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Scaling with Confidence: Next Generation Query Building with GROQD and Sanity
July 14, 2023Introducing GROQD: zero build step query composition, runtime validation & type-safety all declared in one place.A New Perspective: Sanity Perspectives and Live Previews
July 7, 2023In this post I'll walk through Sanity Perspectives and how they've drastically simplified our live preview workflows.Config 2023 Recap: Unveiling Figma's Game-Changing Updates
June 27, 2023New knowledge and best practices that came out of Figma’s design system conference this year.Empowering Users: Developing Accessible Mobile Apps using React Native
June 26, 2023Robust technical accessibility strategies and best practices we implemented for a mobile voting application using React Native.Build a Text Summarizer in 100 Lines of Code with Vercel AI SDK
June 16, 2023Vercel recently announced their AI SDK. I wanted to see just how easy it was to get up and running with this Vercel AI SDK and build something simple, but with some potential usefulness.Powering Our Website's Evolution: Next.js App Router and Sanity CMS in Action
June 15, 2023What we've learned building web apps using Sanity and Next.js App Router that is great for content authors and great for end users while rearchitecting our website.Learn by Doing: an iOS VoiceOver Guide for Developers
May 9, 2023That’s right, in just 10 minutes you can go from “what even is this" to a "fizz-buzz" level of capability with VoiceOver. Are you ready? Grab your phone and let’s go.Get 👏 their 👏 attention: Interactive presentations
February 22, 2023How to give engaging, memorable presentations to distracted audiencesMock factories make better tests
February 20, 2023Developers need a good way to produce mock data. Here’s how we implemented a mock factory for an e-commerce site that’s simple, flexible, and fun.How we reduced image bandwidth by 86% migrating our media library to Cloudinary
February 8, 2023Merely migrating to Cloudinary is saving us significant image bandwidth, which is great for our end-users and great for the world.So you wanna learn some AWS skills huh?
December 13, 2022Paul shares approaches to learning and levelling up your AWS skill set when starting as a beginner.The Evolution of urql
December 6, 2022As Formidable and urql evolve, urql has grown to be a project that is driven more by the urql community, including Phil and Jovi, than by Formidable itself. Because of this, and our commitment to the ethos of OSS, we are using this opportunity to kick off what we’re calling Formidable OSS Partnerships.Third-party Packages in Sanity Studio V2
November 15, 2022To get around our "modern language features" issue, we can tweak the Sanity Webpack configuration so that it uses babel to transpile the library files for our third-party libraries that are causing us problems.What the Hex?
October 24, 2022If you’re a designer or frontend developer, chances are you’ve happened upon hex color codes (such as `#ff6d91`). Have you ever wondered what the hex you’re looking at when working with hex color codes? In this post we’re going to break down these hex color codes and how they relate to RGB colors.