A tiny bit of "experimenting with #Sitecore OrderCloud" trivia on the blog this week. If it's not immediately obvious how to authenticate with your sandbox via code, this explains the two extra lines you need: blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2026/o...

Links for this week: Peep Jousting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUYi... SitecoreAI Pathway tool: www.sitecore.com/platform/sit... Baja Blast official drink of MLB 2026: www.mlb.com/press-releas... BONUS - The Cats of #SitecoreLunch: www.linkedin.com/posts/jpetil...

Upbeat #SitecoreLunch today. Discussed: 🍋 Ramune 🌮 #TacoBell 🐶 GMO pets 🍦 #DQBlizzard 🐥 Peep jousting 😺 Cats that fetch 🧱 Linux partitions 🤬 Installing #Windows 🗣️ SUGs needing speakers 🐤 Chili Lime Mango #Peeps 🤖 #SitecoreXP to #SitecoreAI migrations See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Right UK #Sitecore folk - we have details for a mid-March user group now. Come learn some stuff, and chat with other like-minded people in the Sitecore space. Sign-up link at the bottom of this page - but if you have dietary requirements let me know by DM/email. scug.co.uk/events/2026-...

Excited #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed: 📅 Date facts 👀 #BeMyEyes 💪 Power users 🖨️ #OfficeSpace 👷 #Sitecore jobs 💻 #BrowserStack 🎂 Bad date picker 🚣 #SitecoreStream 👮 Prisoner's dilemma 👵 Seniors for UX testing 🔠 Keyword stuffing for AI 🤖 #SitecoreAgenticStudio See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Looking at the list of "what's new for .Net 11" and... Yeah, gonna have to look this one up ;-)

This year's #SUGCONEU is coming up #Sitecore folks - in London this year. I'll be there to listen to the talks and chat with the community. If you're wondering if you should be, here's some of the stuff that caught my attention on the agenda: blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2026/c...

Links from this week: Clawdbot/MoltBot/Open Claw: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Medusa.js medusajs.com Can I get a six pack quickly? (Ads in AI): www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQRu...

Celebratory #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed: 🧵 Sewing 🛍️ #MedusaJS ⚖️ Art of scaling 🦀 #OpenClawAI 🏃‍♂️ Metric sprints 👕 Clothing sizes 🏈 Superbowl ads 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Multisite instances ☁️ #Sitecore upgrades 📚 #Sitecore DAM modules 🏆 #SitecoreMVP congratulations See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Links for this week: SUGCON Europe europe.sugcon.events Richard Proenneke en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard... Vibe Graveyard: vibegraveyard.ai Image: A deer in @jermdavis.dev's garden

Chatty #SitecoreLunch today. Discussed: 🐕 Dogs 🥶 COLD 🛷 Iditarod 🤢 #AI slop 👨‍💻 #Vibecoding 🦌 Zombie deer 🚗 Car vs. moose 👾 #Linux gaming 👑 Loyalty programs 🐞 #Microsoft issues ⛰️ Richard Proenneke 🗣️ #SUGCONEU London 💻 Development on an iPad 🤖 #SitecoreAI development See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

UK #Sitecore people - do you have an idea for a user group talk? We're working on an in-person event in London on 19th March and we're looking for speakers. Any topic, any experience level... Get in touch if you're interested: scug.co.uk/events/2026-...

Shameless nerding on the blog this week. I've been reading an interesting book about data structures, and it taught me something new about covariance in C#. blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2026/n...

Frosty #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed: 👓 Glasses 📷 Car cameras 🌨️ Winter storm ➡️ DAM connectors 🚗 New car features 🔎 Progressive lenses 💸 Subscription models 😡 #SitecoreAI upgrades 🛣️ Don't buy the roadmap 💲 #Salesforce integrations 🔎 #Coveo for #Sitecore updates See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Links from this week: Google: Don’t make “bite-sized” content for LLMs if you care about search rank: arstechnica.com/google/2026/... Merchant Developer Home: developers.google.com/merchant/ucp See the Crown Jewels: www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-lon...

Fun #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed: 📺 Old TV 🎙️ Podcasts 🤑 #GoogleUCP 🦦 #EmmetOtter 🤖 AI commerce 🖥️ #Cybersquatting 🔎 #AEO & #GEO tips ♾️ AI prompt generator 🛍️ #SitecoreOrderCloud 🌍 #SUGCONEU in London 🏰 #BuckinghamPalace tour 🏃‍ AI-generated sprint planning See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Bit of #Sitecore Content Hub trivia on the blog this week. Ever uploaded a new image to a content entry in CMP and wondered why the image isn't visible in the main Assets view? I did - so I did some digging to work it out. Might answer a question for you too... blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2026/c...

