Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

683: Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 - Part 1


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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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