Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 10/06/2026Great to be back in Copenhagen for #Umbraco Code Garden. #codegarden 000
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 13/04/2026Cool, that makes sense 😀. I’ll see if there’s an opportunity to try it Codegarden week 👍🏻 000
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 12/04/2026Never tried it, but I’m interested in how’s it compare to the Scottish equivalents? 100
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 11/04/2026Same at Waterloo Station, I only jump on a scooter when I’ve not got much time to get a train. If the drop off area is considered full, you can’t end the ride. I left it in the parking area, paused it, and walked away. It got ended automatically about 20 mins later when I was on the train homeaway.it194.242.61.71Sito in allestimento 010
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 11/04/2026That’s happened to me the last few times in London and then in Bristol I finished the ride early where I could see a place to park and walked the rest, just to be safe. Getting to the point that it’s just doesn’t save much time. 🙄😀 110
Reposted by Matt BlissUmbraco UK Foundation @umbraco.foundation · 09/04/2026Developers! Creatives! Partners! Assemble! We're excited to announce our reimagined #Umbraco UK Conference, in London on October 16th 2026! A limited batch of Super Early Bird tickets for £100 +VAT has just dropped... Get yours while you can! #umbuk26 2026.umbracofoundation.co.uk 056
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 01/04/2026All set for the launch of Artemis II, in my home Mission Control. The clock has just passed T - 1:00:00. Getting close to “Go-no-go” #NASA #Artemis 010
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 26/01/2026Email from Amazon: “Please tell us about your experience”, the “Not at all likely” option, which when tapped, does absolutely nothing, was a nice touch 👌🏻 000
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 09/12/2025Want dynamic image cropping in your new Umbraco 17 build? It’s covered! An updated build for dotnet 10 and Umbraco 17 is on Nuget #umbraco @umb.fyi www.nuget.org/packages/mtt...nuget.orgNuGet Gallery | mttblss.DynamicCrops 3.0.0An extension for the Umbraco CMS to handle images in variable aspect ratio containers, ensuring that the focal point of the image is always respected. 011
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 06/11/2025Getting closer to Manchester and feeling all the #Umbraco vibes already 010
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 06/11/2025First train of the day is busy, there’s actually another person in the carriage. Looking forward to a couple of days of #Umbraco things when I finally reach Manchester 150
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 15/10/2025People say AI is the future, well it looks like it lives there, our future is AI's past. I was just about to prepare any downloads for Friday's Umbraco 17 developer day so I Googled for info, and the AI overview is talking about it as if it has already happened, in two days time... #umbraco #ai 010
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 13/08/2025@openvibe.social have added an RSS feed viewer into the app, so now i can get all my @umbraco.umbracocommunity.social.ap.brid.gy goodness from Mastodon, Bluesky and @umb.fyi in one place! #h5yr 020
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 17/06/2025Honoured to be part of the first #umbraco MVP summit. A really fantastic event with many opportunities to share knowledge and learn. Thanks to everyone involved at HQ for organising it 010
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 17/06/2025Final preparation being made today to the main stage at Codegarden. Have tested the audio visual and all ready for a presentation on Image Optimisation in Umbraco on Friday morning. See you there if you’re at the event! #codegarden #umbraco 020
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 11/04/2025Looks great Paul, fabulous use of Chat GPT! Could I ask which restaurant? If it’s near your office it will also be near mine 😁 100
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 24/03/2025Thanks @umbraco for fixing the invisible modal bug for Safari in v15.3.0. I’d keep forgetting and then have to switch to Chrome part way through working in the back office. My normal workflow in 15 has been restored, thanks! 000
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 14/03/2025You get a great service from @umbhost.net and @aaronsadler.dev really knows infrastructure and hosting… 010
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 07/03/2025Been a great couple of days at Umbraco Spark and the Package Jam before. Had to head off early as trains tomorrow will be a nightmare. See you all at the next one. #umbracospark 060
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 07/03/2025Technical debt is not the problem. Unmanned technical debt is… #Umbraco #UmbracoSpark 110
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 24/02/2025Lots of renewals penalise repeat business with a higher rate than new contracts. I have never understood that, it always used to be the reverse, to reward repeat business 110
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 21/02/2025Sadly, the reader has to become the sanity checker, with anything AI generated. There are no checks and balances. The more content that is published unchecked the more low quality data AI will index and feed back into its models. Will we just end up with a sort of fact to fiction entropy? 000
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 18/02/2025Posted a new article on my blog tonight about automatic ordering of content in the #umbraco back office. mattbliss.uk/articles/automatic-dat… @umb.fyi tipmattbliss.ukMatt BlissThe personal blog of Matt Bliss: Director, Technical Pre-Sales Consultant, System Architect, Umbraco Consultant, Umbraco Master, Full Stack Developer, Photographer, Space Geek, and Lego Builder. 020
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 18/02/2025So I’ve updated my Bluesky account to use my mttblss.uk domain, moved mastodon server to the #umbraco community one and linked my blog for authentication, if everyone is reading this post then I might have Openvibe all configured correctly too… 050
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 20/01/2025This is so cool! As a photographer their have been so many times I’ve been doing the lens change juggling act clamping a lens between my arm and body. As a wanna be astronaut, I’m just a little envious of the whole thing. #photography #space #nasa. news.sky.com/story/flatplan-13292245news.sky.comChanging camera lens in zero gravity on the International Space Station | Science, Climate & Tech News | Sky NewsIn orbit, there is no need to find a clean, flat surface to change a lens - all the components simply float in front of you. 020
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 13/01/2025This week I wanted to move 1.5TB of data from an 8 year old NAS to a new SSD drive. Turns out it was quicker to download my online backup of the same data than it was to copy from the NAS by a factor of about 2.5. Data speeds, both disk and network, have changed enormously in that time! 010
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 13/01/2025Thanks Paul, I’m ashamed to admit I’ve never seen that page. Will read though that later 👍🏻 020
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 13/01/2025TIL that Code Garden has been outside of Denmark! I started using Umbraco in 2009 and went to my first Code Garden in 2013, so Chicago was before my time. When was it in the UK? 100
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 10/01/2025I might be a little to late to the conversation, but here goes anyway. I’ve used or recommended contentment in many projects usually for its awesome pickers using external (to core Umbraco) data sources. I’ve never used the block features. So a +1 vote from me on a quicker release without blocks! 020
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 09/01/2025They’re great Dean, I particularly like the art deco series 👍🏻 010
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 09/01/2025Thanks mate, there might be a photography blog coming at some point, but for now I’ve concentrated on the tech blog first and thrown in a bit of my photography in the banners 100
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 09/01/2025Dynamic ‘cropping’ of variable aspect-ratio banners, content managed in #umbraco… mattbliss.uk/articles/variable-aspe… @umb.fyi tipsmattbliss.ukMatt BlissBanners using a CSS background image are a common web design feature. Often the container for those banner images will vary in aspect-ratio depending on the device or browser window size they are viewed with. The image is, in effect, dynamically cropped to fill the container. How can we improve on this dynamic cropping? 110
Matt Bliss @mttblss.uk · 09/01/2025A very #Umbraco flavoured first week of 2025. Had the first brainstorm session with a client and started a new project, in Umbraco of course. Also launched my blog authored in Umbraco 15 mattbliss.uk mattbliss.ukMatt BlissThe personal blog of Matt Bliss: Director, Technical Pre-Sales Consultant, System Architect, Umbraco Consultant, Umbraco Master, Full Stack Developer, Photographer, Space Geek, and Lego Builder. 220
