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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 14/10/2026

Sign-up for our next Umbraco Kent Meetup on the 19th Oct, which is both in-person and online. This month, we have Mike Masey replaying his Umbraco UK Conference talk - Beyond Shift Left: Accessibility as a Whole-Business Habit. Sign-up here: www.meetup.com/umbraco-kent... #umbraco #kent #meetup

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Umbraco Kent Meetup - Hybrid - Monday 19th October 2026 @ 7pm, Mon, Oct 19, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Please join us for an evening of all things Umbraco - the latest news, community chat, and a talk or two! For 2026, we will be running both in-person and hybrid virtual me

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 05/10/2026

New blog post: small agency or large agency? Clients often ask if they would be better off with a bigger agency. It is a fair question that rarely gets an honest answer, so I wrote one. www.nevitech.co.uk/blog/small-a... #umbraco #agencylife

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Small Agency or Large Agency? An Honest Comparison

Should you pick a small agency or a large one? An honest look at what each does better, where the extra cost goes, and how to decide which risk matters most.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Join us on Monday 19th October at 7pm for the next Umbraco Kent Meetup. It's a hybrid event, so you can join in person or online. This month we have a talk from Richard Howell, followed by a review of the Umbraco UK Conference. www.meetup.com/umbraco-kent... #umbraco #kent #meetup

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Umbraco Kent Meetup - Hybrid - Monday 19th October 2026 @ 7pm, Mon, Oct 19, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Please join us for an evening of all things Umbraco - the latest news, community chat, and a talk or two! For 2026, we will be running both in-person and hybrid virtual me

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 21/09/2026

It is indeed - there's no arguing that it increases productivity. I love coding too, it is creative and satisfying - something I miss when I am using AI.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 21/09/2026

There's still time to signup for tonight's Umbraco Kent Meetup if you want to hear about Contentment from @leekelleher.com. This is a fully online meetup, 7pm-9pm UK time so feel free to join regardless of your location. www.meetup.com/umbraco-kent...

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Umbraco Kent Meetup - Online - Monday 21st September 2026 @ 7pm, Mon, Sep 21, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Please join us online for an evening of all things Umbraco - the latest news, community chat, and a talk or two! For 2026, we will be running both in-person and virtual me

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 20/09/2026

I find the latest Opus models are pretty good tbh. Very rarely do I need to correct it once it has a good understanding of something. Using OpenSpec is also good to catch things as you propose a change as it asks clarifying questions, and everything gets documented.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 20/09/2026

New Blog Post: Two Years of Building with AI - An Honest Review Two years of using AI for development work, written up honestly. What I actually use it for, why I review everything and never let it commit, and the de-skilling risk. www.nevitech.co.uk/blog/two-yea... #ai #claudecode #openspec

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Two Years of Building with AI: An Honest Developer Review

An honest look at two years of AI-assisted development, from ChatGPT to Claude Code. What works, what to watch for, and why you still need your own skills.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Thanks! I won't lie - I had help from AI!

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Umbraco backoffice not working behind IIS Windows Authentication with anonymous access off? I've written up why it happens since Umbraco 14, and a package that fixes it on 17 and 18. www.nevitech.co.uk/blog/running... #umbraco #dotnet

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Windows Authentication for the Umbraco Backoffice

A free package for Umbraco 17 and 18 that gets the backoffice working behind IIS Windows Authentication with anonymous authentication turned off.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 13/09/2026

I wanted to know whether AI could build a real production website end to end, without me writing any of the code. So I got it to build the new Umbraco Kent Meetup website and Claude Code wrote all of it. www.nevitech.co.uk/blog/how-i-b... #umbraco #dotnet #azure

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Building Umbraco Kent Meetup with Umbraco, Astro and Claude Code

How I built the Umbraco Kent Meetup site headless on Umbraco 17 and Astro, hosted on Azure for less than a Cloud starter, without writing any of the code.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 08/09/2026

New blog post: a StackExchange.Redis 3 upgrade caused session timeouts that only showed up in production. The real cause was .NET ThreadPool starvation, not the client, and it took Playwright load testing to reproduce it. www.nevitech.co.uk/blog/diagnos... #umbraco #dotnet #redis

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Fixing Redis Session Timeouts | StackExchange.Redis 3

How a StackExchange.Redis 3 upgrade exposed .NET ThreadPool starvation in an Umbraco site, and how Playwright load testing finally reproduced and fixed it.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 01/09/2026

We spent twelve months rebuilding our own Umbraco site. Rebuilt on 13, upgraded to 17, rewritten throughout. Written up as three posts: the twelve month story, output caching, and running CSP nonces and output caching together. www.nevitech.co.uk/blog/rebuild... #umbraco #cms #dotnet

