In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott share spooky stories from web and software developers about awful things that have happened in their careers. The stories include tales of accidentally not charging donations, dropping all tables in a database, a whitespace change that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, over-ordering dog food, overloading an analytics platform, running the RM command on the wrong server, formatting a CEO's hard drive, WordPress woes, accidentally sending out thousands of emails, a portfolio turning into an adult website, sending push notifications about a dead artist, failing tests, bad redirects, leaving a dev flag in production, letting Certbot fail silently, DNS issues, cache problems, and ripping out a ventilation system. They encourage listeners to submit their own spooky stories for next year's episode.
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