684: Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 - Part 2

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott relate even more spooky listener submitted coding horrors including crypto copy paste, Big Brother bug, losing $50,000, 2,000 SMS, a $20,000 hour, and more. Show Notes 00:09 Velcome to Synax 01:09 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 01:36 Stories are anonymous! 01:57 Crypto copy + paste 03:48 Big Brother Bug 07:00 One of 6 laptops that can fix npm 07:57 Auto-submitting payments 09:42 40,000 orders shipped and refunded 11:16 Dropping the analytics database 11:40 dev was actually production 12:40 Updating the DNS 13:40 Losing ~$50,000 15:30 Clearing 80 million records 16:21 Web chat DDoS 18:00 URL Shortener #$@%# Ontario’s rejected licence plates for 2022 | CP24.com Boonta Vista: A “political” podcast for “smart” people 21:12 Sending an email to 20,000 users 21:42 Moving code to GitHub 23:32 “Lorem sale” 26:08 2,000 SMS messages 27:00 International shipment of kiosks 28:19 Crashing production Slow DB Queries | Sentry Documentation 31:01 Hitting customers credit card limit 32:01 Infinite redirect loop 32:53 My first commit 33:23 Augmented reality game prize mistakes 35:15 A $20,000 hour 35:57 Site went down for 3 days 37:42 Accidentally truncated the prod database 38:48 Off by one error 40:05 Exposing database credentials 42:08 Delete a temp directory on prod 44:51 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Race to the Summit Wes: 100LBS Strong Magnetic Hooks Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials 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	You're listening to syntax. The podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:06.0	Strap yourself in and get ready. Here is Scott Tillinski and West Boss. Welcome to syntax.
0:14.0	This is our annual spooky coding horror stories episode. You may have heard actually the
0:22.0	hasty before this, but this is the tasty full of coding horror stories. So every year we
0:28.3	ask people to submit their, uh, my wife just texted me, is Dracula in your office? Good.
0:34.7	I nailed it then. You were really loud. In fact, I had my headphones turned up and you started
0:40.0	that intro so loudly that I like, and almost shot the earbuds out of my mouth. Um, so these are
0:46.5	stories that make you want to put your head in the sand stories of caution stories of people
0:54.2	totally dropping the ball on customers websites with their tech with their database. It's just
1:00.3	awful, awful stuff. So it's a good lesson both for entertainment as well as, um, there's
1:06.4	something like valuable stories to be learned here. Yeah. These stories will make you wish that you
1:11.0	had some brains, right? Uh, if you had any brains, you'd be using century at century.io to track
1:18.5	your errors and exceptions. Because when these types of spooky situations pop up, you're going to
1:23.1	make sure that you have a, well, a non spooky pal to help you out, solving those issues. So head
1:27.8	on over to century.io. Uh, this podcast is presented by centuries. So thanks. Let's get into these
1:33.1	spooky stories. Wes, you want to hit that first one? Yes. This one is wild. So by the way, we should say
1:40.0	all of these stories we are keeping anonymous, whether the person has asked or not, um, just because
1:46.7	some of the best ones are anonymous because they're total that don't want them to see the light of
1:51.4	day. But we don't want to put anyone's name on these because like if you tweeted it, you can
1:55.3	delete the tweet. But if it's on this podcast, you can't delete the podcast. So, uh, thank you
2:00.3	everybody for submitting the first one is a crypto copy paste horror story. I worked for a crypto
2:05.2	company in 2020. And while building the React Native app, one of my colleagues made a PR to solve a
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