Spooky stories to scare devs 👻

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Mat Ryer gathers a gang of ghouls and ghosts to tell spooky developer stories! Join us to hear tales of Mat’s $1k nightmare, Dee’s infinite loop of horror, Natalie’s haunted time as a junior dev & many, many more.

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Featuring:

• Dee Kitchen – X
• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
• Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• bluemonday
• “All About Regular Expressions” by Jade Allen

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chương

1. Opener (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sourcegraph (00:00:30)

https://info.sourcegraph.com/changelog

3. Intro (00:02:54)

4. Welcome to Ghost Time! (00:03:32)

5. Are you scared of horror movies? (00:05:00)

6. Dee tells us about bluemonday (00:07:21)

https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday

7. Mat's $1000 nightmare (00:09:59)

8. Here's Johnny's on avoiding massive bug bills (00:12:13)

9. Dee's infinite loop of horror (00:13:33)

10. What is a greedy regex? (00:16:46)

11. Natalie's haunted time as a junior dev (00:19:51)

12. Advice for junior devs to stay out of trouble (00:22:03)

13. Juniors should be able to make mistakes (00:25:23)

14. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:27:03)

https://firehydrant.com/

15. Campfire chill session (00:28:33)

16. On hot CPUs and energy costs (00:29:57)

17. Dee's support request from hell (00:31:07)

18. Kris won't share imaginary marshmallows (00:34:09)

19. Johnny's infinite loop of terror (00:34:41)

20. On devs and consequences for their mistakes (00:38:53)

21. Kris's spooky security hole (00:42:05)

22. Dee thinks too secure is a problem (00:45:27)

23. What's your pin number, Dee? (00:46:39)

24. How are we gonna put this camp fire out? (00:47:10)

25. Dee's SQL typo still haunts him (00:47:43)

26. What *is* that sound?! (00:49:37)

27. It's time for Unpopular Opinions! (00:51:11)

28. Dee's unpop (00:52:12)

29. We love you, Mat! (00:53:48)

30. Natalie's unpop (00:54:45)

31. We're afraid it's the end (00:58:21)

32. Outro (00:59:00)