The Daily WTF As a general rule, I will actually prefer code that is verbose and clear over code that is concise but makes me think. I really
The Daily WTF One of the perks of open source software is that it means that large companies can and will patch it for their needs. Which means
The Daily WTF One of the perks of open source software is that it means that large companies can and will patch it for their needs. Which means
The Daily WTF In a first for me, this week we got FIVE unique submissions of the exact same bug on LinkedIn. In the spirit of the theme, I dug up
The Daily WTF Alex saw, in the company’s codebase, a method called recursive_readdir. It had no comments, but the name seemed pretty clear:
The Daily WTF In the far-off era of the late-90s, Jens worked for a small software shop that built tools for enterprise customers. It was a small
The Daily WTF One would imagine that logging has been largely solved at this point. Simple tasks, like, “Only print this message when
The Daily WTF Dave‘s codebase used to have this function in it: public DateTime GetBeginDate(DateTime dateTime) { return new
The Daily WTF Date problems continue again this week as usual, both sublime (Goodreads!) and mundane (a little light time travel). If you want to
The Daily WTF Rui recently pulled an all-nighter on a new contract. The underlying system is… complicated. There’s a PHP front end, which