docs(blog): Zero Stars Was an Octicon - #37
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GitHub trending wrapped star counts in an octicon SVG; the parser defaulted a miss to 0 and kept printing today's stars. Git-Session-Id: f05b
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Summary
Publish Zero Stars Was an Octicon.
GitHub trending wrapped the star count in an octicon SVG. The parser required digits immediately after the opening tag, defaulted a miss to 0, and kept parsing today's stars. OpenMAIC showed up as 0 stars +907 today; it has 22k.
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knowledge/blog/2026-08-30-zero-stars-was-an-octicon.mdin the brain repo. OG image included.Test plan
bundle exec jekyll build --limit_posts 8in a clean website worktree_site/blog/zero-stars-was-an-octicon/index.htmlgeneratedassets/images/og/zero-stars-was-an-octicon.png(excerpt avoids the ★ glyph)