High-school exposure to Camus, Sartre, and Dostoyevsky had provided Arlo with some degree of comfort with, and protection from, thoughts of existential dread.
This night, his mind was providing neither comfort, nor protection from mortal thoughts of wasted time, injustice, and despair, leading to hopelessness. Understanding the allegories at play in The Fall was of little use digging out from the deep well of loneliness he felt.
The window next to Arlo’s bed was open and although he felt paralyzed by his thoughts, he was momentarily distracted by a faint voice outside:
CancelChain 1.2.0 has been released. This version swaps out the patchwork of libraries that had been used for the command-line interface with rich. This brings better progress bars and status indicators, streamlined information architecture, and a slightly more organized CLI codebase.
Arlo stared straight up at the ceiling above his bed. The voice outside didn’t help him with the feeling that despite “we” being a collective of billions, we’re all deeply alone in our desires and fears.
But, at least someone was trying to make something better.
And that did help.
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