2-in-2 so far with back-to-back gems found in the wild that are worth sharing. Came across this one in Javascript Weekly, showing a walk through of debugging code to figure out how a pop-under service is getting around browser restrictions to serve those “oh-so-loved” pop-under’s.

I love the methodology, and just learned of the Proxy object, which I think I’ll be using quite a bit now. The MDN page on the Proxy object also has some great examples: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Proxy

Back to the video… The flash back to my ad serving days was great. Sooooo many hacks we engineered to get things to work. And not always just about getting around browser measures like people assume with us “evil ad vendors”. 95% were around inconsistencies/limitations in the browsers. My Flash and Javascript skills went from Minimal to Ninja[-like] in no time because of all the debugging I had to do.

I really like the rest of his video’s on his Youtube Channel as well, and will be spending quite some time with them running on the second monitor while I work. Might be a good way to get my brain back into “Tinker Mode”, as I really need it now.

Check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UqHCrGdxOM
And check out his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClcE-kVhqyiHCcjYwcpfj9w