949: Web Dev HORROR Stories + Spooky Trivia! (Spooky Stories Pt. 1)

Wes and Scott co-host an episode of their podcast, "Syntax.fm," dedicated to spooky web development stories, a yearly tradition where they share user-submitted tales of technical mishaps and near-disasters. They begin with lighthearted banter about Scott's Halloween makeup and a recent internet outage, then dive into listener-submitted stories, including a tale of a deleted production database, a semicolon that crashed websites, and a lost NPM package due to a password issue. They also play a game with guest CJ, testing their knowledge of old Internet Explorer browser hacks. The episode concludes with stories about a disastrous discount implementation and a catastrophic payment processing failure, highlighting the potential for significant financial losses due to coding errors.