🐝 The buzz is building in Manchester… and tickets are almost gone! The organizers have just revealed the lineup for Umbraco In The City: Manchester. And it's packed with fresh thinking. 📆 Fri 7 November 📍 x+why Manchester 🎟️ Just £50 (+VAT) ⏳ Fewer than 20 tickets left 👉 www.umbracointhe.city

The Developer MCP Server for Umbraco CMS is now in beta 🎉 ✨ AI-powered content management 📦 New NPM package @umbraco-cms/mcp-dev 🔧 Advanced context control 📄 Umbraco 16 support Try it today 👉 umbra.co/47OvdQs #Umbraco

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝟭/𝟭𝟭: Every developer we don't send to training is a future consultant we'll hire at 10x the cost. I've been that consultant. Here's what I've learned about the compound interest of ignorance:🧵

Summer’s officially over. Kids are back in school. Nights are drawing in… And your boss is finally back from holiday. Perfect time to get Umbraco In The City: Manchester tickets signed off. 📅 Fri 7 Nov 2025 | 📍 x+why, Manchester | 🎟️ £50 (ex VAT, subsidised) 🔗 Tickets: umbracointhe.city #Umbraco

I gave my first tech talk in 2017, gaining skills & confidence. In my blog I share lessons on abstracts, timing, live demos, & benefits of public speaking. With calls for speakers open for Umbraco in the City: Manchester & DK Fest why not give it a try Read more: www.rachelbreeze.dev/blogs/do-you...

Meet our home for Umbraco in the City: x+why — bright rooms, cosy breakouts, and those skyline views. 🎟️ £50 tickets | 📅 7 Nov 2025 🔗 umbracointhe.city #Umbraco #ManchesterTech #WebDev #DotNet #Accessibility #Community

Making more #Accessible and #Inclusive #Content by understanding ‘How People #Read’ - guidance from the 🇦🇺 Australian Government Style Manual. www.stylemanual.gov.au/accessible-a...

Supported by #Umbraco. Shaped by those who live and breathe web inclusion. #UMBRAAD is a free, virtual event each #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay. Real talks, real stories, real change. 👉 Learn more: umbra.co/3Hdk2pw

ADHD care in the UK is a postcode lottery. Different rules. Long waits. Services that don’t talk to each other. We’re mapping all this, starting with lived experience. If you’ve been through ADHD assessment, diagnosis or treatment, your story matters. No personal info, just what happened.

🎤 Umbraco In The City is coming to Manchester – 7 Nov 2025! 🎟️ Tickets out now + CFP open (closes 22 Sept) 👉 Submit a talk: sessionize.com/umbraco-in-t... Find all the details here & tickets: www.umbracointhe.city

Super excited

Not saying I've become accustomed to jira/ devops tickets and a certain workflow, but when working on own website, not adding a ticket number to one's own commit feels wrong...

Excited for #CampDigital today at the Royal Norther College of Music

Mastodon is great, right until the mastodon server returns a DNS error and your timeline disappears. This is probably true for all social media.

📅 3 Days to Go 🔥 Final few days! Want to give a lightning talk at Umbraco Manchester? Short talk. Big encouragement. No experience needed — just your story or insight. 🗓️ 3 days left to apply! 👉 sessionize.com/umbraco-manc... #UmbracoCommunity #CallForSpeakers

Speaker Tees have arrived, Speaker meals booked, Venue all good - just over a week to go for #DDDSW and We're all getting very excited! It's going to be such an AWESOME year! Sadly, ticket all gone. If you have a ticket and can't make it, please release it so someone else can!

I am part of the team organising umbraad.com – a free, online conference happening on May 15th (Global Accessibility Awareness Day). We're looking for speakers and contributors. 👉 Submit your session here: sessionize.com/umbraad-2025/ Closing date for proposals is the 17th April. #Umbraco #GAAD

Collaboration - The action of working with someone to produce something. #CODECABIN facilitates collaboration; hacking ideas, submitting that first pull request, learning new skills & even paid projects from new #umbraco connections 🖤🎉 Apply here 👉 codecab.in #umbraco #developer #user #retreat

"Your code base becomes what is is due to today's actions", @kevlin.bsky.social, at @umbracospark.bsky.social

🥁 Announcing... Your 2025 MCs at #umbracospark. @matthew-wise.bsky.social and @rachelbeezedev.bsky.social will be introducing a line up of expert speakers for a day of learning & inspiration. Come & join your fellow #Umbraco pioneers! 🎟️ Tickets @ www.tickettailor.com/events/umbuk...

Registration now open for @DDDNorth 2025! The agenda has been published (just one or two slots left to fill... t.co/8qrDeR8IxK

This month #Umbraco #Manchester is holding a virtual meetup on 23rd January; I am delighted to share that @ebuie.bluesky.social is joining us to speak about about design and #accessibility for older adults #a11y #olderAdults #design #ageing To register & for more info visit meetu.ps/e/NMzQD/7Zcv...

@dotnetnorth.bsky.social as promised follow up links: The announcement of free #GitHubCopilot for #VisualStudioCode code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2024/1... Simplified Setup code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot... Copilot Trust Centre copilot.github.trust.page?wt.mc_id=MVP... 1/2

“Cooking with fresh groceries is cheap” uhhh do you have any idea how much it costs to get four ubers to bring me four tomatoes? And that’s only one ingredient

If the software that powers a state's unemployment insurance system breaks, there is no sense in which the state has an unemployment insurance program. In government technology isn't a nice-to-have, it's not a bolt-on—it's the codification and execution of the mission of the agency.

