Charlotte 猫 Awoo Fide @confusedcharlot@awoo.space

This is cool as heck: the earliest trees were hollow, with water-bearing structures (called xylem) along the outside of the tree instead of in the core like in modern trees. As the tree grew, the xylem tore apart to make room for new growth and then the tree repaired the tears, and occasionally the whole tree collapsed to form a wider base for continued growth.

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-oldest-trees-forest-20171023-story.html

if i'm attracted to abietes, does that make me firry?

this is vvvvv cool!
"Arxiv Vanity renders academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages so you don’t have to squint at a PDF."
https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/

via https://twitter.com/ThomasShahan/status/922151949692227585 https://social.mecanis.me/media/ipxqZ2m8C2x7tYmXQBo

cross platform apps in 2017:
* use Qt, everything looks p much the same, it's Qt though, also licensing
* use GTK+3, it can even be somewhat nice, look is native-by-default, cross-platform is awkward
* use libui or equiv, always use native controls, can't do anything more complicated than the intersection of what controls {win32, cocoa, gtk+} provide
* use, eg, imgui + opengl. watch as your app sucks up CPU refreshing the screen. also, users' screenreaders can't do a fucking thing

Fun idea- boost this toot and I'll attempt draw your profile picture