stephenloggedon-blog

A Phoenix LiveView blog with advanced search and filtering capabilities.

Features

• Real-time search with tag autocomplete
• Multi-tag filtering with OR logic
• Responsive design with Catppuccin color scheme
• Markdown content rendering
• Infinite scroll pagination
• Single-user authentication with 2FA TOTP (optional)
• RESTful API with mTLS authentication
• OpenTelemetry observability (logs, traces, metrics)
• Geographic analytics with GeoIP lookup
• Comprehensive Grafana dashboards

Tech Stack

• Phoenix LiveView + Turso (distributed SQLite)
• Tailwind CSS + Catppuccin theme
• OpenTelemetry with Grafana Cloud integration
• MaxMind GeoIP for geographic analytics
• Deployed on Fly.io with GitHub Actions CI/CD
• No authentication required for reading blog posts

Development Setup

1. Clone and install dependencies:

   git clone <repository>
   cd blog
   mix setup
   

2. Start the development server:

   mix phx.server
   

3. Visit http://localhost:4000

The app includes seed data with sample blog posts for testing.

Documentation

• DEPLOYMENT.md - Fly.io deployment with Turso database
• API_DOCUMENTATION.md - RESTful API with mTLS authentication
• GEOIP_SETUP.md - Geographic analytics setup

Observability

The blog includes comprehensive observability:

• Structured logging with OpenTelemetry
• Grafana Cloud integration for logs and traces
• Geographic analytics with MaxMind GeoIP
• Performance monitoring with separate UI/API dashboards
• User behavior tracking with browser and location analytics

Built with Phoenix LiveView for real-time interactivity.