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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 18/09/2025

I strongly recommend building your learning platform on a Content Operating System. Authoring's done in the CMS, then rendered to 3 front ends and now populates 5 different views in this custom app for reporting + reviewing.

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 12/09/2025

📣 Got the result you wanted from an LLM? End the chat with: > Now we're finished, take a look over our conversation and let me know how I could've written a better initial prompt to help generate this final result sooner.

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 08/09/2025

Suspense boundaries are for data, not layouts. Move your data fetching as close to where data will be rendered—deeper into components.

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 04/09/2025

🌓 <Activity> is really cool with components that do their own data fetching! It's more than a visibility toggle, it maintains state and determines priority too. www.simeongriggs.dev/use-the-acti...

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Using Activity with Suspenseful data | simeonGriggs.dev

Components hidden by Activity will maintain their state while also unmounting their effects and continue to preload suspenseful data—here's what makes that useful.

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 08/06/2025

You store your content as files in a repo. My CMS writes PRs. We are not the same.

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Cody @codey.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

We're super excited about the direction the vite team is heading here. Hopefully we'll see traction on the initiative to get React Compiler out of the babel pipeline github.com/oxc-project/...

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React Compiler oxc plugin · Issue #10048 · oxc-project/oxc

I wanted to open an issue capturing some of our past discussion on adding support for React Compiler as an oxc plugin. For context, the React team reached out to both the swc and oxc projects a few...

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 03/06/2025

🙋‍♂️ Sanity App SDK is my favorite thing we've launched and I've been forming some opinions about how you should use it. www.sanity.io/docs/app-sdk...

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Best practices | Sanity Docs

Opinionated patterns and guidance for building custom apps with the App SDK

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 20/05/2025

Subtle but very cool part of writing with Canvas is invoking a code block *with a specific syntax highlighter selected* 💅

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 16/05/2025

First look! 👀 Your favorite content backend now has compute with @sanity.io functions. Configured with code. Deployed to Sanity.

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 15/05/2025

Oh, your CMS doesn’t have compute? Awkward.

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 13/05/2025

👀 First Look! Building content apps with the @sanity.io App SDK's headless hooks for content fetching and mutations. Optimistic, real-time, and fast. youtu.be/9HwYsI-ePFM

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First Look: Build content apps with Sanity App SDK

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 13/05/2025

🌶️ "I don't think you should use Markdown as a content storage format" @knut.fyi on the latest episode of Code && Content

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 12/05/2025

I've shipped over a dozen plugins and written thousands of words of tutorials on how to customize Sanity Studio. @sanity.io App SDK is the toolkit I have always wanted. www.sanity.io/blog/build-y...

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A new era for content applications with Sanity App SDK | Sanity

You are invited to build and deploy ambitious content experiences faster than ever, using whatever components you like.

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 08/04/2025

Last week Evelina—one of Sanity's newest faces—joined me on Code && Content 👇 watch the full episode on YouTube youtu.be/2Q3XkYZ9yz0

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 08/04/2025

✨ "Using these coordinates, create a new event, the title and description should use the local language" Custom content workflow with so little code 🤏 and it's all-@sanity.io-everything under the hood. 👀 Coming soon...

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 01/04/2025

🥇 No one's making more ambitious developer content than @jason.energy so I picked his brains about it on Code && Content last week!

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 26/03/2025

🙋‍♀️"Why can't I use my favorite database?" We get asked this a lot so I went straight to the top to find out from @sanity.io CTO @simensvale.bsky.social. Spoiler: the Content Lake is your new favorite database.

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 21/03/2025

Dialing in the message with Evelina today in LDN. What's next at @sanity.io? Follow along and find out...

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 17/03/2025

New long-form YouTube tutorial on building content-driven apps with just your voice, Cursor and @sanity.io is up now! 👇 Awesome watching folks other than engineers take the course and build with Sanity for the first time. The barrier to entry is so low now.

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 14/03/2025

📣 AI models can't yet translate human needs into technical solutions—that's your job. Listen to this week's episode of Code && Content with @maggieappleton.com on YouTube or in your podcast player 👇 www.sanity.io/code-and-con...

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 04/03/2025

We're a CMS, I promise. We just do stuff your dad's CMS doesn't. This screenshot is from Evelina's "what's new" wrap up for March, there's so much more! www.sanity.io/blog/what-s-...

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 24/02/2025

Still writing React? So am I. Last week's Code && Content episode with @codey.bsky.social is out on YouTube and on your podcast player. youtu.be/7n1JmTAVjrU

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React in 2025, what's next?

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 21/02/2025

Episode 02 of Code && Content goes live in a few hours, Cody joins me to talk all-things-React. Subscribe on YouTube or the podcast! 👇 www.sanity.io/code-and-con...

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 17/02/2025

I've gotten to do a lot of rad things at Sanity, but rewriting the home page copy—to talk plainly and directly to folks like me—is way up there. The real work tho was by Lars and @msfragala.bsky.social to design + build this in <2 weeks! sanity.io?exp=variant

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The Content Operating System | Sanity

A fully customizable all-code backend for content-driven websites and apps—their builders and creators.

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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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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 07/02/2025

Have you ever tried building a block editor? I never enjoyed it until the Portable Text Editor arrived, so I had to talk to the guy (@hamburger.cloud) who built it! Watch on YouTube or listen to the podcast: youtu.be/_m_yyQ2HAZc

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The final boss of front-end: block editors

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Cody @codey.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Testing the experimental new React 19 `<ViewTransition />` component with @hamburger.cloud's awesome PortableText Editor playground to see how it can animate complex content. Super impressed!!! 💖 We'll definitely build on top of this for www.sanity.io/live 😍

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 06/02/2025

This podcast thing is looking like a *real* podcast thing

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 04/02/2025

👋 Time to talk content! I'm starting a new podcast for conversations at the intersection of code and content called ... Code && Content!

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 17/01/2025

Cooking a @shadcn + Portable Text Editor demo for a video. There is so much about WYSIWYG behavior you take for granted until you start DIY'ing it.

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 14/01/2025

When you store rich text and block content as a string you miss out on doing stuff like querying "extract every URL from every link in every post" ... I mean unless you want to regex it

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 11/01/2025

My discover feed on this app is only ever political. No matter how many times I press “less like this”

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 10/01/2025

I have run at least 100km/week for 15 of the last 16 weeks 🫠

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 09/01/2025

devs will see 10,000 words of content and say "that's a string"

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 09/01/2025

One of those "finally!" features shipped in yesterday's Sanity Studio release. Markdown formatting shortcuts for the Portable Text Editor!

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 07/01/2025

Over the break I was playing with useOptimistic, and the React Docs have this example which bugged me in three ways... 👇

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 06/01/2025

Set ambitious goals and say them out loud

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 02/01/2025

I did 1️⃣ personal-project thing over the break: update my blog home page to add all my YouTube videos, talks, courses, etc to the feed. www.simeongriggs.dev

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simeonGriggs.dev | Thoughts on Internet

Thoughts on Internet

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 02/01/2025

Here’s my year in review blog post any questions?

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 02/01/2025

My MacBook’s acting like it hasn’t been booted up all year

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 01/01/2025

Kicking off 2025 writing PR's to fix my own crappy code from 2024 😤

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 31/12/2024

2025: - Start a podcast - 1000 subs on YouTube - Low 3 marathon

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Simeon Griggs @simeongriggs.dev · 23/12/2024

Forget the physical box of cables, I'm paying Dropbox $120/yr to store archives of work from my graphic design days that I no longer have the apps to open. What if I just ... deleted it all🤔

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