Spooky Web Dev Stories — Part 2

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes are back for another episode of spooky web dev stories — listener-submitted stories about web dev gone wrong. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Netlify - Sponsor Netlify is the best way to deploy and host a front-end website. All the features developers need right out of the box: Global CDN, Continuous Deployment, one click HTTPS and more. Hit up netlify.com/syntax for more info. Show Notes 03:28 - Jack Rhysider Story 06:28 - Dirty Dicks JSON 08:23 - CMS Disaster 10:58 - Oh No Hotel 11:19 - FTP 12:19 - Push Notification Hell 13:16 - DVD Nightmare 15:15 - Bad Words Again 16:23 - Mo Money 17:01 - Bass Ackwards 18:17 - Taxi Coding 19:36 - Bad Env 21:30 - Login As 21:50 - Email Subscribers Plugin 22:33 - 1 in 300 Chance of the C-Word 24:24 - Production Target 26:12 - A Happy SEO Ending 28:26 - Just Oof 29:48 - I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up 30:54 - Crypto 32:34 - rm -rf 33:42 - Never Deploy on Fridays 35:31 - Million Dollar Scramble 36:22 - Deleting Production 37:11 - 500,000 Concurrent Problems 39:14 - Deleting a Government Website 40:36 - You Ruined the Surprise! 45:23 - Mr. D Hole 46:48 - One Expensive Race Condition 48:43 - Yikes 51:11 - Always Be Closing 51:44 - Adidas - All Day I Delete A Site Links @JackRhysider Darknet Diaries Podcast ExpressionEngine #ghosts chefkoch.de Sendgrid Magento Evite ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: Fastify Wes: 🇨🇦 Mr Chefer Meat Thermometer 🇺🇸 Mr Chefer Meat Thermometer Shameless Plugs Scott: Level Up Pro - 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

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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.
0:08.0	Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.
0:10.4	Welcome to Syntax. Today we've got part two of a spooky web development stories. These are stories that people have sent in and we're going to read them off to you. Just horror stories of deleting the database or accidentally pushing
0:24.9	something to production or cringe-worthy stories of web development where it all went wrong.
0:30.9	Today we are sponsored by two awesome companies. First one is Log Rocket and second one is Netlify. We'll talk about them part way through the episode. Oh, I forgot to do spooky voices.
0:40.0	Ooh! How you doing today, Scott?
0:44.0	Too good.
0:45.0	Tired.
0:46.0	Tired style.
0:47.0	I had meetings because I have meetings now.
0:49.0	I don't know if you know this.
0:50.0	I have meetings because there's people on my dev team that we meet and so I've been just
0:55.0	talking into a microphone all day. Just meetings for the rest of your life. Yeah I know
1:00.4	right? I just went to the dentist and they use like a little mini sandblaster on my teeth
1:06.9	if I ever had that happen. Yeah, my dentist is like hypermodern. They do x-rays with this thing that looks like a
1:14.2	literal 1950s depiction of a ray gun,
1:16.8	like it looks just like that.
1:18.3	And they just like click it on the side of your head
1:20.1	and you're done, it takes like two seconds.
1:22.0	But the cleaning, they do almost entirely via a like a water like a water sprayer is that weird like a water blaster I was much
1:30.0	for that over the scratching with the little pick.
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