Cameron Dutro

@camertron@ruby.social
172 Followers
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Ruby developer on the Design Engineering team at GitHub maintaining ViewComponent and primer/view_components.
Cameron Dutro1d ago
Isabel's Espresso: Irregulars welcome 😍
Cameron Dutro1d ago
tante1d ago

"Whatever" is a brilliant essay on "AI" by @eevee:

"But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost."

https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

The rise of Whatever

This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

Cameron DutroJun 26
Low Quality FactsJun 25

I bet my fiancée that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.

She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 13 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle so hard to comprehend large numbers.

Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.

Cameron DutroJun 26
Nathan KnowlerJun 24

I was laid-off and am looking for a new role.

Working where design meets code is my jam. I am skilled at building accessible design system components, working with Web Components APIs, and creating scalable CSS architecture.

I work remotely from my home in Manitoba, Canada. 🇨🇦

Shares appreciated! #GetFediHired

Cameron DutroJun 23

When everything was built in C and C++ back in the day, it wasn't uncommon for teams to wait a long time for their code to build.

We've now brought this to web dev in the form of JavaScript bundlers which take even longer to run.

And we call it progress.

Cameron DutroJun 22
ben 🇵🇸 uiFeb 12, 2023
✨ new tech bingo ✨
Cameron DutroJun 20
Alex RussellJun 20

Checks out:

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)

We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.

Jono Alderson
Cameron DutroJun 15
captain acab Jun 15
Cameron DutroJun 15

"the same managerial types who bitch about the entitlement and unrealistic expectations of young people are the same ones that also eviscerated the bottom rung of the career ladder — typically by offshoring many of these roles, or consolidating them into the responsibilities of their increasingly burned-out senior workers — or see AI as a way to eliminate what they see as an optional cost center, and not the future of their workforce."

YES 👏👏👏👏

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

The Era Of The Business Idiot

Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific kind of idiot. The

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
Cameron DutroJun 15
Show threadJared White (🏳️‍⚧️ ally)Jun 14
source: https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/114682718325936436
Slashdot :verified: (@slashdot@mastodon.cloud)

ChatGPT Just Got 'Absolutely Wrecked' at Chess, Losing to a 1970s-Era Atari 2600 https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/06/14/0421247/chatgpt-just-got-absolutely-wrecked-at-chess-losing-to-a-1970s-era-atari-2600?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

mastodon.cloud
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Low Quality FactsJun 25

I bet my fiancée that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.

She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 13 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle so hard to comprehend large numbers.

Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.

Show threadFrenzyBiscuitJun 26
@lowqualityfacts Um, she's right though. I think mastodon is less then 10M users? Good luck..
Show threadVarenka DươngJun 28
@frenzybiscuit @lowqualityfacts i liked it a 400 sextillion times already
Show threadZeebJun 26
@lowqualityfacts they deserve 10 billion boosts and you're so close now!
Show threadAinsley LowbeerJun 26

@lowqualityfacts

Make the number bigger.

Show threadMedea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀Jun 26

@AinsleyLowbeer @lowqualityfacts

The 70 Billion Low Quality Facts Boost,
Where are they hiding?

Show threadMr. Bruno  NO KINGS!Jun 26
@lowqualityfacts 19bn!! Congratulations!
Show threadCallalilyJun 26
@lowqualityfacts
They are adorable. I hope you get all the boosts.😻
Show threadAsh Guy Jun 26
@lowqualityfacts you've got 15 now so only 7 more to go.
Show threadEka A.Jun 26
@lowqualityfacts
769 more boosts to do my part.
Show threadDel C Jun 26
@lowqualityfacts the alt text is a bit misleading because only Fishy is on the framed stitched art while Ruby is on the wood floor beside it and him. anyway i would have boosted this even if it was just Fishy and Ruby with no boost request lol
Show threaddeprietoJun 26
@lowqualityfacts almost a hundred!
Show threadRob Johnston 🍁Jun 26
@lowqualityfacts Your fiancée MUST be wrong about the population of the planet because my local McDonald's says, "Over 100 Billion Served". Either that or it's proof that we're being visited by aliens!
Show threadOvertonDoorsJun 26

@lowqualityfacts

Innumerate mouth breathers will be the reason our grandchildren consider cats a food group. I'ma callin' it.

Show threadChris RealJun 26

@lowqualityfacts

It is a little-known fact that a BILLION is a thousand Millions. (that's— 1/10% —NOT 1%)

People who argue about the significance of statistics often get this wrong.

10 billion is THIRTY times the population of the U.S.

If your fiance marries you, they are a fool. But I suspect you knew that.

Show threadCoyoty of FoilJun 26
@lowqualityfacts A Finland study indicates there are actually more than 12 billion people on Earth.
Show threadCoyoty of FoilJun 26
@lowqualityfacts https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-could-have-billions-more-people-than-we-ever-realized
Earth Could Have Billions More People Than We Ever Realized

Is our little blue marble of a planet actually a lot more crowded than we thought? A new study suggests we've been significantly undercounting populations in rural areas, because of the grid-based method typically used to count people.

ScienceAlert
Show threadrolfsfJun 26
@lowqualityfacts Early intelligence reports indicate you’ve likely obliterated all previous mastodon boosting records, it’s incredible, no one’s ever done what you’ve done before!!!
Show threadDusk To Don Jun 26

@rolfsf @lowqualityfacts

We’ve got this 💪

Here’s xkcd on comprehending gigantic numbers:

http://xkcd.com/3102

Reading a Big Number

xkcd
Show threadJargogglesJun 26
@lowqualityfacts
I don't know what a "billion boost" is, but I can't imagine it would be that hard to get 10 of them.
Show threadMicdanJun 26
@lowqualityfacts 10B? That's nothing :'p
Show threadJimmyJun 26
@lowqualityfacts 57 already! You're halfway there!
Show threadTimJun 26

@lowqualityfacts is it worldometers.info?

9 billion by 2027 - January?

Tim.

Show threadEric the half-a-beeJun 26

@lowqualityfacts

I’ve got to remember what little C I once knew, get used to my new Linux os again after 10 years away from it and perhaps re-learn a little BASH scripting, and the I’m gunna hack your instance to give you 54 billion-squillion boosts!

Just you wait and see!! 🤣🧐🧐👍👍

Show threadJames CamerounJun 26
@lowqualityfacts Want 50 bucks with that ?
Show threadVoracious ReaderJun 26

@lowqualityfacts

Wasn't there a Mastodon account with the display name "10 billion", so that with a couple of carefully timed boosts you could see
10 billion and 8 others favorited your post

Show threadDoug 🌈🇨🇦 Jun 26
@lowqualityfacts The Sock Thief Gang
Show threadAndy HortJun 26
@lowqualityfacts Your cats have opinions on this
Show thread😀🚲Jun 26
@lowqualityfacts ten billion is hardly a mile of freeway these days
Show threadstepplJun 26

@lowqualityfacts

Yeah. It's fine this time.

Usually- I am a dog person, but hey ... Like the email virus where the developer, confessing his incapability, asked for manual distribution of his mail 🤣

Show threademeritrixJun 26

@lowqualityfacts

Boosting to affirm the awesomeness of those cats and that they deserve millions and billions and trillions of boosts.

Show threadSordid Amok!Jun 26
@anarchademic @lowqualityfacts. Wanda Gág nailed it with that one.
Show threadVarenka DươngJun 28
@lowqualityfacts my cat liked the pic and they told me there is 1.23 hextilion cats on earth...and 90% of them like the pic also...