Nerd sniping, now with AI

I got nerd sniped into adding a table of contents into my Jekyll blog. I don’t know, because I think it looks cool (here’s an example). Getting nerd sniped therein of itself is not terribly interesting, but having AI help with nerd sniping is a game changer.

Despite my love for Jekyll, I don’t read or write Ruby. I find the syntax incorrigible. In this case, I was using the venerable jekyll-toc plugin and it was lacking one key thing that I want to do, that is, render the table of contents only when there is something to display. After banging my head against the wall on search engines and shuddering at the thought of submitting a pull request in Ruby, I turned to ChatGPT for a solution.

The result was a short and sweet custom plugin, my first ever on this site. At the end of the day, I’m glad this one day-ish excursion is no longer than it needed to be. I’ll count that as a win.

module Jekyll
    module CountHeadersFilter
        def count_headers(input)
        return 0 unless input
        input.scan(/<h[1-6].*?>.*?<\/h[1-6]>/i).length
        end
    end
end

Liquid::Template.register_filter(Jekyll::CountHeadersFilter)

See? Incorrigible.

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