Creating a Featured Posts Lists Limited in Count in Jekyll

I was having problems getting a list of Jekyll blog posts that had a specific property declared in the YAML front matter (a simple featured: true) and limiting the list. If you do what I did at first:

{% for post in site.posts limit:1 %}
   {% if post.featured == true %}

     {{ post.title }}

   {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

It will only work if the first post is a featured post, but not if the second post or after is the featured post. That's because the list is limited before it's filtered. Additionally, the {% if %} does not allow limit:1.

I racked my brain and the resources of the Internet with many possible approaches that I won't bore you with, but thanks to this very helpful comment I was able to build this out that worked great:

// Emulates `limit:1`
{% for post in site.posts %}
    {% if post.featured == true %}
      {% capture count %}{{ count | plus: '1' }}{% endcapture %}
      {% if count == '1' %}

        {{ post.title }} 

      {% endif %}
  {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

// Emulates `limit:2 offset:1`
{% for post in site.posts %}
  {% if post.featured == true %}
    {% capture counttwo %}{{ counttwo | plus: '1' }}{% endcapture %}
    {% if counttwo == '2' or counttwo == '3' %}

      {{ post.title }}

    {% endif %}
  {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

PS I can't even find documentation where I normally look for {{ count }}.