Samuel Clay

NewsBlur: A visual RSS feed reader that lets you read and filter the original site. Written in Python and JavaScript using Django, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Node.js, jQuery, and Backbone.js. 2009 - 2012
New York Field Guide: An ongoing photoblog of New York City's 90 historic districts. Each photo taken using a Panasonic Lumix GF1 with a 20mm f/1.7 lens. 2010 - 2012
ofBrooklyn.com: A blog as a public record of my work. 2007 - 2012
VisualSearch.js: A faceted search box for real data. 2011 - 2012

DocumentCloud: The future of journalism is transparency. Funded by the Knight Foundation. Contributor to Backbone.js, Underscore.js, and much open-source software. 2010 - 2011
Storybird: Collaborative storytelling. We're a young publishing house with no roof. 2009 - 2011
Raphaël Vector Library: A cross-browser JavaScript vector graphics library. I presented my minor contributions and the library with this paper and workshop at SVG Open 2009 at Google in California. Presentation and Paper (PDF). 2009
SunRayLab: A CMS for projects. Originally built to connect creative people together to work on projects. PHP, sadly. 2007 - 2008
CaseLife: Student group communications systems built for campus groups in PHP. 2006 - 2007
Scheduler Jones: A graphical scheduling application for students to plan and share their next semester schedule, written with Microsoft Visual C++. 2003 - 2007
The Brain Explorer: In high school, I led an international team to build this educational site. Won as a semi-finalist in the ThinkQuest 2001 competition. 1999 - 2001

NewsBlur on GitHub: The Django/Python code that powers the intelligent visual feed reader. 2009 - 2012
VisualSearch.js on GitHub: Creator of a JavaScript library that creates an auto-completing faceted search box. 2011 - 2012
Backbone.js on GitHub: Contributor to this popular JavaScript library for creating model, view, collections, and tying them together with events. 2010 - 2011
Underscore.js on GitHub: Contributor to this popular JavaScript library used as a general toolkit. Based off of functional programming patterns. 2010 - 2011
Mongoengine on GitHub: Contributor to this popular Python framework/ORM for MongoDB. 2010 - 2011
DocumentViewer.js on GitHub: Major contributor to this JavaScript library used to embed PDFs as images on a website. 2010 - 2011
New York Field Guide on GitHub: A stylish photoblog with annotations and per-photo commenting. 2010
samuelclay.com on GitHub: The code that runs this site here. 2009 - 2010
Raphaël JavaScript Library on GitHub: My minor contributions to the Raphaël library are found on GitHub. 2009
Raphaël animation easing formulas on GitHub: Additional formulas used in animation easing in Raphaël. Includes easeInOutQuad to easeInOutQuint, bounces, elastic, and even easeInOutCirc. 2009

Old-style Mac OS X Leopard Exposé in Snow Leopard January 9th, 2011
What Happened to NewsBlur: A Hacker News Effect Post-Mortem November 4th, 2010
There are Two Paper Towel Rolls August 22nd, 2010
Migrating Django from MySQL to PostgreSQL the Easy Way July 18th, 2010
NewsBlur: Most Watched This Week June 28th, 2010
Code Snippet: jQuery Edit In Place March 24th, 2010
Code snippet: Stopping a jQuery AJAX Request March 3rd, 2010
A jQuery Plugin: Default Values for Input Fields February 16th, 2010
A Faulty Heist: A Storybird January 18th, 2010
Syntax highlighting for Django using Pygments January 15th, 2010
NewsBlur: Feed Reader with Artificial Intelligence January 13th, 2010
Powered by Kevin Fricovsky's django-mingus January 12th, 2010
Raphaël Demo - Cross Browser Vector Graphics - Topic Connections Graph October 1st, 2009
Why Bother Going to College September 1st, 2009
Presenting at SVG Open 2009: Workshop on Raphaël JS July 14th, 2009
Raphael Plugin: Animation Easing June 4th, 2009
Proposal for SVG Open 2009 May 18th, 2009

Just call me Sam Clay, Flyhunter. 18 hours ago
I'm following the dog of the governor of the state I just incorporated in. @RueMarkell: Meow. No wait, that's not right. a day ago
On my way to see Bret Victor speak at Adobe. "Stop Drawing Dead Fish" sounds like it could turn terrifying. 1 day ago
Happiness is a warm cache. 1 day ago
"For me, you killing a server is as good as it being dead." 2 days ago