The Daily WTF “When a Brazilian teammate showed me a pet he was looking to adopt, I asked Google Translate for some help. It wasn’t

The Daily WTF As we’ve harped upon many, many, many, many, many, many times: writing your own date functions is bad. Use the built-ins or a

The Daily WTF If I were to catalog my biggest failings as a developer, it’s a carelessness around defensive programming. It’s

The Daily WTF Java’s history with web applications is, well, complicated. Java, heavily focused on being the True Object Oriented language,

The Daily WTF Frankie was handed a pile of PHP and told, “Move this to a new host.” The process didn’t go well- simply copying

The Daily WTF Dave L. writes, “Spotted an option on Lenovo’s ‘Pick Your Laptop by Spec’ that seems to be aimed, possibly,

The Daily WTF Let’s say you’re a native English speaker. Let’s say you’re writing a library which is going to be used by

The Daily WTF Thomas K was browsing around, trying to give folks some technical help. While doing that, he found a poor, belaguered soul who had

The Daily WTF Most of our WTFs are produced on modern hardware, but today we’re taking you back to the dawn of computing, back to the

The Daily WTF Eyal N works on some code which relys on “bit matrices”: 2D arrays of bits. Since they are working in C, in practice