A programmer's notebook

Have a chat with your Sanity content from VS Code

In this blogpost I will show you how to connect Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot to your Sanity project's MCP server, so you can start chatting away with your content. Using the MCP server, you can query Sanity for any type of content using natural language and even update or create new content following the project's content model.

Published: 2025-05-21

How to use Docker without Docker Desktop on Windows 10 or 11

Published: 2025-04-03

Diagram showing how the production environment connects to an external database server, while the development environment only uses in-memory databases included in the application themselves.

How to use an in-memory database for quick project setup for dev environments in .NET

To quickly start working on a project on a new computer, I have started using a database completely defined in code. This way, it's just a matter of checking out the code and hitting dotnet run to start the application, no external resources needed.

Published: 2025-02-26

Use Contentful's image processing to give every user the best image for their screen size

Published: 2022-06-07

Contentful migrations: Copy content from one entry to another

Published: 2022-04-07

Optimizely can now generate certificates for root domains in DXP

Published: 2022-02-16

Contentful: How to avoid messing up your production content using environments

Published: 2021-11-23

Deploy Sanity Studio with Azure DevOps

Published: 2021-07-09

Advanced setup for Windows Terminal

Published: 2020-11-30

Increase Docker speed on Windows by setting up Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

Published: 2019-12-12

About me: Bjarte Aune Olsen

I'm a senior consultant at Novacare AS in Oslo, Norway.

I'm working mainly in the Microsoft part of the programming world with .NET and Azure, and have specialized in Optimizely CMS and the headless CMS Contentful.

I have been working on the websites of some of Norway's largest organizations, like NorgesGruppen and NHO and I'm currently working for Statens pensjonskasse.

I have been a certified Optimizely developer since 2011 and a full time programmer since 2010. Before that I combined freelancing as a video producer, web designer and intranet editor.

I have a bachelor's degree in Media & Communications, specializing in film directing from Goldsmiths College, London and a degree in Computer Engineering from Oslo University College.

As a hobby project, I'm running Hvem der? (Who's There?), a service with a website and apps for Android and iPhone to help consumers avoid and block telemarketers and spam calls.

I'm living at the edge of the forest in Oslo with my wife and two sons.

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