684: Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 - Part 2
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Wes Bos
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 ×××
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