Progress!

Before:

./data/mentions/3f256ff[...]494.json
./data/mentions/62afe34[...]020.json
...

Hmm, so which file pertains to which post?

{{ $slug := .RelPermalink | sha256 }}
{{ $all_mentions := index site.Data.mentions $slug | default slice }}
{{ $likes := where $all_mentions "wm-property" "like-of" }}

At least the template code to get at it is more or less sane.

During:

./data/mentions/note/8/mentions.json
./data/mentions/note/9/mentions.json

Well, that’s clear as day!

{{ $key := (split path.Dir .RelPermalink) "/" | after 1 | append "mentions" }}
{{ $all_mentions := index site.Data.mentions $key | default slice }}
{{ $likes := where $all_mentions "wm-property" "like-of" }}

What the actual fuck? I want to write {{ index site.Data.mentions .RelPermalink }} and have done with it. To the data mungery!

Now

./data/mentions/all.json

That’s a tad more opaque, isn’t it? Ah well, there’s always jq. I can’t see what’s got new mentions from git status any more, but also, I can’t forget to add any new data files either. Call it a win on aggregate.

{{ $all_mentions = index site.Data.mentions.all .RelPermalink | default dict }}
{{ $likes := index $all_mentions "like-of" | default slice }}

Well structured data for the win! And I’m working on eliminating the annoying default dict and default slice in that too.

The pull of “One Big Text File” is strong

I’m semi-seriously contemplating pulling the Hugo theme that I use to generate this website into a single Org file and using Org’s Literate Programming tooling to spit it out into individual layout files.

I may need an intervention.