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We had a brilliant Umbraco meetup this week at The Open University in Wales! A massive #H5YR! to our speakers Tom Prynn, Victoria Howells, and @carlcod.es ! #Umbraco #UmbracoMeetup #UmbraCymru #meetup #usergroup #dotnet #webdev

I've been playing around with Indie games, and just downloaded Immigrant by Lozadaa lozadaa.itch.io/immigrant It's a super quick game, can be completed in 25 mins, but it's a really lovely game which shows a real lived experience by so many people!

We got another awesome episode of the Unhandled exception pod with @danclarke.com at @dddsouthwest.com

The next #UnhandledException podcast has now dropped! And this was a live-audience panel-based #AI discussion at the @dddsouthwest.com conference last week! @lottepitcher.bsky.social @kevlin.bsky.social @carlcod.es @rachelbeezedev.bsky.social @richardfennell.bsky.social

Design patterns for software Diagramming by @tekiegirl.bsky.social at #dddsw #sketchnote

Architecting for Observability by Steven Read #sketchnote #dddsw

Apple Watch apps. Built with .NET MAUI? No. You're not dreaming. That's exactly what @damianantonowicz.pl will be showing you from the #MAUIDay stage, in Kraków, on the 29th June. Tickets still available at mauiday.net

Spark Speaker Spotlight 🔦 @carlcod.es at Umbraco Spark. Always entertaining. Always insightful. And the live demo is going to be 👌 🔥 Biggest Spark yet ⏰ Full tickets close midnight 28 Feb Basic Entry only after that (no swag) 🎟 www.tickettailor.com/events/umbuk...

This was a really great read : A really considered look at the current state and future of Software, and teams in this AI/LLM world we all now live in dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Happy .NET MAUI Day! Second edition in London 🇬🇧 @davidortinau.com updating us on the latest and greatest that’s going on now and coming for .NET 11 #mauiday

Big thanks to our sponsors that are making this happen today!

Learning all about the amazing Moti Me project that is powered by .NET MAUI, connecting to devices helping children with physiotherapy all around the world!

Time for @mallibone.com to take the stage and show us how to build data-driven .NET MAUI apps No after lunch dip here!

Extremely sad to be missing this the 2nd one but it’s my daughter’s birthday I’m sure it will be an awesome day though!

DDD events are fantastic and DDD South West is especially so because Bristol is a delightful city - and their CFP is open, so get those talks in now and hopefully see you in Bristol in May!

It's time folks! Hope to see a good number of you there at the best free conference in the world!!

One of the most useful talks at @ndcconferences.com was from @rendle.dev who went through how they ACTUALLY use Clause day to day! Practical examples FTW, I'll definitely adapt what I'm doing.

Happy to be back on .NET Rocks and talk about the latest and greatest in .NET MAUI for .NET 10! www.dotnetrocks.com/details/1986

🎤 @mallibone.com is returning to the #MAUIday on Feb 6th. He’ll be sharing how to update your app store apps without shipping another release, enabling rapid iteration of features in a safe way. Get your ticket and join us in person, in London. 🎟️ mauiday.net

These sorts of events can't be put on without Sponsors, so thank you!!

Thank you Syncfusion 🙌 As the longest running supporter of #MAUIDay / #XamExpertDay, it's always great to have your support. We’re looking forward to hearing about the latest developments in the #dotnetMAUI Toolkit.

Some OTEL #aspnetcore improvements before Christmas 🎄 📊 Set OTEL HTTP semantic convention attributes in #aspnetcore hosting github.com/dotnet/aspne... 🛣️ Transform static route parameters. For example, {controller}/{action}/{id?} → Products/Get/{id?} github.com/dotnet/aspne...

Love this - @dylanbeatt.ie with a super timely video which brings us all some cool new knowledge Hang in there @cloudflare.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgJ5...

Do yourself a favour, if you are a .Net developer and watch this talk! youtu.be/kdo70GCpk6A?... So much experience and real world problem solving in one fantastic library

Oh yay! More Aspire goodness!

@kevlin.bsky.social Kevlin Henneys are everywhere

New on the blog: Step Back — Take a break to solve a problem kevlinhenney.medium.com/step-back-39...

Not sure the source, but found this on FB, and it genuinely made me guffaw. The solution to the trolley problem

Why is Brighton flipping me off?!?

Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 8: Traces with errors are now highlighted 🚨 This brings the traces page in line with how error logs are displayed.

Now that @umbraco.com supports Docker, would you be interested in a workshop for how to build with containers, the latest Tools including .Net Aspire and Open Telemetry? Running alongside @umbraco.foundation, we're gauging interest here : www.umbracofoundation.co.uk/workshops/ Please repost 🙂❤️

Classic reinforcement of gender stereotypes from the BBC. The national team thrashes USA in the Women's Rugby World Cup, and the headline story is a male footballer daydreaming about being a wrestler. FFS 🤦

After a slightly longer than planned break the .NET South West meetup is back!!!! Andrew Poole joins us to talk about Unit Test Complex E2E Flows + Integration Integration Testing with Aspire & OTEL Thanks to IO Associates for hosting, RSVP www.meetup.com/dotnetsouthw...

Hey folks, how's everyone doing today? Been a while since I've been more active on social media, but after losing my dad recently it's time to get back into things! Starting with an upcoming @dotnetsouthwest.bsky.social meetup - coming soon!

If my son Liam can undergo heart surgery at just 18 months old, I can run 26.2 miles. I’m fundraising not just for Liam, but for every child who has received, is receiving, or will need care at Lurie Children’s. ❤️ Donate to Team Liam: events.luriechildrens.org/marathon-tea... #ChicagoMarathon

🚀 New DevRel Deep Dive just dropped! @lotte 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 […] [Original post on cultiv.social]

Come on England!!!!

Pepsi Max is better than Coke Zero and Diet Coke. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

Over the summer I'm not planning to travel much, but if you want a remote presentation or workshop for your company, please get in touch.

Want to update your #umbraco wardrobe? Well, it's free UK Shipping this weekend on the community swag store! 👕No code required, discount applied to your basket. umbracocommunity.store

Really enjoyed this episode of the #UnhandledException with @wildermuth.com and @danclarke.com - love story episodes like this :-) Worth a listen unhandledexceptionpodcast.com/posts/0077-s...

And that was that - I'm exhausted, elated, and excited for next time! Thank you to all at Umbraco who made it a really special week!

Day one of Codegarden was amazing (although it was day 3 for me at HQ) - the always-energetic Andy and Carla did an brilliant job as always to bring a great day to a close. Bring on Day 2 (4)

If you're in Manchester, you should come along to eat some pizza and throw things at me.

Went to twitter for the first time in about 2 months ..... ... I didn't make it past the first page. Not a single piece of content, all Ads, and some pretty dodgy ones at that. Project BinFire is complete. Sad times

Just a reminder, because I was just reminded myself, that your .NET 8 Maui projects are end of life on the 14th of May. If you haven't already, please make sure you upgrade! dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platfo...

Following a conference busy May, you can find me at some other conferences up to the end of the year: DevSum, Stockholm (11-13 June) devsum.se re:connect, Poole (4 July) reconnectconference.co.uk GOTO Copenhagen (30 September-1 October) gotocph.com/2025 (1/3)