Drew Powers

We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer.

As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free.

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Get the number of auto-fit/auto-fill columns in CSS The whole point of auto-fit and auto-fill is that you aren't saying how many columns to use. But if you knew how many the browser chose, you can make nice design decisions.

I have a new article out on @frontendmasters.com: get the number of auto-fit/ auto-fill columns in #CSS
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Check it out, I can assure you you'll probably learn something new. At the very least that some issues have recently been fixed... 😼

The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.

Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth.

So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?

Ok, bear with me while I repost this one too

#art #BowserDay

this would make a good plugin. automate anarchy

"The Legend of Hei 2" = 200 000 key animation drawings.
That's three times more than the 1st film (and more than a Ghibli film, for example).
Source: weibo.com/2095858834/P...

update: got even more annoyed and wrote a “blog post” about it bsky.app/profile/pow....

hell yeah

React is… fine The year of React’s demise should be coming the same year as the Linux Desktop.

🆕 Blog post: #react is… fine
pow.rs/blog/react-i...

according to miriam-webster, one definition is “be made possible or probable by circumstances to,” which, by the social order of teachers controlling the local legality of bathroom breaks, fits that definition

congratulations for not only being an asshole, but also pedantically incorrect

wishing a very merry “fuck you” to all my elementary teachers that wouldn’t let me go to the bathroom if I said “can I” rather than “may I”

theres an attack maelle does where it sounds like shes saying "Get Out Of This Campus" like shes banishing a frat guy

📝 New post: The Pyramid of Merit - I've been ruminating on a quote from Chris Hayes' book Twilight of the Elites for the better part of a year now and I thought I'd share it.

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yeah good point we’ll need a whole new package registry when quantum computing becomes the standard

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.

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

"Do you want your Congressperson to compromise with people who are telling babies they're going to hell? Or do you want your Congressperson to flip those people off?"

not a React defender, and I still want Svelte to become the new standard, but I find myself in a constant state of frustration of React being… fine… and not busted enough to justify rewriting a whole app

No one pretends that React is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that React is the worst form of frontend framework except for all those other frameworks that have been tried from time to time
—Winston Churchill

that makes me really happy to hear 💜. supporting you all the way, friend

“If the people in power want me dead, the least I could do was stop doing that work for them.”

picture of cartoon wimpy, in color, showcasing 8 photorealistic burgers in front of him and a 9th in his hand. text reads “It’s Tuesday Time To Pay Up.” the background is a zoomed in “gross-up” shot of another photorealistic burger. there are so many pixels of burger on this image, it’s nauseating. you can almost smell the image, and by extension, wimpy, a man whose body is fully burger at this point

we could go further

Seth Balmore - Lost Odissey

By Inoue (Vagabond, Slam Dunk)

fuck bigots! me and my homies hate bigots.

we’re here for you, no matter what. you being the most *you* is punk rock. forget anyone who says otherwise. 💙

That’s correct! The syntax is still a little bit in flux, but that’s what the resolver proposal accomplishes in practice. Only, “modes” in the Figma Variables sense were never added to the Design Token Spec. “Overrides” is probably a more helpful framing. But it works out to be effectively the same.

I would love to be wrong but I’m still not sold that one can simply apply some magic math to get all the colors they need. I think for generating the initial ramps this is _essential_! But for the final, prod colors they always get detached, and I haven’t seen color math that lasts longterm

Yeah I hear you, and agree. My (personal, opinionated) take is that folks are still in uncanny migration valley from Style Dictionary → Design Tokens Spec. SD encouraged the DIY “anything goes” approach. This proposal leans into that and solves multi-file, hopefully in a migration-friendly way

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no spec yet but comment / suggestion period is coming soon! this is the closest thing to a preview: resolver-spec.netlify.app.

there’ll be plenty of time for feedback and kicking the tires before it’s accepted. the playground 👆 is one such preview where feedback is welcome (open GH issues)

There’s no such thing as multi-axis modes / 𝔇𝔯𝔢𝔴 𝔓𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔰 The personal site of Drew Powers

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