Building a Blog with Elixir and Phoenix

A humble “how I built my blog” post just lit up the Elixir crowd. The author ditched static site generators for Phoenix (a web framework) with simple server-rendered pages, stuffed posts in Markdown using NimblePublisher, and kept it ultra-lean—no database, no fuss, fronted by bunny.net for speed. Cue the chorus: “DeadViews” are alive and kicking, and people are feeling brave.

The loudest energy? Readers want interactivity. One fan dreams of dropping Livebook (think: live, runnable notebooks) right into posts so code and mini-apps run in the middle of an article. Another is “literally doing this today”—because they’re building an MMO and want a blog that can keep up with real feature demos and a one-click game launch. It’s the “show, don’t tell” movement, and Phoenix is the stage.

There’s a background tug-of-war—static-site purists vs. “add a little power” pragmatists—but today the vibes are celebratory. Jokes fly about “DeadViews” being the most alive part of the stack, and folks cheer the “no database, all speed” approach like it’s race day. If this post was meant as a reference, the community heard it as a rallying cry: keep it simple, ship it fast, then make it sing.