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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

950: Even SCARIER Web Dev Nightmares (Spooky Stories Pt. 2)

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In part 2 of this year’s Spooky Stories special, Wes and Scott discuss the most chilling developer horror stories—from six-month-old unprocessed donations and runaway dog-food orders to vanishing databases, DNS disasters, code that literally tore apart a mall’s ventilation system, and more! Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:33 A Bug Beyond the Grave 04:16 NHL SPOOKS 06:36 White Space Ghost Faced 10:54 Over Order Nightmare 16:50 Alaskian 21:16 Brought to you by Sentry.io 22:50 Rackspace’d Out 25:02 Fired 26:52 WordPress Woes 33:21 What does the P in VPS stand for? 34:18 Beyond the Grave II 35:39 The Hottest Hot Fix 37:54 Bad Redirect 40:03 Instead of Making Money, You Spend Money! 41:26 Certbot Certain Death 43:55 It’s Always DNS 50:02 Cache Ruins Everything Around Me 51:52 Fiber F-Up 56:18 More Spooky Stories Don’t Drink and Deploy 😬 | Spooky Dev Stories Pt. 1 Submit your Spooky Stories 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

Welcome to syntax. We've got our second episode of 2025 spooky stories. These are stories of

0:10.3

web development and software development in general of just awful things that have happened in your

0:16.7

career. You've taken down websites. We've got some real doozies coming up. Just awful stories.

0:23.9

And we are going to read them. If you have your own spooky story, please submit it at any point.

0:29.2

Go to syntax.comfamfor. Sosch spooky. And you can submit your story to us and we'll read it on

0:35.7

next year's episode or always collecting them and always love hearing them.

0:40.5

So we have a century plug in one of these stories.

0:45.8

So I'm going to leave it for that.

0:47.6

Is that, you think that's all right, Scott?

0:49.5

It's actually a really good one.

0:50.7

But Wes, I want to read the ad.

0:56.6

I font to read the ad. I font to read the ad. So if you didn't catch the last one, if you're listening on audio, Scott has like a very good vampire costume. Real blood.

1:08.2

Thank you. I was doing this costume and my wife said, do you have a plan?

1:16.2

And I said, no, I don't.

1:18.8

What is this?

1:19.4

I'm losing the accent.

1:20.6

I don't have a plan.

1:22.4

And so I just started mashing the facepin around.

1:25.1

And what you see here is what you get.

1:27.3

And you know what I think

1:28.8

it's a pretty good job actually you look great thank you all right let's get in on the

1:34.4

first scary story is a bug from beyond the grave by the way I wrote all the titles for

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