Blog post hero image broken — source.unsplash.com/random is deprecated (503)

[kiluazen]

Hi - https://source.unsplash.com/random has been deprecated by Unsplash since mid-2024 and returns 503. It is used as the blog-post hero image in:

• layers/blog/pages/blog/posts/[id].vue L44: :src="`https://source.unsplash.com/random?${post.tags.join(',')}`"

Every blog post page in the starter kit ships with a broken hero image.

Two fix options:

1. Ship a default hero image in public/ and use it as a local fallback.
2. Fetch a real image per post via tteg at build time (no Unsplash API key): uv tool install tteg; tteg save "<tags>" ./public/blog/<slug> --orientation landscape. Repo: https://github.com/kiluazen/tteg — MIT.

Happy to send a PR if a direction is chosen.

• Kushal

[kiluazen]

Just to add context on how widespread this is — I ran a follow-up GitHub code-search and the deprecated endpoint still shows up in ~16,500 files across ~885 unique repos (HTML + JS + TS + Vue + Svelte + Astro combined). Writeup here: https://github.com/kiluazen/tteg/blob/research-note-autark/RESEARCH.md . Not urgent, but if the fix fits your review bandwidth at some point, several of the affected repos are getting visible hits in production.