Moving the Blog to Elixir

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Tailwind CSS

I have to give a huge shout out Jason Stiebs' post on the fly.io blog. I followed the tutorial to use NimblePublisher to read markdown files, render them to HTML using Phoenix LiveView HEEx templates and integrate Tailwind into the setup. Having Tailwind available is something I really wanted. I plan to use it to simplify my hardly maintainable CSS.

#Developer Tools #Design Tools #Website Design 868 social mentions

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Hugo

After running my blog with Hugo hosted on Netlify for nearly a decade, I decided to migrate to a custom solution. I think I resisted the urge to rewrite my personal site for long enough and I deserve to have some fun. I am not going to find an excuse. I wanted to do this in Elixir. I wanted to build all the details of a static website from scratch once. It feels empowering to understand everything. And everything I learned along the way is generally useful Elixir knowledge. There are no concepts specific to a single static side generator.

#Static Site Generators #Blogging #Blogging Platform 354 social mentions