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3 posts
03 Sep 2026
5 min

Compile-time Markdown in Phoenix, and why I reversed it

I built this blog to parse every post at compile time, wrote up why it was the right call, and then reversed it three weeks later. Both of my premises were false. Here is what replaced it, and how it keeps every property the compile-time version actually earned.

architecturebuildelixirphoenix
06 Apr 2026
4 min

Building an unsigned imx-boot for the IOT-DIN-IMX8PLUS

The first real build: a completely unsigned bootloader, on purpose, so that any problem is a build problem and not a signing problem. Two errors on the way, one of which is caused by a modern setuptools removing pkg_resources.

buildcompulabembeddedimx8secure-bootu-boot
30 Mar 2026
6 min

Pinning the U-Boot build environment for the IOT-DIN-IMX8PLUS

imx-boot is not one repository — it is U-Boot, ARM Trusted Firmware, NXP's imx-mkimage and the LPDDR4 training blobs, assembled together. Get one of them at the wrong version and it builds cleanly and fails to train memory. How I pinned all four using the board's own boot log.

atfbuildembeddedimx8secure-bootu-boot