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.

• 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 ~$50,000
• 15:30 Clearing 80 million records
• 16:21 Web chat DDoS
• 18:00 URL Shortener #$@%#
• Ontario’s rejected licence plates for 2022 | CP24.com

• Scott: Race to the Summit

• Scott: Sentry

• Scott’s Instagram

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.

• 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

• Scott’s Instagram

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Brad Frost about how to implement design systems in small and large scale projects, best practices around naming things, keeping everything in sync across different codebases, and how design systems help projects.

• 00:32 Welcome
• 01:02 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
• 01:34 Introducing Brad Frost
• Brad Frost.com

• Rubblebucket

• Frostapalooza! | Brad Frost

• Scott’s Instagram

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through recent developments in AI and how they might be useful for developers, whether AI is still worthy of the hype, and whether developer jobs are at risk from AI.

• 00:10 Welcome
• 03:10 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
• 03:49 v0.dev
• v0 by Vercel

• Scott: Coding App for Kids | codeSpark Academy

• Scott: Sentry

• Scott’s Instagram

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about all the libraries we don’t need to use anymore thanks to their features being built into the browsers now.

• 00:24 Welcome
• 01:55 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
• 02:17 Why did people use jQuery?
• jQuery

• Scott’s Instagram

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Chris Lattner about Mojo, a new programming language for AI developers. Should developers learn Python? Where does Mojo run? What is Chris excited about in AI’s future?

• 00:31 Welcome
• 01:05 Introducing Chris Lattner
• Chris Lattner’s Homepage

• Exercise

• Mojo 🔥: Programming language for all of AI

• Scott’s Instagram

In this episode of Syntax, it’s part 2 of Wes and Scott’s reactions to the 2023 State of CSS survey including CSS frameworks, tooling, browser usage, SVG and CSS, and the CSS Awards.

• 00:10 Welcome
• Reacting to State of CSS Survey — Syntax Podcast 672

• Scott: A Timeline of the 1970s Heavyweight Boxing Division (Boxing Documentary) / Full Boxing Timelines

• Scott: Sentry

• Scott’s Instagram

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk through tips for upping your home office vibe, including cable management, lighting, ergonomics, and even roller blade wheels.

• 00:18 Welcome
• 00:46 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
• 01:13 Creating a great home office
• Scott’s New Office × The Levelup Lodge — Syntax Podcast 461

• Scott’s Instagram

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with David East about Google’s new cloud based full-stack, multiplatform app development workflow, Project IDX.

• 00:22 Welcome
• 01:31 Browser in the car
• 02:16 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
• 02:24 Who is David East?
• David East

CSS

• The Bad At Css Podcast

• Scott’s Instagram

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott answer your questions about Bun, using custom auth headers, the difference between trpc, REST, or GraphQL, documenting your code, why learn Rust, and more!

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• 00:00 Syntax Survey
• 00:24 Syntax Meetup
• 01:02 Welcome
• 01:24 Scott’s macOS bug
• Tauri Apps

• Scott: Glow Up

• Scott: Syntax on TikTok

• Scott’s Instagram