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Drew Powers @pow.rs · 03/02/2026

devs will say shit like branding doesn’t matter and then do this

A post on r/programming where someone is announcing their new Rust library. They named it “Rusty PP”

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Drew Powers @pow.rs · 04/11/2025

me, an intellectual: pasta should always be cooked al dente

box of cheetos ™ instant mac n cheese, buffalo flavor. the box screams “american” and “cheap”

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Drew Powers @pow.rs · 28/10/2025

I’m excited to announce the first stable version of the #designtokens spec is live! v2025.10 was just announced at #schema. Learn more at designtokens.org.

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Drew Powers @pow.rs · 15/10/2025

worked on some very minor touchups to @terrazzo.app and finally got a stupid idea out of my head—responsively “snapping” elements to a grid was way way way easier to do than I thought thanks to CSS round! just specify 40px (or whatever) for the “snap to” param and it does all the work

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Drew Powers @pow.rs · 26/06/2025

excited to say I have just discovered the best npm package of all time. pack it up, we’re all done here

screenshot of https://www.npmjs.com/package/lightspeed. Package name: light-speed. Package description: “Returns the speed of light in Meters per Second (m/s). Below, there’s a code sample where all this package does is return the number 299792458. Nothing else. You install this package to install a number. That’s it.

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Drew Powers @pow.rs · 24/06/2025

we could go further

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Drew Powers @pow.rs · 01/05/2025

holy shit. foundation451.org, a nonprofit dedicated to getting banned/challenged books back in student hands in the state of FL, had to relocate to MN after the 6th (!) DoE investigation into the org

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Drew Powers @pow.rs · 18/04/2025

taking a trip through the CSS graveyard today and remembering things like Astroturf. The State of CSS survey is such a good timecapsule for these things, like revisiting 2020’s 2020.stateofcss.com/en-US/techno...

Screenshot of https://astroturfcss.github.io/astroturf/introduction/. It’s styled to look like 1960s atomic pop, with a mint green background and Fontdiner Swanky typeface reminiscent of “I Dream of Genie” television and soda shoppes.

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Drew Powers @pow.rs · 17/04/2025

typescript, to me, every day

Darth Vader, when he delivers the line “I find your lack of faith disturbing” while force choking a subordinate, but the caption was changed to “I find your lack of .d.ts files disturbing”

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Drew Powers @pow.rs · 02/04/2025

not to get your hopes up, but (!)

(post-voting screenshot) 1st place - 62%: Better Offline

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Drew Powers @pow.rs · 28/03/2025

all those people that “hAtE pROnOuNs” watch how it’s done properly by only speaking in 3rd person

(screengrab of skeet) @mcuban.bsky.social: Mark Cuban. Mark Cuban wants to revolutionize US health care

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Drew Powers @pow.rs · 05/03/2025

how do I make JS sort filenames correctly? please

Code snippet in JavaScript. First line shows an array with the items button-a.css, button.css, button-42.css. Second line calls list.sort(), and gives the output “button-42.css, button-a.css, button.css.” Third line calls “list.sort((a, b) => a.localeCompare(b, 'en-us', { numeric: true })),” and gives the same output: button-42.css, button-a.css, button.css.

In all scenarios, the implication is that the built-in methods of JavaScript put the shorter filename (button.css) behind other, longer filenames (button-42.css, button-a.css), every time.

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Drew Powers @pow.rs · 12/02/2025

kinda wild that the State of React survey has such negative sentiment for its core APIs. almost feels like devs are forced to use it more than choose it themselves. there are also about 4k fewer responses this year. who knows why but could be similar reasons 2024.stateofreact.com/en-US/featur...

stacked bar chart showing public sentiment of the useEffect API for React. 34% like it, 16% hate it, the rest feel indifferent. useCallback is right below it with similar sentiment: 31% like it, 12% hate it, the rest don’t care.

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Drew Powers @pow.rs · 21/01/2025

full review (in case you doubted)

Full customer review: One star. “Don’t go here if you actually want help. They’ll say ‘happy to help’ then get as far as possible as fast as possible”

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Drew Powers @pow.rs · 21/01/2025

say what you will about Google’s AI but it is comedy gold

Google Maps review of Autozone. Google AI has imposed a card featuring official AutoZone stock photography of customer service, juxtaposed to an actual review: “They’ll say ‘happy to help’ then get as far as possible as fast as possible.” The design looks official, almost seeming like AutoZone themselves endorses this statement that their service staff run away from customers.

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Drew Powers @pow.rs · 28/12/2024

most people don’t know “wai-fu” is originally portmanteau of WAI-ARIA + kung fu, used to describe someone really good at making accessible interfaces. IDK how other people are using the term