Spooky Web Dev Stories Part 2
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott tell more of your scary web dev stories including lorem ipsum mistakes, naming something Skynet, blackouts, Twitch streaming, and more!
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Show Notes- 00:12 Weeeeeelcome
- 02:11 Slipsum mistake
- Slipsum
- 03:40 Brotli scaling explosion
- When JavaScript Bytes
- 05:14 Email loop
- Breaking Production with 56,000 emails
- 05:36 DevOops Magento store
- Example.com
- 08:26 Scary animal stories
- 11:09 Naming something Skynet
- 11:58 2003 Blackout
- 13:16 ExtJS error binding
- 17:09 Sponsor: Linode
- 17:55 Lead gen forms and captcha
- Issue Renaming upper-case ‘Sirupsen’ to ‘sirupsen’
- Follow up
- 19:51 Scarlet Letter
- 21:51 MongoDB achievement story
- Adam Coster
- 26:14 Sponsor: Auth0
- 28:11 Drupal and mysql database fun
- 30:10 Nervous Twitch
- 34:03 FTP access story
- 37:24 Sponsor: LogRocket
- 38:53 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
- Scott: Ear foam tips
- Wes: Stepped drill bit / Aliexpress link
- Scott: LevelUp Tutorials
- Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials
- Scott’s Instagram
- LevelUpTutorials Instagram
- Wes’ Instagram
- Wes’ Twitter
- Wes’ Facebook
- Scott’s Twitter
- Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets