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Lolol!  Yep just got that notification too -  will be patching up my v13 sites, and trying to appease customers that umbraco isn’t full of security holes 🙂

What's on everyone's lunchtime sandwiches? - Salmon Paste for me:  Rocking it old skool like its 1986 🙂

Sounds good <@765190320165355541> ! At HQ today I had some kind of chicken and rice-dish with a mixed salad 😄

Since moving to Spain I've become a huge salad fan 😁

Hahaha!! - You don't seem too sure - Ya'  got to love a "mystery meat" 🥩 🤔

Good morning people!! Just realized I didn't have a cup of coffee today yet 😱  I'll go get that right away ☕

Plopping a complete authentication/login re-implementation into production today for a headless umbraco site with a ... difficult ... external login provider. Wish me luck.

What's the difficult provider out of interest 😅

Sorry don't remember where you're from so if you are Danish you already know all of this 😄 
It's the Danish MitID (which honestly is fine), but wrapped by KMD (major Danish tech provider/company) and their wrapper is ... not great.

Interesting.. not Danish so not familiar with these 🙂

MitID is the national ID in Denmark we use for pretty much anything. It's pretty common to interact with it through a provider like Nets, Signicat, Signaturgruppen, Criipto or - god forbid - KMD 😄

Plopping a complete authentication/login

It's only about 100k members, how bad can it go 🙃

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Will go smooth.
Just deploy and go to lunch.

Authentication is so over rated.  Half the users passwords will be 123456 anyways 🙂

"Oh look at me, I'm enforcing password lengths!" 😅

What number coffee are we on now friends??

Are you actually okay <@698103747351543828>???

Counting the caffeine I had in this mornings pre-workout, that would be around 5-6 cups of coffee's worth so far 👀

I will get to 8 by the end of the day, easy 😂

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Is it requirement for HQ staff to be so caffeinated 😂

When there's nobody in the office, nobody judges me getting yet another coffe 😇

The loo roll bill is paid for by the Umbraco Forms licenses

When you work full-time remotely there's even less constraint 🫣 ☕

Though I've learned from my mistakes and have limits! During my time as a student-intern *many* years ago I had a desk right next to the coffee machine with crazy good coffee... those 11-12 cups a day didn't do me much good in hindsight 😅

I only have a mediocre Nespresso machine, that might be why I need more, weak coffees 😉

What number coffee are we on now friends

When setting up a new doctype with properties.  Do you set up a new group container, or have them "group-less"?  Is there a distinguished preference? or merely wing-it, to what sits right.

This is veering towards Forum post territory, but I would say it's largely personal preference. It's all about taxonomy, if I have 3 closely related properties and nothing else.. I usually don't bother, but if I have categories of properties I'd definitely add some groups

Brill thanks - that's been my train of thought to - when you're freelancing and coding on your own, it's sometimes hard to tell if you doing something right or wrong.

I agree with Seb, if I have a Tab with multiple properties, then I'll use groups to group logicallly related properties

E.g. if  I have a "Content" tab, I might have 2 groups, a "Hero Banner" group to hold he properties related to that (e.g. the H1, subtitle, background image) and a generic "Content" group for the page's content props (e.g. block list/grid)

Personally, I try to group/tab things to minimise the amount of scrolling, whilst also minimising the amount of tabs

Like you have pointed out, sometimes you get the Tab Name, and Group Name being the same.   eg. Content.   I think I've found it easier to put things in groups as it makes it easier to nudge in a Property when inheriting from various compositions. (Noodling with the sortOrder)

Agreed - this probably should have been put on the forum - but it's not really anything super techy - I was merely musing over my Marmite Butty at lunch.

Compositions also merge tabs too 😄

E.g. in my example, I'd have a "Grid Composition" and a "Hero Banner Composition", Which both have a "Content" Tab. Then I'd use the sort order on the Groups within those compositions to define the order (e.g. -5  for the Hero Banner group to make sure it's at the top)

Ooo that's another tip I've learnt, do your order values in increments of 5 or 10, that way if you need to insert a new group in the middle, it's less likely that you'll need to go and increment all the other orderings by 1 (learnt the hard way lol)

haha! - I'm an increment of 10 umbracian - lol.  To be honest, Little is said about how to set up a "good back office" and best practise.  I'm sure there must be a blog-tutorial on it somewhere.   We should get <@715949483350949901> on the case - He's the face of Umbraco,..  on the login-screen at least 😀

Components composed into tabs and then groups here. A little more work to set up, a lot less work when requirements change.

When setting up a new doctype with

Morning! Yesterdays new-auth deploy went live 21:33, so I -did- get it out the day I planned 😂 Sure... I started trying to deploy at 14

Morning! - Off to Preston hospital today to check on my broken bones.  Wish me luck!

Didn't realise there was another Prestonian here! Good luck 😁 🩻

Hope it’s all good and it’s long time since e Preston was my second choice as my backup university  and I went in 93 and got some cool sub pop records at a place in Preston on the open day

Bones are on the mend. I’ll be walking like jack sparrow for a few more months.  Interestingly enough Lancashire county council based in Preston use umbraco for the Lancashire.gov.uk site - small world!

Has just been rebuilt on Umbraco apparently! (My wife works for the council and they had a message about it the other week 😁)

Good to k ow councils are starting to use it

Morning! - Off to Preston hospital today

Morning all & happy Friday
Feeling bit stressed, overwhelmed today.

So whats your goto things to de-stress or music to listen to help you out

A walk for some fresh air and a funny podcast - hope your day clears up!

cheery pop-punk is my go to feel good tunes typically.

but an activity... start/work on some legos if you have some 🙂

or talk to people :-), do your best to not stay "isolated" especially when working from home/remotely. Make a point of giving someone a call and just having a "water cooler chat" this can help hugely

And remember, it's Friday, the weekend is a head of you, a time to disconnect and be present, you got this! and you got support around you even if you don't always remember it when things feel stressful.

It’s a mixture of stuff lo fi electro 
Some sunny pop 

But find reason to get out don’t try and bury yourself

Find an excuse to call or chat to a friend and if absolutely necessary give me a shout ..

Morning all & happy Friday

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<@335116823626252288> yeh just feel juggling lots of things and not doing great at the mo. Hopefulyl just a blip.

Step 1 is the prioritize in that case I guess. And maybe its time for a vacation 😆

Nothing is worth stressing over.  No client has ever come knocking at my door asking for an update.  Most of the time deadlines are set just to appease someone who is jetting off to Ibiza 🏖️