Knut Melvær

developer edu and community @sanity.io ⋅ (he/him) ⋅ ask me about real-time text fields in front of delightful JSON ⋅ endorsed for dry jokes on linkedin ⋅ follow @knut.fyi on bluesky ⋅ norwegian who moved to oakland, california

Writings

2025-11-27—Lies, damned lies, statistics, and developer experience rhetorics
2023-04-18—Who are the non-technicals?
2022-01-19—Once more, with feeling
2021-12-06—Making tech survivable: What can men do?
2021-12-06—2019 – A personal retrospective
2021-12-06—On the limits of MDX
2021-06-23—“Every day, somebody's born who's never seen The Flintstones” – or, why telling it once isn't enough
2020-09-05—The Web Project Book’s “Implementing Backend”: Putting Sanity.io to the test
2020-05-20—Counting hours (or; how to work less when you want to work much)
2020-05-01—How I put the scroll percentage in the title bar
2020-04-26—This blog runs on public code, without secrets
2020-04-26—Getting started with Webmentions in Gatsby
2020-04-26—Why I love working at Sanity.io
2020-04-26—A year in developer relations
2020-03-01—Config2020: Some impressions from Figma’s conference
2020-01-30—Smash your writer’s block with The Hulk Summary™
2019-10-26—Ode to LICEcap, the simple GIF screen capture tool
2019-07-16—10x engineers and my approach to Twitter
2019-07-14—JAMstack_conf London: Impressions
2019-06-24—This post will be free, and I will not track you.