Agentic #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed: 🔠 MCP, MVP 💊 AI Rx refills ⚡ #SitecoreAI 📦 #SolidSnake 📸 #Blink cameras 🧠 #Aqara products 🍓 #StrawberryMCP ❄️ Snowplow names 🙀 Cats named after fonts 🐶 Dogs named after food 🤖 #SitecoreAgenticStudio 👨‍⚕️ #ChatGPT for healthcare See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

A quick write up on complex/secure api route design patterns in NextJS for PDF/Email generation in #Sitecore headless/ #SitecoreAI builds if that's you're jam... davegoosem.com/blog/generat...

While I end the year sitting on the sofa trying to eat my way though All Britain's Calories, here's the final post in my series on making a simple text adventure in C#. To wrap up - explaining the example game and some of the specific code it requires: blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2025/t...

Festive #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed: ☃️ Snow 🚀 #Astrojs 🖥️ #PCGaming 📃 Blog hosting 🎮 Controller drift 📱 #WindowsPhone 🤢 Yucky Minnesota food 👴 Planned obsolescence 🍎 #Windows vs. #macOS 💻 Corporate laptop issues 🍄 #SuperMarioBros Wonder See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

⭐ Day 18 of the #SitecoreCommunity #AdventCalendar is brought to us by #SitecoreMVP Tobias Studer! Learn the mechanics of #SitecoreSearch suggestion blocks to configure autocomplete and exact-match suggestions. 7 more posts to look forward to this month! www.scadvent.com/2025/sitecor...

On the blog this week, the third part of my series on the basics of text adventures. Adding "behaviours" - logic that lets the world react in different ways to the player's commands: blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2025/t...

Merry #SitecoreLunch today. Discussed: 🐮 #Farmville 📍 #Foursquare 🎥 Video storage 📈 #GTM analytics 👉 #Facebook pokes 🛂 ESTA requirements 💰 Copyright extortion 🚨 #Next.js & #React exploits 🖼️ Images in #SitecoreContentHub 🕸️ #SitecorePersonalize + #SitecoreContentHub See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

December again already? While Mariah Carey and mince pies are breaking out all around, I've got part two of my blog post series about building a simple text adventure in C#. blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2025/t... (Think I forgot to post about part 1, but it's linked on part 2 if you want to go back)

Stuffed #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed: 🔫 Sisu 😇 #CleanFlicks 🍗 Turkey curry 📱 Camera zoom 🤓 Gurus and experts ♊ #Gemini photo edit 🖼️ Adobe subscriptions 🕸️ #SharePoint Saturday 🏆 #SitecoreMVP customers 🧓 FrontPage & Dreamweaver 📆 #SitecoreCommunity Advent Calendar See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

How have I managed to miss that LinqPad can diff arbitrary objects? Every day a school day... (and a tool that's well worth paying for - V9 out now)

The text-adventure nerd in me is very much looking forward to reading about the history of text games, having acquired: if50.textories.com Between this and the open-sourcing of Zork, it's good nerd times right now ;-) opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11... Future goal: Learn to read MDL...

Need to get better at sharing my blog posts. Here's one related to my #sitecore SUGCON ANZ presentation on davegoosem.com/blog/setting...

Announcing the 2025 #Sitecore Community Advent Calendar! 🎄⭐ From December 1 through December 25 a new blog post from a #SitecoreCommunity member. With content covering #SitecoreXM, #SitecoreAI, and even #SitecoreSearch, there's something for everyone! 🎁 www.scadvent.com

Links from this week: The Future is Now: Sitecore Content SDK 1.2 brings App Router into XM Cloud blog.martinmiles.net/post/sitecor... Sitecore MVP Program mvp.sitecore.com Introducing support for SLNX, a new, simpler solution file format in the .NET CLI devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/intro...

Revved #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed: 📹 AI video 🤖 AI in odd places 1️⃣ The One Number 🧑🏻‍💻 #VisualStudio2026 🎁 #SitecoreAI pricing ☁️ #SitecoreContentSDK 🐶 Clifford the Big Red Dog 🏆 #SitecoreMVP applications 🔎 #Coveo vs. #SitecoreSearch 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 #SitecoreMVP Mentor Program See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Join the #SitecoreCommunity tomorrow at 12:15 p.m. ET for this week's #SitecoreLunch. Chat #Sitecore, #SitecoreOrderCloud, and more! 🥫🍞 ⏲️ when: tomorrow, 12:15 p.m. ET 🖥️ where: details in #Sitecore Slack #general channel 🍕 join #Sitecore Slack: sitecore.chat

It was a very interesting #Sitecore Symposium this year. Brand & technology changes all over the place. So many sessions highlighting change and improvement for the platform. Having had some time to think, here's my notes on the key bits that piqued my interest: blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2025/b...

