About

Sam is a, front-end developer at Gitlab, 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

• Going Transparent

  21 May 2018

  As of today, I’ll be going transparent.

• Running a Conference

  1 May 2018

  Running a conference is 24% blood, 62% sweat, 15% tears, and a pinch of being so overworked you forget how to count to 100. But it’s worth it.

• 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.