Samuel Clay

NewsBlur: A visual RSS feed reader that lets you read and filter the original site. Written using Django, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, jQuery, and Underscore.js. 2009 - 2011
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
VisualSearch.js: A faceted search box for real data. 2011
ofBrooklyn.com: A blog as a public record of my work. 2007 - 2011

Tasty Labs: We're putting the useful back into social software. Our current project is Jig. 2011

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, but I know better now. 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 in Microsoft Visual C++. 2003 - 2007
The Brain Explorer: In high school, I led an international team to build this educational site. This won as a semi-finalist in the ThinkQuest competition. 1999 - 2001

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

Penguins are just cuddly extremophiles. 1 hour ago
Facebook IPO can only mean: 6 months from that IPO date, expect a rush of new startups, each bootstrapped by the newly freed. 1 hour ago
Oh, San Francisco, you're so disgustingly nasty some days. I just biked through what I can only describe as tales of a dead man. 2 hours ago
Not sure where this goes, but friend's wife (age 27) just died of cancer, month later he's diagnosed w/S3 cancer. I'd refuse treatment, too. a day ago
Who's up for some Indian/Korean Taco Dim Sum truck? #sf a day ago
One of the nice things about the free @timehop service is that old can be new again with no messy work involved. a day ago
All this talk of sites being blocked at work, look no further than @mtigas's handy tapped connection script: https://t.co/EvoIHOON a day ago
MUNI train swallowed this poor lady's bag: http://t.co/bRe8IpnW a day ago
Don't forget to take your dog in for service every 3,000 walks. 1 day ago