Community-focused #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed: 🏢 Home office 💳 Gift card scams ⏱️ Time management 🤖 AI task satisfaction 🏆 #SitecoreMVP community 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Online vs. in-person SUGs 🎼 Composed not composable 🎪 #SUGCON vs. #SitecoreSYM 🛂 F-1/H-1B visa extortion scams See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Join the #SitecoreCommunity tomorrow at 12:15 p.m. ET for this week's #SitecoreLunch. Chat #Sitecore, #SitecoreAI, and more! 🍗🍟 ⏲️ when: tomorrow, 12:15 p.m. ET 🖥️ where: details in #Sitecore Slack #general channel 🍕 join #Sitecore Slack: sitecore.chat

Just blogged: fail your builds when the Sitecore CLI logs YAML errors. www.coreysmith.co/sitecore-cli...

Interesting performance bug to avoid if you're working with the .Net Core head for #Sitecore here: invokecommand.net/posts/siteco...

Links for this week: Savannah Bananas crash the Tonight Show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NBS... Barbara Woodhouse: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara... Uranus Fudge Factory: www.uranusgeneralstore.com

Litigious #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed: 🐶 Dog training ⏳ #Timeshares 🚽 Toilet flappers 📦 MVC to Headless 🚑 Ambulance chasers ⚾ Minor vs. Major League 🥪 #SitecoreSYM Food Tour 🖥️ ASP.NET Core vs. Next.js 🏘️ Offsite #SitecoreSYM hotels ↗️ #SitecoreHeadless App Router See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Things distracting me from useful work this week: #1: store.steampowered.com/app/1532200/... #2: store.steampowered.com/app/2885870/... Very different games, but keeping me amused...

If you've been getting started moving your headless code to #Sitecore's Content SDK for XM Cloud, this post from @dansolovay.bsky.social may help with an issue you might see: sitecorenotes.ghost.io/a-content-sd...

Placeholder names in #Sitecore. They seem so simple... But sometimes simple things can really mess up your day. I had to sort out an issue recently that highlights this, and it reminded me how pedantic computers can be: blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2025/p...

Foody #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed: 📲 Yuka app ☠️ Risky living 🍪 #Cookiebot 🥤 Diet vs. Zero 💣 NPM exploits ❌ #Meta demo fail 🧂 Low sodium diet 📦 #MyGet vs. #NuGet 🧪 "In mice" (and men) 🍭 Monk fruit vs. sugar 🗣️ In-person vs. virtual SUGs ✅ #SitecoreDeveloperSurvey See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

The folks at #Sitecore are bringing back their developer survey this year, after a bit of an absence. If you work with their tech, can you take five mins to fill it out and help them understand what you're doing and what you need? forms.office.com/e/xt2d7u9j3V

I got given a bug recently which pointed out why you might want to think twice about using some bits of C# syntax in Razor files. Unless you've thought carefully, "return" is often not a great idea: blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2025/m...

Mega sized links for this week: Jesse Cole (#SitecoreSYM 2025 Headliner): findyouryellowtux.com Top 10 Banana Ball Moments of 2023: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaZD... Crazy Japan Horse Racing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXZl... Jake Johannsen 1989 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki2y...

Exciting #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed: 💼 Insurance 🥊 Robot boxing 🤖 #Tesla Optimus 🍷 #19Crimes Wine 🎭 #JakeJohannsen 📈 Population trends 🍌 #SavannahBananas 🏇 Horse racing games 🤑 Freelance vs. agency 🏈 #MutantLeagueFootball 🗣️ #SitecoreSYM speakers wish list See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Bumped into an issue with one of the config options in #Sitecore's SaaS forms tool when setting up some Radio Button options recently. Until the bug gets fixed in a future release, you might find this quick work-around helpful if you hit the issue: blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2025/r...

Nerdy #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed: 🔥 #Blazor 🌑 2nd dark age 💰 #Vercel billing 💻 Screens in cars 🍕 Deep dish pizza 💿 Floppy/DVD drives 🌌 Astro for #Sitecore 📅 Tracking life events 📝 #SitecoreContentSDK 🥤 Diet Coke vs. Coke Zero ☁️ #SitecoreXMCloud custom fields See you same time next week! 🥪🥗