Gleam is the language that powers this site. It runs on the fantastic Beam engine and has been a pleasure to work with. I highly recommend people check it out.
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This entire website runs in a container hosted on Fly.io. It was easy to set up, scale, configure and so forth.
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Lustre is a DSL that allows me to write HTML as Gleam code, though it can also be used as a frontend framework.
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Wisp is the web framework I use. It's written in Gleam, it's fast, and it doesn't get in my way.
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I've never been much of a front-end developer, and TailwindCSS helps me overcome that disability.
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I like getting statistics without tracking people. SimpleAnalytics lets me get traffic data without infringing on privacy.
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I don't want to hand my email out to every bot. Web3Forms lets people contact me while verifying they're not bots.
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I'm a big fan of having a well tested system. Playwright is a great end-to-end testing tool. It's fast, reliable, and easy to use.
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I've been a fan of Clojure for a long time. ClojureScript is a dialect of Clojure that compiles to JavaScript.
Read more ->My blog posts are stored as HTML files in the container. Simplifile makes it easy for me to read these files.
read more →I need to be able to schedule blog posts, and therefore I need date and time management. Tempo gives me those features.
read more →I don't do much with JSON, but I have some data that needs to be loaded on startup, like metadata about all of my blog posts. Gleam JSON makes this easy.
read more →Gleam OTP provides access and functionality to Erlang's OTP framework. I use it primarily to create in-memory caches to reduce reads from disk.
read more →Vix is an Elixir library for image processing. I use it to manage images at different sizes to reduce the amount of data transferred.
read more →Snag is a great little library that provides an error type which makes it easy to see what is going wrong in my application.
read more →I write my posts in Markdown, which has to be turned into HTML. Marked is a JS library which does exactly that.
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