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684: Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 - Part 2

Oct 25, 2023 · 50 min
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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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