Lyle Lanley's article outlines practical strategies for enhancing website sustainability, emphasizing the tech industry's role in combating climate change. Key recommendations include updating software, optimizing images, reducing third-party scripts, utilizing CDNs, and adopting efficient coding practices. Implementing these tips can significantly lower carbon emissions associated with web operations.
Nathaniel Nunes provides a practical guide for programmatically importing Block List items in Umbraco 17, streamlining the process of populating content. By creating a custom API endpoint, users can automate the import of timeline components, avoiding the tedious manual entry in the backoffice. The guide includes setup instructions, code examples, and testing procedures.
Janae Cram offers essential tips for effective technical writing, emphasizing the importance of audience awareness, distinct voice, and clarity. She advises against relying heavily on AI, encourages storytelling, and suggests using various media formats. Ultimately, Cram highlights that the goal is to communicate knowledge clearly and engagingly.
Jason, lead developer at Bump Digital, discusses the performance improvements of Umbraco Commerce with the release of Umbraco 17, highlighting a 35% increase in scalability. He shares tips for optimizing performance during high-traffic scenarios, including asynchronous processing, effective caching, autoscaling in Azure, and efficient logging practices.
Joe Glombek provides a collection of useful regular expressions for validating formats such as GUIDs, YouTube URLs, and Vimeo URLs. The expressions can be adjusted by adding or removing start (^) and end ($) markers to match entire strings or find patterns within longer strings.
Johan Reitsma discusses GitMCP, a service that transforms public GitHub repositories into AI-readable Model Context Protocol servers. Johan Reitsma demonstrates using GitMCP with Umbraco, enabling AI tools to query real source code without local cloning. This allows for accurate AI responses based on actual code, enhancing developer productivity.