JSJ 453: Debugging Third Party JavaScript with Ben Vinegar

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Many websites these days have to deal with the reality of incorporating third-party scripts. These could be tracking scripts or analytics or monitoring, or even scripts that add explicit features to a site, such as chat. Regardless of the purpose, such scripts add complexity and overhead, and can interfere with the proper operation of the site. In this episode Ben Vinegar, VP of engineering at Sentry, joins the panel to discuss the complexities and implications of third-party scripts, both from the perspective of website developers, as well as from the perspective of the developers creating such scripts.Sponsors

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Panel

• AJ ONeal
• Aimee Knight
• Dan Shappir
• Charles Max Wood

Special Guest

• Ben Vinegar

Links

• ETAG Cookies
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/Using_custom_elements

PicksAimee

• https://github.com/hwayne/awesome-cold-showers

AJ

• AJQuery v2.0
• https://webinstall.dev/sd
• Dropbox Paper
• Woody Zuill on Mob Programming and Influencing Change | Healthy Developer Interview #4

Charles Max Wood

• Scythe
• https://www.thecreepyline.com/

Ben Vinegar

• https://workers.cloudflare.com

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