Ben Vinegar · Hyde _News & Media

Ben Vinegar Hey! I'm Ben Vinegar, VP Engineering at Sentry. I'm also the co-author of Third-party JavaScript, a contributor to O'Reilly's Beautiful JavaScript, and an occasional conference speaker.You can find me on Twitter, GitHub, and LinkedIn.SentrySentry is an open-source product that helps software development teams become notified of software errors in production, as well as provide powerful tools to triage and debug those errors for quick resolution. Sentry is funded by Accel and NEA, and our users include Uber, Microsoft, Dropbox, and many others.We're hiring.WritingThird-party JavaScript Released in 2013 by Manning Publications and co-authored with Anton Kovalyov, Third-party JavaScript teaches readers how to build embedded JavaScript applications like widgets and analytics scripts. It has been translated and sold in several languages, including Standard Chinese, Japanese, and Portugese.Beautiful JavaScript From 2015, Beautiful JavaScript is a collection of 15 discrete chapters contributed by leading JavaScript programmers like Angus Croll, Jenn Schiffer, Nicholas Zakas, and Ariya Hidayat. I contributed a chapter on abusing JavaScript constructors to seamlessly introduce the factory design pattern.Selected blog postsHow we grew Sentry's MAUs by rethinking invitations - Sentry blog, 2020Four reasons why your source maps are broken - Sentry blog, 2018Three tips for getting a talk accepted at Fluent - Medium, 2016What the heck is "Script error"? - Sentry blog, 2016How to write bulletproof function wrappers in JavaScript - Sentry blog, 2016Capture and report JavaScript errors with window.onerror - Sentry blog, 2016Debuggable JavaScript in production with source maps - Sentry blog, 2015We need a modern, open source performance book - Perfplanet, 2015The best tool for the job, isn't always - Medium, 2014SpeakingPodcastsThe new definition of frontend development - Code[ish], 2020Why error monitoring must be close to your code - The New Stack Podcast, 2020Debugging third party JavaScript - JavaScript Jabber, 2020TalksNavigating the JavaScript error-handling minefield - VueConfTO, 2019 ??JavaScript errors demystified - Destination:Web @ Uber, 2019 ??Source maps through the looking glass - JSConf EU, 2017 ??JS error reporting and why we can't have nice things - JSConf UY, 2016 ??Re-evaluting front-end performance best practices - Full Stack Toronto, 2015 ??Backbone at Disqus: a postmortem - BackboneConf, 2014 ??Seamless iframes: the future, today - HTML5DevConf, 2013 ??Modern iframe programming - TXJS, 2011 ??PanelsStatic to dynamic and back again - Future of Frontend, 2020 (moderator) ?Build process - Edge Conference London, 2014 (moderator) ??Third-party scripts - Edge Conference NYC, 2013 ??Contact meThe best way to reach me is over email. Please note I do not respond to solicitations from recruiting agencies, outsourcing firms, product salespeople, etc.