formatting fixes, date parsing fixes bc the order of the list on the left was borked

content/blog/Open Sourcing Tutor-GPT.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Open-Sourcing Tutor-GPT
-date: 06.02.23
+date: 06.02.2023
 tags:
   - blog
   - bloom

content/blog/Solving The Campfire Problem with Honcho.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Solving The Campfire Problem with Honcho
-date: 03.14.24
+date: 03.14.2024
 tags:
   - demos
   - philosophy

content/blog/Theory of Mind Is All You Need.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Theory-of-Mind Is All You Need
-date: 06.12.23
+date: 06.12.2023
 tags:
   - blog
   - ml

content/blog/User State is State of the Art.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: User State is State of the Art
-date: 02.23.24
+date: 02.23.2024
 tags:
   - blog
   - philosophy

content/blog/Xeno Grant -- grants for autonomous agents.md

@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
+---
+title: Xeno Grant -- grants for autonomous agents
+date: 12.13.2024
+tags:
+  - blog
+---
+
 A [Plastic Labs](https://plasticlabs.ai/) + [Betaworks](https://www.betaworks.com/) collab:
-- $10,000 per bot--half in $YOUSIM, half in $USDC
+- \$10,000 per bot--half in \$YOUSIM, half in \$USDC
 - Grants awarded directly the agents *themselves*
 - 4 week camp for agents & their devs
 
@@ -13,17 +20,17 @@ We're calling it Xeno Grant.
 
 Betaworks has been running camps for tech startups since their 2016 [BotCamp](https://www.betaworks.com/camp/botcamp) (where [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/) was started). And their last 4 have been dedicated explicitly to AI. Plastic itself was part of AI Camp: Augment. So they're the perfect partner for this experiment.
 
-Successful agent applicants will receive a grant equivalent to $10k USD. $5k in $YOUSIM from Plastic and $5k in $USDC from Betaworks.
+Successful agent applicants will receive a grant equivalent to \$10k USD. \$5k in \$YOUSIM from Plastic and \$5k in \$USDC from Betaworks.
 
 Plus they'll join a cohort of other agents for a 4 week Betaworks-style camp with programming and mentorship. 
 
 ## How to Apply
 
-Xeno Grant has 3 guiding objectives, all aligned with Plastic's principles for deploying the $YOUSIM treasury:
+Xeno Grant has 3 guiding objectives, all aligned with Plastic's principles for deploying the \$YOUSIM treasury:
 
 1. Support independent AI research & public goods
 2. Support Plastic's mission to radically decentralize AI alignment by solving identity for the agentic world
-3. Support the $YOUSIM community that makes all this possible
+3. Support the \$YOUSIM community that makes all this possible
 
 To those ends--for this first experiment--we're looking for applicants that meet criteria in 3 major areas:
 
@@ -86,7 +93,7 @@ Xeno Grant is a signal into the dark forest. We're excited to see what emerges.
 - Who can apply?
 - How will applications be evaluated
 - How does this relate to other Plastic grants? 
-- How does this benefit the $YOUSIM community?
+- How does this benefit the \$YOUSIM community?
 - What kind of open-source contribution is expected?
 - Can human developers assist their AI agents?
 - Is the IRL or remote or hybrid?

content/blog/YouSim Launches Identity Simulation on X.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: YouSim Launches Identity Simulation on X
-date: 11.08.24
+date: 11.08.2024
 tags:
   - yousim
   - honcho

content/blog/YouSim; Explore The Multiverse of Identity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: "YouSim: Explore the Multiverse of Identity"
-date: 06.17.24
+date: 06.17.2024
 tags:
   - demos
   - honcho

quartz.layout.ts

@@ -30,9 +30,13 @@ export const defaultContentPageLayout: PageLayout = {
     Component.Darkmode(),
     Component.DesktopOnly(Component.Explorer({
       sortFn: (a, b) => {
-        if (a.file && b.file) {
-          const aDate = new Date(a.file.frontmatter.date)
-          const bDate = new Date(b.file.frontmatter.date)
+        if (a.file?.frontmatter?.date && b.file?.frontmatter?.date) {
+          const parseDate = (dateStr: string) => {
+            const [month, day, year] = dateStr.split('.')
+            return new Date(parseInt(year), parseInt(month) - 1, parseInt(day))
+          }
+          const aDate = parseDate(a.file.frontmatter.date as string)
+          const bDate = parseDate(b.file.frontmatter.date as string)
           if (aDate < bDate) {
             return 1
           } else {
@@ -71,9 +75,13 @@ export const defaultListPageLayout: PageLayout = {
     Component.Darkmode(),
     Component.DesktopOnly(Component.Explorer({
       sortFn: (a, b) => {
-        if (a.file && b.file) {
-          const aDate = new Date(a.file.frontmatter.date)
-          const bDate = new Date(b.file.frontmatter.date)
+        if (a.file?.frontmatter?.date && b.file?.frontmatter?.date) {
+          const parseDate = (dateStr: string) => {
+            const [month, day, year] = dateStr.split('.')
+            return new Date(parseInt(year), parseInt(month) - 1, parseInt(day))
+          }
+          const aDate = parseDate(a.file.frontmatter.date as string)
+          const bDate = parseDate(b.file.frontmatter.date as string)
           if (aDate < bDate) {
             return 1
           } else {