"I love Samuel Clay"

2022-05-05 08:09:04

Samuel Clay is a Clevelander outside Ohio. A visual 2019 For a Living 2013 - 2022 Turn Touch Beautiful control for your smart home. Small flowers crack concrete. 2009 - 2022 NewsBlur A personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument. Current Projects 2012 - 2022 Hacker Smacker Browser extension used to friend and foe individual writers on Hacker News. 2007 - 2022 ofBrooklyn.com A blog as a public record of my work. 2012 - 2022 Blurblog My shared stories on NewsBlur. Past Projects 2020 Comfort Maps Comfort Maps make safer streets. Turn your two-wheeled commute into a call for action. 2020 WTF is CDA An interactive explainer about the Communications Decency Act (“CDA 230”) and one of the most powerful laws shaping the Internet as we know it today. 2018 Boston Bike Lanes An interactive visualization of where Boston should build its next bike lanes, backed by data. 2018 Podlife An augmented reality app that demoed a series of self-driving pods, part of a conceptual network envisioning the future of commuting. 2018 Kickpoint A device that allows for governments to provide a temporary infrastructure for citizens to communicate with their loved ones after natural disasters. 2016 Grove A second interactive biofeedback installation at Burning Man 2016. 2014 Pulse & Bloom An interactive biofeedback installation at Burning Man 2014. 2014 Adventures in Wearable Electronics Combining sewing and electronics to make a light up dress. 2011 - 2014 VisualSearch.js A faceted search box for real data. 2013 Living Photo Frame A photo frame that automatically downloads my latest Flickr and Instagram photos. Has a motion sensor for automatic shutoff when nobody's around. Amazingly has worked for years. 2012 DonationParty Invite friends to donate a randomly selected amount (up to $10) to charity and one lucky winner will receive something awesome from Amazon. 2010 - 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 - 2011 DocumentCloud The future of journalism is transparency. Funded by the Knight Foundation. Contributor to Backbone.js, Underscore.js, and much open-source software. 2009 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). 2007 - 2008 SunRayLab A CMS for projects. Originally built to connect creative people together to work on projects. PHP, sadly. 2006 - 2007 CaseLife Student group communications systems built for campus groups in PHP. 2003 - 2007 Scheduler Jones A graphical scheduling application for students to plan and share their next semester schedule, written with Microsoft Visual C++. 1999 - 2001 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. Code NewsBlur on GitHub The Django/Python code that powers the intelligent visual feed reader. 2009 - 2022 Turn Touch remote on GitHub Firmware and the custom circuit board for the four button Turn Touch remote. 2015 - 2022 Turn Touch CAD and CAM on GitHub Models and CNC machining design files for the solid wood Turn Touch remote. 2015 - 2022 Grove on GitHub Firmware and three custom circuit boards for an interactive biofeedback installation at Burning Man. Measures breathing. 2016 VisualSearch.js on GitHub Creator of a JavaScript library that creates an auto-completing faceted search box. 2011 - 2014 Hacker Smacker on GitHub Built this browser extension with Node.js and Redis for finding graph connections between comment authors (friend of a friend). 2012 - 2014 Pulse & Bloom on GitHub Firmware for an interactive biofeedback installation at Burning Man. Measures two heartbeats. 2014 DonationParty on GitHub A four-man team working over two hackathons to create this fun Django-based charity donation site. 2012 - 2013 The Do Club on GitHub A two-man team built this presentation and event system for hackers to showcase their work. 2013 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 Photos ofBrooklyn.comBlog Recap and takeaways of the Micromobility panel at Moving the Future 2020 February 6th, 2020 The New Garden of the World — Review of The Machine in the Garden August 7th, 2019 Everything you need to build your own Turn Touch smart remote January 3rd, 2019 Building Grove — interactive trees that come alive to your breath at Burning Man 2016 March 31st, 2017 Open letter to my family in Ohio: I am still coming home for Thanksgiving this year November 21st, 2016 Building Pulse & Bloom - an interactive biofeedback installation at Burning Man 2014 September 6th, 2014 Adventures in Wearable Electronics - Making a Light-up Dress January 15th, 2014 Building a living photo frame with a Raspberry Pi and a motion detector January 2nd, 2014 Backbonification: migrating a large JavaScript project from DOM spaghetti to Backbone.js November 13th, 2012 For Good Reason, NewsBlur Will Not Compete With the Big Boys January 10th, 2011 @samuelclayon Twitter I’ll be at tonight’s @NYHW_Meetup with prototype bike lights from https://swarms.city looking for technical peo… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1506336804580044814 42 days ago While debugging some complex Redis sorted sets, can’t help but notice it feels like I’m writing a high level assemb… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1506324679027482627 42 days ago Time to stock up on pantry goods that'll take me the next 12 months to finish. https://samuel.newsblur.com/story/white-house-warns-of/938999:c19349 42 days ago Once it’s rendered at a finite resolution in the browser, it’s no longer a vector but rasterized to fit the viewpor… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1504485895876976653 47 days ago Why is the dithering on SVGs in Chrome+Edge+Safari+FF coarser compared to what’s possible in the same pixel count w… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1504475351245762565 47 days ago Automatic and common instead of difficult and rare. 50 days ago Good high level read on benefits of functional programming on the front end and how the backend should conform to t… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1493918770053713922 77 days ago This ? has me agreeing wholeheartedly with every point. These principles have kept me sharp and hungry, at the expe… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1485220877977493508 101 days ago This affords an opportunity for web2 platforms to pull a 90s era Excel strategy to read/write to competition data f… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1481578305165963266 111 days ago Love a one person shop tech stack writeup. I hope to write one of these soon to describe the 2022 backend for… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1479415408427995137 117 days ago Software spends the majority of its life in its maintenance phase. We don’t account for that as a general rule duri… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1471094300285059077 140 days ago Beautiful illustration of Simpson’s Paradox ? @stat110 https://twitter.com/galantgarant/status/1463203561127530500 160 days ago Press Adafruit: Building Grove — interactive trees that come alive to your breath at Burning Man 2016 #ArtTuesday by Jessica Califano April 4th, 2017 Hack a Day: Biofeedback Flowers at Burning Man by Bryan Cockfield September 10th, 2014 Pulse & Bloom press roundup: The Guardian, The BBC, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic's Big Picture twice, CBS News, NBC News, and MSNBC. September 6th, 2014 Hack a Day: A Light-Up Dress for a New Year’s Dance Party by Josh Marsh January 15th, 2014 Lifehacker: Build a Smarter Digital Photo Frame with a Raspberry Pi by Thorin Klosowski January 6th, 2014 Hack a Day: Building a Raspberry PI Digital Photo Frame by Kevin Darrah January 4th, 2014 Adafruit: Building a living photo frame with a Raspberry Pi and a motion detector by Jessica Califano January 3rd, 2014 TechCrunch: The Best iOS And Android Apps Of 2013 - NewsBlur by Greg Kumparak December 31st, 2013 PCWorld: NewsBlur is a worthy, powerful Google Reader replacement by Erez Zukerman June 24th, 2013 The Verge: NewsBlur, flush with Google Reader refugees, rolls out redesign by Adrianne Jeffries May 21st, 2013 Wired: Scaling on a Shoestring, Lessons from NewsBlur by Scott Gilbertson March 20th, 2013 VentureBeat: NewsBlur launches iPad app, aims to compete with Google Reader (exclusive) by Christina Farr September 5th, 2012