Automate All the Things - my Codegarden 2026 talk is up

Codegarden 2026 talk is now up on YouTube. It's a live demo where I point Copilot CLI at a completely empty Umbraco install and it builds an entire blogging site on stage - schema, templates, styling, content and all - while writing blog posts about its own experience of being built. Here's the video, and the repo so you can run it yourself.…

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Letting AI agents loose on Examine

I've been maintaining Examine for a very long time, and there's always a backlog of performance work I never get to. So I let GitHub Next's agentic workflows do it for me, on a schedule, and it turned into three shipped releases and some genuinely ridiculous hot-path improvements. Here's how it went, with real benchmark numbers.…

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