Welcome to Syntax!

This is the second part of our 2024 spooky stories.

These are stories of web development gone bad,

dropping a table, letting something sneak into production, totally shipping, we had one a couple years ago

shipping like 80,000 dollars worth of toilet paper to the wrong people and just awful

stories of web development gone awry and thankfully we can laugh at them and also learn a thing or two of them

We would love to hear your spooky story if you want us to read it next year go to syntax out of M for slash spooky and pop it in the box and we'll put it on the list for next year.

Yes. How's it going Scott? Oh yeah I'm doing good man if your code is looking

spooky gone bad your code's gone bad yeah there we go

your code's gone bad head on over to century dot i.o slash syntax

sign up and it's the perfect place to make sure that you are on top of any heirs bugs or creepy crawleys in your code base.

Last thing we want is a bunch of big old spiders running around in our code base.

Hey Wes, we are at the, what was it, the butterfly pavilion in Colorado, and my daughter, who was five, was like,

I really want to hold the tarantula.

Oh my gosh.

She just stepped up and held that tarantula all day so you don't want any

tarantulas in your code you don't want to hold that thing make sure that you

solve those bugs with Century.

Oh all right the first one we have here, I literally laughed so hard reading this for the first time because it's a two-parter.

It's just like, come on. All right, so the first one here we have here is

called monkey business. At my first job as a 19-year-old and the only engineer on an

entire product, I accidentally pushed some test code that

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