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The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Seeing so many gleeful posts on LinkedIn saying things like: oh we're using .NET so we wouldn't have stupid vulnerabilities like this, come talk to us about moving your website to a different platform. Absolutely ridiculous: something like this can happen to any software project.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

You have read your LAST free arrticle, buddy. Prepare to die.. Ominous message. Ps. I haven't "read" a single article, my first click was apparently my last..

A Wired website message in a red box states, “You’ve read your last free article,” with the URL for a Wikipedia workers union story visible.

Screenshot of Chrome history search for “wired,” showing one result: “Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time | WIRED” dated 4 Sept 2026.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: umbracocommunity.social/@24DaysInUm… I am SO looking forward to seeing your (crazy?) ideas, interesting projects, creative thoughts and cryptic Umbraco puzzles again this year! If you did something, anything, you enjoyed very much this past year then I'd LOVE […]

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Eliot Lash @eliot-l.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

@1password is funding known racist and all around asshole #DHH's insecure #Linux distro #Omarchy? WTF is this about? I've been a #1Password customer for many years but it's not possible to recommend after this. How about you claw this money back right now and never touch any of his projects […]

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

The end of an era: after 15+ years, I've switched off our.umbraco.com. I wrote up some of the story, the karma, the spam wars and a few fond arguments community.umbraco.com/blog/2026/07/… #Umbraco #H5YR Our.

Screenshot of the first iteration of Our Umbraco (circa 2009) with sections for the forum, packages, documentation, blogs and twitter activity

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

If you're trying to get up to speed with Umbraco AI then this month's umbraCoffee has you covered! A great walk through with @matt on everything that's new and upcoming in Umbraco AI. 📽️ Watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/uY9pZz5NHaQ?si… #Umbraco

The image shows a video call with three participants on the left and a LinkedIn post on the right. The LinkedIn post announces the Umbraco UK Conference in London.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

🚨 New DevRel Deep Dive dropped earlier this week! This week @lotte and me were joined by Head of CMS Andy Butland to talk about what is new and improved in Umbraco version 17.2 and 17.3. 📽️ Watch it here: youtu.be/nBEgfifIP0o?si=mKDEc5_ea77… #Umbraco

A web page in a Umbraco CMS. The left sidebar displays a navigation menu with options like Content, Media, and Settings. The main content area shows details of a document named "Page One," including its link, history, and general settings. Two people are visible in the bottom right corner, involved in a video presentation of new features in Umbraco.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

The Umbraco Spark conference is drawing to a close and it's been a brilliant edition again this year. Great talks, record crowd, inspirational hackathon before, impeccable organisation.. am I using too many superlatives? 😇 #Umbraco

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

It was so interesting to have @matt join me and @lotte to show us how all the concepts of Umbraco.AI fit together. Profiles, temperatures, tokens, prompts, agents, copilots, and more.. there sure was a lot to cover! 👀 Also, we got a sneak preview of the new […] [Original post on cultiv.social]

Three people are on a video call, with a blog post about "The Umbraco AI Kitchen Sink Install" displayed on a screen in the foreground.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

A new DevRel Deep Dive just dropped. @lotte and I are joined by Phil Whittakers, guiding us through some new AI Skills he's been working on that help make backoffice extensions (and review and test them..!). This video concludes with a working GitHub User […] [Original post on cultiv.social]

The image shows a screen displaying code and text related to Umbraco backoffice extension development. Two individuals are visible in circular video feeds on the right side of the screen.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

In the last 9 days I've "written" (sorry: prompted) an RSS reader that does what I need it to do and a TV show/episode tracking tool that works for exactly my needs. While it feels like the age of Hyperpersonal Software (userbase: 1) has arrived, I do wonder if I will keep enjoying these tools […]

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

In last weeks DevRel Deep Dive, @lotte and I take a look at Blend's new packages for helping with robots.txt and sitemap.xml files. Since there was a bit of config to set up for the sitemap, I got a bit lazy and asked Claude Code together with the Umbraco MCP […] [Original post on cultiv.social]

Two people appear in circular video thumbnails on the left, while a dark terminal-like screen in the center shows instructions for configuring an Umbraco sitemap, including options to include images and documents.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

