https://knut.fyi 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 en Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:20:46 GMT https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/a-year-in-developer-relations https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/a-year-in-developer-relations Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT I’ve been running developer relations for Sanity.io for a year. Here is what I have learned so far. Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/config2020-some-impressions https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/config2020-some-impressions Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT I was at Figma’s first conference. This is what I took away from it. Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/this-post-will-be-free-and-i-will-not-track-you https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/this-post-will-be-free-and-i-will-not-track-you Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT I'm back with my own blog on my own domain after some years on other people’s platform. And it feels good. Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/10x-engineers-and-my-approach-to-twitter https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/10x-engineers-and-my-approach-to-twitter Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT How a thread about 10x engineers made me reconsider how I approach Twitter. (This post isn't really the 10x engineers thing). Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/a-practical-application-of-the-web-project-book https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/a-practical-application-of-the-web-project-book Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT How I would approach the “implementing backend” chapter of "The Web Project Guide” with Sanity.io. Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-25/what-vibe-coding-taught-me-about-why-i-build https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-25/what-vibe-coding-taught-me-about-why-i-build Thu, 25 Dec 2025 19:03:32 GMT I built a CLI tool in 40 minutes with Claude. It worked. People used it. But something felt off—and that discomfort revealed more about why I code than the code itself. Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/getting-started-with-webmentions-in-gatsby https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/getting-started-with-webmentions-in-gatsby Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT Let's learn how to implement Webmentions friendly markup, and get them onto your website made with Gatsby. Bonus: You'll also learn how to trigger new builds on Netlify whenever a mentoin happens. Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/on-the-limits-of-mdx https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/on-the-limits-of-mdx Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT Should you lock your content into JSX infused Markdown? Probably not. Here are some reasons why MDX has its limits. Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/this-runs-on-public-code-without-secrets https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/this-runs-on-public-code-without-secrets Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT I made the code for this blog public, and I removed all accidental secrets from the git history. Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/2019-a-personal-retrospective https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/2019-a-personal-retrospective Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT A reflection on the past year, and some goals for the new one. Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/who-are-the-non-technicals https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/who-are-the-non-technicals Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT We should stop labeling people and ourselves as “non-technical” (unless they really are Luddites). Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/making-tech-survivable-what-can-men-do https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/making-tech-survivable-what-can-men-do Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT 23 tips for those who want to contribute to a better workplace for everyone who wants to be in tech. Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/ode-to-licecap https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/ode-to-licecap Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT Why my go-to tool for screen capturing to animated GIFs is LICEcap. Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/smash-your-writer-s-block-with-the-hulk-summary https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/smash-your-writer-s-block-with-the-hulk-summary Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT WRITING IS HARD YOU THINK TOO MUCH! THE SOLUTION THE HULK SUMMARY! Knut Melvær, Even Westvang https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/jamstack_conf-london-impressions https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/jamstack_conf-london-impressions Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT I was at JAMstack_conf London. It was great. Here's the story. Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/how-i-put-the-scroll-percentage-in-the-title-bar https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/how-i-put-the-scroll-percentage-in-the-title-bar Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT Add a nice hint of how far you have read a page by putting the scroll percentage in the title bar. Learn how to implement it with React and Gatsby. Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/why-i-love-working-at-sanity-io https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/why-i-love-working-at-sanity-io Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT Four years ago I was a grad student with a Ph.D. fellowship in the Study of Religions, so how did I end up working for a tech startup? This is a post about how I came to run Developer Relations at Sanity.io – it's also a celebration of following less obvious paths. Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/every-day-somebody-s-born-who-s-never-seen-the-flintstones https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/every-day-somebody-s-born-who-s-never-seen-the-flintstones Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT Most things bear repeating. Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/lies-damned-lies-statistics-and-developer-experience-rhetorics https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/lies-damned-lies-statistics-and-developer-experience-rhetorics Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT How should we reason about W3Tech’s web technology stats when advising on how to build on the web? And maybe it’s OK to use React, Tailwind, or any other hyped technology, to get work done? Knut Melvær https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/counting-hours https://knut.fyi/blog/2025-12-20/counting-hours Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:01:17 GMT I love what I do for work and I spend a lot of time on it. But how to balance inner-drive with ideals about work-life balance? Knut Melvær