710: Simen Svale from Sanity
Show Description
What is Sanity and who is it for in the age of AI, managing content with AI, how Simen Svale uses AI agents alongside Sanity, designing a MCP, design with Pencil vs Figma, how Inngest works, and how Simen keeps AI agents busy all day.
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Guests
Simen Svale
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Co-founder/CTO at Sanity.io
Links
The Content Operating System for the AI era | Sanity
Coding Agents & Complexity Budgets | Lee Robinson
Message from Sanity
Pencil – Design on canvas. Land in code.
AI and backend workflows, orchestrated at any scale
Sponsors
Sanity.io
The back-end built for AI content operations. Power web, mobile, and agentic applications at scale.
Supper Club × Simen Svale Skogsrud and Espen Hovlandsdal from Sanity
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Simen & Espen from Sanity about what Sanity is, who uses Sanity, what is a content lake, how Sanity works with React or TypeScript, what GROQ is, how portable text works, and of course, the supper club questions.
Show Notes 00:36 Welcome
01:37 Who are you and what is Sanity?
04:04 What kinds of services use Sanity?
06:18 What is a content lake?
07:26 Enabling code access to Sanity Studio
13:12 Implenting Sanity into a React app
14:49 What is GROQ?
21:04 Is GraphQL still the best way to query data?
25:32 Workflows in Sanity
27:48 What is portable text?
35:19 How does Sanity work with TypeScript?
38:51 Ecommerce options with Sanity
41:29 Supper club questions
50:33 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
Syntax 533 - Zod Schema
Elden Ring
Risk of Rain
Sharp
Syntax 526 - Supper Club with on TRPC
××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Espen bread
Medium Tall
Shameless Plugs Sanity Syntax code
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Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets
Multi-Cloud in Sanity with Simen Svale Skogsrud
About Simen
Ever since he started programming simple games on his 8-bit computer back in the day, Simen has been passionate about how software can deliver powerful experiences. Throughout his career he has been a sought-after creator and collaborator for companies seeking to push the envelope with their digital end-user experiences.
He co-founded Sanity because the state of the art content tools were consistently holding him, his team and his customers back in delivering on their vision. He is now serving as the CTO of Sanity.
Simen loves mountain biking and rock climbing with child-like passion and unwarranted enthusiasm. Over the years he has gotten remarkably good at going over the bars without taking serious damage.
Links Referenced:
Sanity: https://www.sanity.io/
Semin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/svale/
Slack community for Sanity: https://slack.sanity.io/