Knut Melvær is a humanities technologist currently working as Developer Advocate at Sanity.io. He has previously been a technology consultant and developer at Netlife Research, and a Ph.D. student in the study of religions at the University of Bergen. He is also the co-host of Small Differences, and has as a columnist written about research and technology in multiple major Norwegian newspapers.
Markdown in all its flavors, interpretations, and forks won’t go away. However, it’s important to look at emerging content formats that try to encompass modern needs. In this article, Knut shares his advice against Markdown by looking back on why it was introduced in the first place, and by going through some of the major developments of content on the web.
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Voice Assistants are on their way into people’s homes, wrists, and pockets. That means that some of our content will be spoken out loud with the help of digital speech synthesis. The web isn’t just passive text on a screen anymore. Web editors and UX designers have to get accustomed to making content and services that should be spoken out loud. In this tutorial, Knut Malvær will show you how to make a What You Get Is What You Hear (WYGIWYH) editor for speech synthesis using Sanity.io’s editor for Portable Text.
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Using a Structured Content Management System (SCMS) can be a great way to free your content from a paradigm that begins to feel its age. In this article, Knut Melvær suggests some overarching strategies, with some concrete real-world examples on how to think about working with structured content. This is the guide Knut wished had the last couple of years when running projects with headless Content Management Systems (CMSs), and we hope it will be helpful to you!
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