Chad O

@MariaShen Thank you!

@chadoh here you go! developerreport.com/reports/devs/2…

@MariaShen is there a way to get historic Developer Reports? Specifically the 2023 report. For 2022 & earlier I found github.com/electric-capit…, but I can't find the 2023 report. I keep finding links to developerreport.com/developer-repo…, which is now just the 2024 report. Thanks!

@ZariaGorvett great article on the snakes & spiders of Guam! You mention that no one knew for decades that the snakes were the cause of bird decline—does this include locals? I feel like native populations always know these things way before the colonizers bbc.com/future/article…

I'm starting a new project and I want you to join me! scientificanimism.substack.com/p/scientific-a…

@markheynen @DenelleDixon Nice to meet you!

@DenelleDixon @chadoh Nice to meet you yesterday @chadoh!

Straight from the source: @chadoh sheds light on what makes Soroban unmatched

@troutgirl This is the course that made me finally feel confident authoring TS libraries executeprogram.com/courses/advanc…

@bengarvey Yo it's lit #earthcloudsarethebestclouds

See @chadoh was right

@austinkleon I've had a couple dreams like this. The one I remember most vividly, I was prattling on and on to the person next to me at the grocery store, explaining in-depth details about an item he was considering. I woke up so annoyed at myself and what I've become.

Do you ever get mad when your dreams are both extremely boring while also revealing the truest parts of yourself? Last night I had a nightmare I was trying to figure out the payment system in the parking lot of a fancy restaurant

Wanted to link to a list of everywhere Wasm is currently used. Couldn't find a good one. @willemneal asked GPT-4. It gave a great list! So I pasted it into Wikipedia (with minor edits) en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti…

Does anyone here have good intel on Venus? Tryna figure out what the view will be like from the floating cities at 50km altitude; see highlighted comment here youtube.com/watch?v=0az7DE…

If advanced life had formed there, they would have seen a pretty boring Earth beside them. And now, we'd have (almost) no way to know they ever existed.

By the time Gondwana formed, Venus had already been a hellscape for 200 million years. But sometime before Earth's Sturtian Glaciation, when multicellular life but no animals were yet around to see it, Venus might have been habitable for ~3 billion years. phys.org/news/2019-09-v…

This is Gondwana, Earth's supercontinent from 550-180 million years ago. If technologically advanced intelligent life had developed in this time, we'd have (almost) no way of knowing vox.com/unexplainable/…

@mountain_goats I once wrote a poem/prayer about this during a v boring church service

and it's to make what was then & remains a truly revolutionary case: that within helplessness lies incomprehensible strength. Within surrender. Within dependence. On one another: in the story, on family, on visiting guests, on an innkeeper.

gotta do a little preaching on a thing I keep thinking about, be warned this is one of them God-bothering THREADs

@vboykis smbc-comics.com/comic/coffee-4

10 minutes before coffee: this planet is bad, my code is bad, we are living in hell, and I have to read YAML 5 minutes BC: oh my god let me re-evaluate all my life choices Drinking coffee: there is a slight chance today could turn out to be ok 5 minutes after coffee: 🚀

So much leftist discourse seems to see no place for technological humanity in a future flourishing world, like we are only a scourge. It's depressing.

@xriskology: are you or anyone else working on an alternative pro-civilization, pro-technology, pro-every-human, pro-biosphere , pro-space-exploration philosophical framework with a similarly catchy name?

Reminds me of some quotes from The Overstory, which I'm listening to right now: