October 25th, 2023 × #coding#mistakes#horror stories
Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 - Part 2
Web development horror stories about bugs, mistakes, and disasters
Wes Bos Host
Scott Tolinski Host
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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