The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

You Talkin' to Me?

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-09-19

The Beast In Black is back with a simple but silly factual error on the part of the gateway to all (most) human knowledge.

2 comments - Last comment @ 07:15

Free Birds

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-09-12

"These results are incomprensible," Brian wrote testily. "The developers at SkillCertPro must use math derived from an entirely different universe than ours. I can boast a world record number of answered questions in one hour and fifteen minutes somewhere."

12 comments - Last comment @ 2025-09-16

Superfluous U's

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-09-05

In today's Error'd episode, we flirt with European English to acknowledge the GDPR.

Modern Architect jeffphi shared an example of a hot software pattern from the early 21st. "As a bonus, these pickleball events appear to come with pickleball event listeners, too!"

16 comments - Last comment @ 2025-09-15

Scamproof

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-08-29

Gordon S. is smarter than the machines. "I can only presume the "Fix Now with AI" button adds some mistakes in order to fix the lack of needed fixes."

5 comments - Last comment @ 2025-09-02

8 Days a Week

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-08-22

"What word can spell with the letters housucops?" asks Mark R. "Sometimes AI hallucinations can be hard to find. Other times, they just kind of stand out..."

14 comments - Last comment @ 2025-08-25

Abort, Cancel, Fail?

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-08-15

low-case jeffphi found "Yep, all kinds of technical errors."

11 comments - Last comment @ 2025-08-18

Voluntold

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-08-08

It is said (allegedly by the Scots) that confession heals the soul. But does it need to be strictly voluntary? The folks toiling away over at CodeSOD conscientiously change the names to protect the innocent but this side of the house is committed to curing the tortured souls of webdevs. Whether they like it or not. Sadly Sam's submission has been blinded, so the black black soul of xxxxxxxxxxte.com remains unfortunately undesmirched, but three others should be experiencing the sweet sweet healing light of day right about now. I sure hope they appreciate it.

More monkey business this week from Reinier B. who is hoping to check in on some distant cousins. "I'll make sure to accept email from {email address}, otherwise I won't be able to visit {zoo name}."

4 comments - Last comment @ 2025-08-10

Monkey Business

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-08-01

If monkeys aren't your bag, Manuel H. is down to clown. "If anyone wants to know the address of that circus - it's written right there. Too bad that it's only useful if you happen to be in the same local subnet..." Or on the same block.

9 comments - Last comment @ 2025-08-12