It’s that time of year again, Scott (as Dracula) and Wes (as a big bad shark) return for their annual Spooky Stories special! They’re joined by a mysterious guest for a round of creepy coding trivia and chilling true tales of web dev gone wrong; dropped databases, haunted passwords, and more. Beware: these are real developer horror stories.
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Aug 19
1031: My Coding Skills Are Atrophying
Scott and Wes answer your questions about coding in the AI era, atrophying skills from too much autocomplete, whether it’s finally time to leave VS Code, chasing flow state with agents, and which single AI subscription is worth your money. Plus: AT Protocol vs Solid, making your ... Show More
57m 3s
Aug 17
1030: AI Assistant Hacks Gym
An AI assistant goes rogue and hacks a gym website, a $9k surprise Cloudflare bill lands in someone’s inbox, and AI subscriptions start promising unlimited usage. Plus Meta’s Muse Glimmer, Agent Plugins, Kimi K3 in Copilot, and a pile of CSS chaos. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syn ... Show More
1h 24m
Aug 12
1029: The Workflow of the Future With Zed
Nathan Sobo joins Scott and Wes to explain why Zed was built in Rust, how GPUI works, and what happens to editors once agents write most of the code. They also talk about DeltaDB, Zed’s new Git-compatible version control system, and Delta, the collaborative agentic editor it powe ... Show More
59m 37s
Oct 2023
Spooky, scary, skeletons at the movies. [Hacking humans goes to the movies]
Thanks for joining us again for a very special and scary episode brought to you by the team of Hacking Humans, the CyberWire's social engineering podcast. Hacking Humans co-host Dave Bittner is joined by Rick Howard in this series where they view clips from their favorite movies ... Show More
36m 43s
Oct 2020
SCARY STORIES!! *3rd Annual Halloween Episode*
It's time for the WWS annual scary stories episode! The girls read your submissions about ghosts, dark figures in photos, voice memos, and haunted rooms... Get ready to get SPOOKED! Happy Halloween! FOLLOW US! TAKE OUR HEALTH AND BUSINESS COURSES! https://balanced-boss-6f91.mykaj ... Show More
1h 3m
Jun 2023
The Internet Is a SCARY Place
This week on an all new Brain Leak, Sean and Ethan kick things off by talking about snooba...not scuba, snooba? Next, Ethan educates Sean on the number of bones in a baby’s body before a deep dive into the wild, scary works of the dark web, deep web, the Silk Road, etc…it’s all c ... Show More
1h 13m
Oct 2021
Halloween Spooktacular: Scary Stories, Haunting Music & More!
The scariest stories from Marvel’s past are resurrected in this very spooky Halloween special, as actor Nik Walker joins us for a reading of three stories from the frightening Strange Tales comic series. What’s more, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy video game has finally materia ... Show More
1h 16m
Oct 2023
138: Spooky Dark Edition..
Two Hot Takes host, Morgan, is joined by guest co-host Alejandra! Things take a turn into spookyville with this last scary episode of the season.. From ghosts that line up cat toys, to dark angels floating above this one has all the paranormal vibes we could handle. Thoughts on t ... Show More
1h 44m