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Pre-fill safe defaults; let the source of truth override

if the feed adds itself, you know, it's the source of truth and you just override it.

Episode 68: Mind the Gap! (episode page, opens in a new tab) December 31, 2021, 2:08 p.m. CT 00:19:37 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

For the new medium tag, Dave suggests the index pre-tag what's already known, e.g. everything from LibriVox is an audiobook, as was done by pre-generating GUIDs. When a feed declares its own value, the feed is the source of truth and overrides the default.