Navigating Early Web Development Challenges

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
• Boonta Vista: A “political” podcast for “smart” people
• 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 ×××

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