Spooky Web Dev Horror Stories

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about web dev horror stories — things you can only hope will never happen to you!

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Show Notes

2:09 - Scott’s Disastrous Git Clean

4:35 - Magic Updates the Gathering

8:52 - YAAAAS

9:37 - Token Trouble

12:16 - jQuery Plugins

15:22 - Success!

18:00 - Parental Advisory

21:47 - Students Changing Grades

22:46 - Lorem Sh!tsum

26:22 - Drowning in a Waterfall

28:53 - Magneto Upgrades

30:00 - JOHN CENA

33:24 - Migration Migraine

35:39 - Primary Key Nightmare

36:26 - The $20,000 YAML formatter

Links

• Adam J. Sontag
• jQuery
• GitLab
• Gitlab Database Incident
• Magento
• Meteor

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