We All Register This
The Daily WTFby Remy Porter20 Aug 2026
Today's maybe more of a "representative data sheet entry" than anything else. Every developer has the experience of reading the documentation.
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The Daily WTFby Remy Porter19 Aug 2026
Matlab is special. Scientists and researchers love it. Programmers hate it, and not just because it uses 1-based arrays.
Floating Along
The Daily WTFby Ellis Morning18 Aug 2026
Today's submitter John F. was migrating data from a Microsoft platform to a Microsoft platform, using Microsoft tools. Absolutely nothing could go wrong, right? Right?
The State of Ticketing
The Daily WTFby Remy Porter17 Aug 2026
Developing software can't simply be done with a text editor and a compiler. There are a variety of other tools we have to bring to bear that support our efforts and keep the team organized, like...
Never Eating the Cookie
The Daily WTFby Remy Porter13 Aug 2026
Maciej works as a freelancer, and that frequently means picking up old PHP code that nobody wants to support. One project had been lingering for ages with key features missing.
Branching Paths
The Daily WTFby Remy Porter12 Aug 2026
"You submitted a pull request." Indika was, in fact, reviewing the comments she'd gotten on that very same pull request, when her boss, Bill, walked up behind her.
The Crossroads
The Daily WTFby Ellis Morning10 Aug 2026
I moved some things around on my calendar. 4:00 PM today is open. Please come to the executive floor. -Leila For a while I was stunned, staring at the email in front of me.
A More Civilized Age
The Daily WTFby Remy Porter6 Aug 2026
Greta (previously) sends us more updates from her "Ancient Development Environment". An important task an IDE must do is report build errors to its users.
Lose Some Padding
The Daily WTFby Remy Porter3 Aug 2026
Flat-file style databases were designed to fit the constraints of the systems they were running on.