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Knut shares his experience navigating the overwhelming hype around AI in marketing. Key takeaways include how AI can enhance your content creation process without replacing human creativity, practical examples of how AI has streamlined marketing workflows and improved efficiency, and the balance between AI tools and organic, human-driven strategy for authentic engagement.

Headless CMSs are limited to frontend applications. Morning Brew embraces custom content apps, automated workflows, and AI automation to take control over all content operations. Co-presented with Roshvan Chalkey from Morning Brew.

Conversation on Markdown vs structured rich text.

Discussion on leaving WordPress and structured content.

Sanity's April Virtual Meetup - Knut Melvær, Head of Developer Education & Community at Sanity Sanity, TypeScript, and You In this talk, Knut will introduce the new Sanity TypeGen beta and show you how you can work with TypeScript and content from Sanity in your applications.

Conference talk on content and commerce

TypeScript type generation for Sanity course

Knut joins the podcast for a second time to give us the inside scoop on recent Sanity updates and what makes Sanity the above and beyond CMS.

On episode 42 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Simen Svale Skogsrud and Knut Melvær of Sanity.io to discuss real time collaborative content management and structured content.

Community retrospective.

Guest technical livestream on remote joins.

Building a custom storefront with Shopify allows you to build unique and stand-out shopping experiences. It lets you integrate immersive content with a great checkout experience. But for this to work, you must empower content teams with excellent authoring experiences. In this comprehensive 6-hour workshop, Simeon and Knut will take you through setting up a Shopify-powered Remix/Hydrogen storefront and integrate content from Sanity – the only CMS to be Shopify Plus Certified. You will learn how to set up a Hydrogen project connected to Shopify, enable embedding live product data inside of content presentations, customize content authoring experiences, and more. Transform your web development skills into creating more engaging, efficient, and unique e-commerce sites.

Schema migration best practices course

Kapehe and Knut join to talk about how Sanity.io makes working with content easier!

Editor experience for developers

Content is a crucial part of what you build on the web. Jamstack brings a lot to the developer experience in terms of building content-driven sites, but how can we improve things for editors and content creators? In this workshop you’ll learn how use Sanity.io to approach structured content modeling, and how to build, iterate, and configure your own CMS to unify data models with efficient and delightful editor experiences. It’s intended for web developers who want to deliver better content experiences for their content teams and clients.

Interview on headless CMS + Jamstack.

Knut Melvær takes us on a journey of exploring 11ty's Serverless Capabilities in order to create previews of content in Sanity Studio! "One of the challenges with static site generators has been previewing changes before they go live. Especially when they grow large and you need to rebuild the whole site on a staging branch. Nobody got time for that! With 11ty Serverless you can build a preview of a page on-demand in no time. This talk shows how it can be done, and how it can be integrated with Sanity Studio for a smooth editorial workflow."

Norwegian-language tech podcast guest.

In episode 5 of Developer Love, Patrick Woods speaks with Knut Melvær of Sanity.io. They discuss building developer tools, promoting psychological safety, and nurturing connections within the DevRel community.

Mark and Max Saltonstall talk with Simen Svale Skogsrud and Knut Melvær of Sanity.io. Sanity.io started as a consulting company but organically morphed into a software company when they realized their content management solutions worked across many industries. They discuss headless CMS, developer experience, and how Sanity is scaling with Google Cloud and Kubernetes.

Portable Text is a JSON based rich text specification for modern editing platforms. In this talk, Knut takes you through how it works and how to work with it.

In this talk, Espen and I shared our process behind prototyping TeamFeed, a social sharing service for teams, using only Sanity Studio.

Co-host discussing design, tech, and culture (53+ episodes)

Let's see how much we can get done with Sanity.io in just 10 minutes!

A two-day workshop on web development for the students of Library and Information Science.

Simen & Knut stop by to talk about Sanity.io - why they developed it, what it does, who it's for, and the types of projects they see people using Sanity for.

I joined Matt and Mike on their HTML All The Things podcast to talk about everything Sanity.io and how to work with headless CMSs and structured content.

A short talk about what Sanity.io has been up to lately. Q & A.

Announcing the open-sourcing of GROQ, Sanity's query language for structured content.

Return visit to devMode.fm, product updates

All organizations maintain a universe of text, images, and media in order to market and explain their activities. We all know how “technical debt” (crufty code that we promised ourselves to fix soon) can hold back our speed and flexibility and ultimately bar us from important opportunities. Content debt works exactly the same. Being a startup is not knowing exactly how you should communicate, almost by definition. Having the ability to iterate on content and presentation in your communication is absolutely critical in terms of executing on a successful go to market strategy. Designing with Structured Content is absolutely key to achieving this. In this talk, we’ll show you why Sanity.io enable this approach, and some successful patterns we have seen designing with structured content.

