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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 10/06/2026

fix: stop content from publishing itself out of boredom #umbraco #codegarden

Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 10/06/2026

I'm so incredibly honoured to have my #Umbraco #MVP award renewed for the sixth time! Also, a massive congratulations and #H5YR to my colleague Lili Rossiter for achieving MVP for the first time this year!!! #UmbracoMVP #Codegarden

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 05/06/2026

Another great #UmbracoCommunityHour virtual meetup this week! We explored the new Umbraco v18 release candidate, it's new Library feature, and the awesome looking uPreviewShare package! Our next virtual meetup will be a post #Codegarden special! Sign up here: www.meetup.com/umbraco-virt...

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 14/05/2026

We had another brilliant #UmbracoCommunityHour virtual meetup last week! Great convos and live demos about utilizing AI to import data into Umbraco using GitHub workflows and the UpDoc package. #umbraco #dotnet #virtual #meetup

A screenshot of a virtual Umbraco community meetup showing six participants in a video call grid. Richard Thompson, Owain Jones, Dean Leigh, Paul Seal, and Afreed are visible on camera, smiling or listening while wearing headsets. Their backgrounds include blurred home offices, shelving units, and a virtual waterfront scene with a large building marked “FAF.” One participant, Mike Chambers, has their camera turned off and appears as a name tile. The atmosphere is relaxed, friendly, and conversational.

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 24/04/2026

You know it's going to be a good day when #umbraCoffee is on! Super interesting learning about all of the cool new ways you can integrate #AI into #Umbraco 🤖 If you missed the livestream, then I would highly recommend you go watch it on their YouTube!

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 22/04/2026

Another brilliant #UmbracoCommunityHour meetup today! Great discussions on AI in Umbraco: auto-generating alt-text, local vs online models, AI-powered docs with Playwright screenshots, and how the Tags property editor could be improved #umbraco #dotnet #virtual #meetup

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 08/04/2026

We had a brilliant #UmbracoCommunityHour virtual meetup today! A big thank you to everyone who attended! #umbraco #dotnet #virtual #meetup

Screenshot of the Umbraco Community Hour virtual meetup showing thirteen participants in a grid of video call windows. Each person appears in their own frame, many wearing headphones and raising a hand in greeting. Visible names include Corne Hoskam, Owain Jones, Warren Buckley, Richard Thompson, Carl, Nathaniel Nunes, Umbraco Community, Sebastiaan Janssen, Lars-Erik Aabech, Paul Seal, Adam Werner, Alex Skrypnyk, and Afreed. Backgrounds vary, with some in home offices and others using virtual scenes such as the Golden Gate Bridge, a building labeled “FAF,” and an image of Earth from space.

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 26/03/2026

Are you Struggling to keep up with all the #umbazing events happening in the #Umbraco community?? Then check out "umbracalendar", a webpage that showcases all of the Umbraco events that are worldwide! Visit it here: umbracalendar.com

Screenshot of the Umbraco Global Event Calendar webpage showing a vertical timeline of upcoming events. On Wednesday 25 March there is a virtual “Umbraco Community Hour – Virtual Meetup” from 13:00–14:00 (Europe/Copenhagen). On Thursday 26 March there are multiple events: a virtual “Umbraco Users Group India” session from 17:00–17:45 (Asia/Kolkata), an in-person “UmbraCymru: The Wales Umbraco Meetup” from 18:00–20:30 (Europe/London), and a virtual “The London Umbraco Meetup” from 18:30–20:30 (Europe/London). The page has a dark magenta gradient background with event titles highlighted in yellow and timeline markers connecting each listing.

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 23/03/2026

I had such a brilliant time at #UmbracoSpark last Friday! Brilliant talks and brilliant people! Experiencing the passion and energy of the Umbraco community has left me feeling re-energised after the seemingly endless rain of this Winter. Very grateful to be part of this awesome community ❤️

A collage of photos from the Umbraco Spark Innovation Conference. Scenes include a large audience seated in rows watching a presentation on stage, speakers delivering talks beside projected slides, and a group celebrating during the Umbraco Spark Package Jam Awards. One image shows attendees posing and pointing at a conference banner. Close-up shots feature a conference badge reading “Owain Jones – Aspire Systems,” and a poster illustration of Terence Burridge. Other images show presenters at lecterns, slides titled “Umbraco Decisions: Stay, Upgrade, Rewrite” and “Much Ado About Nothing,” and decorative orange conference branding throughout the venue.

