Everyone loves a good “how I set up my blog post” blog post, so here’s mine, using Elixir, Phoenix, and NimblePublisher. For added spice it’s running on Dokploy on Hetzner, with bunny.net in front as a CDN.
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Fun! I redid json.blog recently but went the other way– dynamic, using MDex as my markdown processor. Mostly because of some stuff I wanted to do that wouldn’t be as easy with a static site (I was migrating from Hugo). I built some fun stuff on the admin side like book tracking/syncing using Hardcover.app to power the /books route.
My sitemap is hand rolled in a feeds context that I use for RSS and JSONfeed as well:
@doc """
Generates sitemap.xml content.
## Options
* `:target_date` - The datetime to use for filtering published posts and page lastmod.
Defaults to `DateTime.utc_now()`.
"""
@spec sitemap(keyword()) :: String.t()
def sitemap(opts \\ []) do
now = Keyword.get(opts, :target_date, DateTime.utc_now())
posts = Blog.list_posts(target_date: now)
# Also include main pages
pages = [
%{url: "/", lastmod: now},
%{url: "/about/", lastmod: now},
%{url: "/archive/", lastmod: now},
%{url: "/style-guide/", lastmod: now}
]
"""
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
#{Enum.map_join(pages, "\n", &sitemap_url/1)}
#{Enum.map_join(posts, "\n", &sitemap_post_url/1)}
</urlset>
"""
end
defp sitemap_url(%{url: url, lastmod: lastmod}) do
"""
<url>
<loc>#{@site_url}#{url}</loc>
<lastmod>#{DateTime.to_iso8601(lastmod)}</lastmod>
</url>
"""
end
defp sitemap_post_url(post) do
"""
<url>
<loc>#{@site_url}#{post.url_path}</loc>
<lastmod>#{DateTime.to_iso8601(post.published_at)}</lastmod>
</url>
"""
end
Some improvements remain, but it’s kind of nice how easy it is to roll your own.
I gotta look into mdex, that’s a lot of recommendations I’ve gotten now in a short amount of time
We need an org-mode parser in Elixir!
