CJ Horton

I have a bit of an unusual background for a developer. Some fun facts about me:

• I have a music degree
• I've taught tech literacy sessions at a public library
• I used to supervise the night shift at a pet boarding facility
• I ran a small business for several years cleaning up converted ebook files for small publishers

As a programmer, I've worked all across the stack, from fixing IE10 bugs in a React component library to tracking down race conditions in a Redis email queue. I've also worked in a decent variety of languages, but Ruby, Elixir, Node, and React are my main jams.

I care a lot about testing, UX for both developers and end users, and the history of computing and the tech industry (those who don't learn from history, etc, etc).

Coveralls Multi (Github, RubyGems)

A Ruby command line tool which makes it possible to use the popular Coveralls test coverage service with multi-language repos.

What's On Netflix (Github, RubyGems)

A very silly CLI that scrapes IMDB and whats-on-netflix.com so you don't have to leave your terminal to find out what you need to binge before it leaves Netflix.

Script All The Things (Github)

I write a lot of little bash tools and scripts to automate things in my day to day, like hacking the MacOS Slack client to make it use dark mode or adding a co-author to a commit in Github, and I like to clean them up and share them.

I blog in various places these days, so here's a few links to my favorites:

Spacecraft Driven Development (revelry.co)

Advanced Pair Programming (revelry.co)

Better HTML Emails in Rails (revelry.co)

Poetry for Developers (dev.to)

The best way to reach me is at thecjhorton [at] gmail dot com. [Click here] to copy it to your clipboard. Copied!

I also hang out on Twitter if that's your thing.

Despite my best intentions, I probably won't respond to your Linkedin message.