It's easy to forget just how far and how much .NET and Umbraco have developed until you switch back to a .net framework site, from the .NET Core sites you've been working on.

In today's 24 Days in Umbraco, I share some tips about development team consistency in the Umbraco backoffice that might also benefit your content editor #umbraco #24daysinumbraco 24days.in/umbraco-cms/...

This is a great round up of advent calendars for developers, as well as featuring #AdventaOfCode there's links to advent calendars for #Umbraco, #accessibility/#a11y, #Performance, #Security and more (Chocolate not included) adrianroselli.com/2024/12/deve...

Your annual reminder that alt text is context sensitive. Adding an alt text field to a #CMS like #Umbraco to where the media library where the image is held is not the correct location. The media library does not know about the context the image will be used in. 1/2

One of the highest importance things in Security is thinking as a Graph not a List. Owning Twitter doesn't get you Twitter. It gets you everything that trusts Twitter. John Lambert, one of the seniormost Microsoft people who has his hand fighting their greatest battles. medium.com/@johnlatwc/d...

This was my tenth(!) year building 25 days of puzzles for #AdventOfCode. You can solve them all for free! Most people write code to solve them, but you can solve them however you like. I hope they help people become better programmers. 🌟 The first puzzle comes out in two hours: adventofcode.com

A lot of what is bad about big government software projects—I mean the huge, load-bearing systems without which agency could not function—is that literally nobody in a position of authority over those systems has any idea of how software is made or what it should cost.

Reposting my popular post from elsewhere. It's still relevant 6 years later. I made a handy flowchart called "Should I say resources?" Please use as needed.

I get it, people buying farms to avoid tax not good. But I grew up in a farming community. The assets are land, the livestock and the machinery. To sell any aspect of that to fund inheritance tax bill, probably makes the farm un viable. Loosing a farm next to green belt means more houses....

If you’re building a website or app from scratch, it’s so much cheaper and much less stressful if you add in accessibility from the start. I’m currently trying to retrofit accessibility features and it’s taken a week to do something that could’ve taken less than a day if done at the start

Bad design can actually harm users. I'm not sure enough people understand this, especially for services that involve money. Working for a bank taught me the harsh reality, but I'm sure the same outcomes can happen for people who cannot access their benefits, for example. Design is so important.

We're having a little pre-Christmas get together collab with Umbraco Manchester on 3rd December. No speaker this time, just your lovely faces! RSVP & deets 👉 www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

📣 Hey #Umbraco enthusiasts! Join us at McCann Manchester for an insightful session with Ali Graham on 'How to Make Agile Work for You' 💼🔍. Register here ➡️ buff.ly/4fI10TB #Agile #TechMeetup #Manchester 😄

That feeling when you start a training course, get distracted by the "need to know link". The need to know has a training couse so you follow the steps in that training and then end up making a PR because the code sample didn't quite work, and the documentation needed a bit of clarity!

⏱️ As #Umbraco 8 reaches End-of-Life (EOL) in February 2025, what does that mean for your website? In this free webinar, we delve into the many benefits that come with upgrading, including security, performance, #accessibility and #sustainability. Register to join at: bit.ly/Umbraco8EOLW...

As we reflect on #NationalInclusionWeek, we're pleased to announce our new partnership with Digital Advantage, the Digital Skills Training Charity helping young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) move towards working in creative and digital fields: bit.ly/4eo92Ru #a11y

In the second of a 2-part series, Senior Service Designer Amy Thornley examines the Post Office Horizon scandal, looking at what went wrong from a #ServiceDesign perspective, and the potential role of service design methods in preventing such failures in future: www.nexerdigital.com/news-and-tho...

Travelling to Amsterdam. I'll be at #DDUGFest tomorrow speaking about "Debugging more than breakpoints and log analysis". Can't wait to meet up with everyone, make new friends and see all the talks #Umbraco #Df24 #OSS #DotNet

A Wells Fargo employee clocked in at 7am on Friday, died at her desk and no one noticed till Monday. Remember: work doesn't love you back. Commit to: - Leaving on time - Taking and enjoying every day of your leave - Never feeling guilty about calling in sick www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Next Tuesday 4th June at 7:00 pm I will be speaking at Chester Devs about feeling stuck in a rut as a developer. Explore how to escape this feeling without changing jobs or roles; and have fun doing so. For more info & to sign up please visit www.meetup.com/chester-devs... #DeveloperLife #Chester

My #CampDigital talk all about fun is now online at www.nexerdigital.com/campdigital/...

If you work on any digital product or service you need to see @sconner.net’s talk #CampDigital www.nexerdigital.com/campdigital/... “Am I being too much? If that’s what you are asking, you’re probably at about the right level of optimism” “Nothing is fully accessible, it’s just more accessible” ❤️

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Looking forward to speaking DDD Southwest next Saturday (27th April) about "Debugging: More than breakpoints and log analysis". There's some great talks, and it's lovely to see a few people from the Umbraco Community are in the line up, hope to meet you there dddsouthwest.com

Dan Kaminsky was someone who boosted me early and reached out to me privately and encouraged me. I come across his messages all the time. Not having him is an incredible loss to the InfoSec/IT community. I remember him. You are not dead until the last person whispers your name. I miss you man.