949: Web Dev HORROR Stories + Spooky Trivia! (Spooky Stories Pt. 1)

It’s that time of year again, Scott (as Dracula) and Wes (as a big bad shark) return for their annual Spooky Stories special! They’re joined by a mysterious guest for a round of creepy coding trivia and chilling true tales of web dev gone wrong; dropped databases, haunted passwords, and more. Beware: these are real developer horror stories.


Show Notes



00:00 Welcome to Syntax!


00:05 Scott’s vampire costume.


00:38 New to live-streaming.


00:54 AWS Outage.


01:50 What is Spooky Stories?


02:01 (Wes is wearing a shark costume)


02:34 Brought to you by Sentry.io.


03:30 PHP MyHeadache.


06:23 A Browser Hack.


08:30 Browser Hack Gameshow & Special Guest!


17:01 Ghost Password.


21:32 Just A Patch.


24:12 Don’t drink and Deploy.


34:47 Discount.



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