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950: Even SCARIER Web Dev Nightmares (Spooky Stories Pt. 2)

October 29, 2025·58 min·5 clips

One invisible indentation error cost a company hundreds of thousands on Google's video API.

Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski share listener-submitted web development horror stories, including payment processing failures, database wipes, costly coding errors, and subscription system bugs. The episode highlights common pitfalls in software development with humorous and cautionary tales from real-world experiences.

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Backup failure, a wiped server, and a CEO laptop disaster make the stories land hard.

Syntax's spooky-stories episode leans into the kind of failures that make developers wince: backups left offline for years, a server wiped by a bad command, and routine laptop prep that ends with a CEO's hard drive formatted.

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You get backup disasters, a trashed server, and a CEO hard-drive wipe.

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