There is an irony to Sanity telling you not to build your own CMS ... because that's exactly how Sanity was founded. Engineers like Espen were there at the start, but we didn't just build our own CMS—we built your CMS. We're still building it, and everything beyond CMS too.

Positive content can have a powerful impact. Mark Techson's journey to Google, to speaker, to game show host is living proof. Even in our currently unsettling times (aka the "Age of AI") there's still plenty of reason to stay enthusiastic about what we can do and what we can create.

Mark on X

https://x.com/marktechson

How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area

https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surface-area

Mark Techson talk at Epic Web Conf 2025

https://www.youtube.com/live/SDuvi5eUqp0?si=2A-XpBtENPrioUIo&t=32167

Microsoft Inclusive Design (guides on Permanent, Temporary, and Situational)

https://inclusive.microsoft.design/

Simeon on X

https://x.com/simeonGriggs

Full episodes

https://www.sanity.io/code-and-content

Developers love writing Markdown, everyone else? Not so much. There's an opportunity cost to storing rich text and block content as a string. It ties content to presentation in a way that's unpleasant to write and brittle to render. Knut joins the podcast to discuss when and where Markdown is acceptable and what makes Portable Text the preferred alternative.

Thoughts on Markdown
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/thoughts-on-markdown/

Full episodes
https://www.sanity.io/code-and-content

Knut on X
https://x.com/kmelve

Simeon X
https://x.com/simeonGriggs

React Miami co-founder/organizer Michelle Bakels joins the podcast to discuss creating the leading React conference brand, toning down the Miami-ness, and projecting what matters to you through your events.

All episodes

https://www.sanity.io/code-and-content

Michelle Bakels on X

https://x.com/MichelleBakels

“Tech broke my heart” by Michelle Bakels at Epic Web Conf 2024

https://www.youtube.com/live/Q0fwzlwTLWk?si=9nNFkEDdGAS-MPyA&t=5405

React Miami

https://www.reactmiami.com/

G2i

https://www.g2i.co/

React Miami 2025 recap tweet thread

https://x.com/Beccalytics/status/1917616284285415879

Aaron Francis, founder of Try Hard Studios joins the Code && Content podcast to discuss the contrast between internal and independent content production, being your authentic self without projecting your whole self, and the role of human education in the age of all-knowing AI.

Sign up for Sanity’s Spring Release

https://www.sanity.io/spring-release-2025

All episodes of Code && Content

https://www.sanity.io/code-and-content

Follow Aaron on X.com – The Everything App (formerly known as Twitter)

https://x.com/aarondfrancis

Screencasting Course

https://screencasting.com/

One of Sanity's newest faces, Evelina, joins the Code && Content Podcast to discuss making the change from engineer to company mascot, oversharing, self-promotion, incremental improvement and opting out of imposter syndrome.

Full episodes:
https://www.sanity.io/code-and-content

Follow Evelina on X
https://x.com/whalestream18

Jason Lengsorf, founder of CodeTV joins the Code && Content podcast to talk incremental improvement, avoiding the algorithm trap and not waiting for permission.

Blog post:
https://www.sanity.io/blog/pushing-all-the-envelopes-with-ambitious-content

CodeTV:
https://codetv.dev/

Sanity's episode of Web Dev Challenge:
https://www.sanity.io/lwj

"The Gap" by Ira Glass
https://vimeo.com/85040589

Simen Svale, Co-founder and CTO of Sanity joins the Code && Content podcast to talk about your new favorite database, The Content Lake, why we chose to build it and why you can't BYODB.

Maggie Appleton joins the Code && Content podcast to question are text-based interfaces really the future of UI, how to become a better prompt engineer, and what can our current slate of AI tools do to make us better educated, not just more productive?

Maggie Appleton on BlueSky
https://bsky.app/profile/maggieappleton.com

A Picture Worth a Thousand Programmes - Maggie Appleton, React Advanced 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4SMvMfM7NI

Eraser, code to diagram
https://www.eraser.io/diagramgpt

Simon Willison’s blog
https://simonwillison.net/

Latent Space newsletter
https://www.latent.space/

Even Westvang joins the Code && Content podcast to get better at telling AI what to do, writing micro-management prompts and visualize digesting corn.