Knut Melvær

The blog post "The Descent — What Happened to the Frontend While You Weren't Watching" has swung past in various feeds lately.

Since I started working in the software industry, I often hear phrasing like this: – “I’m non-technical, so this solution doesn’t seem for me.” – “We need to communicate to the non-technical people too.”

We were joking in the Sanity Slack about what it would look like if CLI tools had year-in-review features.

I published my first post on Medium back in 2016.

It's never been less hard to build a CMS.

WRITING IS HARD YOU THINK TOO MUCH!

The next time I read marketing copy that introduces with “we’re excited to”, I’ll go through the motions of finding a printer, installing whatever drives and needless printer vendor software is forced upon me, buying some real nice 80gms A4 paper bought f…

I feel I must preface this with some hedging because I'm about to challenge something that many people seem to love: MDX.

The folks at Apple Computers Inc. really wanted me to upgrade to macOS Catalina, so I did.

I recently read Patricia Aas’ heartbreaking, but pertinent blog post “Survival Tips for Women in Tech.”

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I have been curious to learn more about webmentions and the IndieWeb for a while now.

If you are a content creator you probably want people to know about your stuff.

During my month-long stay in San Francisco, mainly tinkering in the Heavybit offices, I had the opportunity to attend Figma’s first conference, cleverly named Config.

In 1998, I right-clicked on websites I thought were cool and hit “view source.”

Here're my learnings based on my first year running developer relations at Sanity.io.

Jason’s personal retrospective inspired me to look back at 2019 in order to gauge where I have been and where I want to be at the end of 2020.

You're probably a bit tired of the whole 10x engineer thing by now, but this post isn't really about that.

tl;dr: CascadiaJS is a rare developer conference that does not make you feel like you’re in a sponsor funnel.

Justin Bieber headlined Coachella this weekend.

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?

I’ve just spent the two last days being at JAMstack_conf London learning about a bunch of neat stuff, but more importantly, having met an array of great people.

I'm late to OpenClaw.

“What will “developer marketing” even mean at the end of 2026?”

I have worked a lot for the almost 2 years I’ve been at Sanity.io.

Watching Rich Harris’ recent talk on “Frameworks, the web, and the edge” reminded me that I had this blog post in drafts.

I have kept the code that powers this blog in a private GitHub repository for a while.

I have been following the work of Deane Barker (aka Gadgetopia) for a while.