Speaker and Clean Coders author. Director of Engineering at Sprout Social. A dad, drummer, and tabletop gamer.
Joined October 2007
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Chris Powers retweeted
17 Oct 2018
Hey #Chicago — we're SO excited for our next @geekfest with @chrisjpowers
Topic: Building Teams Where Everyone is Heard
When: Tues. 10/30 from 12-1
Where: @Groupon HQ
RSVP required: spots will go fast! --> gr.pn/2PFfGY2
#TeamGroupon
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4 Oct 2018
Tomorrow (Friday) I'm speaking at 8th Light University about building teams where everyone is heard. If you're in Chicago near the Loop, come join us! meetup.com/8th-light-univers…
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3 Oct 2018
I felt a great disturbance in the Force... as if millions of people suddenly pulled their phones out of their pockets and silenced them all at once...
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30 Sep 2018
Congrats to newcomer @OdellBrewing for winning our Oktoberfest tasting bracket! Thirteen tasters, and they beat out Sam Adams 7-6 in the final! Sam had @TwoBrothersBeer knocked out surprisingly early in the semifinals.
Chris Powers retweeted
28 Sep 2018
Today I will give a free year of RubyTapas to any woman in software who wants it. DM me your email. No questions asked so long as your Twitter account seems legit. Especially interested in women just getting started. Tell your mentees, your interns, your code school students.
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20 Sep 2018
At one point I thought about buying this game, but given current events, maybe not...
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17 Sep 2018
A recipe for success! Legibility and useful abstractions keep code malleable.
For me, the connection between testability and good design emerges when you balance two principles:
1) Ensure all valuable behavior is easily tested
2) Encapsulate implementation details, without sacrificing principle #1
When you do this right, you can refactor effortlessly.
Chris Powers retweeted
11 Sep 2018
Everyone in your organization has a voice. Join us for 8th Light University in Chicago on 10/5 with @chrisjpowers to find out how you can help to to promote full-team engagement for underrepresented groups. Sign up here:
hubs.ly/H0dzSgD0
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7 Sep 2018
I'm happy to announce my latest Clean Coders video "Clean Code in the Browser: The Interface Segregation Principle." How do you apply ISP to a language like JavaScript that doesn't have interfaces? Watch to find out! cleancoders.com/episode/clea…
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29 Aug 2018
“There is a big difference between designing *for* someone vs. designing *with* someone.” - @feather
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29 Aug 2018
Excited to have @feather speaking about inclusive design to our design and engineering staff at @SproutSocial HQ.
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27 Aug 2018
Chicago Product/Engineering leaders, you owe it to yourself to attend Agile Day 2018! This is an excellent one-day, in-town conference that gives you a chance to take a step back and consider how we can better bake agility into products and processes. agiledaychicago.com/
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23 Aug 2018
Today I learned what the Selenium `Keys.ZENKAKU_HANKAKU` constant means, apparently it maps to the Japanese keyboard code for switching between the Zenkaku (full-width) and Hankaku (half-width) character widths. #funfact
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20 Aug 2018
This art background from Google Meet is entitled "Teamwork"... I'm curious about the artist's intent, is this a backhanded insinuation that teamwork is just a Rube Goldberg machine? I hope we are all getting more from our teams than a flipped light switch!
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10 Aug 2018
Every time. Every. Time.
10 Aug 2018
the most thrilling part of being a programmer is the RACE AGAINST TIME as you try to type in your 2fa code when its blinking red in authenticator
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Chris Powers retweeted
29 Jul 2018
a friend from outside of math just shared this old comic. Always makes me laugh.
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