Blog-A-Day in June 2019
As part of an extended break from official duties at Google, I’m posting an article per-day in June 2019.
prsr—JavaScript parser and tokenizer
A JavaScript parser and tokenizer written in pure C. Compiles with Web Assembly and can be used on the web or in Node. Demo.
Santa Tracker @ BrooklynJS
Talk given at BrooklynJS in NYC. This PDF is missing a lot of amazing animated GIFs, you’ve been warned.
2018
Sam's Web Content
Follow me around YouTube. Contains all my talks and videos uploaded as part of my work at Google on the Developer Relations team.
Emojibuff
Fast, searchable offline-ready Emoji catalog site, featuring AMP for initial load and PWA on future loads.
Fast GIF parsing on the web with WASM + Wuffs
Post about parsing GIFs using Web Assembly. It’s nominally 2x faster than the state of the art JS.
🎩💫 Magic HTTP certs in Go
Learn how to use the autocert package in a Go web server, with a bonus on running the code on Ubuntu & SystemD.
Using Firebase with App Engine users
Learning about Firebase—specifically, its auth layer—vis-à -vis App Engine users, for existing integrations.
ES6 Modules & Polymer—PolymerSYD
Demistifying ES6 Modules, focusing on some of the interesting parts, and how they will effect Polymer 3.0. This talk was given at PolymerSYD, organized by @liamfiddler. This is a refined version of my talk at Polymer Summit 2017.
Santa Tracker Dev Diary
Vlog-style content about how we built Santa Tracker in 2017. Learn tips, tricks and gain an insight into Google’s development process.