Oct 2020
1h 2m
In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes are back for another episode of spooky web dev stories — listener-submitted stories about web dev gone wrong.
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03:28 - Jack Rhysider Story
06:28 - Dirty Dicks JSON
08:23 - CMS Disaster
10:58 - Oh No Hotel
11:19 - FTP
12:19 - Push Notification Hell
13:16 - DVD Nightmare
15:15 - Bad Words Again
16:23 - Mo Money
17:01 - Bass Ackwards
18:17 - Taxi Coding
19:36 - Bad Env
21:30 - Login As
21:50 - Email Subscribers Plugin
22:33 - 1 in 300 Chance of the C-Word
24:24 - Production Target
26:12 - A Happy SEO Ending
28:26 - Just Oof
29:48 - I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up
30:54 - Crypto
32:34 - rm -rf
33:42 - Never Deploy on Fridays
35:31 - Million Dollar Scramble
36:22 - Deleting Production
37:11 - 500,000 Concurrent Problems
39:14 - Deleting a Government Website
40:36 - You Ruined the Surprise!
45:23 - Mr. D Hole
46:48 - One Expensive Race Condition
48:43 - Yikes
51:11 - Always Be Closing
51:44 - Adidas - All Day I Delete A Site