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.
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The coffee log, rebuilt in .NET
My coffee machine still writes my blog, but the Pi now runs .NET. Why I rewrote it, what a month of data taught me, and the afternoon I lost to two keys.
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.
Not everything is about code
Time to blog about more than just code.
Are you okay
On men, mental health, and the communities that keep us going, in a job AI is quietly rewriting.
Using Umbraco.Automate to populate content from an API
Learn how to automatically populate Umbraco content from an external API using Umbraco.Automate, with a hands-on PokéAPI example and video demo.
OC.Automate update
OC.Automate.LinkedIn is out of beta and OC.Automate.Bluesky and OC.Automate.Mastodon are all working on Umbraco 18