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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 02/08/2026

Spent some quality time with my son today

Nintendo 64 with GoldenEye 007 loaded up on the screen

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 16/05/2026

Spinning some super furry animals

Super Furry Animals - Radiator spinning vinyl

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 20/10/2025

Replaced the boring buttons with some type controls! (🤫 This is actually a really good showcase for input rules: github.com/portabletext...)

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 17/10/2025

Couldn't sleep so I built Game of Life in @sanity.io's Portable Text Editor 👉 portable-text-of-life.vercel.app 🧑‍💻 github.com/portabletext...

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 04/08/2025

Now that's what I call vacation

GitHub contribution chart with three consecutive blank weeks

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 30/03/2025

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

The sun, visible through dark clouds, partially eclipsed by the moon

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 23/02/2025

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

MacBook A1181 with various stickers, including "I Hate Computers", on a couch

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 14/02/2025

Hi there! We are working on a new API (currently beta) for PTE that allows you to easier customise the editor behaviours: www.portabletext.org/concepts/beh... Behavious can be bundled in plugins and the most fully-fledged plugin we've made so far is a Markdown plugin: playground.portabletext.org

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 08/02/2025

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.

My car dashboard showing Code && Content episode "The final boss of front-end: block editors"

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 03/02/2025

The Behavior API for @sanity.io's Portable Text Editor will allow you to configure the editor in ways that where previously not possible. Behaviors can be bundled in Plugins to easily turn them on and off. Here's an example of a simple <OneLinePlugin /> that restricts the editor to one block.

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 14/01/2025

Trying to use Copilot for a simple, boring task

Me asking GitHub Copilot how I can close it again (it was genuinely difficult to figure out)

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 05/01/2025

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

Small 7000(?) year old sculpture of a person, sitting with an open mouth and hands on their cheeks

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 02/01/2025

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?

Chromium Dev Tools "Paused in debugger" debug menu

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 17/12/2024

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

❯ git checkout -b docs-fix-typo
fatal: a branch named 'docs-fix-typo' already exists

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 02/12/2024

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

Prompt informing me about the successful registration of Little Snitch 6

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 15/11/2024

Looks like @github.com fixed the merge experience 😲

GitHub merge section with a clear summary of the CI checks, highlighting what checks failed

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 13/11/2024

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...

import { transition } from 'xstate';

const [nextState, actions] = transition(actorLogic, currentState, event);
// Execute actions as needed

import { Machine } from 'xstate';

const lightMachine = Machine({
key: 'light',
initial: 'green',
states: {
green: {
on: {
TIMER: 'yellow',
}
},
yellow: {
on: {
TIMER: 'red',
}
},
red: {
on: {
TIMER: 'green',
}
}
}
});

const currentState = 'green';

const nextState = lightMachine
.transition(currentState, 'TIMER')
.value;

// => 'yellow'

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 07/11/2024

Time to get off that other platform

Email from the other platform stating my data is ready for download

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 04/11/2024

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....

Four rows of examples added to an "Inserting text at the edge of a decorated annotation" Gherkin Scenario Outline

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 03/11/2024

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.

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Christian Grøngaard @hamburger.cloud · 31/10/2024

"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...

Gherkin Scenario Outline: Inserting text at the edge of a decorator

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