It "should" be:

Honestly ðis þread makes me sad. Can't a fella be a li'l quirky in peace?

You can make the þ sound by itself without using your voice. It just sounds like air coming out of a tire. You can't make the ð sound without also making a vowel sound.

Ðough historically the þorn was often used for boþ as well, and it's definitely tricky for modern Eŋlish speakers to distiŋuish.

Here's the prior guidelines. You generally had to show your membership in an art organization and that you made an income selling art. Then they just randomly picked names of those people.

GitHub is kind of a cloud service, but it isn't a server host. Cloud development is just more…abstracted than traditional web development. Instead of controlling a computer and choosing how to store files and managing ports and firewalls and making backups and serving requests and redirecting to closer servers and making sure you have enough computing power but not too much computing power and all that stuff, you instead just give Amazon/Microsoft/Google your code and data and pay them to do all that for you.