Jeremy Davis

Disk permissions with cloud AD [by Jeremy Davis] Setting disk permissions for cloud users with icalcs.exe

This week on the blog: dealing with one of those annoying places where way my work uses the Windows ecosystem has moved faster than the UI of Windows: File permissions for cloud AD users:

blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2025/d...

Links for this week:

Sitecore and Gradial:
www.linkedin.com/posts/eric-s...

A Comprehensive Guide to Vibe Coding Tools
medium.com/madhukarkuma...

EXDST Sitecore MCP Server v1.0.0:
exdst.com/posts/202507...

Screenshot of attendees on the August 8, 2025 #SitecoreLunch call.

Vibin' #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:

5️⃣ #Fiver
🏢 Consultants
🧘‍♂️ Vibe coding
💸 Doctor billing
🔫 T-shirt cannon
😭 Insurance woes
🤖 #OpenAI GPT-5
♾️ #SitecoreStream
👨‍⚕️ Annual physicals
🛫 À-la-carte airlines
🎉 #SitecoreSYM plans
😎 #Sitecore and #Gradial

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Two red London buses driving towards the camera.

The #Sitecore user groups in London are like red buses. You wait for one, but two come along at once...

We have 2 events in September and November. Agendas will come later, but get dates in your diaries now to hear the news and what people are working on.

Info and sign-up links:
scug.co.uk/events

Though, jokey GIFs aside, they hit some Queen of The Night level high notes - which do not lend themselves to 10-yr-old accuracy.

RIP my ears...

No - I think you're quite right there. My comparison was purely down to the volume of (not entirely accurate) singing of the songs I have to deal with.

Screenshot of attendees on the August 1, 2025 #SitecoreLunch call.

Catty #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:

😼 Catnip
🤖 AI hype cycle
🏢 #Windows11 ads
🏫 Studying with LLMs
🚿 Irrigation is irritation
🗝️ Activation key hacks
👷‍♂️ Chippies and sparkies
🦜 Parrots and cockatoos
📉 #ChatGPT stock pickers

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

This is my daughter's current TV obsession. It's like Frozen all over again, but with more noodles...

A mistake to avoid with Statiq's pipelines [by Jeremy Davis] A mistake to avoid when implementing a 'do nothing' path in a Statiq module

A quick post about extending the Statiq engine on the blog this week.

Here (and with pipelined code generally) I need to remember to think about how "do nothing" should work in order to avoid fun issues:

blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2025/m...

Links from this week:

Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVG8...

Kiro: The AI IDE for prototype to production
kiro.dev

Hertz AI damage scanning continues to push customers away:
www.cyberdaily.au/digital-tran...

Screenshot of attendees on the July 18, 2025 #SitecoreLunch call.

Zesty #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:

🧊 The Ice Age
📸 Stock photos
🐊 #SitecoreSKO
✈️ AI airline fares
🤬 Swearing at AI
🔠 Font rendering
📱 Phone security
🤑 #Gartner baiting
🤖 #OpenAI browser
🌶️ Spicy autocomplete
🛋️ Living room theaters
🗣️ @scott.hanselman.com TED Talk

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Links for this week:

Security Bulletin SC2025-004
support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_art...

Donald Fagen - I.G.Y.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueiv...

SUGCON ANZ Tickets on sale:
sugconanz2025.eventbrite.co.uk

Screenshot of attendees on the July 11, 2025 #SitecoreLunch call.

Chill #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:

🤖 #Cursor
🏁 NASCAR
🧒 Child labor
⭕ #OpenShift
💭 DreamCore
🍿 Ads in theaters
💰 Retirement funds
🌄 Extended daylight
👨‍💻 #SUGCON stories
🦸 Superhero movies
🙎‍♂️ #Sitecore departures
🎉 #SitecoreSYM speakers
🔐 #Sitecore security patch

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Order and Sitecore Content Serialisation [by Jeremy Davis] Notes on why the order of Sitecore Content Serialisation config is important

This week on the blog: Little bit of trivia to remember in #Sitecore Content Serialisation. Don't forget about order inside your modules, because it can cause some "works on my machine" fun...

blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2025/o...

London Sitecore User Group at Sitecore - July 2025 Join us for our summer London Sitecore User Group of 2025 at Sitecore's office in Paddington.

Been a busy week, and I've forgotten to highlight the next London #Sitecore User Group on the 24th July at Sitecore's Paddington office.

As an opener we've got Chris Purcell from Sitecore talking about the latest on their product roadmaps.

Details and sign-up below:
scug.co.uk/events/2025-...

