Spooky Web Dev Horror Stories
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about web dev horror stories — things you can only hope will never happen to you!
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Show Notes
2:09 - Scott’s Disastrous Git Clean
4:35 - Magic Updates the Gathering
8:52 - YAAAAS
9:37 - Token Trouble
12:16 - jQuery Plugins
15:22 - Success!
18:00 - Parental Advisory
21:47 - Students Changing Grades
22:46 - Lorem Sh!tsum
26:22 - Drowning in a Waterfall
28:53 - Magneto Upgrades
30:00 - JOHN CENA
33:24 - Migration Migraine
35:39 - Primary Key Nightmare
36:26 - The $20,000 YAML formatter
Links
××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
- Scott: Dyson Hand Vacuum
- Wes: /r/ AbsoluteUnits
Shameless Plugs
- Scott: Fullstack React with JS9 - Sign up for the year and save 25%!
- Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off!
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 | 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 Telinsky and West Boss. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to... |
| 0:12.4 | All right. Welcome to the Halloween |
| 0:15.0 | the Halloween edition of Syntax FM. |
| 0:19.0 | We have some spooky web-dev horror stories. We reached out to you and asked for your most |
| 0:26.3 | disastrous scary stick your whole stick your head in a hole and Scott has a sound board of spooky sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | We're going to be going through some awful stories of people losing their databases |
| 0:40.0 | and accidentally pushing code to production that they shouldn't have and just some |
| 0:44.0 | some really hilarious but also some really like oof I hope that never happens to me |
| 0:49.5 | in my career stories. We are sponsored by two awesome companies, Log Rocket and Sanity. We'll talk about |
| 0:56.6 | them part way through the episode. With me today is Spooky Tylinsky. How you doing today? I'm doing good. |
| 1:06.0 | Yes, I am ready for the spooky. |
| 1:12.0 | Oh, yeah. I am ready for this spooky, oookey episode of syntax. |
| 1:17.0 | We're going to be giving you some lovely campfire stories here. |
| 1:20.9 | You can just imagine, I have a flashlight on my face coming from the underside of it. |
| 1:27.0 | Beautiful. I promise I will not be that annoying for the remainder of this |
| 1:39.2 | this one is a bit long. |
| 1:41.2 | Scott is on the sounds by the way, so send your tweets to him, not me. |
| 1:46.0 | So we've got all kinds of stories. |
| 1:50.0 | We're going to keep them all anonymous. |
| 1:53.2 | Most of them were privately sent to me on Twitter dams over email. |
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