The Daily WTF

While this year has felt endless, there are projects which will feel like they take forever. As we wrap up our tour of the best of 2020, let’s visit an endless project. Original — Remy

Once upon a time, there lived a man named Eric. Eric was a programmer working for the online development team of a company called The Company. The Company produced Media; their headquarters were located on The Continent where Eric happily resided. Life was simple. Straightforward. Uncomplicated. Until one fateful day, The Company decided to outsource their infrastructure to The Service Provider on Another Continent for a series of complicated reasons that ultimately benefited The Budget.

Part of Eric’s job was to set up web servers for clients so that they could migrate their websites to The Platform. Previously, Eric would have provisioned the hardware himself. Under the new rules, however, he had

To read the full article click on the 'post' link at the top.