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 ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× * Scott: Race to the Summit * Wes: 100LBS Strong Magnetic Hooks

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