Welcome, Traveller, to Media Wizards
Where code becomes spellcraft and experiments become stories
Welcome, traveller. You’ve stumbled into my little corner of the Umbraco realm — a workshop of ideas, incantations, and half‑finished experiments. I’m Huw, a semi‑retired full‑stack developer, Umbraco MVP, and long‑time tinkerer of forums, APIs, and curious digital creatures..
Travellers from every corner of the realm arrive with ideas — some tiny sparks, some roaring fires. And each time, the wizards smile and say:
“Sit with us. Tell us what you’re building. We’ll weave the magic to make it real.”
Latest Spells and Incantations
This guide walks through building a real Tiptap extension for the Umbraco backoffice — a DateTime inserter that lets editors insert the current date, time, or both into a Rich Text Editor (RTE) field from a toolbar dropdown menu
building a custom collection view for Umbraco 17 that displays documents as beautiful cards with images, using the new extension system and Lit Element web components.
In this post, I'll show you how to build a flexible, on-the-fly watermarking system using SixLabors.ImageSharp.Web that doesn't require modifying your original images.
Latest Forum posts
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Test Topic
Posted by Test Member
Apr 10, 2026 at 11:17