TKB hot articles custom component (code inside)

Thanks to quite some help here on the Developer Forums (thanks again to the Lithium h4x0rs) in the past two weeks I created this nice little custom component that shows you a configurable ( number_of_articles parameter in the first line) number for popular TKB articles in the Knowledge Base associated with the currently shown board. It helps surfacing the great knowledge in TKBs in a "Sticky post" like manner. 

The presentation looks like the board topic view and if you add it to the Forum Page layout it looks like this:

Here's the code: 

<#assign number_of_articles = 2>
<#assign hot_article_kudo_treshold = 10>

<#assign tkb_present = rest("/boards/id/${coreNode.id}/tkb/realized").value?eval />
<#if tkb_present>
<#assign articlecount = rest("/boards/id/${coreNode.id}%40tkb/messages/count").value?number />
<#if (articlecount > 0)>
	<table class="lia-list-wide">
	<thead>
		<tr>
		<th scope="col" class="messageStatusIconColumn lia-data-cell-tertiary lia-data-cell-icon t-first"/>
		<th scope="col" class="threadSubjectColumn lia-data-cell-primary lia-data-cell-text"> Knowledge Base Article </th>
		<th scope="col" class="viewCountColumn lia-data-cell-secondary lia-data-cell-integer"> Views </th>
		<th scope="col" class="kudosCountColumn lia-data-cell-secondary lia-data-cell-integer"> Kudos </th>
		<th scope="col" class="latestPostDateColumn lia-data-cell-secondary lia-data-cell-date"> Last Updated </th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
	<#assign popular = rest("/boards/id/${coreNode.id}%40tkb/threads/popular?page_size=${number_of_articles}&restapi.response_style=view").threads.thread />
	<#list popular.messages.topic as message>
		<tr>
			<td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="messageStatusIconColumn lia-data-cell-tertiary lia-data-cell-icon">
				<img class="MessageStatusIcon" title="Knowledge Base Article" alt="Read full article after the link" src="<#if (message.kudos.count?number > hot_article_kudo_treshold)>${skin.images.icon_tkb_thread_hot.url}<#else>${skin.images.icon_tkb_thread.url}</#if>"/>
			</td>
			<td><a href="${message.@view_href}">${message.subject}</a></td>
			<td>${message.views.count}</td>
			<td>${message.kudos.count}</td>
			<td>
				<#if message.last_edit_time.@view_friendly_date = "">
					${message.last_edit_time.@view_date}
				<#else>
					${message.last_edit_time.@view_friendly_date}
				</#if>
			</td>
		</tr>
	</#list>
	</tbody>
	</table>
	<p style="text-align: right">
	<a href="${community.urls.tapestryPrefix}/${coreNode.title}-Knowledge-Base/tkb-p/${coreNode.id}@tkb">More Knowledge Base articles …</a>
	</p>
</#if>
</#if>