Josh Clayton

Articles

• Designing a Skills Matrix for Software Developers
  May 5, 2023

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  • career growth
  • employee fulfillment
  • management
  • software development
• Property Testing Object Invariants
  October 24, 2022

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  • good code
  • property testing
  • rspec
  • ruby
  • testing
• Reducing Leaky Abstractions Introduced by ActiveRecord
  March 30, 2022

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  • good code
  • rails
  • ruby
  • web
• Automatic Projections for Quick Vim Navigation
  January 10, 2021

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  • vim
  • zsh
• Services are Not a Silver Bullet
  March 20, 2019

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  • refactoring
  • service-oriented architecture
• Empathize with Your Customer
  March 19, 2019

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  • consulting
  • interviews
  • user research
• The 90/10 Rule
  March 11, 2019

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  • communication
  • consulting
• Updating Our Technical Interview
  May 11, 2018

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  • hiring
  • interviews
  • rails
  • ruby
  • web
• Shaping Values with Types
  April 13, 2018

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  • elm
  • functional programming
  • good code
  • types
• "Build vs Buy" Considerations for New Products
  January 30, 2018

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  • business
  • product design
• A Year of CrossFit
  January 15, 2018

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  • crossfit
  • health
• Bridging Elm and JavaScript with Ports
  October 25, 2017

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  • elm
  • functional programming
  • javascript
  • web
• factory_bot
  October 24, 2017

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  • factory_bot
  • rails
  • rspec
  • ruby
  • testing
  • web
• Elm and Rails Sitting in a Tree
  October 9, 2017

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  • elm
  • rails
• Chain RSpec Matchers for Improved Test Readability
  March 9, 2017

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  • rails
  • rspec
  • ruby
  • testing
  • web
• A year of #0445club
  March 3, 2017

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  • 0445club
  • health
• Lessons Learned: Avoiding Primitives in Elm
  January 10, 2017

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  • elm
  • functional programming
  • haskell
  • web
• "Tell, Don't Ask" in Elixir: A Story of Pattern-Matching
  December 21, 2016

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  • elixir
  • functional programming
  • phoenix
  • web
• Make Phoenix Even Faster with a GenServer-backed Key Value Store
  July 13, 2016

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  • elixir
  • phoenix
  • web
• Refactoring to a Monad Transformer Stack
  July 5, 2016

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  • cli
  • functional programming
  • haskell
• Testing Elixir Plugs
  May 11, 2016

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  • elixir
  • functional programming
  • phoenix
  • testing
  • web
• Routing in Elm with Hop and Mailboxes
  May 3, 2016

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  • elm
  • web
• Maybe Thinking
  April 15, 2016

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  • elm
  • functional programming
  • ruby
• Decoding JSON Structures with Elm
  March 8, 2016

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  • elm
  • javascript
  • json
• Decorating Arrays in Ember
  October 6, 2015

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  • ember
  • javascript
  • web
• Rails on Docker
  February 19, 2015

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  • docker
  • rails
  • web
• Testing and Environment Variables
  December 3, 2014

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  • good code
  • rails
  • rspec
  • ruby
  • testing
  • web
• Acceptance Tests at a Single Level of Abstraction
  September 2, 2014

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  • good code
  • rails
  • rspec
  • ruby
  • testing
  • web
• Speed Up Tests by Selectively Avoiding Factory Bot
  August 14, 2014

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  • factory_bot
  • rails
  • rspec
  • testing
  • web
• Silver Searcher Tab Completion with Exuberant Ctags
  August 11, 2014

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  • ctags
  • shell
  • unix
  • zsh
• Segment.io and Ruby
  July 30, 2014

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  • dependency injection
  • good code
  • rails
  • rspec
  • testing
  • web
• FactoryBot for Seed Data?
  November 13, 2013

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  • factory_bot
  • ruby
  • testing
  • web
• New ebook: Geocoding on Rails, Your Map to Geocoding Rails Applications
  October 3, 2013

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  • ebook
  • geocoding
  • news
  • rails
• Backbone.js, JSON API, and Relational Data: A Primer
  October 2, 2013

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  • api
  • backbone.js
  • javascript
  • json
  • json:api
  • rails
  • web
• Fast JSON APIs in Rails with Key-Based Caches and ActiveModel::Serializers
  May 30, 2013

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  • api
  • json
  • performance
  • rails
  • web
• Process Jobs Inline when Running Acceptance Tests
  January 14, 2013

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  • rails
  • rspec
  • testing
  • web
• Better Acceptance Tests with Page Objects
  November 15, 2012

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  • good code
  • rails
  • rspec
  • testing
  • web
• Using the Draper Gem, Round One
  August 23, 2012

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  • decorator
  • design pattern
  • good code
  • rails
  • rspec
  • testing
  • web
• Ruby and KISS, Sitting in a Tree
  August 16, 2012

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  • rails
  • ruby
  • web
• Mind-Bending Factories
  July 31, 2012

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  • factory_bot
  • ruby
  • testing
  • web
• Constrain Yourself
  May 8, 2012

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  • rails
  • web
• How to Copy and Paste with Tmux on Mac OS X
  March 20, 2012

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  • tmux
• Run a command every time you change directories in zsh
  February 16, 2012

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  • zsh
• Decoupling Data from Presentation
  February 2, 2012

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  • cucumber
  • good code
  • rails
  • testing
  • web
• Inject that Rails Configuration Dependency!
  January 25, 2012

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  • dependency injection
  • good code
  • rails
  • rspec
  • testing
• Design Patterns in the Wild: Null Object
  November 1, 2011

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  • design pattern
  • factory_bot
  • null object
  • rspec
  • ruby
• Test Rake Tasks Like a BOSS
  October 26, 2011

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  • rails
  • rake
  • rspec
  • testing
• Want a Job? Show Me Your Code.
  September 18, 2011

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• Structuring CSS Intelligently
  September 13, 2011

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• A Tmux Crash Course
  January 18, 2011

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  • tmux
  • vim