Your Open Source morning briefing for May 03, 2026 — the top stories you need to know.
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{# Always render the hero — falls back to the theme OG image
when article.image_url is empty (e.g. after the audit's
repair_hero_images cleared a blocked Unsplash hot-link).
Without this fallback, evergreens with cleared image_url
render no hero at all → the JSON-LD ImageObject
loses its visual counterpart and LCP attrs go missing. #}
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