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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Hasty Horror Stories

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about web dev horror stories — real things that have happened to real developers Linode - Sponsor Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level. Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier. Get started on Linode today with a $100 in free credit for listeners of Syntax. You can find all the details at linode.com/syntax. Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more. Visit linode.com/syntax and click on the “Create Free Account” button to get started. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your code, track errors and monitor performance with Sentry. Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health. Cut your time on error resolution from hours to minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners new to Sentry can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code TASTYTREAT during sign up. Show Notes 03:36 - https://twitter.com/CameronPak/status/1445051951843061767 04:48 - https://twitter.com/susanlangenes/status/1445049321871712257 05:29 - https://twitter.com/DevJordanW/status/1445052979644706823 06:12 - https://twitter.com/HerbieDuah/status/1445088892177108994 07:04 - https://twitter.com/bbbryan14/status/1445400072921956357 07:43 - https://twitter.com/stephendennis30/status/1445074683062362114 07:59 - https://twitter.com/Tim__Moran/status/1445102727701221377?s=20 08:37 - https://twitter.com/SoyAlejandroAl/status/1445063677896450048 09:34 - https://twitter.com/sudonetizen/status/1445132694531231760 11:09 - https://twitter.com/chrislaughlin/status/1445049210840178690?s=20 11:58 - https://twitter.com/sbitaxi/status/1445208793072156675 12:44 - https://twitter.com/AlexHBruns/status/1445067663919755269 13:05 - https://twitter.com/costerad/status/1445069263568580616 14:02 - https://twitter.com/gcnx86/status/1445045635250638853 14:25 - https://twitter.com/JustMetMe_app/status/1445041678167920640 14:47 - https://twitter.com/alanshortis/status/1445048899899645959 15:50 - https://twitter.com/Swizec/status/1445191324215353347 16:17 - https://twitter.com/_RobJohansen/status/1445137057236467722 17:14 - https://twitter.com/fienen/status/1445040513678196743 17:57 - https://twitter.com/TechBill777/status/1445172824822452226 18:54 - https://twitter.com/Zircoz/status/1445041440770252806 Links https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1445039778035032068 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Monday Monday Monday open wide dev fans get ready to stuff your face with javascript CSS node module barbecue tips get work flows break dancing soft skills web development the hastiest the

0:13.5

Carrazius the tastiest web development treats coming in hot. Here is West

0:19.2

Barracuda boss and Scott El Toro local to Linsky

0:25.2

Welcome to syntax in this Monday spooky treat we're going to be diving in to some spooky stories from Twitter that we heard on web dev Twitter

0:38.2

We asked you we need your web dev horror stories for every year we do an annual guess what every year means an annual horror

0:46.2

Stories where we read off scary dev horror stories things that have happened to real people these are not made up events or anything

0:53.2

These are things that have happened to real life devs and we read their stories to you so that you can sit in your seat and cringe a little bit and feel all tense all over for other people's mistakes and this actually is a little bit of a hasty

1:06.7

Amuse bush here we're doing we'll be releasing before the full course that we're going to be doing on Wednesday for our spooky treats we have a lot a lot of cool stories

1:16.7

Plan for that one as well. So buckle up. Let's get into some spooky stories, but before we do I should introduce myself

1:23.7

My name is Scott Linsky. I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado and with me as always is the spookiest West Boo

1:29.7

Oh, hello. Hello. Hello. Yes, this episode is sponsored by Linode and sentry

1:38.7

Sentry and Linode are two amazing sponsors west I'll talk about century. You can talk about Linode

1:43.7

Sentry is the perfect place to catalog all of your creepy crawly errors and bugs in your application and have them all available to you

1:51.7

In a nice interface for you to be able to catalog log them and eventually squash those bugs

1:57.7

Fix those bugs and push those bugs up to production

2:00.7

But hopefully you run your tests and all that stuff first because as we get into these stories

2:04.7

You will see that there are a lot of people who do not run their tests before pushing to production

2:08.7

And it well they're gonna end up with more bugs and their application and then sentry is going to have to find them for you

2:14.7

So head on over to sentry at sentry.io use the coupon code at tasty tree to all the work case all one word

2:20.7

You'll get two months for free and you can you know you can squash those spooky creepy crawlies in your application

2:26.7

We are also sponsored by Linode and one of our spooky stories of the next episode that we have is

2:33.7

Somebody at Facebook accidentally blew up entire DNS and took Facebook out

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