In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott tell more of your scary web dev stories including lorem ipsum mistakes, naming something Skynet, blackouts, Twitch streaming, and more!

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Show Notes

00:12 Weeeeeelcome
02:11 Slipsum mistake
Slipsum
03:40 Brotli scaling explosion
When JavaScript Bytes
05:14 Email loop
Breaking Production with 56,000 emails
05:36 DevOops Magento store
Example.com
08:26 Scary animal stories
11:09 Naming something Skynet
11:58 2003 Blackout
13:16 ExtJS error binding
17:09 Sponsor: Linode
17:55 Lead gen forms and captcha
Issue Renaming upper-case ‘Sirupsen’ to ‘sirupsen’
Follow up
19:51 Scarlet Letter
21:51 MongoDB achievement story
Adam Coster
26:14 Sponsor: Auth0
28:11 Drupal and mysql database fun
30:10 Nervous Twitch
34:03 FTP access story
37:24 Sponsor: LogRocket
38:53 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

Scott: Ear foam tips
Wes: Stepped drill bit / Aliexpress link

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