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Hello, internet!

I'm Simeon, a 🇦🇺 in 🇬🇧 and Solution Engineer @ Sanity.io.

I also made a Tailwind CSS Palette Generator people seem to like.

I like talking. I use stuff.

Add Vercel Analytics to a Remix Application

2022-12-07

Vercel offers simple, privacy-focused analytics and web vitals data. These can be instantly set up on Next.js and other frameworks. It's a little extra work for your Remix app, but worth it.

Bridging the developer-author gap

2022-11-27

In a content-editable website project, the people involved are two separate and yet equally important groups. The developers who build websites, and the authors that populate them with content. These are their stories.

Prioritise content over components

2022-10-03

Visually, components are unique, flexible units to compose complete layouts. For content, they can trap reusable data into single-use decorations.

How to ask for things with Loom

2022-02-14

Almost all forms of communication are an "ask" of some kind. Even if you’re not asking for some "thing". At a minimum you're asking the other party for their time.

Backup Sanity to AWS S3

2020-12-11

Headless CMS's are refreshingly "set and forget". But if the Risk Management Department needs to be satiated by having your own backup solution, it's easy to do.

The guide to useEffect() I wish I had

2020-12-10

If you're relatively new to React, Hooks aren't new, they simply exist. And to understand the useEffect() hook is to almost entirely understand React Components.

Sanity Schema Generator

Updated 2020-06-18 | Published 2020-06-09

Trying my hand at adding to the the Developer Experience of Sanity.

Generate massive amounts of fake Sanity content

Updated 2023-07-21 | Published 2023-07-21

Posted on Sanity.io Exchange

It can be useful for testing plugins, front ends, or other integrations to have a Sanity Studio populated with fake content.

Create a document form progress component

Updated 2023-04-22 | Published 2023-04-22

Posted on Sanity.io Exchange

Summarise form progression by decorating the entire editing form for a document with a component loaded at the root level.

Create richer array item previews

Updated 2023-04-22 | Published 2023-04-22

Posted on Sanity.io Exchange

Object types use a preview property to display contextual information about an item when they are inside of an array; customizing the preview component can make them even more useful for content creators.

Create a time duration object field

Updated 2023-04-28 | Published 2023-04-22

Posted on Sanity.io Exchange

Delight your content creators with intelligent inputs for more complex data structures

Create a survey rating number field input

Updated 2023-04-22 | Published 2023-04-22

Posted on Sanity.io Exchange

Give content creators quick access to valid values by replacing the default number field input with a list of options.

Create a visual string selector field input

Updated 2023-04-22 | Published 2023-04-22

Posted on Sanity.io Exchange

Go beyond a plain radio list of inputs by giving authors more contextually useful buttons to select values from.

How to implement Multi-tenancy with Sanity

Updated 2023-03-23 | Published 2023-03-23

Posted on Sanity.io Exchange

In this guide, you’ll see how Sanity separates organizations, projects, datasets, and members by working through a hypothetical example of a growing company that can expand its content model as they grow – without needing a complete overhaul.

Creating a Parent/Child Taxonomy

Updated 2023-07-06 | Published 2022-03-04

Posted on Sanity.io Exchange

Create common taxonomy schemas like Categories and Tags with parent/child relationships