Josh Clayton

husband, programmer, hophead, drummer

About Me

I’m a 29 year old who loves the web. I live in Boston and am a developer at thoughtbot, inc.

Writing

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Contact

Feel free to shoot me an email or message me on any of the aforementioned social networks.

Recent Projects

Factory Girl
I’ve been working on Factory Girl since right before its 2.0 release, adding nesting of factories as inheritance, extraction of an AttributeList for traits, and more.
dotfiles
I’ve put countless hours into my own dotfiles, tweaking components of my development environment over the course of years.
Blueprint CSS
Wrote the compression script and accompanying classes that completely revamped Blueprint workflow (and accompanying compress.rb Walkthrough)
Alpha Heroes
Website dedicated to five Marines Alpha Co. 1/24 lost during their tour to Fallujah, Iraq
Palette
Writing Vim color schemes can be a pain in the ass. Palette aims to make color schemes easier.
Faststep
A Ruby C extension using the Mongo C Driver to talk to Mongo. It’s pretty fast.