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+The scene: it's 2015. It's planet Earth. A human is writing code.
+
+A `for` loop to be precise.
+
+It happens to be in a programming language called Python. This provokes an
+age-old question to arrive unabashedly in the human's mind:
+
+> When will it end?
+
+But the human knows that said language is full of
+~~[antigravity](https://xkcd.com/353/)~~ syntactic sugar.
+The human also knows that there exists other humans who also use Python.
+Surely someone else had uploaded a solution to Earth's ubiquitous web of
+connected computing devices?
+
+The search began.
+
+And ended reasonably quickly on GitHub with a short-list of about 10 equally
+mediocre competitors. One pull request led to another; digital heads were
+turned; abandoned projects were resuscitated, and to cut a long story short, the
+library you know and love today was labouriously born.
+
+*te quiero demasiado*... تقدّم... in short, `tqdm`.
+
+It's still sort of being born; if I ever get around to releasing
+[v5](https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/milestone/8) I will officially call it "out of
+beta phase."
+
+I don't get paid for this.
+
+I didn't expect it to be used by anyone. Millions of downloads a month and ten
+thousand stars are just numbers to me. I only started to realise how out of hand
+things were when someone I've never met spent a lot of time composing a song
+about this work, and wrote it in obscure comment in an obscure blog without
+telling me or anyone else about it. You can find it if you look.
+
+On the plus side, `tqdm`'s been a great way for me to keep abreast of the latest
+paradigms and technologies. Jupyter. Docker. Snapcraft. Markdown. GitHub. PyPI.
+Conda. Travis. Binder. Coveralls. Codecov. Codacy. SourceRank. SemVer. Zenodo.
+OpenHub. ASV. MPLv2.0... the list goes on and I haven't even mentioned web
+design and services, let alone Python itself or the nightmare that is
+cross-platform compatibility.
+
+Casper da Costa-Luis, 2019
+
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+
+----
+
+P.S. Licence: yes, we use British spelling. The MIT licence is a verbose piece
+of despicable marketing that the world inexplicably seems to like "because of
+its brevity," oblivious to the fact that "copyleft" is a far superior
+single-word replacement. We mention it anyway since we like keeping people happy
+regardless of how wrong we think they are (the same philosophy is responsible
+for a lot of features added to `tqdm`). We do however prefer the
+[MPLv2.0](https://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0) licence because it's actually a
+licence. It took [a lot of work to find
+it](https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/pull/124). Seriously, [discussion were
+had](https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/issues/121). Some of them not even public. We
+don't use its "exhibit B" because we're not silly.