Fix Jekyll build crash caused by nil-valued custom_social in socials.yml

[Copilot]

The jekyll-socials gem crashes when iterating over social entries if any key maps to nil. Having custom_social: with all sub-keys commented out produces exactly that — a nil hash value — causing social[1]['logo'] to raise NoMethodError during build.

Change

• _data/socials.yml: Commented out the custom_social: key itself (not just its sub-entries), so no nil-valued entry is passed to the gem.

# Before — key exists, value is nil:
custom_social:
  # logo: ...
  # title: ...
  # url: ...

# After — key absent entirely:
# custom_social:
#   logo: ...
#   title: ...
#   url: ...

Original prompt

The GitHub Actions job failed with a Liquid Exception: undefined method [] for nil in /home/runner/work/jwtoney.github.io/jwtoney.github.io/_layouts/about.liquid. To resolve this, update _layouts/about.liquid so that all array/hash accesses (e.g., {{ some_variable['key'] }}) are wrapped in existence checks. Any access like {{ x['y'] }} should be rewritten as:

{% if x and x['y'] %}
{{ x['y'] }}
{% endif %}

For example, if site.data.authors['jwtoney'] is used and site.data.authors or 'jwtoney' isn't guaranteed to exist, wrap them accordingly. This prevents Liquid from throwing an error when the variable is nil.

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