In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes relate some spooky listener submitted coding horrors including updates for a large furniture retailer, pull request oversights, disallowing everything in a robots.txt, massive email fail, and more.

Show Notes

• 00:21 Welcome
• 01:22 Whetting your whistle
• 01:52 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
• 02:13 Site updates for one of the largest furniture retailers in my country
• 04:18 The Embarrassing Test Page Incident
• 05:54 The Pull Request Oversight
• 08:02 Making changes to a JSON file
• 13:11 Deploying a “disallow everything” robots.txt
• 14:45 GDPR Deletion
• 16:11 Dropping the backing disk for the production postgres
• 17:05 Accidentally pushing staging code as an update
• 18:34 Email fail
• 19:25 Hot mobile app prayers
• 22:28 Bogus ACH info
• 23:51 Wiring money error
• 26:44 Payment gateway test not production

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