From 65191fd93ce99cb1c83b20dc77a7faacae059d20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kat Inskip <kat@inskip.me>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2025 08:12:16 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] feat: move to using a tree

---
 content/external/external.toml | 74 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 templates/external.html        | 15 ++++---
 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

diff --git a/content/external/external.toml b/content/external/external.toml
index 2f55e5a..52e75b3 100644
--- a/content/external/external.toml
+++ b/content/external/external.toml
@@ -1,44 +1,42 @@
-[categories.written]
+[[categories]]
+lookup = "written"
 title = "Written"
+  [[categories.posts]]
+  title = "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way"
+  author = "Eric S. Raymond, Rick Moen"
+  permalink = "http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html"
+  archive = "https://archive.ph/4Nsm2"
 
-[categories.video]
+  [[categories.posts]]
+  title = "Humanity's Endgame"
+  author = "Henry Wismayer"
+  permalink = "https://www.noemamag.com/humanitys-endgame/"
+  archive = "https://archive.ph/wvnUr"
+
+  [[categories.posts]]
+  title = "If all the world were a monorepo"
+  author = "Julie Tibshirani"
+  permalink = "https://jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the-world-were-a-monorepo"
+  archive = "https://archive.ph/5ZOw2"
+
+[[categories]]
+lookup = "video"
 title = "Video"
 note = "If any of these videos disappear, reach out to me and I can provide you with a copy of them."
+  [[categories.posts]]
+  title = "Microsoft broke my voice"
+  author = "a_lilian"
+  permalink = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKcT-aQuIFs"
+  suffix = "YouTube"
 
-[posts]
+  [[categories.posts]]
+  title = "Burn After Watching"
+  author = "a_lilian"
+  permalink = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IargH0hL-s"
+  suffix = "YouTube"
 
-[[posts.written]]
-title = "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way"
-author = "Eric S. Raymond, Rick Moen"
-permalink = "http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html"
-archive = "https://archive.ph/4Nsm2"
-
-[[posts.written]]
-title = "Humanity's Endgame"
-author = "Henry Wismayer"
-permalink = "https://www.noemamag.com/humanitys-endgame/"
-archive = "https://archive.ph/wvnUr"
-
-[[posts.written]]
-title = "If all the world were a monorepo"
-author = "Julie Tibshirani"
-permalink = "https://jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the-world-were-a-monorepo"
-archive = "https://archive.ph/5ZOw2"
-
-[[posts.video]]
-title = "Microsoft broke my voice"
-author = "a_lilian"
-permalink = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKcT-aQuIFs"
-suffix = "YouTube"
-
-[[posts.video]]
-title = "Burn After Watching"
-author = "a_lilian"
-permalink = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IargH0hL-s"
-suffix = "YouTube"
-
-[[posts.video]]
-title = "Lost Ephemera - The traces we left behind"
-author = "a_lilian"
-permalink = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbg-Jjfw2Dg"
-suffix = "YouTube"
+  [[categories.posts]]
+  title = "Lost Ephemera - The traces we left behind"
+  author = "a_lilian"
+  permalink = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbg-Jjfw2Dg"
+  suffix = "YouTube"
diff --git a/templates/external.html b/templates/external.html
index 71ecb5d..d05013d 100644
--- a/templates/external.html
+++ b/templates/external.html
@@ -4,19 +4,18 @@
 <section id="blogposts">
   <h2>Things I find value in sharing</h2>
   {% set data = load_data(path="content/external/external.toml") %}
-  {% for k, v in data.posts %}
+  {% for category in data.categories %}
   <section>
-    {% set cat = data.categories[k] %}
-    <h3>{{ cat.title }}</h3>
-    {% if cat.note is defined %}
-    <p>{{ cat.note }}</p>
+    <h3>{{ category.title }}</h3>
+    {% if category.note is defined %}
+    <p>{{ category.note }}</p>
     {% endif %}
     <ul>
-    {% for kx in v %}
+    {% for post in category.posts %}
     <li>
       <article>
-          <a href="{{kx.permalink | safe}}"><strong>{{ kx.title }}</strong></a>
-          {% if kx.author is defined %} by {{ kx.author }}{% endif %}{% if kx.archive is defined %} - <a href="{{kx.archive}}">Archive</a> {% endif %}{% if kx.suffix is defined %} ({{ kx.suffix }}){% endif %}
+          <a href="{{post.permalink | safe}}"><strong>{{ post.title }}</strong></a>
+          {% if post.author is defined %} by {{ post.author }}{% endif %}{% if post.archive is defined %} - <a href="{{post.archive}}">Archive</a> {% endif %}{% if post.suffix is defined %} ({{ post.suffix }}){% endif %}
       </article>
     </li>
     {% endfor %}