Toe Socks and Toe Crocs

Links from this week:

Sitecore Downloads
developers.sitecore.com/downloads

Child proof cap hack
www.youtube.com/shorts/FYmuq...

New Sitecore CMO: Michelle Boockoff-Bajdek:
www.linkedin.com/posts/michel...

Pic: Toe Socks and Toe Crocs

Screenshot of attendees on the June 27, 2025 #SitecoreLunch call.

Educational #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:

📶 Wi-Fi extenders
🤳 Crazy life hacks
🚙 Self-driving taxis
💊 Child safety caps
🧦 Left and right socks
🚘 Overly polite drivers
👩‍💼 New #Sitecore CMO
🏪 #Amazon Scan & Go
⬇️ #Sitecore Downloads
🔏 Security through obscurity

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

A quirk of explicit interfaces [by Jeremy Davis] An feature of explicit interfaces I wasn't aware of

On the blog this week: Thinking about an out-of-the-ordinary use for Explicit Interfaces in C#.

Are there scenarios where they can help make the public api of an object cleaner?

blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2025/q...

Links for this week:

Sam Altman says Meta is offering $100 million to poach his employees:
www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/t...

Juneteenth:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junetee...

Docker without the Desktop:
blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2022/d...

Screenshot of attendees on the June 20, 2025 #SitecoreLunch call.

Free-flowing #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:

🐳 #Docker
💰 Freemium
📱 Chromecast
✊🏾 #Juneteenth
♾️ VMs inside VMs
🐛 Debugging tools
🎉 Birthday surprise
😘 黙って、キスして
🤑 #Meta AI poaching
📅 Vacation time and PTO
🤬 Cursing in other languages
🧩 Inter-process communication

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Automating a fix for Sitecore 10.2 SIF / SIA installs on Windows 11 [by Jeremy Davis] A Powershell script to tweak the config of a Sitecore 10.2 install to make it work on Windows 11

On the blog this week I had a go at automating the fixes needed to run a SIF / SIA install of #Sitecore 10.2 on Windows 11. Because anything you need to do more than once is worth automating...

blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2025/f...

Links from this week:

Constant Contact Acquires Moosend from Sitecore
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

Nintendo Switch 2 – Launch Trailer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qeq...

Sitecore Stream AI capabilities
doc.sitecore.com/stream/en/us...

Screenshot of attendees on the June 6, 2025 #SitecoreLunch call.

Mellow #SitecoreLunch today. Discussed:

🐽 LinkedIn spam
📋 #SitecoreForms
🔔 Doorbell chimes
🤪 Job applications
🎮 #NintendoSwitch2
📞 Recruiter cold calls
📧 #SitecoreSend sale
🟫 Build agent brownouts
🗣️ #SitecoreStream translations
🤝 #SitecoreCommunityFoundation

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Registration for #SitecoreSYM 2025 is officially OPEN!

We're exploring what’s possible with content, data, and AI — driving standout experiences and digital leadership across every role. Join us in Orlando, November 3–5.

Next is Now. Make your move—register today! siteco.re/4lby6hJ

London Sitecore User Group at Remarkable Join us for the third London Sitecore User Group of 2025 at Remarkables's Shoreditch office.

A reminder to #Sitecore folks around London (UK) that we have a user group next week!

AI code gen for JSS, CI Hub, and details on the new Content SDK for XM Cloud. All hosted by Remarkable in Shoreditch.

Details and sign up form below:

scug.co.uk/events/2025-...

Hope to see you there!

Posting images to BlueSky [by Jeremy Davis] Example code for posting a message and attached image to BlueSky

Got distracted before posting about this week's blog entry. But better late than never... A little bit of experimenting with posing images to the BlueSky API:

blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2025/p...

Before and after photo of the Swiss glacier collapse in Blatten

@coreysmith@mas.to

Links for this week:

Sitecore Stream: Tiers
www.sitecore.com/products/sit...

Working with Experience Edge Rate Limits and Caching:
developers.sitecore.com/learn/accele...

The History of Chicken and Waffles:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken...

Photo: Glacier collapse in Blatten

Worldly #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:

⛵ Sailing
📹 Security cameras
🐔 Chicken & waffles
🏔️ Swiss glacier collapse
📢 #SitecoreSYM updates
♾️ #SitecoreStream free tier
⏱️ #ExperienceEdge rate limiting
🔍 #SitecoreSearch and Discover
🧠 #SitecoreCortex personalization

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Just heard someone describe a bad situation as "the south end of a north-facing dog" and I'm absolutely stealing that for work meetings.