The end of an era: after 15+ years, I've switched off our.umbraco.com.
I wrote up some of the story, the karma, the spam wars and a few fond arguments
https://community.umbraco.com/blog/2026/07/an-hour-on-our-one-last-time/
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Sebastiaan Janssen 
@sebastiaan@cultiv.social
mastodon 4.7.3From fostering contributions to learning what makes our developer community tick ☑️, to hosting a weekly open coding session to making coffee ☕ for colleagues. I do it all.
But I do need my kayak 🛶 sessions and live music 🎸too. Remember live music, from the before times?
Interested in #umbraco (yes, since I do work there), also #dotnet #indiemusic #livemusic #copenhagen #craftbeer #homebrewing #raspberrypi #homeautomation #homeassistant #android - among other things.
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The Umbraco Spark conference is drawing to a close and it's been a brilliant edition again this year. Great talks, record attendance, impeccable organisation, inspirational hackathon before.. am I using too many superlatives? 😇
If you're trying to get up to speed with Umbraco AI then this month's umbraCoffee has you covered!
A great walk through with @matt@umbracocommunity.social on everything that's new and upcoming in Umbraco AI.
📽️ Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/live/uY9pZz5NHaQ?si=_ZDaegyWNkOyjyBo
It was so interesting to have @matt@umbracocommunity.social join me and @lotte@umbracocommunity.social to show us how all the concepts of Umbraco.AI fit together.
Profiles, temperatures, tokens, prompts, agents, copilots, and more.. there sure was a lot to cover!
👀 Also, we got a sneak preview of the new tests feature and the upcoming TipTap integration.
📽️ The latest DevRel Deep Dive is up now: https://youtu.be/_RUYI1xNzdE?si=tM4NKslxXOy3ps4L
DevRel Deep Dive: Exploring Umbraco.AI with Matt Brailsford
RE: https://umbracocommunity.social/@joe/115899730522188896
Is Joe trying to apply for a job in my team? Looks like it! 😉
A new DevRel Deep Dive just dropped. @lotte@umbracocommunity.social and I are joined by Phil Whittaker, guiding us through some new AI Skills he's been working on that help make backoffice extensions (and review and test them..!).
This video concludes with a working GitHub User Picker for Umbraco. We had a few hiccups but it was a lot of fun to do!
DevRel Deep Dive: Creating Backoffice Extensions with AI Skills
In last weeks DevRel Deep Dive, @lotte@umbracocommunity.social and I took a look at Blend's new packages for helping with robots.txt and sitemap.xml files.
Since there was a bit of config to set up for the sitemap, I got lazy and asked Claude Code to use the Umbraco MCP server to get my document types and set up the config for me.
👀 Watch here: https://youtu.be/HV5_7VGdLxg
DevRel Deep Dive: Sitemap & Robots.txt Packages from Blend Interactive
🚨 New DevRel Deep Dive dropped earlier this week!
This week @lotte@umbracocommunity.social and me were joined by Head of CMS Andy Butland to talk about what is new and improved in Umbraco version 17.2 and 17.3.
📽️ Watch it here: https://youtu.be/nBEgfifIP0o?si=mKDEc5_ea770dsZW
Am enjoying working with Claude and some skills way too much. Wondered if I could make a nice GitHub user picker. 10 minutes later... TADA.
It stores username, name, github id, and bio. The refresh button fetches any name and bio updates.
Last week, I noticed 2 new packages had popped up on the Umbraco Marketplace. Both of them can be used to build tables. So we thought we'd do an Umbraco Tables Showdown 💥
Well.. we ended up being just a bit more boring than that - new DevRel Deep Dive episode now up:
📽️ Table Editing Community Packages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuBm41uczBM
DevRel Deep Dive: Table Editing Community Packages
🚀 New DevRel Deep Dive just dropped!
@lotte@umbracocommunity.social and me walk through contributing to an open source (!) Umbraco Cloud site, deploying it to live.
We want to establish a great workflow for contributions and encourage you to get involved to make open source Cloud sites great. This is going to be the basis for the new version of https://community.umbraco.com which we'd love to build together with YOU 🤩
▶️ Watch: https://youtu.be/kSSIbSu5m7I
DevRel Deep Dive: Open Sourcing an Umbraco Cloud Site
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@leekelleher@mastodon.social Just realized it loops too soon, but you were the first one I picked to be on my team, lucky you! 🎉
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@mortenbock@hachyderm.io I guess I could just have an agent running that keeps updating all of them anyway, that would be a fun project. Thanks for giving me more work 😆
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@mortenbock@hachyderm.io both of them are in a docker container and I use them in a browser by the way.. so many websites were never worth building but some idiot did it 😉
Only 2 (TWO!) more days to vote for Umbraco in the CMS Critic Awards if you haven't done so..!
Nominated in 9 categories (10 if you count uSkinned.. and of course: we DO count uSkinned!)
In the last 9 days I've "written" (sorry: prompted) an RSS reader that does what I need it to do and a TV show/episode tracking tool that works for exactly my needs.
While it feels like the age of Hyperpersonal Software (userbase: 1) has arrived, I do wonder if I will keep enjoying these tools that were made and if I'll keep using them.
On the other hand: it's been great to ask Claude for a new feature and just getting it without being at the whim of someone else (pesky humans haha!).
Glen Hansard 😢
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@mortenbock@hachyderm.io Honestly, what is there to patch, really? Only I can reach them on my internal network, right now what I have can't do real harm so it feels good. I never want to open source them because they work for my brain specifically, so I don't need to support them either.
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@mortenbock@hachyderm.io I used Inoreader before and it was 90% great but they were never going to fix my 10% annoyances, which really only a handful of people have. I used SIMKL before and it's a total mess, I have the perfect (for me!) feature set, built on their API now, which is none of the features everyone wants, they were never going to tailor it for me.
So it is valuable, but only for me, especially the last one, it is making me very happy!