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Hasty Treat - Spooky Stories

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes bring you more web dev horror stories!

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Show Notes

2:26 - Perf Woes

3:42 - Always Backup Your Backups

4:54 - Kill Children

6:03 - Robots Don’t Eat Food

8:32 - Email Goof Up

9:44 - Hundreds of Thousands of Date Issues

10:46 - Spooky August

12:32 - You’re up to .bat

13:17 - Printed Code

15:12 - ThinkGeek

16:12 - It would take a while to Ketchup on all these orders

17:05 - This story makes me want to stick my head in async

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