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Sam Thorogood

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Location Sydney, Australia Joined Joined on  Personal website https://whistlr.info github website twitter website

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Web Font Loading & The Status Quo

Web Font Loading & The Status Quo

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Observing rendered DOM nodes

Observing rendered DOM nodes

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Check your JS with TS

Check your JS with TS

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The System Font

The System Font

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Control Loading Spinner in HTML

Control Loading Spinner in HTML

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Async Generators for User Input

Async Generators for User Input

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Node.js Streams & Object Mode

Node.js Streams & Object Mode

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Logging with App Engine and Stackdriver

Logging with App Engine and Stackdriver

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Progress Indicator With Fetch

Progress Indicator With Fetch

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Graceful Shutdown Is A Lie

Graceful Shutdown Is A Lie

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Divert Vertical Scroll To The Side ↔️

Divert Vertical Scroll To The Side ↔️

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

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

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Modern Web Components

Modern Web Components

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Google Assistant now supports "Open/Close" devices

Google Assistant now supports "Open/Close" devices

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Install This PWA To Continue

Install This PWA To Continue

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Matching elements with selectors in JS

Matching elements with selectors in JS

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PWAs that download like apps 🗜️

PWAs that download like apps 🗜️

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Disable a HTML form while in-flight using fieldset

Disable a HTML form while in-flight using fieldset

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AMA, Sam 10-yr Googler in Web DevRel

AMA, Sam 10-yr Googler in Web DevRel

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Beyond appendChild: Better convenience methods for HTML

Beyond appendChild: Better convenience methods for HTML

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Automate Reading Form Results with 🤖 Chrome

Automate Reading Form Results with 🤖 Chrome

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Sam's dotfiles highlights

Sam's dotfiles highlights

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Declaring JS Variables in 2019

Declaring JS Variables in 2019

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Detecting Select All on the Web

Detecting Select All on the Web

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Arrow functions break JavaScript parsers

Arrow functions break JavaScript parsers

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Civilization is a game you never lose

Civilization is a game you never lose

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Blog-A-Day in June 2019

Blog-A-Day in June 2019

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Rebuild only when necessary in Node

Rebuild only when necessary in Node

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The Chrome Dev Summit site: case study

The Chrome Dev Summit site: case study

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WebGL point sprites, a tutorial

WebGL point sprites, a tutorial

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The Gift of Giving Up

The Gift of Giving Up

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Sure you want to leave?—browser beforeunload event

Sure you want to leave?—browser beforeunload event

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Shipping PWAs as Chrome Extensions

Shipping PWAs as Chrome Extensions

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Disassembling apps to 'Ok Google' my garage

Disassembling apps to 'Ok Google' my garage

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Cancellable async functions in JavaScript

Cancellable async functions in JavaScript

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Emscripten's compiled Web Assembly, used minimally

Emscripten's compiled Web Assembly, used minimally

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Fast GIF parsing on the web with WASM + Wuffs

Fast GIF parsing on the web with WASM + Wuffs

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↩️ Native Undo & Redo for the Web

↩️ Native Undo & Redo for the Web

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🎩💫 Magic HTTP certs in Go

🎩💫 Magic HTTP certs in Go

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Using Firebase with App Engine users

Using Firebase with App Engine users

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