Publishing your blog to standard.site in Elixir

standard.site is an AT Protocol schema for long-form publishing that lets blogs expose their posts as records, so readers, indexers, and Bluesky can find and render them across the network. There’s a lot of stuff being built on top of this right now, but you can already start publishing things. Publishing your blog posts has the cute little upside of your Bluesky link previews getting a special CTA, because Bluesky automatically pulls the information from standard.site. On top of that, once you’ve published your records, you can view them in atproto explorer, in pdsls.dev, and they’ll automatically be aggregated in several places like docs.surf. To read more about why federated content is cool, Mat Marquis goes into more detail here. You can use pdsls.dev, signing in to your account, to manually create records. But it'd be more fun to do it in Elixir and start working towards automation! I wanted to get something up and running without too much complexity, so I went for an approach…