Links for this week:

Sitecore Content Hub documentation:
doc.sitecore.com/ch

Codex vs. Claude Code:
www.datacamp.com/blog/codex-v...

Tokenmaxxing:
www.linkedin.com/posts/adamw-...

Screenshot of attendees on the March 27, 2026 #SitecoreLunch call.

Handy #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:

🔥 Hotkeys
📶 Mesh Wi-Fi
👾 Vibe game dev
Ⓜ️ #Tokenmaxxing
👕 Washers/dryers
📝 #Sitecore publishing
⚙️ Extended warranties
🤖 #Codex vs. #Claude?
🔎 Search in #SitecoreAI
💻 #SitecoreMarketerMCP
☸️ #SitecoreContentHub certification

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Using Groups in OrderCloud [by Jeremy Davis] An example of how Groups in OrderCloud can be used to relate data about customer organisation to website users

This week on the blog, some stuff I've been thinking about around Groups in #Sitecore OrderCloud and how they can help represent different entities in your shop's data model:

blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2026/o...

Links for this week:

DevDrive Setup:
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

Create a PowerPoint with AI using Copilot in PowerPoint
www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...

MACJ: 4 Parts of the Writing Process
medium.com/@joydeepbisw...

Screenshot of attendees on the March 20, 2026 #SitecoreLunch call.

Agent-assisted #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:

🐳 #Docker
⌚ Late starts
📝 Writing scripts
📦 #Copilot models
🤖 #AI in #PowerPoint
☸️ #WindowsDevDrive
🛡️ #WindowsDefender
‼️ AI-hostile documentation
🔗 #Next.js link pre-fetching
🔌 #SitecorePowerShellExtensions updates

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

London Sitecore User Group - March 2026 Our first Sitecore User Group of 2026 is being planned now for London on the 19th March. Could you be a speaker?

Last reminder from me that we have a #Sitecore user group at their Paddington office tomorrow (19th). Join us for food & drink plus Timothy Marsh, Peter Clisby and me discussing MACH patterns, Content Operations and products in Content Hub.

Timings & sign up form here:
scug.co.uk/events/2026-...

Slot Machines vs. Vibe Coding

Links for this week:

Sitecore Hackathon Showcase:
streza.dev/sitecore-hac...

Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation
www.businessinsider.com/ai-compute-c...

The NOMAD States: Which US States Have No Sales Tax?
www.taxually.com/blog/the-nom...

Screenshot of attendees on the March 13, 2026 #SitecoreLunch call.

Agentic #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:

🎰 #LasVegas
🛂 Border taxes
⛏️ Mining #crypto
🗣️ Vibecore Studio
🖥️ #ArtisanalCoding
🤝 #SitecoreHackathon
🏊 Swimming in the Pacific
🤖 #VibeCoding and tokens
💻 #SitecoreJavaScriptExtensions

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

DevOps wikis are cleverer than I realised [by Jeremy Davis] A great little bit of trivia, showing how to clone an Azure Devops wiki as a git repo

Tiny bit of DevOps trivia on the blog today.

Not sure how I've missed this, but a colleague pointed out how you can edit your Azure DevOps wiki pages locally, and it seemed too helpful not to share:

blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2026/d...

Links for this week:

Marketer MCP Docs:
doc.sitecore.com/sai/en/users...

CMS Critic Awards winners:
cmscritic.com/the-envelope...

Sitecore Rules Engine Cookbook:
archive.doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/legacy...

Screenshot of attendees on the March 6, 2026 #SitecoreLunch call.

Technical #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:

💻 Reddit posts
⛸️ Ice skating events
🏅 #CMSCritic awards
📨 Phishing email tests
✔️ #Sitecore rules engine
Ⓜ️ LLM token management
📂 #SitecoreContentHub CMP
🖥️ #Sitecore Marketer #MCP server
🤲 #SitecoreContentHub free modeling

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

For all you UK #Sitecore folk: we're meeting at Sitecore in Paddington on the 19th. Venue changed (see link - just round the corner) but the content is the same.

Learn about Content Hub for products, Content Ops & Sitecore AI and making MACH work for you.

Sign up below:

scug.co.uk/events/2026-...

Links for this week:

Both "SitecoreAI - for Marketers!" and "Sitecore Strategy Happy Hour (North America)" looking for speakers:
www.meetup.com/sitecoreai-f...
www.meetup.com/sitecore-str...

SUGCON India call for speakers open:
sessionize.com/sugcon-india...

Screenshot of attendees on the February 27, 2026 #SitecoreLunch call.

Inquisitive #SitecoreLunch today. Discussed:

⌛ Timesheets
💰 Token costs
📃 Page layouts
🚩 Olympic logos
🌏 #SUGCONIndia
🕑 Timezone errors
🐤 Next.js 16 canary
😱 Refactoring nightmares
🐍 #Medusa project update
👥 #SitecoreUserGroup news
🤝 Partner/client relationships

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Coding against an OrderCloud sandbox [by Jeremy Davis] An important thing to know if you're authenticating your code against a non-production OrderCloud instance

A tiny bit of "experimenting with #Sitecore OrderCloud" trivia on the blog this week.

If it's not immediately obvious how to authenticate with your sandbox via code, this explains the two extra lines you need:

blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2026/o...

Links for this week:

Peep Jousting:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUYi...

SitecoreAI Pathway tool:
www.sitecore.com/platform/sit...

