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
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