Chris Powers
@chrisjpowers
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Speaker and Clean Coders author. Director of Engineering at Sprout Social. A dad, drummer, and tabletop gamer.
Chicago
Joined October 2007
RT @GrouponCareers: Hey #Chicago — we're SO excited for our next @geekfest with @chrisjpowers . Topic: Building Teams Where Everyone is Hea….
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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!
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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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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.
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RT @avdi: 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….
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At one point I thought about buying this game, but given current events, maybe not.
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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.
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RT @8thLightInc: Everyone in your organization has a voice. Join us for 8th Light University in Chicago on 10/5 with @chrisjpowers to find….
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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
Our "Paintastic 2000" software is selling like hotcakes, but now the bosses are asking for more feat...
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“There is a big difference between designing *for* someone vs. designing *with* someone.” - @feather.
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Excited to have @feather speaking about inclusive design to our design and engineering staff at @SproutSocial HQ.
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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.
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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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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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Every time. Every. Time.
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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RT @mikeandallie: a friend from outside of math just shared this old comic. Always makes me laugh.
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