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+# It's pretty common for devs to have prettier configured to format on save,
+# so let's include some config to prevent it messing up files in this repo
+
+# Prettier struggles with the kramdown extensions
+*.md
+
+# Our stylesheets use a particular in-house(?) style
+*.scss