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