Engineering notes

Specific Sitecore and Umbraco problems, the code that solved them, and the part that still does not work. Written by the people who did the work.

5 articles

June 2026: Sitecore bought an AI search company, and JSS ran out of road
Sitecore

June 2026: Sitecore bought an AI search company, and JSS ran out of road

Sitecore acquired Scrunch on 3 June and the ecosystem spent the month writing about AI search. The one post with a date in it says JSS 22 maintenance ends and Content SDK is the path forward.

Read more
April 2026: everyone is migrating off JSS, and the deadline came from a blog
Sitecore

April 2026: everyone is migrating off JSS, and the deadline came from a blog

SUGCON Europe filled London and SitecoreAI took the stage, but the month's operational content was written by individuals: the JSS 22.x migration path, App Studio extensions, and a second search model.

Read more
February 2026: everyone explained SitecoreAI except Sitecore
Sitecore

February 2026: everyone explained SitecoreAI except Sitecore

Sixty Sitecore items cleared the February window and none came from sitecore.com. What SitecoreAI bundles, what it costs and how fast Pathways migrates all came from personal blogs — one author says outright he never ran the tool.

Read more
November 2025: Sitecore renamed the whole product line, and not one of our sources was Sitecore
Sitecore

November 2025: Sitecore renamed the whole product line, and not one of our sources was Sitecore

Symposium folded XM Cloud, CDP, Personalize, Search and Content Hub into SitecoreAI. 106 items harvested, 14 cited, zero published by the vendor. What is confirmed, what is second-hand, and what to check before signing.

Read more
May 2025: the patch you could not apply until you upgraded first
Umbraco

May 2025: the patch you could not apply until you upgraded first

Umbraco's 6 May advisory fixed a moderate user-enumeration issue in 10.x and 13.x, but the patch only exists on the latest minor. Plus ContentAudit, uSync 15.1.8 and the v16 release candidate.

Read more