In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott relate even more spooky listener submitted coding horrors including crypto copy paste, Big Brother bug, losing $50,000, 2,000 SMS, a $20,000 hour, and more.

Show Notes

00:09 Velcome to Synax
01:09 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
01:36 Stories are anonymous!
01:57 Crypto copy + paste
03:48 Big Brother Bug
07:00 One of 6 laptops that can fix npm
07:57 Auto-submitting payments
09:42 40,000 orders shipped and refunded
11:16 Dropping the analytics database
11:40 dev was actually production
12:40 Updating the DNS
13:40 Losing ~$50,000
15:30 Clearing 80 million records
16:21 Web chat DDoS
18:00 URL Shortener #$@%#
Ontario’s rejected licence plates for 2022 | CP24.com
Boonta Vista: A “political” podcast for “smart” people
21:12 Sending an email to 20,000 users
21:42 Moving code to GitHub
23:32 “Lorem sale”
26:08 2,000 SMS messages
27:00 International shipment of kiosks
28:19 Crashing production
Slow DB Queries | Sentry Documentation
31:01 Hitting customers credit card limit
32:01 Infinite redirect loop
32:53 My first commit
33:23 Augmented reality game prize mistakes
35:15 A $20,000 hour
35:57 Site went down for 3 days
37:42 Accidentally truncated the prod database
38:48 Off by one error
40:05 Exposing database credentials
42:08 Delete a temp directory on prod
44:51 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

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