Spooky Web Dev Stories — Part 2

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes are back for another episode of spooky web dev stories — listener-submitted stories about web dev gone wrong.

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Show Notes

03:28 - Jack Rhysider Story

06:28 - Dirty Dicks JSON

08:23 - CMS Disaster

10:58 - Oh No Hotel

11:19 - FTP

12:19 - Push Notification Hell

13:16 - DVD Nightmare

15:15 - Bad Words Again

16:23 - Mo Money

17:01 - Bass Ackwards

18:17 - Taxi Coding

19:36 - Bad Env

21:30 - Login As

21:50 - Email Subscribers Plugin

22:33 - 1 in 300 Chance of the C-Word

24:24 - Production Target

26:12 - A Happy SEO Ending

28:26 - Just Oof

29:48 - I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up

30:54 - Crypto

32:34 - rm -rf

33:42 - Never Deploy on Fridays

35:31 - Million Dollar Scramble

36:22 - Deleting Production

37:11 - 500,000 Concurrent Problems

39:14 - Deleting a Government Website

40:36 - You Ruined the Surprise!

45:23 - Mr. D Hole

46:48 - One Expensive Race Condition

48:43 - Yikes

51:11 - Always Be Closing

51:44 - Adidas - All Day I Delete A Site

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