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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Spooky Web Dev Stories 2022

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott tell your spookiest scary web dev stories including spooky render times, push notification hell, dark Friday, and more! 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. Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax Show Notes 00:15 Welcome 03:00 Spooky Render Times React Virtualized React Window 09:19 Push Notification Hell 13:11 Dark Friday 14:19 Tiny Ints with Big Problems 16:57 A/B Testing 18:47 Confirm Purchase button mistake 21:21 Sponsor: Sentry 22:34 Dike Leak 25:14 A Steep Grade 32:41 Falkland Islands mixup 33:40 Conference mixup 36:34 Sponsor: Prismic 37:58 Doctor Who Ipsum 43:55 Marketplace payouts 46:38 Sponsor: Freshbooks 47:42 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: PopSocket Wallet Wes: Water flosser Shameless Plugs Scott: LevelUp Tutorials Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials 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 strap yourself in and get ready

0:07.7

Here is Scott Tolesky and West Boss

0:16.4

Welcome to syntax the spookiest web development show in the field

0:26.5

Is that German again? Yeah, I don't know

0:29.4

I got Dracula. I got Jack. Oh

0:35.6

This is the episode where we do spooky stories in web development things where people do

0:42.5

awful things in web development they delete a database accidentally put a swear word on they do things where you just want to stick your head in the sand and every year

0:51.3

we have people submit

0:52.8

dozens of stories and they are just

0:55.2

very cringey and

0:57.2

It's fun to laugh at them in in retrospect

1:00.0

I think you can learn a thing or two about like what not to do as well. Yeah, straight-up spooky for sure. That's like any time

1:08.2

I see like a

1:11.0

Like a ATV crash or something on the news. I want to know like what happened because like I want to I want to know like

1:17.3

I don't want to do that, you know like did they go too close to a cliff or something an ATV crash?

1:22.2

What over effort? Yeah, well that's that's like my biggest fear like we have like a little kids ATV

1:27.3

And I was like I don't think I want my kids ever riding that thing. Oh, yeah, yeah every time I see like something on the news like

1:33.2

Kids rolled over. I'm like, well, what were they doing? You know not not not to blame them

1:38.3

But like I just want to know like how do you? Oh, yeah, because you can also be safe on them

1:41.8

But anyways, what are kids not doing? It's really the question. That's a good good point good point

1:46.8

Apologies for my sickness sounding. I got the vid finally

1:51.0

Which sucked so it showed up to Scott for taking that last episode

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