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It’s easy to assume that folks won’t use the defaults, but some will (intentionally or accidentally.) By improving these defaults, you improve the default experience of your product.
This is really important.
I tried to take care of these defaults when creating my recent GitHub Action to publish feed items on Mastodon or Pack11ty, my starter project for Eleventy.
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