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Show the GitHub Trending #5 finish at the top of the README - #141

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README header with the GitHub Trending and Trendshift badges

The problem

On Sunday, October 11, Open Intelligent UI reached #5 on GitHub Trending's daily list. A day earlier, on October 10, Trendshift ranked it #3 TypeScript Repository Of The Day. The README says neither. People deciding whether a project is alive and worth a clone read the README header first, and right now it shows them nothing about this.

The approach

Two Trendshift badges go on their own line under the CI and license badges, inside the centered header. Both link to the repository's Trendshift page. These are the exact badge endpoints Trendshift uses on that page's achievements section. Each one shows the best rank the repository has reached, not today's rank. So the header won't show a lower number next week, and it updates without anyone editing it if the project ranks higher later.

Only two of the four achievements made it in. Trendshift also lists #24 Repository Of The Day across all languages and #18 TypeScript Repository Of The Week. Both are true, but showing four badges would bury the #5 under weaker numbers.

The cost is a dependency on a third-party image host. If trendshift.io is down, GitHub shows each badge's alt text, which makes the same claim in words.

What is not covered

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