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Christian Grøngaard
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Father of two children and countless software bugs

Currently working on the text editor used in the very core of the @Sanity.io Content Operating System: https://github.com/portabletext/editor.
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Replaced the boring buttons with some type controls!

(🤫 This is actually a really good showcase for input rules: github.com/portabletext...)
October 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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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...
October 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Now that's what I call vacation
GitHub contribution chart with three consecutive blank weeks
August 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Partial solar eclipse, March 29, as seen from Denmark (through the right glasses)
The sun, visible through dark clouds, partially eclipsed by the moon
March 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Found my Wolfenstein 3D floppy
Blue floppy disk containing Wolfenstein 3D Episode One: Escape from Wolfenstein
March 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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My MacBook from 2007. Still boots. And I still hate computers.
MacBook A1181 with various stickers, including "I Hate Computers", on a couch
February 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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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
February 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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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"
February 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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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 that restricts the editor to one block.
February 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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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)
January 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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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
January 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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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
January 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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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
December 17, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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I want to see _the_ video 😭
Screenshot of https://jackiechan.com/video.htm showing only a single YouTube video embed: "The video is private"
December 8, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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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
December 2, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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Looks like @github.com fixed the merge experience 😲
GitHub merge section with a clear summary of the CI checks, highlighting what checks failed
November 15, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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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'
November 13, 2024 at 9:56 AM
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Time to get off that other platform
Email from the other platform stating my data is ready for download
November 7, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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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
November 4, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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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.
2×4 LEGO brick combo card
November 3, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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"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
October 31, 2024 at 9:17 PM