The Daily WTF
MAY 14, 2024
Juliano had this very non-WTF bit of PHP code: if (! But here, we have an actual case where the developer manually changed the code because they wanted to disable a branch. Now we just have a mystery, lingering in the code, waiting for future developers to stumble across it and ask, "WTF?" But no, we did none of that.
The Daily WTF
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
So fine , and so happy , that other teams heard: "there's a way to integrate your applications into IniERP." There were issues: there was only one "service" account configured by the operations team, so anyone wanting to interact with the service needed to share an account. You see, Bert was a PHP developer.
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The Daily WTF
MARCH 6, 2022
In the Before Times™, Initech had an offshore development team that maintained an application inherited from an acquisition. The offshore team was released and the application they supported ended up in the hands of Lovelace. As Lovelace writes: While ugly, this really isn't so bad. " [Advertisement].
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
APRIL 1, 2021
And we’ve had our share of bad news: proposals for military use of AI, increased surveillance (for example, automated license plate readers at luxury condominiums connected to police departments). Recommendations include the military development of AI-based weapons, and the creation of a quasi-military academy for developing AI expertise.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
JANUARY 25, 2024
Remember that these “units” are “viewed” by our users, who are largely professional software developers and programmers. Companies aren’t going to throw out 20 years’ investment in PHP so they can adopt the latest popular React framework, which will probably be displaced by another popular framework next year. What does this mean?
The Daily WTF
AUGUST 18, 2019
Upon asking around, Korbin quickly determined that the contractors originally responsible for coding the website had underbid the project by half, then subcontracted the whole thing out to a team in India to do the work on the cheap. The site had a bad habit of asking for information it already had, over and over, without any JOINs.
The Daily WTF
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Now, they understood that, as a news agency, they had no real internal corporate knowledge of good software development practices, so they did what came naturally: they hired a self-proclaimed "code guru" to built the system. " With a stellar personality like that, what was his PHP code like? Explore how!
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