Optimize category traversal and eliminate redundant filesystem operations

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Performance analysis identified sequential async operations, redundant filesystem scanning, and inefficient data access patterns causing unnecessary overhead in content loading and sitemap generation.

Changes

Parallel category tree traversal

// Before: Sequential blocking
for (const childCategory of this.#childCategories.values()) {
    const posts = await childCategory.getAllPosts();
    childPosts.push(...posts);
}

// After: Parallel execution
const childPostsArrays = await Promise.all(
    [...this.#childCategories.values()].map((childCategory) => 
        childCategory.getAllPosts()
    )
);

Sitemap generation refactor

• Removed ~150 lines of fs.readdir/fs.stat operations
• Leverages existing Category/Post infrastructure
• Batch-loads metadata once, stores in Map for O(1) access vs repeated async calls per locale

Deduplication and optimization

• Extracted #sortPostsByDate() from duplicated sorting logic in getPosts() and getAllPosts()
• Changed getLatestPostDate() from O(n) iteration to O(1) array access on sorted data
• Added maxPosts parameter to toSerialize() with default 100 limit per category

Documentation

Added PERFORMANCE_IMPROVEMENTS.md covering optimizations, caching strategies, and future considerations.

Warning

Firewall rules blocked me from connecting to one or more addresses (expand for details)

I tried to connect to the following addresses, but was blocked by firewall rules:

• cdn.jsdelivr.net
  • Triggering command: node /home/REDACTED/work/xiyo.github.io/xiyo.github.io/node_modules/.bin/../vite/bin/vite.js build (dns block)
• eu.posthog.com
  • Triggering command: node /home/REDACTED/work/xiyo.github.io/xiyo.github.io/node_modules/.bin/../vite/bin/vite.js build (dns block)
• iojs.org
  • Triggering command: curl -q --fail --compressed -L -s REDACTED -o - (dns block)
• workers.cloudflare.com
  • Triggering command: node /home/REDACTED/work/xiyo.github.io/xiyo.github.io/node_modules/.bin/../vite/bin/vite.js build (dns block)

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Original prompt

Identify and suggest improvements to slow or inefficient code

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