The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

The Regex Code Review

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2012-02-27

Ding! A new e-mail appeared in Jed's and the other developers' inboxes on the floor. It was from his coworker Bob, and it read:

"Jed, the term-validation process of CAPBACS is a performance bottleneck that's costing our company thousands in lost sales every month. This change must go in ASAP. While I appreciate your feedback and input, I don't believe that your experience working on the Web places you in a position to critique my work. Thanks!"

217 comments - Last comment @ 2012-03-12

Departing in 9999 Minutes

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2012-02-17

Wout van Poppel remarked, "Yesterday's newspaper didn't really contain any interesting news, but at least the photo captions were interesting."

96 comments - Last comment @ 2012-03-03

Dirty Code

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2012-02-06

Ever since being hired, Adam had spent most of his time working on new projects.

He was aware that there was an "old system" running out there and would someday be shut down and his efforts were to help this come about, but he never had the opportunity to cross paths with it. Based on what he had heard though, this was a very, very good thing.

152 comments - Last comment @ 2016-12-03