jorin.me - Jorin's personal blog

This site is generated as static files via custom code using Elixir and hosted on Github pages.

After using Hugo for nearly a decade, I decided to take things in my own hands. With the current setup I am in complete control over the rendering and do not have to learn a custom static site generator. All used tooling are common Elixir ecosystem packages.

You can read more about the setup in my Moving the blog to Elixir post.

Structure

• pages/ contains the markdown and YAML content I regularly publish
• assets/ contains static content
• lib/ contains the code generating the side
• output/ is where the generated files are rendered

Running

• mix deps.get to install dependencies
• mix compile compiles code and generates the site during the compile step. This runs on commits using a Github Action.
• iex -S mix runs a dev server serving the side for local development

Acknowledgement

Thanks to fly.io's post on SSG using Elixir for helping me getting started.

License

The content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The code is licensed under the MIT license.