683: Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 - Part 1
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes relate some spooky listener submitted coding horrors including updates for a large furniture retailer, pull request oversights, disallowing everything in a robots.txt, massive email fail, and more. Show Notes 00:21 Welcome 01:22 Whetting your whistle 01:52 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:13 Site updates for one of the largest furniture retailers in my country 04:18 The Embarrassing Test Page Incident 05:54 The Pull Request Oversight 08:02 Making changes to a JSON file 13:11 Deploying a “disallow everything” robots.txt 14:45 GDPR Deletion 16:11 Dropping the backing disk for the production postgres 17:05 Accidentally pushing staging code as an update 18:34 Email fail 19:25 Hot mobile app prayers 22:28 Bogus ACH info 23:51 Wiring money error 26:44 Payment gateway test not production Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky