diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index c02cfb4..401b7d5 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
         - https://github.com/wereHamster/haskell-css-syntax
     - JS
         - Doing our own tokenizer lol
+- [ ] swap from using `draft` to using `date` for determing draft status, lack of date = draft
 - [ ] setup fingerprinting in file names for css and js
     - setup lambdas via: https://hackage-content.haskell.org/package/mustache-2.4.3.1/docs/Text-Mustache.html#v:overText
     - This may require a refactor of how we handle templates to use `object` instead of just using aeson integration from the mustache crate
diff --git a/src/Templates.hs b/src/Templates.hs
index 5493b66..c4a2951 100644
--- a/src/Templates.hs
+++ b/src/Templates.hs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ module Templates where
 
 import Data.Aeson (ToJSON)
 import qualified Data.Aeson as A
+import Data.HashMap.Strict (insert)
 import Data.Text (Text)
 import qualified Data.Text as T
 import Development.Shake
@@ -11,9 +12,13 @@ import GHC.Stack (HasCallStack)
 import Text.Mustache (ToMustache)
 import qualified Text.Mustache as Mus
 import qualified Text.Mustache.Compile as Mus
+import qualified Text.Mustache.Types as Mus
 import Types (Post (postAuthor, postContent, postDate, postDescription, postLink, postTags, postTitle), RenderedPost (RenderedPost, rPostAuthor, rPostContent, rPostDate, rPostHasTags, rPostId, rPostIsoDate, rPostLink, rPostSummary, rPostTags, rPostTitle))
 import Utilities
 
+extend_with_lambda :: Mus.Object -> (Text, (Text -> Text)) -> Mus.Value
+extend_with_lambda obj (key, val) = Mus.Object $ insert key (Mus.overText val) obj
+
 applyTemplate :: (HasCallStack, (ToMustache a)) => String -> a -> Action Text
 applyTemplate templateName context = do
   tmpl <- readTemplate $ "templates" </> templateName