About

Sam is a, front-end developer at Bytemark, and co-organiser of Frontend NE; a meetup for front-end developers in the North East.

He’s an advocate of pattern libraries and componentising elements; and has given talks on both topics at several events and conferences in the past year.

You can follow him as samdbeckham on Github, Twitter, or Codepen. He occasionally blogs on here and on Medium. Yes, the D stands for David; and no, there’s no relation (unfortunately).

Blog

• Deep Copy and the Immutability Issue

  26 February 2018

  In the latest episode of, “I Have No Idea What I’m Doing” I learned that everything I thought I knew about immutability in Javascript was a lie.

• I Have No Idea What I'm Doing

  30 November 2017

  Everything we have learned is something we knew nothing about at some point. We all have to start somewhere.

• Starting a Meetup

  29 June 2017

  Last week I attended the Web Community Leaders Summit (UK/IE) at the Google offices in London.

• Resilient Web Design

  20 December 2016

  I’ve just finished reading Jeremy Keith’s new book, Resilient Web Design. It was a fantastic read, but what really impressed me was its use of service workers.