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My Blog Engine Is the Erlang Build Tool
From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist form it has. I tell them it’s a bad idea and that I use the Erlang compiler infrastructure for it, and they agree to look elsewhere.
I write into a void, either transcribing talks or putting down rants I’ve repeated 2-3 times to other people so it becomes faster to just link things in the future. It also is plugin-friendly in order to compile Elixir modules, and other BEAM languages, like LFE, or very early versions of Gleam. Since my blog needed to rebuild the fewest static files possible and I already used a template compiler, plugging it into Rebar3 became the solution demanding the least effort.
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