The Daily WTF At an old job, I did a significant amount of VB.Net work. I didn’t hate VB.Net. Sure, the syntax was clunky, but autocomplete

The Daily WTF In a global health crisis, like say, a pandemic, accurate and complete data about its spread is a “must have”. Which is

The Daily WTF Code changes over time. Sometimes, it feels like gremlins sweep through the codebase and change it for us. Usually, though, we have

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The Daily WTF A few months ago, Sean had some tasks around building a front-end for some dashboards. Someone on the team picked a UI library for

The Daily WTF Ammar A uses Node to consume an HTTP API. The API uses cookies to track session information, and ensures those cookies expire, so

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The Daily WTF To my mind, code comments are important to explain why the code what it does, not so much what it does. Ideally, the what is clear