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AI & Development: Sharpen your axe before coding
3/25/2026 12:00:00 PM"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." In the age of AI agents, the time spent thinking, framing and detailing what you actually want has become the real productivity lever.
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Modernizing hajosnep.hu: Rebuilding an Orchard 1 website with Orchard Core on DotNest
3/23/2026 1:02:57 AMHajosnep.hu is the website of TIT Hajózástörténeti, -Modellező és Hagyományőrző Egyesület (TIT HMHE), a Hungarian non-profit civil association dedicated to preserving and promoting nautical history and ship modeling. As Hungary's longest-established maritime history organization, the association combines historical research, model building, public education, and cultural preservation in its activities. They regularly organize exhibitions, model competitions, publish materials related to maritime history.
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Developer and AI: The Willing Suspension of Disbelief
3/22/2026 12:00:00 PMWhen a developer starts using AI agents to code, they go through the same stages as a moviegoer: denial, doubt, then that voluntary acceptance that lets you get the most out of it — without ever losing your critical thinking.
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Développeur et IA : La suspension consentie d'incrédulité
3/22/2026 12:00:00 PMQuand un développeur commence à utiliser des agents IA pour coder, il traverse les mêmes étapes qu'un spectateur au cinéma : le refus, le doute, puis cette acceptation volontaire qui permet d'en tirer le meilleur — sans jamais perdre son esprit critique.
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Développement : De la boîte manuelle au pilote automatique
3/19/2026 12:00:00 PMUn parallèle entre l'évolution de l'automobile et celle du développement informatique ces 25 dernières années. De la boîte manuelle sans direction assistée à la voiture électrique autonome, du code sans IntelliSense aux agents IA.
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CrestApps Agent Skills, Orchard Harvest 2026 survey results - This week in Orchard (13/03/2026)
3/13/2026 12:08:23 PMOrchard Core updatesObsolete synchronous CustomSettingsService.GetSettingsType methodGeorg von Kries updated CustomSettingsDisplayDriver to use the asynchronous GetSettingsTypeAsync method instead of the synchronous GetSettingsType in both the EditAsync and UpdateAsync methods. He also updated CustomSettingsService.GetSettingsAsync(string settingsTypeName, Action isNew) to use await GetSettingsTypeAsync instead of the synchronous version, and refactored the return pattern to be fully async.
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Enhanced Blocks Editor for content creators, Last call: Orchard Harvest 2026 survey - This week in Orchard (06/03/2026)
3/6/2026 11:59:20 AMOrchard Core updatesOrchard Core - Agent SkillsThe idea here was to have Agent Skills inside Orchard Core, primarily for developers. That's the reason why it's in the .agents/skills folder. The goal is that when you clone Orchard, you will have access to these skills. The new skills are:
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Orchard Harvest 2026 survey, Lombiq Orchard Core Agent Skills - This week in Orchard (27/02/2026)
2/27/2026 11:42:27 AMOrchard Core updatesAllow "mailto" and "tel" links in HTML sanitizer configurationImagine you have a Link Field where you want to enter a value like mailto:[email protected]. But the field validation rejects it as an invalid URL, even though mailto: is a valid and commonly used URI scheme for links. So, the Link Field should accept mailto: URLs and treat them as valid links, allowing the content item to be saved. And this is caused by HTML sanitization because the HTML Sanitizer in Orchard Core does not allow mailto: by default.
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Secrets module, Lombiq GitHub Actions v4.2.0 - This week in Orchard (20/02/2026)
2/20/2026 12:32:14 PMOrchard Core updatesDynamic Cache Options documentationThe Orchard Core documentation has been updated by Hisham Bin Ateya with some lines about the Cache Options. If you navigate to Settings -> General on the admin UI and select the Cache tab, you will see four options that can be configured for Dynamic Cache:
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Understanding IOptions
2/14/2026 10:00:00 AMin .NET Master strongly-typed configuration in .NET with IOptions, IOptionsSnapshot, and IOptionsMonitor. Learn validation, named options, reloadable config, and production best practices.
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