Baja Blast official drink of MLB 2026:
www.mlb.com/press-releas...

BONUS - The Cats of #SitecoreLunch:
www.linkedin.com/posts/jpetil...

Screenshot of attendees on the February 20, 2026 #SitecoreLunch call.

Upbeat #SitecoreLunch today. Discussed:

🍋 Ramune
🌮 #TacoBell
🐶 GMO pets
🍦 #DQBlizzard
🐥 Peep jousting
😺 Cats that fetch
🧱 Linux partitions
🤬 Installing #Windows
🗣️ SUGs needing speakers
🐤 Chili Lime Mango #Peeps
🤖 #SitecoreXP to #SitecoreAI migrations

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

London Sitecore User Group - March 2026 Our first Sitecore User Group of 2026 is being planned now for London on the 19th March. Could you be a speaker?

Right UK #Sitecore folk - we have details for a mid-March user group now. Come learn some stuff, and chat with other like-minded people in the Sitecore space.

Sign-up link at the bottom of this page - but if you have dietary requirements let me know by DM/email.

scug.co.uk/events/2026-...

Screenshot of attendees on the February 13, 2026 #SitecoreLunch call.

Excited #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:

📅 Date facts
👀 #BeMyEyes
💪 Power users
🖨️ #OfficeSpace
👷 #Sitecore jobs
💻 #BrowserStack
🎂 Bad date picker
🚣 #SitecoreStream
👮 Prisoner's dilemma
👵 Seniors for UX testing
🔠 Keyword stuffing for AI
🤖 #SitecoreAgenticStudio

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

A bullet from a list of features, saying "Happy Eyeballs Support in Socket.ConnectAsync"

Looking at the list of "what's new for .Net 11" and...

Yeah, gonna have to look this one up ;-)

SUGCON's coming! Have you booked yet? [by Jeremy Davis] My reasons for being at SUGCON EU in London this year, and why you should be too.

This year's #SUGCONEU is coming up #Sitecore folks - in London this year.

I'll be there to listen to the talks and chat with the community. If you're wondering if you should be, here's some of the stuff that caught my attention on the agenda:

blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2026/c...

Links from this week:

Clawdbot/MoltBot/Open Claw:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Medusa.js
medusajs.com

Can I get a six pack quickly? (Ads in AI):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQRu...

Screenshot of attendees on the February 6, 2026 #SitecoreLunch call.

Celebratory #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:

🧵 Sewing
🛍️ #MedusaJS
⚖️ Art of scaling
🦀 #OpenClawAI
🏃‍♂️ Metric sprints
👕 Clothing sizes
🏈 Superbowl ads
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Multisite instances
☁️ #Sitecore upgrades
📚 #Sitecore DAM modules
🏆 #SitecoreMVP congratulations

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

A deer resting in the foliage.

Links for this week:

SUGCON Europe
europe.sugcon.events

Richard Proenneke
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...

Vibe Graveyard:
vibegraveyard.ai

Image: A deer in @jermdavis.dev's garden

Screenshot of attendees on the January 30, 2026 #SitecoreLunch call.

Chatty #SitecoreLunch today. Discussed:

🐕 Dogs
🥶 COLD
🛷 Iditarod
🤢 #AI slop
👨‍💻 #Vibecoding
🦌 Zombie deer
🚗 Car vs. moose
👾 #Linux gaming
👑 Loyalty programs
🐞 #Microsoft issues
⛰️ Richard Proenneke
🗣️ #SUGCONEU London
💻 Development on an iPad
🤖 #SitecoreAI development

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

London Sitecore User Group - March 2026 Our first Sitecore User Group of 2026 is being planned now for London on the 19th March. Could you be a speaker?

UK #Sitecore people - do you have an idea for a user group talk?

We're working on an in-person event in London on 19th March and we're looking for speakers. Any topic, any experience level...

Get in touch if you're interested:
scug.co.uk/events/2026-...

Nerding out about covariance and immutability [by Jeremy Davis] An interesting example of how immutability can enable covariance in C#

Shameless nerding on the blog this week. I've been reading an interesting book about data structures, and it taught me something new about covariance in C#.

blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2026/n...

Screenshot of attendees on the January 23, 2026 #SitecoreLunch call.

Frosty #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:

👓 Glasses
📷 Car cameras
🌨️ Winter storm
➡️ DAM connectors
🚗 New car features
🔎 Progressive lenses
💸 Subscription models
😡 #SitecoreAI upgrades
🛣️ Don't buy the roadmap
💲 #Salesforce integrations
🔎 #Coveo for #Sitecore updates

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Links from this week:

Google: Don’t make “bite-sized” content for LLMs if you care about search rank:
arstechnica.com/google/2026/...

Merchant Developer Home:
developers.google.com/merchant/ucp

See the Crown Jewels:
www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-lon...

Screenshot of attendees on the January 16, 2026 #SitecoreLunch call.

Fun #SitecoreLunch today! Discussed:

📺 Old TV
🎙️ Podcasts
🤑 #GoogleUCP
🦦 #EmmetOtter
🤖 AI commerce
🖥️ #Cybersquatting
🔎 #AEO & #GEO tips
♾️ AI prompt generator
🛍️ #SitecoreOrderCloud
🌍 #SUGCONEU in London
🏰 #BuckinghamPalace tour
🏃‍ AI-generated sprint planning

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