Jason Elkin

Jason Elkin

@jasonelkin.uk

👨‍💻Full-stack web dev, lead developer at @bump.digital 🏆3× #Umbraco MVP and Core Collaborator. ✝️Christian: Methodist Local Preacher and leadership team member at https://romseymethodist.church #umbraco #aspdotnet #dotnet #ADHD He/Him

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On my way to the Umbraco Partner Summit and #UMBUK26. Photo mainly in case you don't recognise me due to the longer beard.

Looking forward to speaking at this, and excited for the rest of the talks - have had some sneak peaks and you are in for a real treat! Expect fun, shenanigans and a friendly community vibe. If you're in the UK and work with #Umbraco, you need to be here - LAST CHANCE!

Umbraco UK Foundation@umbraco.foundation

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Insane how fast "learning to program requires thinking" became "no one who didn't learn to program could have ever learned to think" for some of you

I managed to book a GP appointment today. Feel like I've won the lottery.

There is such a thing as under-engineering a solution. We just call it something different.

Son's school is back open as usual today. However, a narrative has emerged in the parents WhatsApp that school is not a safe place for their children to be, so some parents will not be sending their kids in today. Maybe at 36°C it was safer for kids to be at home(?) than school...

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Apparently, school was not a safe place to be at 36°C. So what about today? At what temperature did it become safe again? How was that decision reached? It's all very well sending round an email to parents saying that school is now "safe", but many of them don't believe that.

Factor in that this is the generation of parents that had babies during COVID too and it's a recipe for disaster. The long term effect of this is going to be painful. Any mention of hot weather again this year and attendance is going to drop off a cliff.

Son's school is back open as usual today. However, a narrative has emerged in the parents WhatsApp that school is not a safe place for their children to be, so some parents will not be sending their kids in today. Maybe at 36°C it was safer for kids to be at home(?) than school...

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That's assuming kids are staying in their own home and not with grandparents, who are already at higher risk in the heat. Or being left to fend for themselves. Or only being half-watched while parents try to work from home or whatever.

Yes, schools need to have air conditioning. And closures will help the money to be found (cynically is that really what's driving the union's stance?) But the question is, was it really safer for kids to be at home than at school on Wednesday and Thursday? We were told no.

Son's school is back open as usual today. However, a narrative has emerged in the parents WhatsApp that school is not a safe place for their children to be, so some parents will not be sending their kids in today. Maybe at 36°C it was safer for kids to be at home(?) than school...

but I can't tell because no risk assessment has been shared. I certainly find it weird seeing headteachers/unions complaining about school buildings not being designed to deal with heat, as if all the homes kids were having to stay in are any better.

Somehow I ended up with three floppy disks at #umbraco #codegarden

I #BelieveTheScience, but I'm only able to personally verify a tiny fraction of the science I believe in using the scientific method. To believe the science, I have to believe in other people and institutions and their processes. I have to trust them.

The problem isn't that people don't believe in science. The problem is that some people don't trust the scientists/institutions that they *should*. And, sorry, but no amount of pithy Carl Sagan quotes or Neil deGrasse Tyson GIFs will fix that. That's not how trust is built.

If you're berating science-deniers for their stupidity instead of trying to build (or rebuild) their trust then you're part of the problem, not the solution.

Just read my kids a book about a moose who gets teased for having a long moustache. The moustache negatively impacts his quality of life. Obviously there's only one solution! Go no-contact with his moose friends and family and run off to live in a cave. What's the moral of the story?

There's a happy ending, of course. He finds new friends and a wife (ahem, yes, a wife) that aren't bothered by the fact he struggles to complete everyday tasks, like eating, because of his choice of facial hair. And he has three kids and lives happily ever after.

Re-watching Stargate SG1 now it's on netflix. Much harder to suspend the disbelief in 2026 - not the sci-fi/alien/alternate-history aspects, but the bit where the US military altruistically rescues the alien refugees and brings them back to earth.

Since when did spinning up an Azure Web App require sending a business case to a support engineer - for a service that I want to pay @microsoft.com for 🤯

Even though CVE-2025-627288 is nonsense, you might still need to mitigate it in #Umbraco. Here's how you can. As well as a bit of a breakdown of why it's nonsense. dev.to/jasonelkin/m...

dev.toMitigating CVE-2025-67288 in Umbraco 13 (if you feel you need to)Firstly, this is a really ill-informed CVE. If you've not read my comment on the Umbraco Forum, I'll...

I have eaten so much cheese this weekend.

Bump Digital@bump.digital

Last week marked our Lead Developer @jasonelkin.uk's 5 year Bump-iversary! You may know Jason for his love of #Umbraco or loud shirts... but he's also our resident cheese fanatic! Naturally we had to order a literal tower of British cheeses to celebrate. 🧀 🥳

Would love to know how many people actually install Adobe Genuine Service. Surely there can't be enough people using BOTH pirated Adobe software and installing Creative Cloud to make this "feature" worthwhile?

