No warning or reason given. Repeated attempts to contact their support were ignored. In the end he gave up and just decided not to use that platform any more. A little while later, I had a similar experience. My account was […]

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  • We are all addicted to our devices

    This is going to be nothing new to you, because you already know that it’s true. You know it’s true for you, and almost every person you know. I consider myself lucky to have been born into a world in which there was no mobile technology. No portable computing devices of any kind. Computers back […]

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  • I love sound, not just music

    This might sound (!) strange, but I love music and sounds equally. My favourite sound is without a doubt that of flowing water. Not the heavy crash of a waterfall after rain, rather the sound of a slow moving river or stream moving over rocks. There is no way to explain this, it’s been with […]

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  • AAAT – All the AI, All the Time

    Imagine being a carpenter in the age of plastic. A user of stone age tool when metal came about. Trying to advocate for the wider use of horses when the train was invented. During my lifetime, I don’t remember anything replacing anything else. I will use AI. I will worry about AI. I will watch it grow, embed, concern us and amaze us. But I will need help with it, to understand it, to figure out when I want it and when I’ll spurn it. AI is everywhere, it’s AAAT – All the AI, All the Time.

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