kmelve

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by kmelve 9d ago
Editor of the Sanity engineering blog here. Sharing this post from our SRE team about how we reduced the hosting cost for Grafana Mimir while keeping redundancy for zonal failures. Happy to answer questions, and I'll pull in the author
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We cut our Grafana Mimir bill (nearly) in half(sanity.io)
1 points by kmelve 19d ago|0 comments
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How well do agents use your design system?(sanity.io)
3 points by kmelve 1mo ago|0 comments
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From WS_FTP to instructions.md: thirty years of web development(knut.fyi)
2 points by kmelve 2mo ago|0 comments
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Adding a give_feedback tool to our MCP server(sanity.io)
1 points by kmelve 3mo ago|0 comments
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We don't write code anymore: An essay from an engineering manager(sanity.io)
4 points by kmelve 4mo ago|0 comments
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Laws of Developer Experience for Content Management Systems(knut.fyi)
2 points by kmelve 6mo ago|0 comments
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by kmelve 6mo ago
Author here. I work at Sanity, so I'm obviously looking at this through our lens, but I tried to write it as general advice for anyone building developer tools and haven't thought that much about agents yet. The thing that prompte
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by kmelve 8mo ago
I work with Rosti at Sanity and helped get the word out on this. The core problem is that logos vary wildly in aspect ratio, pixel density, and visual weight, so lining them up at the same height or width never looks right. Rosti's app
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by kmelve 8mo ago
Author's colleague here. Rosti wrote this after we kept running into the same problem across customer sites. The core formula is Dan Paquette's proportional normalization (aspect ratio raised to a scale factor), but the density co
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The logo soup problem: Math behind making mismatched logos look good together(sanity.io)
7 points by kmelve 8mo ago|1 comments
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We got coding agents to break the Wiggum barrier(sanity.io)
9 points by kmelve 8mo ago|1 comments
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by kmelve 10mo ago
It's strange to see folks here speculate about something you've written. And if you only knew how much those headings and the structure of this post changed as I wrote it out and got internal feedback on it ^^_
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by kmelve 10mo ago
Fair point, we appreciated that courtesy, and I should have reached out first. That was a miss on my part. My thinking was that it became public pretty quickly once your post went viral (folks were already connecting the dots in the replies
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by kmelve 10mo ago
(I wrote the response) Just because it's marketing, doesn't mean it can also be educational? I am a marketer and a developer. But I also know that you don't get far by trying to trick people into your product. As a marketer,
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by kmelve 10mo ago
Yeah, we're looking into it!
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by kmelve 10mo ago
Ooof. We should fix that!
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by kmelve 10mo ago
Author here. I don't know folks... Maybe I have been dabbling so much with AI the last couple of years that I have started taking on its style. I had my digits on the keyboard for this piece though.
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by kmelve 10mo ago
We're fixing every week! Have you tried it recently? Are there particular issues you're having?
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by kmelve 10mo ago
Author here! Of course, I'm biased! But in that bias is a ton of experience in the CMS field and a lot of observation of actual teams trying to solve for content operations challenges. I think that's valuable to share, even if we
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Show HN: Forked styled-components with optimizations (40% faster for Linear)(github.com)
4 points by kmelve 1y ago|1 comments
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Non-technical recruiter builds first website in 7 hours with Cursor(sanity.io)
1 points by kmelve 1y ago|1 comments
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by kmelve 1y ago
She's our recruiter at Sanity. Never coded. Wanted a pottery portfolio. 7 hours with Cursor later, she had a live site. Didn't know what "deploying" meant when she started, debugged until 4AM, maxed out Vercel's dep
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A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code(sanity.io)
550 points by kmelve 1y ago|396 comments
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by kmelve 1y ago
I wrote a piece a few years ago that still reflects a lot of my thoughts on the tension between Markdown as a format and the actual experience of writing and publishing on the web: [“Thoughts on Markdown” – Smashing Magazine]( https:/&
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by kmelve 2y ago
I had the great pleasure of processing Sanity's donations to open source projects too. Hope other companies follow suit!
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Sentry just gave $750k to open source projects(blog.sentry.io)
137 points by kmelve 2y ago|22 comments
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by kmelve 2y ago
Pretty cool! The BlueSky API is on point. A colleague of mine put together this visualization based on the firehose: https://bigmood.blue/ Source: https://bsky.app/profile/even.westvang.com/post&#x
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Real-Time Updates at Scale with Sanity's Live Content API(sanity.io)
6 points by kmelve 2y ago|1 comments
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by kmelve 2y ago
Hi! I work at Sanity and wanted to share a blog post I co-wrote about our new Live Content API. We’ve tackled the challenge of delivering real-time content updates directly from our CDN, allowing it to scale without the usual caching headac

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