Christian Grøngaard

I stopped using Safari @sanity.io because of wobbly spinners. Now I can use it again thanks to zoom banter & humans working together, & writing a @github.com PR _by hand_ (NO AI)! It didn't require convincing @jensimmons.bsky.social to add no-wobbles to Baseline 2027! www.sanity.io/engineering/...

Spent some quality time with my son today

Today, I helped ship native Portable Text tables in @sanity.io Studio: www.sanity.io/docs/changel... Portable Text always supported nested structures, but making them inline editable was a whole new beast, one we've been chipping at since vendoring Slate in Feb. Gonna talk more about this soon!

Spinning some super furry animals

As expected, it was *incredibly* difficult to delete my Facebook account. However, after some UI debugging and browser switching, I finally succeeded, and it looks like 2026 is off to a flying start.

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

You vibe-coded a site. Content lives in markdown. It works. Then your client asks for a login. The Sanity MCP Server lets your agent set up and manage a real content backend in the same conversation you used to build everything else. www.sanity.io/blog/sanity-...

Now that's what I call vacation

The age of Headless CMS is over. Say hello to the Sanity App SDK, Functions, AI Agents, and more—all part of The Content Operating System. www.sanity.io/spring-relea...

error TS6133: 'someVariable' is declared but its value is never read. That's terrible. Better fail the whole build immediately.

Partial solar eclipse, March 29, as seen from Denmark (through the right glasses)

Found my Wolfenstein 3D floppy

Maybe a 🌶️ take, but I generally don't like this trick. If one of your default/known values changes - e.g., "alert" is renamed to "warning" - your call sites won't break, and subtle, hard-to-discover bugs can be introduced. Any string is allowed, remember?

It's so good. And... psst... guess what's driving the behaviours in and around the code block: www.portabletext.org/concepts/beh...

Looks like last.fm still doesn't offer a way to export your data. So... I guess I might as well revive my 20-year-old account for the second(?) time! Do you have one? www.last.fm/user/christi... (I want to listen to more music again, and maybe this can be a weird sort of motivation.)

My MacBook from 2007. Still boots. And I still hate computers.

It really is a special feeling sitting in your car, listening to a podcast, as you've done so many times before, but this time YOU'RE THE GUEST! Thank you, @simeongriggs.dev, for inviting me on to talk about Portable Text, text editors, Behaviours, Gherkin and state machines and more.

Very soon, you'll be able to hear @simeongriggs.dev and me talk about the Portable Text Editor—the challenges behind the scenes, as well as the cool new APIs we're cooking up.

Why is the first cup of coffee always an emergency?

Trying to use Copilot for a simple, boring task

So cool that we can finally ship this as the first step towards a more pleasant and modern writing experience in the @sanity.io Studio. For the interested, here's a link to the source code of the markdown behaviours found in the Portable Text Editor repository: github.com/portabletext...

Me releasing I've spent the past 10 years writing JavaScript full-time

Opened up my work laptop after almost two weeks off and this is the first thing that meets me. I guess I left in the middle of a debug session?

I keep toggling bold on and off again

Setting up a WYSIWYG editor in React is new to me—and a real neat UI challenge at the same time. Build this with Tailwind, Typography & Headless UI. That editing pane just has the `prose` class on it. Sick! 👏 @hamburger.cloud this is immense work! www.portabletext.org

So proud of this and can't wait to take it even further.

git: I'm dying me: git checkout -b docs-fix-typo-2

I wish GitHub (git?) was better at showing stacked diffs. Me: Let me carefully and surgically refactor this function in one commit and then rename it in the next commit GitHub: EVERYTHING CHANGED

Two-step username/password forms Can we please stop with that

React v19 *just* dropped and @codey.bsky.social already made sure our Portable Text Editor is up-to-date 💙 github.com/portabletext...

I've used Little Snitch for 16 years. Of course I'm going to upgrade when they release a new major version.

Today, I released the library we use to drive >200 tests using Gherkin to make sure @sanity.io's Portable Text Editor behaves correctly. Pkg: www.npmjs.com/package/race... Src: github.com/portabletext... PTE Gherkin spec: github.com/portabletext... PTE Gherkin test suite: github.com/portabletext...

This was really good www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjN...

Let's just say, we've been cooking

The moment I became an adult was the moment I turned off code ligatures and started writing JavaScript with semicolons.

Looks like @github.com fixed the merge experience 😲

Seeing this in the XState release notes takes me back to when I was first introduced to XState back in 2017. Just a little functional, stateless JS library where Machines had a `.transition()` method to advance to the next state. Still love and use XState to this day. github.com/statelyai/xs...

I would be introducing regressions on a daily basis if it wasn't for @vitest.dev. Super stoked that @sanity.io is now sponsoring the project.

Open source software is crucial to the success of Sanity, so it makes sense to give back to great projects that we and our community use every day. That's why we joined the @opensourcepledge.com with a $112k donation to great projects and maintainers. 🫶 www.sanity.io/blog/sanity-...

Skip to the end. Use React Aria.

Time to get off that other platform

Hey, that's my team! ♥️

One of the things I love about Gherkin is that it literally only takes seconds to add new scenarios if you have a good set of existing steps to use. Here, I've expanded a Scenario Outline with a few more examples to root out an edge I just found in github.com/portabletext....

It's absolutely wild that there exists more than 900,000,000 ways to combine six 2×4 LEGO bricks. Here's combo #659,297,982.

Oh no, @bsky.app has awoken the urge to buy more (silly) domains. Also, welcome to the fold, christian.monster.

"Testing is documenting" Especially if your tests are written in a human-readable language. I'm currently working on @sanity.io's text editor, and here Gherkin is working really well for documenting and keeping all the different behaviours in check. github.com/portabletext...