Umbraco Features with Claude Worktrees
Running several Claude Code sessions on one Umbraco site? Here’s the PowerShell hook that gives every git worktree its own database, media and ports.
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Nobody apologised for copying code from Stack Overflow, so why do we still caveat everything with 'I made this with AI'? Stop apologising and start owning your code.
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My recap of the Umbraco UK Partner Summit and Umbraco UK Conference in London: great talks, good friends, whisky and a lot of Biscoff doughnuts.
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One question to Claude, a few hours later: a playable climbing game with multiplayer, a global leaderboard and a public API.
AI as a learning tool
Stop copy, paste, ship with AI. Learn to question Claude's code, understand the why, and actually level up as a developer, not just faster.
The coffee log, rebuilt in .NET
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Time to reset
Doom scrolling, AI coding and a suspected ADHD brain chasing quick wins. Why I've lost the joy of coding and social media, and how I plan to reset.
Initials.Autolink
Add a keyword, and every old article that mentions it links itself. Initials.AutoLink for Umbraco 17+, and the first open source package from Initials Labs.
A reusable deploy pipeline for Umbraco Cloud
Create a reusable deploy pipeline for Umbraco Cloud
Build a custom Umbraco Automate action
Creating a custom action in Umbraco Automate to pull tags from a blog and display them as hashtags in social connections.