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683: Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 - Part 1

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Coding Horror Stories: Test Message Sent to Live Twitter Feed and Accidental Code Alteration

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In this chapter, the speaker shares two spooky coding horror stories. The first story involves accidentally sending a test message to a live Twitter feed, and the second story is about a developer mistakenly altering the authentication code. The chapter discusses the consequences of these incidents and the measures taken to prevent similar oversights in the future.

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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