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Rebuilding our Umbraco Website: 12 Months On

How we rebuilt nevitech.co.uk on Umbraco 13, upgraded it to 17 and used AI for the content and SEO research. Here is what we did and what we would change.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 26/08/2026

I have built WordPress sites, and cleaned up a fair few hacked ones over the years. Thirteen years of Umbraco, and I have never had to clean up a hacked Umbraco site. Not one. www.nevitech.co.uk/blog/why-i-c... #Umbraco #WordPress #cms #dotnet

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Umbraco vs WordPress: An Honest Comparison | Nevitech

An honest Umbraco vs WordPress comparison covering security, compiled code, performance, packages, hosting and lifecycle, from an Umbraco MVP.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 23/08/2026

A new release of Umbraco.Community.AI.LogAnalyser is out, adding Umbraco 18 support and leaner, cache-friendly prompts. Packaging is now version-aligned, so the package major matches your Umbraco major. www.nuget.org/packages/Umb... #umbraco #umbracocms #dotnet #AI

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Umbraco.Community.AI.LogAnalyser 18.0.0

Adds AI-powered log analysis to the Umbraco backoffice log viewer. Analyse any log entry with one click using your configured AI provider via Umbraco.AI.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 23/08/2026

Back in Nov 2023 @mattbrailsford.dev shared the UmbLamp on GitHub. A 3D printed Umbraco smart light. I wanted one immediately, but had no 3D printer at the time. Now I do. Full build write up, including the parts list: www.nevitech.co.uk/blog/buildin... #Umbraco #3DPrinting #WLED #MakerProjects

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Building My Own Umbraco Lamp: A 3D Printed Umbraco Smart Light

How I built Matt Brailsford's UmbLamp on a Bambu Lab A2L, including the UK parts I used, the soldering that caught me out and getting it running in WLED.

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Nevitech IT Solutions Ltd @nevitech.co.uk · 12/08/2026

This week, we completed the migration of the Commodious Training website from Umbraco 13 to 17. This was 18 months of hard work, with the backoffice rebuilt in Web Components, legacy data types and macros migrated, and full Playwright coverage added. #umbraco #umbracomigration

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 04/07/2026

Your Umbraco ImageSharp cache never cleans itself up - I had a client whose cache hit 4.5GB and blew their Umbraco Cloud storage limit. So I built a free package to auto-trim it by age. Local disk + Azure Blob. Umbraco 13/17/18. www.nevitech.co.uk/blog/introdu... #Umbraco #cms #package

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ImageSharp TrimCache: Auto Image Cache Cleanup for Umbraco

Free Umbraco package that trims the ImageSharp.Web image cache by age on a schedule. Works with local disk and Azure Blob. Stop media storage growing unbou...

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 15/06/2026

Just back from @umbraco.com Codegarden in Copenhagen, and what a week! 🎉 I was awarded Umbraco MVP 2026, did a demo in the keynote, and won the AI Package Award too. Still feels surreal. 🏆 Read more in the blog post. www.nevitech.co.uk/blog/codegar... #Umbraco #Codegarden

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Codegarden 2026: My Week in Copenhagen

A personal reflection on Codegarden 2026 in Copenhagen, from being awarded Umbraco MVP and demoing live on the keynote stage to winning the AI Package Award.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 10/06/2026

chore: deprecate the meeting that should've been an email #umbraco #codegarden

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 13/05/2026

There's still time to join us for the next Umbraco Kent Meetup on Monday 18th May @ 7pm, both online and in-person. We have Markus Johansson talking about building packages and Owain Jones talking about building friendly content editing experiences. www.meetup.com/umbraco-kent... #umbraco #meetup

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Umbraco Kent Meetup - Hybrid - Monday 18th May 2026 @ 7pm, Mon, May 18, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Please join us for an evening of all things Umbraco - the latest news, community chat, and a talk or two! For 2026, we will be running both in-person and virtual meetups,

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 24/04/2026

Join us for the next Umbraco Kent Meetup on Monday 18th May! We've got Owain Jones talking about building friendly content editing experiences, and Markus Johansson on building Umbraco packages. It's hybrid so come in-person or join online: www.meetup.com/umbraco-kent... #umbraco #kent #meetup

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Umbraco Kent Meetup - Hybrid - Monday 18th May 2026 @ 7pm, Mon, May 18, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Please join us for an evening of all things Umbraco - the latest news, community chat, and a talk or two! For 2026, we will be running both in-person and virtual meetups,

