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-        <td><a href="https://github.com/sponsors/spacejam">buy a coffee for us to convert into databases</a></td>
-        <td><a href="https://github.com/sponsors/spacejam"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/sponsors/spacejam"></a></td>
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         <td><a href="https://docs.rs/sled">documentation</a></td>
         <td><a href="https://docs.rs/sled"><img src="https://docs.rs/sled/badge.svg"></a></td>