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684: Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 - Part 2
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.
Show Notes- 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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