683: Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 - Part 1
Oct 23, 2023•32 min
Episode description
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
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