2025 - Present
Steady Grade Studios
Founder/Engineer
Steady Grade Studios builds and operates software products. Our first project, PrePA Navigator, launched in March 2026. More coming soon.
Clay Coffman Salt Lake City, Utah 40.76° N · 111.89° W · 40.76° N · 111.89° W
My corner of the internet for what I've built, what I'm learning, books I keep coming back to, photos, links, and occasional writing.
now
- Building
- Steady Grade Studios
- Studying
- CS @ Oregon State
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Experience
11 roles
Fall 2024 - Present
Student
Always wanted to go back and learn more about hardware/low-level systems and take more math and physics. Doing a second degree in CS at Oregon State. Current focus is hardware/systems-programming and networking.
October 2022 - July 2024
TradeFoundry
Co-founder/CEO
TradeFoundry was an AI-powered recruiting platform we built to help connect young Americans with apprenticeships in the skilled trades. The business was acquired in 2024.
November 2021 - August 2022
CryptoSlam
Chief Product Officer
Multi-chain NFT market data aggregator. Joined as part of a $10m venture round to help build out the product and engineering orgs.
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Code
current technical work
I'm rebuilding technical depth in public: small tools, Linux/dev-environment work, web infrastructure, and experiments around AI coding workflows.
featured / workflow tool
cctop
btop-style terminal dashboard for monitoring Claude Code instances across tmux sessions in real time. Hooks capture lifecycle events into SQLite; the TUI polls and renders a live feed.
TypeScript ·Bun ·Python ·SQLite (WAL) ·tmux
┌─ cctop ─── Active: 3 │ Sessions: 12 │ Rate: 42/min ─────┐
├─ Activity (5m) ─────────────── 847 events peak: 18/min ┤
│ ▁▂▃▅█▇▃▁▂▄▇█▅▃▂▁▂▃▅▇█▇▅▃▂▁▂▃▄▅▆▇▆▅▃▂▁▂▃▄▅▆▇▆▅▃▂▁▂▃▅▆▇█ │
├─ Sessions ──────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│▸ ● dev:0.1 ~/pa-apply running: Bash 12m 30s 2s │
│ ● work:1.0 ~/cctop ran: Write 5m 12s 15s │
│ ○ api:2.1 ~/backend idle 1h 5m 3m │
├─ Event Feed ────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 14:32:05 🔧 abc12345 Bash npm test │
│ 14:32:08 💬 def45678 — "Refactor the auth..." │
│ 14:32:12 🛑 ghi90123 — reason: exit │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
in use
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workflow tool
cc-notify
Desktop notifications for Claude Code hooks, built for running multiple agents across tmux windows and git worktrees.
Shell ·Claude Code hooks ·Linux/KDE ·notify-send ·jq
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dev environment
dotfiles
Portable Fedora/dev-server environment managed with chezmoi, covering shell, editor, terminal, tmux, and remote host config.
Lua ·chezmoi ·tmux ·neovim ·Fedora
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site infrastructure
personal-site
Static Astro site for essays, books, photos, and notes. Bookshelf syncs from Hardcover, photos from an Immich album, with assets mirrored to R2.
Astro ·TypeScript ·Cloudflare Pages ·R2
in use
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Languages
Python / TypeScript / C/C++ / Lua
Web
Astro / Node / PostgreSQL / Cloudflare
Systems
Linux / Docker / Bun / SQLite / tmux / Neovim / chezmoi
AI workflows
Claude Code / git worktrees / hooks
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Bookshelf
reading
01
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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02
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Biography
03
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Philosophy
04
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Brian Greene
Space
05
Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck
Classics
04
Photos
40 images
Photos from Utah and wherever else I'm wandering.
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Writing
recent
Occasional notes on software, AI coding workflows, hardware/systems work I'm picking up in school, and reflections from past companies. Sporadic — I post when I have something worth saying.