Chicago-based front-end developer passionate about the web and pork. Director, Web Engineering and Design at @SproutSocial. He/ him.
Chicago, IL
Joined January 2012
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Justin Conway retweeted
I want to see Mark Zuckerberg create an advertising campaign on Facebook Ads Manager
Wrote an article about some things I've been struggling with as an engineering manager in a post-AI world, check it out!
conwaydev.com/writing/2026-0…
Justin Conway retweeted
if i send you this it means shit might look impossible but you’re gonna get through it
Justin Conway retweeted
I cannot property put into words just how much I hate this with every fiber of my being
Justin Conway retweeted
It’s cool that we got to spend Clayton Kershaw’s last season seeing his greatness rather than begging people to remember it
Justin Conway retweeted
the way we coach engineers is probably gonna change a bit
What used to be valuable input from great eng manager / tech lead is now actively harmful to engineers as they try to learn in the new world of ai-first dev
in the old world, you could just say "make sure you check here, here, and here when building this". They would internalize learnings as they ingested the comment and translated it into action - searching, editing, etc
but now a new engineer can just verbatim copy that comment into a coding agent prompt, and get the same result.
in my experience the best human learning part happens when you have to work to translate one thing into another
so what's the thing a coach can give an engineer to help them go from "input from coach" to "good steering for the agent"
they don't just have to learn to design and implement, they have to learn something else now too... some new higher-order thing
like anything you can learn this over time w/ vibes, but like everything, a coach should help you grow/learn faster. AND even worse, if you're just handed the answer, you wont learn it.
Cool role alert! Looking to hire a Senior Web Designer on my team. Definitely encourage folks who have worked with design systems, found ways to make AI make their lives easier, and folks who aren't afraid of marketing acronyms like MQLs or CVR sproutsocial.com/careers/ope…
Justin Conway retweeted
Shohei Ohtani will be the starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers tomorrow night against the San Diego Padres.
Had the opportunity to talk to high school students about the merits of not going to college or "lying" (read: saying you know something when you really don't, but can learn) in job interviews, don't know how I keep getting invited to these things, but it rules
Last year I had our team make a "dynamic" JS function for the copyright date in the footers of all our web properties and it actually worked. So sick. 😊
Excited to be named a “Developer Hero” with @contentful 's developer program.
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I cannot wait for @ThePrimeagen s recap on why live video encoding is hard for the #TysonPaulFight
Yo, @raycastapp notes is a work of art and I can't believe how you've legit replaced 4 different apps for me overtime with built in functionality. Beautiful software that I don't even think about. 🫡 (pulled from my raycast emoji hotkey lol)
NYT: You want more anxiety? Have you considered staring at THE GAUGE for the next few hours/ days?
ALT Screenshot of NYT political gauge