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Stop apologising for using AI

Nobody apologised for copying code from Stack Overflow, so why do we still caveat everything with 'I made this with AI'? Stop apologising and start owning your code.
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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.
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Beta Blast: A Bouldering Bubble Shooter Built with Claude

One question to Claude, a few hours later: a playable climbing game with multiplayer, a global leaderboard and a public API.
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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.
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The coffee log, rebuilt in .NET

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.
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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.
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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.
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A reusable deploy pipeline for Umbraco Cloud

Create a reusable deploy pipeline for Umbraco Cloud
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Build a custom Umbraco Automate action

Creating a custom action in Umbraco Automate to pull tags from a blog and display them as hashtags in social connections.
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