Sam Thorogood

Developer Relations for Web at Google.

Sydney, Australia Joined on Feb 6, 2018

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Sam Thorogood

Aug 7

The System Font

#html #font

5 min read

Recent Comments

re: Beyond appendChild: Better convenience methods for HTML Jun 3

For a one-liner... hmm: document.querySelector('.accordion-...

re: Progress Indicator With Fetch Mar 12

I don't believe node-fetch supports this. Read more.

re: Sure you want to leave?—browser beforeunload event Feb 4

Yes, I think it's impossible. Allowing an annoying popup to b...

re: Sure you want to leave?—browser beforeunload event Feb 4

Yes, that will go "back", but there are lots of other ways to...

re: Sure you want to leave?—browser beforeunload event Feb 4

There's no harm in trying (a browser might decide that the ...

re: Sure you want to leave?—browser beforeunload event Feb 4

Good observation, although I actually mentioned this in the...

re: Beyond appendChild: Better convenience methods for HTML Aug 23 '19

I don't think so, sorry. You can't assign to .children in t...

re: WebGL point sprites, a tutorial Aug 19 '19

So the buffer is new Float32Array(1000);, it actually takes...

Sam Thorogood

Apr 21

Control Loading Spinner in HTML

#webdev

4 min read

Sam Thorogood

Apr 16

Async Generators for User Input

#javascript

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5 min read

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Apr 14

Node.js Streams & Object Mode

#node

6 min read

Sam Thorogood

Apr 14

Logging with App Engine and Stackdriver

#appengine #gcp

7 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jun 20 '19

Progress Indicator With Fetch

#javascript

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2 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jun 19 '19

Graceful Shutdown Is A Lie

#theory

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1 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jun 18 '19

Divert Vertical Scroll To The Side ↔️

#javascript

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1 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jun 17 '19

What To Expect When You're Expecting To Drop IE11 🗑️

#javascript #html #ie11

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4 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jun 16 '19

Modern Web Components

#javascript #webcomponents

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3 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jun 15 '19

Google Assistant now supports "Open/Close" devices

#assistant #ifttt

2 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jun 14 '19

Install This PWA To Continue

#javascript #pwa

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3 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jun 13 '19

Matching elements with selectors in JS

#javascript

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2 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jun 12 '19

PWAs that download like apps 🗜️

#javascript #pwa #serviceworker

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2 min read

Sam Thorogood for Google Web Dev

Jun 11 '19

Disable a HTML form while in-flight using fieldset

#javascript #fieldset

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2 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jun 10 '19

AMA, Sam 10-yr Googler in Web DevRel

#ama #webdev

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2 min read

Sam Thorogood for Google Web Dev

Jun 9 '19

Beyond appendChild: Better convenience methods for HTML

#javascript #html

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2 min read

Sam Thorogood for Google Web Dev

Jun 6 '19

Automate Reading Form Results with 🤖 Chrome

#chrome #automation #javascript

4 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jun 6 '19

Sam's dotfiles highlights

#bash

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3 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jun 5 '19

Declaring JS Variables in 2019

#javascript

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2 min read

Sam Thorogood for Google Web Dev

Jun 4 '19

Detecting Select All on the Web

#javascript #gesture

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3 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jun 3 '19

Arrow functions break JavaScript parsers

#javascript

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4 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jun 1 '19

Civilization is a game you never lose

#games

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3 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jun 1 '19

Blog-A-Day in June 2019

#meta #blog

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2 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jun 1 '19

Rebuild only when necessary in Node

#javascript #node #fsnotify

4 min read

Sam Thorogood for Google Web Dev

Mar 12 '19

The Chrome Dev Summit site: case study

#javascript #webdev

6 min read

Sam Thorogood

Feb 6 '19

WebGL point sprites, a tutorial

#webgl #javascript

49 5

7 min read

Sam Thorogood for Google Web Dev

Dec 25 '18

The Gift of Giving Up

#santa #google #javascript

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5 min read

Sam Thorogood for Google Web Dev

Sep 17 '18

Sure you want to leave?—browser beforeunload event

#beforeunload #html #javascript

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5 min read

Sam Thorogood for Google Web Dev

Aug 18 '18

Shipping PWAs as Chrome Extensions

#pwa #chrome

155 3

4 min read

Sam Thorogood

Jul 14 '18

Disassembling apps to 'Ok Google' my garage

#android #go #appengine #ifttt

42 2

12 min read

Sam Thorogood for Google Web Dev

Jul 11 '18

Cancellable async functions in JavaScript

#javascript #promise #async

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7 min read

Sam Thorogood for Google Web Dev

Jul 3 '18

Emscripten's compiled Web Assembly, used minimally

#webassembly #emscripten #javascript #c

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12 min read

Sam Thorogood for Google Web Dev

Jun 28 '18

Fast GIF parsing on the web with WASM + Wuffs

#webassembly #wuffs #gif

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11 min read

Sam Thorogood for Google Web Dev

Apr 23 '18

↩️ Native Undo & Redo for the Web

#undo #redo #execcommand

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6 min read

Sam Thorogood

Apr 11 '18

🎩💫 Magic HTTP certs in Go

#letsencrypt #go #ubuntu

20 1

4 min read

Sam Thorogood

Apr 4 '18

Using Firebase with App Engine users

#appengine #firebase #go

4 min read

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