Cameron Dutro

@camertron@ruby.social
172 Followers
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950 Posts
Ruby developer on the Design Engineering team at GitHub maintaining ViewComponent and primer/view_components.

I bet my fiancΓ©e 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.

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. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

Shares appreciated! #GetFediHired

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.

✨ new tech bingo ✨
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

"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 β€” typically by offshoring many of these roles, or consolidating them into the responsibilities of their increasingly burned-out senior workers β€” or see AI as a way to eliminate what they see as an optional cost center, and not the future of their workforce."

YES πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

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
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

Jesus there are so many problems with this article.

"Java was ... created to have as few implementation dependencies as possible."

Bro, what?

Also they lost me with that graphic at the top that claims front-end makes up only 20% of the effort of writing an app.

https://www.getrocket.com/post/backend

Hiring backend developers - a definitive guide | Rocket Recruiting Blog

A guide to hiring backend developers based on the experiences of Rocket - the world's largest technology and startup focused recruiting agency. Key topics covered include the technologies and frameworks a backend developer uses and how to find and interview backend developers. by

jemalloc is no longer being worked on (also disappointed to know there is a mountain of technical debt to tackle if picked back up again): https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem
Jason Evans

The jemalloc memory allocator was first conceived in early 2004, and hasbeen in public use for about 20 years now. Thanks to the nature of open source software licensing,jemalloc will remain publicly available indefinitely. But active upstream development has come to anend. This post briefly desc...