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Spooky Web Dev Stories — Part 1

Oct 21, 2020
Dive into spooky web development tales as developers share their eerie coding mishaps. Discover the most expensive boolean and cringe-worthy logging issues that led to a few laughs. Hear about a bizarre regex incident that endangered sensitive data and a client case that spiraled into federal trouble. Each story highlights the necessity of rigorous testing and code reviews, all wrapped in a playful Halloween theme. The hosts emphasize the importance of tools like Sentry and Netlify to save developers from their own tricky traps.
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The Most Expensive Boolean

  • A CTO at an online casino hardcoded a test boolean to true in a payment provider integration.
  • This allowed customers to make free deposits and withdraw real money, resulting in a massive loss.
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A Logging Issue

  • A developer commented out a crucial line of code that wrote log IDs to a database.
  • This resulted in QR codes failing, requiring a week-long trip to replace them manually.
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Snitches Get Stitches

  • A developer left a humorous but unprofessional comment in their code within Adobe Experience Manager.
  • The comment, "snitches get stitches," made it to the live site for six months.
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