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 ~$50,000
• 15:30 Clearing 80 million records
• 16:21 Web chat DDoS
• 18:00 URL Shortener #$@%#
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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 ×××

• Scott: Race to the Summit

Wes: 100LBS Strong Magnetic Hooks

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