The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Cash vs File Cache

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2018-11-30

"This was the ATM in the lobby of a certain hotel in Vienna," wrote Buddy, "The nice lady working at the reception desk said that 'it's been doing that, but it usually works.'"

10 comments - Last comment @ 2018-12-04

Classic WTF: A Spoonful of Sugar

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2018-11-23

It's Black Friday in the US, which is a fancy way of saying that we're all busy murdering each other in WalMart over PS4s. In case we don't survive, remember us by this classic article about Cold Fusion. Original -- Remy

John S. was doing some work on the search feature of a client's website when he noticed that he would receive a 500 Server Error if he tested against the API with an empty string.

This struck John as being pretty strange since not only had the search feature had been in place for years, but also, he could go to the search page, click on the "Search" button without entering anything and receive an "Item Not Found" response.

10 comments - Last comment @ 2019-04-26

A Right to Remain Ever Conscious Blooms

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2018-11-16

Eion R wrote, "Sure Google Voice, that is exactly what I was looking for."

15 comments - Last comment @ 2018-11-20

The Reason is NULL

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2018-11-09

"Turns out that you shouldn’t use your edge browser to download Chrome because of potentially malicious links and...null," wrote Allen B.

24 comments - Last comment @ 2018-11-24

Investigation of Satisfaction

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2018-11-02

"There are premium translation services, and then, well, there are the rest," Dave P. writes.

19 comments - Last comment @ 2018-11-05