In this episode we have on Knut Melvær from San​i​ty​.io to talk about cre­at­ing struc­tured con­tent in the ​“head­less” CMS that is San​i​ty​.io! We talk about how a head­less CMS has a dif­fer­ent approach from a tra­di­tion­al CMS, and Sanity’s approach to the tack­ling the job of defin­ing schema, and deliv­er­ing a user friend­ly back­end for con­tent editors. We dis­cuss what sets San­i­ty apart from oth­er sim­i­lar ​“CMS as a ser­vice” prod­ucts out there, name­ly the real­time col­lab­o­ra­tion and the exten­sive cus­tomiz­abil­i­ty that it offers. Tune in for a very inter­est­ing discussion!

In this talk we'll demonstrate how to quickly configure a headless content backend on Sanity, that effortlessly integrates with Google Assistant, builds a frontend on Gatsby, and deploy it on a global app delivery network like Netlify. Let's JAMstack with GraphQL on the Serverless!

This is the talk I wish I had heard before running projects that use headless CMSes. While there are often good directions on the technical details, there’s something lacking in the conversation when it comes to a broader approach from a content and project management perspective. Which is weird, because, in our (i.e. my) experience, a digital project where the content is structured behind APIs is very compatible with successful cross-disciplinary project work. Because it allows us to try out things with less friction and isolates dependencies in a more helpful way. In this talk, I’ll suggest some overarching strategies, with some concrete real-world examples.

One day workshop on getting started with web development.

A two-day workshop on web development for the students of Library and Information Science.

Anja and Knut break down how the UX- and design agency Netlife use Slack effectively and offers 10 tips for how to get started.

Last June, our Norwegian partner the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, also known as BEK, tackled a broad and deep topic: the conceptualisation of a “survival kit” for the Age of Technology. At this occasion, BEK has invited three speakers to give their opinion of what could be included in a survival pack that will prepare us for participation in the technological age. The purpose of this event is comprehension – a place where people can meet at the intersection of knowledge, experience and a sense of belonging. Survival Kit for the Age of Technology seminar is the first event to be part of our curatorial topic: Future DiverSystems. BEK has invited Knut Melvær to help them with Challenge No.1 – to operate/act in the Age of Technology – what ought we to master?

In this session, Knut Melvær will live and demonstrate how you get started with a Nuxt-based (nuxtjs.org) webpage with Sanity (sanity.io) as the backend. It will be a chance to get more familiar with the Nuxt-framework, as well as some core features and considerations using Sanity as a headless CMS.

In this talk, Knut will take us through a project built with the SSR React framework Next.js with Sanity as a backend. We'll take a closer look at patterns and lessons learned from building a production website.

A six-night course for grown-ups that wanted to get started with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

The early web sparked so much more than anyone had anticipated. And many of us who grew up in that wild wilderness of the early web, also grew up to have it as our day job. The web has evolved, and the wilderness has given way to four-lane highways and skyscrapers. While the early web helped foster so much innovation, we ponder what the current web will lead to. The ideas behind the once open, flexible and democratic World Wide Web are too important to leave behind. In this talk, Knut and Nils muse on what makes the web what it is, and why this is not a given. We ask how the choices we make in interaction design, coding and digital strategy can leave people better prepared for the digital future, and challenge how we talk and think about the people who use the stuff we make. What kind of web do we want to leave for those who come next?

Most of us have some immediate associations of what religion is. Religion and religions figure in public discourse as something that moves and affects the world. But what is religion, really? What on the surface seems like a trivial question covers something way more complex. Already back in 1912, was the psychologist of religion, James Leuba able to list over 50 definitions of religion. The question of defining religion has since been one of the main concerns of the study of religions. In this talk, I'll cover the different challenges with defining religion, and what implications they have for our understanding of it. I'll conclude by offering some strategies for how to approach religion in a more nuanced and considered manner.

Podcast episode moderating a debate on Norway's library law and book disposal practices, examining whether libraries are discarding too many books and how modernization efforts impact literary collections.

Having stumbled my way into the Digital Humanities, I have had to overcome an array of challenges when it comes to messy data, undocumented and buggy software, the rapid advancements in the tech world, and the scarcity of theorizing about what digital methods such as “distant reading” really tell us. In this session, I will invite you to explore some of these issues and discuss how we can make DH more approachable with regards to theory and method.

Aleut.css is a fork of Harry Robert’s CSS framework Inuit. In this workshop, we, demonstrate how to get started with Aleut, and how it represents a better way for teams to build a sustainable and reliable design system.