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It’s that time of year again, Scott (as Dracula) and Wes (as a big bad shark) return for their annual Spooky Stories special! They’re joined by a mysterious guest for a round of creepy coding trivia and chilling true tales of web dev gone wrong; dropped databases, haunted passwords, and more. Beware: these are real developer horror stories.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 00:05 Scott’s vampire costume.
• 00:38 New to live-streaming.
• 00:54 AWS Outage.
• 01:50 What is Spooky Stories?
• 02:01 (Wes is wearing a shark costume)
• 02:34 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
• 03:30 PHP MyHeadache.
• 06:23 A Browser Hack.
• 08:30 Browser Hack Gameshow & Special Guest!
• 17:01 Ghost Password.
• 21:32 Just A Patch.
• 24:12 Don’t drink and Deploy.
• 34:47 Discount.

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