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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

949: Web Dev HORROR Stories + Spooky Trivia! (Spooky Stories Pt. 1)

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

It’s that time of year again, Scott (as Dracula) and Wes (as a big bad shark) return for their annual Spooky Stories special! They’re joined by a mysterious guest for a round of creepy coding trivia and chilling true tales of web dev gone wrong; dropped databases, haunted passwords, and more. Beware: these are real developer horror stories. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:05 Scott’s vampire costume. 00:38 New to live-streaming. 00:54 AWS Outage. 01:50 What is Spooky Stories? 02:01 (Wes is wearing a shark costume) 02:34 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 03:30 PHP MyHeadache. 06:23 A Browser Hack. 08:30 Browser Hack Gameshow & Special Guest! 17:01 Ghost Password. 21:32 Just A Patch. 24:12 Don’t drink and Deploy. 34:47 Discount. Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0

I think we're live.

0:02.0

Yep, it's being pulled in.

0:03.6

Let's up, everybody.

0:05.3

I'll tell you what, man. The makeup, it's a little tough. All those things are a little tough. I got to get used to this. I spent all morning doing the makeup. I'm just rubbing it on my head and then trying to blend it. And then I would add too much black. and then it's like, what you learn is that it's hard to go back when you add too much black to the mix.

0:24.3

So then you's like what you learn is that it's hard

0:21.3

to go back when you add too much black to the mix so then you're like and then on top of it

0:28.3

I got to wear glasses so I'm doing the whole thing I look like this which is argue a bit better

0:32.4

but you put the glasses on it's hilarious oh. Oh, my goodness. That is so good.

0:38.6

All right.

0:39.0

Just tweeted it out.

0:40.0

Let me get it.

0:41.0

Your title says at S at N-Tax.

0:46.5

Oh, I see.

0:47.6

I see.

0:48.6

Yeah, that's fine.

0:50.2

That's fine.

0:51.2

That's a spooky story in itself.

0:53.2

That's a spooky story in itself. Speaking of spooky stories, I'm happy that Riverside is even up today, given that Amazon, screwed the pooch. I was wanting to test some stuff yesterday on Riverside, and I couldn't get it to load.

1:08.2

Man, I think I missed that whole outage. All I saw was everybody

1:11.5

talking about it. I think I was just happily doing my local dev and didn't see a thing about it,

1:15.6

but it seemed like a major outage. It didn't affect any of my stuff. It might have affected

1:21.2

syntax.fm. Yeah, yeah, definitely did. We're hosted on Versel, which is hosted on AWS.

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