Am enjoying working with Claude and some skills way too much. Wondered if I could make a nice GitHub user picker. 10 minutes later... TADA. It stores username, name, github id, and bio. The refresh button fetches any name and bio updates. #Umbraco

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Last week, I noticed 2 new packages had popped up on the Umbraco Marketplace. Both of them can be used to build tables. So we thought we'd do an Umbraco Tables Showdown 💥 Well.. we ended up being just a bit more boring than that - new DevRel Deep Dive episode […] [Original post on cultiv.social]

Screenshot from this episode, showing the 2 table editing packages installed and used in Umbraco's backoffice.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

Yes, DevRel Deep Dives are back after a bit of a longer break. In this episode @lotte and I have special guest @leekelleher in to show us around some new goodies in yesterday's Umbraco 17.1.0 release. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PtP2qIfYM0 #Umbraco

Screenshot of this DevRel Deep Dive episode featuring the three of us, wearing headsets on a video call; books and plants are visible in the background.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

It's here: Umbraco Power Tools 🧰 A small browser extension for Umbraco devs: • One-click switch between site ↔ /umbraco • Quick links to forum, socials & events • Useful Umbraco resources in one place Firefox […] [Original post on cultiv.social]

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025

I've had a productive weekend on my hobby projects 🙌 `Cultiv.Hangfire` is now at 5.2.0 after merging 2 community PRs and implementing an idea Bjarne had years ago to move the Hangfire dashboard to it's own section - that is now an option! Release notes […] [Original post on cultiv.social]

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

Working on a new version of an Umbraco browser extension, essentially just to toggle between backoffice and frontend. My previous version had a few feature requests, but I don't think there was too much demand for those features. Anything you'd LOVE to see?

A website displaying the Umbraco extension, showing switch buttons, social updates and latest forum posts over a partially visible webpage.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

RE: mastodon.social/@richarth/115541821… This is a great initiative from ClerksWell and @CodeSharePaul! If you're in the UK and have the time, it will be well worth it to attend. You're supporting charities and will learn a lot along the way! #Umbraco

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025

Great morning already at Umbraco in the city Manchester, with a great space and great talks and plenty of new faces. Hello MCR! 👋 #Umbraco

A room full of people watching two people on stage welcoming us to the event. Screens are on both sides of the speakers and the room has floor to ceiling windows with a view on to Manchester city.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

This evening, we will do something with cheese in Frankfurt after Silvano won a wheel of parm at Codegarden, you'll see some rabbit 🐰 videos in the feed already. 1️⃣7️⃣@emaburst@umbracocommunity.social and myself are speaking about the journey from v13 to v17. 🤖 Umbraco MCP server will feature […]

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

Really looking forward to Thursday’s Umbraco Virtual meetup. There's going to be a great discussion about AI coding tools, especially Claude 🤖 Been using it a ton lately, so I’m curious to hear how others are integrating it into their workflows […]

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

🚀 New site launch! We’ve replaced the old Download section on Our Umbraco with the shiny new releases.umbraco.com! The new home for Umbraco releases — everything works again (including Compare 🎉) and old links redirect smoothly. Soon to be open source 👀 #Umbraco

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Umbraco Releases | releases.umbraco.com

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025

Noooooooo..... what clown designed this?! The new Meetup.com has a "paper" texture background.. I "designed" websites like this in the 90s! Very sorry for the visually impaired people but I'm adding some screenshots with the extremely clownish new look of the […] [Original post on cultiv.social]

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025

The ONE thing I was really missing after the switch from chrome-based browsers was proper PWA support. Firefox has just brought this feature back and it's absolutely great. I love being able to pretend Gmail is a windows app, but with all the benefits of my […] [Original post on cultiv.social]

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025

LinkedIn people be like: "I'll put a tweet into an AI to generate an 'insightful' post so that it gets reshared". Why not.. just tweet? On Mastodon or Bluesky of course, not on Elno's propaganda platform. But if you must do it on LinkedIn: keep it short, don't waste my time.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

