October 27th, 2025 × #Halloween#WebDev#HorrorStories#Debugging
Web Dev HORROR Stories + Spooky Trivia! (Spooky Stories Pt. 1)
Scott and Wes dress up for Halloween and read your worst dev nightmares, from dropping the production database in phpMyAdmin to a hard-coded boolean that flatlined payments. Plus a round of real-or-fake IE browser hacks with special guest CJ.
Wes Bos Host
Scott Tolinski Host
It’s that time of year again, Scott (as Dracula) and Wes (as a big bad shark) return for their annual Spooky Stories special! They’re joined by a mysterious guest for a round of creepy coding trivia and chilling true tales of web dev gone wrong; dropped databases, haunted passwords, and more. Beware: these are real developer horror stories.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:05 Scott's vampire costume.
- 00:38 New to live-streaming.
- 00:54 AWS Outage.
- 01:50 What is Spooky Stories?
- 02:01 (Wes is wearing a shark costume)
- 02:34 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
- 03:30 PHP MyHeadache.
- 06:23 A Browser Hack.
- 08:30 Browser Hack Gameshow & Special Guest!
- 17:01 Ghost Password.
- 21:32 Just A Patch.
- 24:12 Don't drink and Deploy.
- 34:47 Discount.
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