Reduced the table of contents length by putting it into a table

Categories are grouped by their first character in the table

.github/scripts/render-readme.py

@@ -6,11 +6,9 @@ TEMPLATEPATH = "./.github/"
 TEMPLATEFILE = "README-template.j2"
 TARGETFILE = "./README.md"
 
-
 def new_technology_dict(repo_technology):
     return {"link_id": repo_technology.lower(), "entries": []}
 
-
 technologies = {}
 
 with open(DATAFILE, "r") as datafile:
@@ -39,11 +37,19 @@ for key, value in zip(technologies.keys(), technologies.values()):
     )
 
 categories = sorted(categories, key=lambda x: x["title"].upper())
+category_groups = {"Misc": []}
 for category in categories:
     category["entries"] = sorted(category["entries"], key=lambda x: x["name"].upper())
+    first_char = category["title"][0].upper()
+    if first_char in "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ":
+        if first_char not in category_groups:
+            category_groups[first_char] = []
+        category_groups[first_char].append(category)
+    else:
+        category_groups["Misc"].append(category)
 
 sponsors = data["sponsors"]
 
-output = template.render(categories=categories, sponsors=sponsors)
+output = template.render(category_groups=category_groups, categories=categories, sponsors=sponsors)
 
 open(TARGETFILE, "w").write(output)