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 23/10/2025

What an amazing time at #UmbracoKalaset! So many friendly faces and great conversations. Hearing from new devs who said my talk helped them learn something new absolutely made my day! 🙌 Huge thanks to Aspire Systems for sponsoring my trip and making it possible!

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 21/10/2025

I've just arrived in Stockholm and ready for #Umbracokalaset tomorrow! Looking forward to giving my talk: “Unlocking the Full Potential of Umbraco: Building Friendly Content Editor Experiences.” #Umbraco #Conference #dotnet #webdev

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 15/10/2025

I’m incredibly excited to share that I’ll be speaking at #Umbracokalaset, the @umbraco.com Swedish conference in Stockholm, next week! A huge thank you and #H5YR to Aspire Systems for kindly sponsoring my trip; your support made this possible! 🙌

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 06/08/2025

We had an awesome @umbraco.com Community Hour virtual meetup today! 🙌 Our next one is in two weeks, at 12:00 BST on Wednesday, August 20th! RSVP here: www.meetup.com/umbraco-virt... #UmbracoCommunityHour #Umbraco #Meetup #UmbracoMeetup #dotnet #webdev #virtual

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 21/06/2025

After an amazingly packed week at @umbraco.com's 20th #Codegarden, it's nice to have a lazy day at the hotel and make a start on my post-conference blog! #Umbraco #dotnet #Conference

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 18/06/2025

I'm super excited and honoured to have my @umbraco.com MVP status renewed for the 5th time! A huge congratulations to all of the other renewed and new #Umbraco MVPs! Incredibly well deserved, every single one!!

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 18/06/2025

Wow, what an incredible first day of #Codegarden! 🦄 Lots of great talks, great people, great food, and hammerschlagen! #Umbraco #dotnet #Conference #Community

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 17/06/2025

Another jam-packed epic day of #Codegarden week! Started with day 2 of the MVP summit, followed by an amazing web hacking 101 workshop by Steven Harland, and finished off with an awesome Pirate-themed pre-party at Umbraco HQ! Arggghhhh!! #Umbraco #MVPs #Summit #Community

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 16/06/2025

What an incredible day to kick off #Codegarden week, with an amazing @umbraco.com MVP summit! It's now time to sleep and look forward to day 2 of the summit tomorrow, along with the workshops and the Codegarden pre-party at Umbraco HQ! #Umbraco #MVPs #Summit #Community

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 15/06/2025

🙌 I'm super excited to be back in Odense, Denmark, for the #Codegarden conference! 🚀 Tomorrow is the first-ever #Umbraco MVP summit, and I can't wait to meet up with my fellow MVPs to discuss all things Umbraco! 👋 If you see me this week, come say hi!

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 26/04/2025

On my way to @dddsouthwest.com 😄 Stoked I managed to get a ticket this year, it looks like a brilliant lineup of speakers and talks! #DDDSouthWest #Conference

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 25/11/2024

I had such a great time speaking at the #umBristol meetup tonight, where I gave a talk about how it's up to us as developers to make #Umbraco truly be the friendly cms! 🙌 A big thank you to the #umBristol organisers for having me, and a #H5YR to #truedigital for hosting! 🚀

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 15/11/2024

📢 Our first confirmed talk is! 🥁 Drumroll please.... 🚀 “Heartcore++….Work-arounds for Heartcore’s missing features” by Howard Bayliss! 📋 Remember to RSVP on our meetup page here: www.meetup.com/umbracymru/e...

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 15/11/2024

It's almost Christmas! And we're busy planning our December #UmbraCymru #Umbraco meetup! 🎅🎄☃️ Do you have a talk you would like to share?? Our call for speakers is now open! (link below) ⚡Submit your lightning talks here ⬇️ sessionize.com/umbracymru-d...

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Owain Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @owainjones.dev · 15/11/2024

It's almost time for our sixth and final virtual #UmbraCymru #Umbraco meetup of 2024! 🙌 This month we will be having a lunchtime chat!☕ So grab your lunch, log on to Zoom, and chat about Umbraco and last month's UK Festival! 🚀 #Umbraco #Meetup #UmbracoMeetup #dotnet #usergroup

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