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+## maintenance status
+
+I am on a break from maintaining open-source projects due to health reasons.
+PRs will still be accepted and issues will still be looked at, but there are no
+promises about when this will happen.
+
 ## motivation
 
 I recently had to use the AWS CLI. It wants to save data in `~/.aws`, but I