Matt Brailsford

📰 UMB.FYI Celebrates it's 100th Issue

Matt Brailsford celebrates the 100th issue of UMB.FYI, a newsletter that aggregates Umbraco news, now reaching over 700 subscribers. The newsletter has featured 2,128 items, showcasing the vibrant Umbraco community. Future plans include automating processes and potentially creating a dashboard for users. Matt expresses gratitude for community support and feedback.

📰 How I Saved 5GB of Storage Per Year for UMB.FYI

Matt Brailsford discusses how he reduced the HTML size of the UMB.FYI newsletter from 215KB to 57KB by eliminating global styles and unnecessary markup. This optimization not only prevented Gmail from clipping emails but also saved 5.6GB of storage annually, promoting more sustainable digital practices.

📰 UMB.FYI Gets an iOS Tip Shortcut

UMB.FYI emphasizes community engagement by allowing members to submit Umbraco-related content easily through various integrations. The latest addition is an iOS Shortcut that enables users to share links directly from their devices. This feature enhances content curation while ensuring user privacy, fostering a richer community resource.

📰 Reconnecting a Fragmented Community Through Automation: aka The Story of UMB.FYI

In "Reconnecting a Fragmented Community Through Automation," Matt Brailsford describes the creation of UMB.FYI, a newsletter aimed at uniting the Umbraco community amidst fragmentation caused by social media changes. Utilizing automation for content collection, curation, and distribution, UMB.FYI has successfully engaged over 500 subscribers, fostering community collaboration and knowledge sharing.

📰 Creating a Bluesky bot in C#

Matt Brailsford details the development of a Bluesky tips bot for UMB.FYI, which monitors mentions and responds with thank-you messages. He discusses the setup process, opting for a polling method due to bandwidth concerns, and outlines the bot's architecture, including the implementation of a Bluesky client for handling notifications.

📰 UMB.FYI gets a Bluesky tips bot

With the rise of Bluesky users and the Umbraco community, a tips bot has been introduced to facilitate content suggestions for the UMB.FYI newsletter. Users can easily submit tips by tagging the UMB.FYI account on social media. The initiative aims to keep the community informed across various platforms.

📰 UMB.FYI gets Profiles, Tags and Topics

In the latest update to the UMB.FYI newsletter, Matt Brailsford introduces new features including profile pages for content creators, tag pages for article categorization, and topic pages that group related tags. These enhancements encourage community contributions and aim to improve user engagement with the newsletter's content.

💬 UMB.FYI celebrates it's first birthday