683: Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 - Part 1

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

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🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes relate some spooky listener submitted coding horrors including updates for a large furniture retailer, pull request oversights, disallowing everything in a robots.txt, massive email fail, and more. Show Notes 00:21 Welcome 01:22 Whetting your whistle 01:52 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:13 Site updates for one of the largest furniture retailers in my country 04:18 The Embarrassing Test Page Incident 05:54 The Pull Request Oversight 08:02 Making changes to a JSON file 13:11 Deploying a “disallow everything” robots.txt 14:45 GDPR Deletion 16:11 Dropping the backing disk for the production postgres 17:05 Accidentally pushing staging code as an update 18:34 Email fail 19:25 Hot mobile app prayers 22:28 Bogus ACH info 23:51 Wiring money error 26:44 Payment gateway test not production Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

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0:00.0	Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday, open wide Dev fans.
0:04.0	Get ready to stuff your face with JavaScript,
0:07.0	CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, get workflows,
0:10.0	breakdancing, soft skills, web development,
0:12.0	the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest, the tastiest, web development
0:16.4	treats.
0:17.4	Coming in hot, here is Wes, Barracuda, Bars, and Scott, El Toro Loco Tolinsky. Welcome toot on this Monday hash treat. We'll be sending you to the depths of hell. I talking about spooky stories.
0:47.0	We're talking about spooky dev stories.
0:49.0	This is one of our annual episodes where we do
0:52.0	or we talk about spooky stories stories and I'm not going to do
0:54.0	the spooky voice the whole time. But this is part one, this is the hasty version of spooky stories that we're going to be telling on the
1:01.5	podcast where basically people write in
1:03.8	they talk about spooky dev stories. Dev stories that are very spooky spooky
1:09.0	spooky stuff like dropping the whole database or maybe charging 10,000 users at, you know, who knows.
1:15.0	My name is Scott Tolinsky, I'm a developer from Denver and with me as always is, Wes,
1:19.7	Bous!
1:21.7	Oh, I like that. Yeah, thank you.
1:23.0	Freestyle.
1:24.0	All right, so we have two shows for you.
1:26.0	This is going to be the first one, a little hasty.
1:28.0	Just a couple, we're going to get you, wet your whistle.
1:31.0	And then on Wednesday coming out we have the big one which has
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