We often say: "why didn't people stand up to Hitler before WWII?". Really feels like we are now going to be the people who will be judged like that in a few years. And those tech CEOs traveling with the orange Hitler? Reminds me of IBM, Kodak and Hugo Boss. Also, the Associated Press Engaged […]

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

Last week @lotte and I talked to our colleague Kenn (or as Lotte dubbed him: Mr. Search 🕵️). We did a good deep dive into the new Umbraco.Cms.Search package that the CMS team has just released. Talking about easier faceting, the many extension points in this […] [Original post on cultiv.social]

Faceted search in action with books selected by century they were written in and length of book.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

Hot on the heels of the Umbraco 16.2 RC release, @lotte and I did a DevRel Deep Dive with special guests @iOvergaard We had a look at a great new feature: UFM Javascript (like) expressions. This powerful syntax can greatly enhance what's displayed in your […] [Original post on cultiv.social]

A screenshot from the video showing the Umbraco backoffice and the new UFM features in action, using an uppercase-filter on some text data. Overlayed on the backoffice are the smiling faces of Lotte and Jacob.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

Me and @lotte are still working on making the experience of open sourcing an Umbraco Cloud site great. In this DevRel Deep Dive, we work with community contributions (woohoo @Jmayn, @mattbrailsford and @rockerby!) and we get a tip from the Cloud team to reduce […] [Original post on cultiv.social]

Screenshot of the video, showing the "Pull requests" section of a GitHub repository related to "open-source-umbraco-cloud". It displays a list of closed pull requests.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

📽️ In the latest episode of DevRel Deep Dives, @lotte and I explore how to protect routes in Umbraco: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3l6jZzA7bw Big thanks to @hotchillicode and Matt Wise for the great work on […] [Original post on cultiv.social]

A still from of the video, showcasing the Request Protect for Umbraco package on the marketplace.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

📖 @lotte has now written an article on how you can set up your own open source Umbraco Cloud site: dev.to/lottepitcher/open-sourcing-a… Lotte's blog post describes how she got to the point where our DevRel Deep Dive from last week started […]

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

🚀 New DevRel Deep Dive just dropped! @lotte and me walk through contributing to an open source (!) Umbraco Cloud site, deploying it to live. We want to establish a great workflow for contributions and encourage you to get involved to make open source Cloud […] [Original post on cultiv.social]

Image of the cloud deployment interface, highlighting a completed deployment.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

🎥 This week's DevRel Deep Dive was such a joy! @lotte and I could barely contain our excitement. Huge kudos to Matt Wise and Phil Whittaker for their work on the Umbraco MCP server. While I'm still conflicted about sustainability, watching Claude tackle my […] [Original post on cultiv.social]

A screenshot of part of the output of Claude, showing a structured list of event folders by year inside a CMS interface, with a notification stating "Year-Based Organization Complete!.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

Just minding my own business, cycling to work this morning and I ran into all my friends, they call themselves the #cgRunners #codegarden

A group of people jogging together on a crosswalk, some with arms raised, on a tree-lined street with traffic lights in the background.

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2025

🏋️I think I brought everything for Codegarden.. 🥵 Not pictured here: a bicycle. 🚂 On a train to Odense now and very excited about the upcoming week! #umbraco #codegarden

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

Codegarden is almost here, and the Umbraco DevRel team (@loranallensmith, @lotte & me) are sharing what’s coming: 💬 First-timer tips 🧠 Hackathon prep 🔮 What to expect from CG2025 🎧 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCXLVRwkBEM Links: 🌍 Codegarden: codegarden.umbraco.com 🙌 […]

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2025

🎥 In today's DevRel Deep Dive, @lotte and I dive into @warrenbuckley's Content Lock, a super useful package that locks nodes while they’re being edited — no more overwriting each other's work. 💥 Spoiler alert: we were impressed 🤩 ▶️ Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=12dHO3taSwo […]

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Sebastiaan Janssen :cultiv2: @sebastiaan.cultiv.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2025

🥑 We’re kicking off DevRel Deep Dives – a fresh video series where we take something new or noteworthy in the Umbraco world and give it a proper look. 🕵️‍♂️🔍 Each episode will be short, focused on a single topic. First episode is out now! 📽️ […]

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