Issue N^o 131

Johan built a QR-code walking route app on Umbraco 18 and Next.js, with an AI coding agent doing much of the heavy lifting. He walks through the content model, how MCP configured Umbraco along the way, and the guardrails that kept the AI-generated code on the rails!

Tired of manually re-linking old articles every time a new keyword becomes relevant? Owain built Initials.AutoLink for Umbraco 17+ so now you can add a keyword once, and every past article that mentions it links itself. There's no editor work required so you can do more important things with your day!

From a hackathon by the backwaters to a Kathakali welcome and a room-wide #H5YR, Nikhil takes us inside an emotional and touching look at the first-ever Umbraco India Festival in Kochi and how Umbraco, the sponsors, and the community made it truly a cultural event all of their own.

Ever wanted a real desktop environment inside the Umbraco backoffice? Luuk built exactly that — windows you can keep open and switch between, side-by-side content editors, and nine background images to choose from, including a wonderfully retro Umbraco 4 throwback!

Parallel Claude Code sessions in separate git worktrees each need their own port, so Matt built a named-pipes solution to track them — then realized git config --worktree did the same job for free, with automatic cleanup built right in!