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Nevitech IT Solutions Ltd @nevitech.co.uk · 24/04/2026

After 11 years freelancing solo, I hired my first employee. The costs, the contracts, the paid trial days, the mental shift from freelancer to manager - an honest write-up of what's actually involved in making that leap. www.nevitech.co.uk/blog/from-fr... #agency #growth #employment

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Freelancer to Small Agency: Hiring My First Employee

Thinking of scaling from freelancer to small agency? Here's what I learned hiring my first employee - costs, contracts, trial days, and making it work.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 20/04/2026

It depends on hosting requirements and complexity, but other options include @umbraco.com Cloud or @umbhost.net. You can also host on a VPS or Windows Azure. I've got client sites on a VPS and charge a fraction of that.... Happy to help if you need some guidance.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 20/04/2026

Huge thanks to @deanleigh.bsky.social and @aaronsadler.dev for tonight's demos and talks at the Umbraco Kent Meetup! Great turnout, brilliant discussion, and lovely to see some new faces. 🙌 #umbraco #kent #meetup #H5YR

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 07/04/2026

Just published Umbraco.Community.Examine.OpenXml - a free package that indexes .docx, .pptx and .xlsx files in the Umbraco media library using Examine. Supports Umbraco 13, 16 and 17. www.nuget.org/packages/Umb... www.nevitech.co.uk/blog/indexin... #Umbraco #DotNet #OpenSource

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How to Index Word, Excel & PowerPoint Files in Umbraco

Index and search Word, Excel and PowerPoint files in Umbraco using the free Umbraco.Community.Examine.OpenXml NuGet package. No extra configuration needed.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 27/03/2026

Just be careful if you're behind CDN as you will need to set the no cache headers, otherwise a media file downloaded by an authorised user will be cached and accessible by anyone.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 27/03/2026

I've done similar, a good solution if you need something basic.

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attackmonkey.bsky.social @attackmonkey.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The job market is weird at the moment. This is the longest I’ve been between contracts since COVID hit. On the plus side, got to do today’s long training run in the glorious sunshine. But if you need a friendly knowledgeable #umbraco freelancer with a ton of experience, give me a shout!

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 25/03/2026

Not yet, I've got an open PR to get it added.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 25/03/2026

I know! I completely forgot to tag earlier and only realised when todays' newsletter appeared in my inbox. Shame it doesn't pick up based on #umbraco tags.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 21/03/2026

A look at how I built AI.LogAnalyser at the @umbracospark.bsky.social Hackathon - an open-source package that adds one-click AI analysis to the Umbraco backoffice log viewer. Powered by any AI provider via Umbraco AI. www.nevitech.co.uk/blog/buildin... #umbraco #ai #package

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AI-Powered Log Analysis for the Umbraco Backoffice

An open-source Umbraco package that adds one-click AI log analysis to the backoffice log viewer. Get instant summaries, causes, and fixes for any log entry.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 20/03/2026

Great to be in the final three for the Umbraco Spark Package Awards! Well done to the winners! @umbracospark.bsky.social #umbraco #package #awards

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 19/03/2026

I had a productive day at the Umbraco Spark Hackathon and got my AI log analyser package completed and released on NuGet! 🚀 www.nuget.org/packages/Umb... Please install and give it a try and let me know if you have any feedback! 📝 #umbraco #ai #package

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Umbraco.Community.AI.LogAnalyser 0.1.0

Adds AI-powered log analysis to the Umbraco backoffice log viewer. Analyse any log entry with one click using your configured AI provider via Umbraco.AI.

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 17/03/2026

Warning! A sophisticated phishing scam is targeting web developers and agencies with fake client enquiries, convincing technical specs, and credential-harvesting login pages. Learn how the attack works and how to protect yourself. www.nevitech.co.uk/blog/warning... #agency #developer #scam

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Fake Client Phishing Scam Targeting Web Agencies — How to Spot It

A sophisticated phishing scam is targeting web developers and agencies with fake client enquiries, convincing technical specs, and credential-harvesting lo...

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Justin Neville @justin.jneville.co.uk · 17/03/2026

We are online for next month's Umbraco Kent Meetup on Monday 20th April at 7pm. Aaron Sadler will be giving a talk about his UmbHost GreenStack web hosting, and Dean Leigh will be demoing an AI Back Office extension he built from scratch using Claude. Sign up below www.meetup.com/umbraco-kent...

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Umbraco Kent Meetup - Online - Monday 20th April 2026 @ 7pm, Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Please join us online for an evening of all things Umbraco - the latest news, community chat, and a talk or two! For 2026, we will be running both in-person and virtual me

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