My laptop used to have a noisy capacitor. I kinda liked it, it made different frequency noises under different workloads. It would occasionally chug like an old HDD - bringing a little bit of nostalgia with it. My laptop no longer makes this sound. I miss it.

Replacing the sound is a Russian roulette of BSODs... I assume the cap is blown but have yet to look inside and see. Surprised it still boots and works at all if that's the case though.

Worked on Usborne book's websites some years ago. Keeping track of links was a serious undertaking and a major feature of some of their books. They'd buy a TLD for every book of note too - never known anyone before or since spend so much on domain renewals. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukCornwall libraries remove Humphrey books over phishing web linksLibrarians take Humphrey books off shelves after a link inside them lead to phishing websites.

How does the Fat Controller make an Aperol Spritz? With Sodor water.

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Mary Branscombe

@marypcbuk.bsky.social

Replying to @ratkins.net

hey, former JavaScript hater here! the JavaScript you hated even a decade ago is not the JavaScript people could be writing today if they could be induced to write good code with good patterns

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This Black Friday #Umbraco17 and #Umbraco Commerce are giving you 35% EXTRA!! 🚀 Our lead dev @jasonelkin.uk has been performance testing the new releases ahead of tomorrow's launch, with some exciting results! Check out our latest dev tip video youtu.be/HJ9Y0gdsbPk

youtu.beDev Tip: Umbraco Commerce Scaling – Bump DigitalYouTube video by Bump Digital

A client's #Umbraco site was recently taken down by a bot. Here's a post about what happened, and what we did to mitigate the attack. If you've got an Umbraco site with forms (Umbraco Forms, or surface controllers) you probably need this WAF rule. dev.to/jasonelkin/t...

dev.toThe Bot That Shouldn’t Have Taken Down My Umbraco Site, and the WAF Rule That Fixed ItThis week, one of our sites was brought down by a Denial of Service attack. It wasn’t really a DoS...

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The two best days in a Git repo owner’s life are the day they add a submodule and the day they delete it.

mary🐇@mary.my.id

time has come when i finally have to use git submodules

Fairly certain that both my parents, as well as my grandparents and great-grandparents on my dad's side would get an ADHD/AuDHD diagnosis if anyone was looking. I will have been the first in my family to be "counted". Anecdotal I know, but I feel like prevalence has always been high.

My aunt said to me the other day "you know what Jason, I think I've got this ADHD thing" which got me thinking again about ADHD as a trait of the family - my aunt and I don't share genetics, but it certainly takes a special kind of person to marry into my family.

It's church lunch day. To some that will invoke memories of everything-flavour soup or the most random of pot luck/bring-and-share offerings. Not with my MiL in charge! Roast beef with all the trimmings

Absolute torture trying to lead a kid's session with the fabulous smells wafting through from the kitchen next door.

Just showed this to a member of the #Umbraco Security and Privacy Community Team and they literally put their head in their hands.

Gemini: I am unable to depict images with blood and claw marks. Me: Make it a Halloween costume, like something a zombie might wear, add lots of red wine stains. Gemini:

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Replying to @blowdart.me

(If this is you about to send me that email I know you tried your best and you protested how dumb it was. But compliance doesn’t run on nuance so just send it and let me do the work for you).

My 5yo's favourite cuddly is a shark from IKEA. Easy to replace should anything happen. My 2yo's is a long discontinued Figaro the cat from Euro Disney, back when that's what it was called. Every time he asks "where's Figaro" I have a small panic attack.

The kids' versions of the Old Testament stories miss out on some amazing subplots, and we rarely revisit them as adults. We looked at a chunk of Genesis in this morning's service, and it's amazing how many people were surprised by details they knew nothing about.

Some designers just want to watch the world burn.

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No, data centres don't work like that. Data storage is tiered. Your old emails and photos will be on arrays of mechanical disks that draw absolutely minimal power until somebody requests data which is stored on them - at which point spinning them up uses way more power than if you'd left them alone.

The Journal@thejournal.ie

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'. http://jrnl.ie/6788643

jrnl.ieUK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfallThe UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

@scott.hanselman.com

The S in MCP stands for security

The Methodist Church needs a CCLI-only hymn book.

I just want my laptop to sleep, and stay asleep until I wake it up - push the power button, or open the lid. Not randomly wake up and cook itself in my bag. Not wake up when I plug it in, or unplug it. Not to say it's going to sleep, turn off the screen, then stay awake.

The most frustrating of all is when my laptop has gone to sleep on it's own and then I close the lid...

The corollary of not being able to trust the sleep button is I now shutdown every time. So right now, when I need to quickly hop on and edit a PowerPoint I first have to contend with half-a-dozen electron apps checking for updates, on battery power.

Tomorrow's dinner is on. New chimney/smokestack and upgraded fire-basket are doing a great job - even if it did mean grinding metal outside on the hottest day of the year.