Clojurians Log v2

I could use a tip or two on a strategy to attack a problem. I’m making a blog, and I’d like to list recent posts in a sidebar. Since I didn’t see anything built in, I went about trying to make a task myself. My initial (um, only) idea was basically to do half of what perun’s markdown task does: parse the yaml metadata for each file, sort by time, and put the result in the global metadata.

The thing that has me second-guessing myself is that I don’t know what I’m doing with pods. It appears that perun doesn’t really want outside access of pod dependencies (`global-deps`, create-pod, etc are private in perun.clj), so I don’t see a way for the pod for my custom task to participate in perun’s world very effectively. Do I need the pod? Is there some other angle I’m not seeing?