Hi, I'm Sam! 👋

I love to write, code, and teach. I also love constantly becoming a better version of myself.

I'm a developer, a developer advocate engineer for Auth0, and an instructor for Thinkster and egghead. I live in the rural Pacific Northwest with my partner, three barn cats 🐈, and 17 chickens. 🐓

I'm using a lot of green on this site because two of my favorite things are forests and mint chocolate chip ice cream.

You can find me on Twitter and hang out with me on Twitch.

JavaScript Video Courses & Teaching Projects

• My egghead Lessons 🥚 (check out my Angular Basics collection)
• My ngUpgrade course Upgrading AngularJS (v2 production starting Summer 2020)
• Thinkster: Up and Running with Gatsby
• Thinkster: Using ag-Grid with React
• GetAJobIn.Tech (work in progress 👷‍♂️🏗)
• Thinkster: Boost Your React Apps with Apollo (coming soon, in production 📹)

Recent Self-Improvement and Web Development Articles

• May 22nd - Refetching Data with RxJS Subjects in Angular
• May 22nd - Managing Time as a Developer Advocate (Without Losing Your Mind)
• May 12th - Use a Proxy with the Angular CLI to Fix CORS Development Problems

Some Favorites

I also use this site to write about code stuff and life stuff. Here are of few of my favorites:

• Wonder, Meaning, and Woodcarving
• Speaker Stuff No One Tells You About: Applying to Conferences
• The Painfully Shy Developer's Guide to Networking for a Better Job
• Asking for Help: My #1 Lesson from 2018
• Where (Else) to Find My Technical Writing
• I've stopped caring about finding my purpose.
• The Feedback Loop: My #1 Lesson from 2017
• 13 Lessons I've Learned about Starting a Business from Ramit Sethi