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Clinton Blackburn

Clinton Blackburn

Migrating to Stripe

NOTE: Although I am a Stripe employee, this is my personal blog. None of what I will describe has an official recommendation from Stripe…

8 min readDec 6, 2020

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Clinton Blackburn

Under the Hood of mitcnc.org

Over the past six months I’ve been working on changes to mitcnc.org, the homepage of the MIT Club of Northern California (MITCNC), and the…

8 min readNov 28, 2020

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Clinton Blackburn

Black Lives Matter

The past week has been frightening, upsetting, overwhelmingly exhausting, and surprisingly insightful. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and…

4 min readJun 7, 2020

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Clinton Blackburn
in
edX Engineering

Stripe for Open edX

An accessible version of this post is available at https://blog.edx.org/stripe-open-edx.

2 min readNov 6, 2017

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Stripe for Open edX

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Clinton Blackburn

Leaving Paradise

Over a decade ago I missed a Delta Airlines flight. Fortunately my Aunt Shebronda, being the great aunt that she is, bailed me out, and got…

4 min readNov 2, 2017

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Leaving Paradise

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Clinton Blackburn

Counting calls to Django QuerySet methods

Yesterday, I spent some time working on a test that needed to verify the delete method was called a certain number of times for a Django…

1 min readOct 6, 2017

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Clinton Blackburn
in
edX Engineering

Django Migration Don’ts

Here at edX we use the red-black (or blue-green) deployment method. Ben Schmaus’ post on the Netflix Technology Blog details red-black…

3 min readAug 30, 2017

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Django Migration Don’ts

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Clinton Blackburn
in
edX Engineering

Serverless

An accessible version of this post is available at http://blog.edx.org/serverless-deployments.

3 min readAug 27, 2017

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Serverless

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Clinton Blackburn

Solar Eclipse 2017

Last week I visited South Carolina to photograph the solar eclipse. In a word, it was: EPIC!

3 min readAug 27, 2017

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Solar Eclipse 2017

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Clinton Blackburn

Clinton Blackburn

Clinton is a software engineer at Stripe. When not spending hours coding, he enjoys practicing photography and aerial circus arts.

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