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Sam Thorogood

Jan 12

Check your JS with TS

#javascript #typescript #compile

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Sure you want to leave?—browser beforeunload event

Yeah, because your code otherwise won't have a chance to run....

Jan 13

Sure you want to leave?—browser beforeunload event

Inside your beforeunload handler, you can add code in a setTi...

Jan 12

Sure you want to leave?—browser beforeunload event

Moving to another page can be detected by watching focus or t...

Jan 12

Sure you want to leave?—browser beforeunload event

Don't send an XMLHttpRequest—use sendBeacon, like I mentioned...

Jan 12

Sure you want to leave?—browser beforeunload event

You could do the action and revert it if your JS runs again.

Jan 12

Sure you want to leave?—browser beforeunload event

No, that's the whole point. You could write something like "C...

Jan 12

Beyond appendChild: Better convenience methods for HTML

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

Jun 3 '20

Progress Indicator With Fetch

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

Mar 12 '20

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Sam Thorogood

Aug 7 '20

The System Font

#html #font

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Sam Thorogood

Apr 21 '20

Control Loading Spinner in HTML

#webdev

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Apr 16 '20

Async Generators for User Input

#javascript

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Apr 14 '20

Node.js Streams & Object Mode

#node

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Sam Thorogood

Apr 14 '20

Logging with App Engine and Stackdriver

#appengine #gcp

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Sam Thorogood

Jun 20 '19

Progress Indicator With Fetch

#javascript

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Sam Thorogood

Jun 19 '19

Graceful Shutdown Is A Lie

#theory

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Sam Thorogood

Jun 18 '19

Divert Vertical Scroll To The Side ↔️

#javascript

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Sam Thorogood

Jun 17 '19

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

#javascript #html #ie11

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Jun 16 '19

Modern Web Components

#javascript #webcomponents

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Sam Thorogood

Jun 15 '19

Google Assistant now supports "Open/Close" devices

#assistant #ifttt

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Sam Thorogood

Jun 14 '19

Install This PWA To Continue

#javascript #pwa

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Sam Thorogood

Jun 13 '19

Matching elements with selectors in JS

#javascript

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Sam Thorogood

Jun 12 '19

PWAs that download like apps 🗜️

#javascript #pwa #serviceworker

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Jun 11 '19

Disable a HTML form while in-flight using fieldset

#javascript #fieldset

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Sam Thorogood

Jun 10 '19

AMA, Sam 10-yr Googler in Web DevRel

#ama #webdev

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Jun 9 '19

Beyond appendChild: Better convenience methods for HTML

#javascript #html

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2 min read

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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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Sam Thorogood

Jun 5 '19

Declaring JS Variables in 2019

#javascript

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Jun 4 '19

Detecting Select All on the Web

#javascript #gesture

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Jun 3 '19

Arrow functions break JavaScript parsers

#javascript

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Sam Thorogood

Jun 1 '19

Civilization is a game you never lose

#games

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Sam Thorogood

Jun 1 '19

Blog-A-Day in June 2019

#meta #blog

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Sam Thorogood

Jun 1 '19

Rebuild only when necessary in Node

#javascript #node #fsnotify

4 min read

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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

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7 min read

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Dec 25 '18

The Gift of Giving Up

#santa #google #javascript

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Sep 17 '18

Sure you want to leave?—browser beforeunload event

#beforeunload #html #javascript

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Aug 18 '18

Shipping PWAs as Chrome Extensions

#pwa #chrome

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Sam Thorogood

Jul 14 '18

Disassembling apps to 'Ok Google' my garage

#android #go #appengine #ifttt

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12 min read

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Jul 11 '18

Cancellable async functions in JavaScript

#javascript #promise #async

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Jul 3 '18

Emscripten's compiled Web Assembly, used minimally

#webassembly #emscripten #javascript #c

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Jun 28 '18

Fast GIF parsing on the web with WASM + Wuffs

#webassembly #wuffs #gif

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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

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4 min read

Sam Thorogood

Apr 4 '18

Using Firebase with App Engine users

#appengine #firebase #go

4 min read

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