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I've been playing with the Spotify API and now have a virtual turntable and jukebox. This is open source and free for anyone else to use. thesecretstage.vip/spotifyTurnt... #spotify #opensource

Better. #CoralClimber #Openvibe

Don't think I'll stay in the lead but I can dream. #CoralClimber #Openvibe

New Blog - Stop apologising for using AI #thoughts #ai #developers owain.codes/blog/2026/oc...

We've moved! 🚀 All Umbraco Spark news now lives on the Umbraco UK Foundation channels. Follow @umbraco.foundation to catch the latest. Nothing else has changed. Same conference, still organised by Gibe Digital. #UmbracoSpark

#CoralClimber #Openvibe

New blog post published on my site : Umbraco UK Conference My recap of the Umbraco UK Partner Summit and Umbraco UK Conference in London: great talks, good friends, whisky and a lot of Biscoff doughnuts. #Umbraco #conference #london https://owain.codes/blog/2026/october/umbraco-uk-conference/

This Friday is Umbraco Tees day! Get you Umbraco swag at the ready! isitumbracoteesday.today

New features added and new Umbraco Tees day announced! #umbraco #umbracoTees isitumbracoteesday.today

#iykyk #umbraco #ukconf26

It's been a long time coming but with a 4hr train journey to Edinburgh after #umbUk26 - if you use the #h5yr hashtag on Bluesky - it now appears on the H5YR.com dashboard. #umbraco

Testing a new dashboard addition for the h5yr.com feed. #h5yr

Custom #umbuk26 Lego. Yes please!

Umbraco UK Conference is a go!!! #umbuk26

Umbraco UK Conference is a go!!! #umbuk26

Great presentations and talks today at the Umbraco partner summit. Got a lot out of it. A lot to think about and take back to the team. Well done everyone! #umbraco #h5yr

Busy day ahead. Umbraco Partner summit. #umbraco

Hello London. #umbukconf #umbraco

Looking forward to Umbraco UK conference and partner summit over the next few days. Catching the train to London this morning. Will be great to see all the familiar faces and also meeting new friends. Come day hi if you spot me. #Umbraco

Every. Single. Time. I have a travel somewhere, I decide I need to order something for that journey but not 2 months in advance, 2 days! Now hoping the delivery comes today before I go to London tomorrow. 😂

Mon 12th 📆 TechMeetup Inverness October 2026 with TechMeetup Inverness, Inverness luma.com/6nq1pf00

Back to work after a week away on Dubrovnik. What a lovely city. Now back for a couple of days before catching the train to London on Wednesday. 🎉

Tue 6th 📆 AIoT Hub - TBA with IOT North - Scotland Meetup, Online www.meetup.com/aiothub-scot...

Use Logitech mouse? Prefer not to need pointless online registration? Check out openlogi.org #logitech

Publish this. Notify that person. Sync to that system. Still spending sprints on repetitive Umbraco work? At #UMBUK26 I'll show how Umbraco Automate does it in minutes in my talk "Automate in Minute, Not Sprints". @umbraco.foundation 2026.umbracofoundation.co.uk

Warning. Out of office is now on so I'll probably be rambling on here for the next week with crazy ideas for new projects 😂

This weekend - we have free UK shipping on any orders on the Umbraco Community Store. Perfect chance to get some new Umbraco Swag in time for the Umbraco UK Conference. #umbraco umbracocommunity.store

Been building a new connection and actions for Umbraco.Automate and dev.to Push content with more control than RSS imports. Beta version now on nuget. #umbraco

Umbraco Package Update: OC.MultiHotSpot is now available on Umbraco 17 AND Umbraco 18, it also has a fix (thanks Jordan Smith for the PR) which allows it to work on Block Grid / Block List now too! Always nice to find out that a package you released is actually getting used by others. #umbraco

🚨 This is your LAST CHANCE to secure your #Umbraco UK Conference tickets! 25 expert speakers from @umbraco.com and the community - this is not one you'll want to miss. Ticket sales end TOMORROW... #umbuk26 2026.umbracofoundation.co.uk

Just in time for Christmas! The Umbraco Community Store has had a bit of a facelift. umbracocommunity.store and there are new Chistmas Jumper designs now online! umbracocommunity.store/collection/c... #umbraco

New blog post published on my site : AI as a learning tool Stop copy, paste, ship with AI. Learn to question Claude's code, understand the why, and actually level up as a developer, not just faster. owain.codes/blog/2026/se... #ai #claude

My coffee machine still writes my blog, but the Pi now runs .NET. Why I rewrote it, what a month of data taught me, and the afternoon I lost to two keys. owain.codes/blog/2026/se... #umbraco #rasperberrypi #dotnet

New blog post published on my site : Time to reset Doom scrolling, AI coding and a suspected ADHD brain chasing quick wins. Why I've lost the joy of coding and social media, and how I plan to reset. #personal https://owain.codes/blog/2026/september/time-to-reset/

Today I'm talking at the Umbraco India meetup about Umbraco Automate. Looking forward to it. #umbraco

Lego Claude for my desk. #lego #claude

It's arrived!! Looking forward to this. @aaron@synaptyx.com

I've not seen the film - Project Hail Mary, but I am reading the book just now and really enjoying it. I'll watch the film afterwards.

umbPublisher - a plugin for Obsidian that lets you push your notes to Umbraco has been updated. Version 1.5.3 is now available. Fixes a bug where images within notes weren't pushed to the media section of Umbraco. community.obsidian.md/plugins/umbp... #umbraco #obsidian

If anyone uses my Umbraco automate packages for social sharing, they will soon be migrating to the Umbraco.Community.Automate repo. Keep an eye out for future announcements but the first to move will be the mastodon package. #Umbraco

New blog post published on my site : Initials.Autolink Add a keyword, and every old article that mentions it links itself. Initials.AutoLink for Umbraco 17+, and the first open source package from Initials Labs. #Umbraco #Autolink https://owain.codes/blog/2026/september/initialsautolink/

Did an alpha release of a new Umbraco package today. Then did some more testing and I've some more work to do. 😂

It's really encouraging to see people enjoying my Umbraco Automate talks and then going on to create triggers and actions of their own. I'll be speaking at Odense meetup and India meetups next month. #umbraco

Got my Raspberry Pi 3 running a .net application this evening. Pretty neat. My WiFi enabled plug is now communicating with my RPi in a language I understand. 🙂 #raspberrypi #dotnet

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I miss the days where we all hung out on the one platform. It's a real chore now trying to catch up with everything in all the places. 😞 One of the reasons why I'm hardly on socials now. I do miss it. Anyone else?

If you're interested in hearing more about @umbraco.com Automate, then join us at the next Umbraco Kent Meetup where @owain.codes will be walking through building workflows inside the Umbraco 17 backoffice. Sign-up here! www.meetup.com/umbraco-kent... #umbraco #kent #meetup

Coming to an Umbraco meetup soon. Shame these aren't in-person but will still be great to see all the umbracians from around the world. #umbraco

Oops. Got a new router over the weekend which means my raspberry pi isn't on the network and my WiFi plugs are all offline. Just remembered! Will need to fix that. 🤣