Drew Powers
🏭 Design Engineer + Accessibility @figma.com
🚀 co-creator @astro.build
🛜 pow.rs
🆓 building terrazzo.app + openapi-ts.dev
- Reposted by Drew Powers*cable news host who ran more 2024 segments on trumps claim that kamala harris isnt really Black than segments on what due process would look like for trumps mass deportation*: “ive taken time to reflect and im sorry i didnt say joe biden was old more”
- Reposted by Drew Powersmodems screaming at us in the 90s was a warning and we didn't take it
- hot take: every monopoly × [blank] collaboration is a soulless, creatively-bankrupt IP looking for a cash grab except sonic. yuji naka is a *grifter*. It’s different
- so american-made doesn’t apply to airplanes, I guess
- Reposted by Drew PowersEffectively a full repeal of the largest climate bill in history. There’s no strategy for America’s future. We all get sicker and pay more in energy bills and suffer climate disasters, while some rich folks pay less in taxes. That’s it. Disgraceful.
- The House Republican's budget bill is starting to drop. It extends trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy while effectively crippling US manufacturing & energy industries and raising energy costs. It's effectively full repeal of the IRA. Here's tax portion waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... 🔌💡
- Reposted by Drew PowersNever upgrade any part of your computer hardware or software in the middle of a project.
- Reposted by Drew PowersMike D: Prospect Park down to Park Slope, it’s time to listen to All 3 Beastie Boys:
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- Reposted by Drew PowersDid you catch them all? Here’s everything we announced at #Config2025 → Figma Sites → CMS in Figma Sites (coming soon) → Grid → Figma Make → Figma Draw → Figma Buzz
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- unit tests are the programming equivalent of warding spells
- 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
- putzing around with porting a js library to rust, and I’m actually amazed how well copilot does with a rough first pass. the code isn’t _usable_ per se, and all those linkedin ceos are still off their rocker. but it sure does give a really good jumpstart
- “this is an app downloaded from the internet. are you sure you want to open it?” Oh! Oh my god no! I could have sworn I installed this via CD-ROM thank you macos
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- Reposted by Drew Powersthere really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
- A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
- Reposted by Drew PowersHey everyone, I have opened up limited commission slots to raise funds for my rent. Get a cute model for 100$ USD! my commissions are my only income at the moment after a lot my clients dried up to AI. DM me if you are interested! (please share it helps alot!)
- Reposted by Drew Powers“I think the pattern in organized labor is generally that when rank-and-file workers lead, then risk-averse official union leaders tend to eventually follow.“ Whether you’re a federal worker or not, this discussion between @bcmerchant.bsky.social and @ericblanc.bsky.social is worth your time.
- Elon's influence in Trumpworld may be waning, but the DOGE wrecking ball is still going full speed. Yet this *is* a good window for federal workers to organize to stop it. Labor studies prof @ericblanc.bsky.social has ideas, drawn from past successful labor movements, for how they might do so:
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- a lot of people ask me “I want to contribute to open source I just don’t know where to start” well TODAY’S YOUR LUCKY DAY because here is a list of all the things I NEED that no one has built yet (or no one has built well)
- on a tangent, the AI summaries are So Bad. I had a friend come over that couldn’t get my nailgun to work. it’s a PoS for sure but it works. he said he googled what nails it takes, but later I found he bought the wrong size. he’s an aerospace engineer. I’m like 70% sure an AI summary did him dirty
- just as a thought experiment: we all know Google search is broken. but could this be solved by open source? it would definitely test the limits of benevolence on the platforms that donate resources to OSS. but technically how could it work?
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- for anybody mourning the tanking value of the monkey jpeg market, don’t worry! there are endless new pyramids to climb in the next few years
- Newsletter: Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it. www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...
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- this is SUCH an important lesson too few developers realize: the impact of low (or choppy) bandwidth on engineering decisions. browse the internet on bad satellite internet and it will rearrange your priorities. I can’t recommend it enough
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- 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...
- Reposted by Drew PowersInspiring color schemes in the landscapes of Granville Redmond ( 1871- 1935 )
- Reposted by Drew Powerswhy is “covid-19” in smooth jazz cursive
- So, covid.gov now redirects to, uh, this... www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...
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- typescript, to me, every day
- Reposted by Drew PowersRemember this isn't even the guy that the Supreme Court is insisting be brought back. This is ANOTHER guy picked up and shipped to the gulag for no reason.
- so excited for new ghost in the shell series the cursed scarjo version being 2017 means it takes an ~8 year halflife for the bad adaptation stink to wash off SAC_2045 (2020) wasn’t bad but even that was a little too soon (love Ilya Kushinov’s designs tho)
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- nothing makes me madder than a hardware store website not understanding a dimension search “1 inch bracket” 896 results. entire 1st page is every dimension except 1 inch
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- Reposted by Drew PowersI'd like to propose a feature @github.com. Who's interested? 👀 #threejs
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- being a senior dev is being able to write a recursive import graph scanner that can scan thousands of files in a few seconds, followed by forgetting what the CSS @import syntax looks like and having to look it up
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- Designing for an Anxious Generation by Ben Stankich envylabs.com/insights/eth...
- Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders by Lean Rada leanrada.com/notes/css-on...
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