Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats25 Okt 2023

684: Spooky Coding Horror Stories 2023 - Part 2

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 Shameless Plugs Scott: Sentry Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

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1041: What are normies using AI for?

Scott and Wes talk about how non-developers are actually using AI today. They also cover the stuff they don’t think holds up, like AI-staged listings and automated marketing. Show Notes 00:00 Intro...

23 Sep 47min

1040: Developing for the iPhone Duo

Scott, Wes, and CJ break down developing for the iPhone Duo with the Device Posture and Viewport Segments APIs, plus the React 19.3 release and Pi’s new Radius platform. Also on deck: Tailwind joining...

21 Sep 1h 33min

1039: Should You Quit Your Job?

Scott and Wes dig into a listener mailbag full of AI questions: how to bill freelance work when the tools make you faster, whether coding still matters in interviews, and if the AI bubble is about to ...

16 Sep 1h

1038: OpenAI Releases GPT 6 Astra

Wes and CJ dig into OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra; the massive jump in computer use, the wild Blender MCP 3D demos, and whether all the AGI talk actually holds up. Plus Hugging Face’s robot duck, Vitest 5 and ...

14 Sep 1h 25min

1037: WebMCP is here (and you should care)

Scott and Wes talk about WebMCP with Sarah Drasner and Dominic Farolino from the Chrome team, which is the new W3C standard that lets your site hand real tools to an agent. They cover the security mod...

9 Sep 56min

1036: Cursor & OpenAI Break Up

The messy breakup is official; as of November 12, OpenAI's models are getting pulled from Cursor, and we're digging into who's really to blame (and why Wes called it). Plus pnpm 12 goes full Rust, Mit...

7 Sep 1h 12min

1035: Why everyone is moving to Stylex?

Meta’s StyleX compiles thousands of styles into a few reusable class names at build time—zero runtime, fully type-safe. Scott and Wes break down why it’s suddenly everywhere, and why it might be the b...

2 Sep 26min

1034: Omarchy Quattro Release

Grokbot actually earns its keep, Cursor takes a swing at GitHub with Origin, and Omarchy Quattro ships pre-wired for nine coding agents. Plus: the GitHub outage post-mortem, a compromised Rust crate, ...

31 Aug 1h 15min