The Daily WTF

The Daily WTF
The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology
Type of site
Software engineering disaster blog
Created byAlex Papadimoulis [1]
URLthedailywtf.com
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Launched17 May 2004; 20 years ago (2004-05-17)
Current statusactive

The Daily WTF (also called Worse Than Failure from February to December 2007) is a humorous blog dedicated to "Curious Perversions in Information Technology". The blog, run by Alex Papadimoulis, "offers living examples of code that invites the exclamation ‘WTF!?'" (What The Fuck!?) [2] and "recounts tales of disastrous development, from project management gone spectacularly bad to inexplicable coding choices."[3]

In addition to horror stories, The Daily WTF "serve[s] as [a] repositor[y] of knowledge and discussion forums for inquisitive web designers and developers"[4] and has introduced several anti-patterns, including Softcoding,[5] the Inner-Platform Effect,[6] and IHBLRIA[7] (Invented Here But Let's Reinvent It Anyway).

The site also has an associated "Edition Française", a French-language edition headed up by Jocelyn Demoy, launched in March 2008,[8] as well as a Polish edition.

  1. ^ Alex Papadimoulis Archived 2013-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, The Daily WTF
  2. ^ "ACM Queue vol. 3, no. 6 - July/August 2005". Archived from the original on 2007-08-23. Retrieved 2007-06-09.
  3. ^ “Cool Developer Tricks: Coding Catastrophes Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine”, Redmond Developer News, April 15, 2007
  4. ^ "Webmaster resources free web templates by WebKnowHow.Net". www.webknowhow.net. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
  5. ^ Papadimoulis, Alex (April 10, 2007). "Soft Coding". The Daily WTF. Archived from the original on August 20, 2022. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
  6. ^ Papadimoulis, Alex (April 21, 2006). "The Inner-Platform Effect". The Daily WTF. Archived from the original on March 9, 2022. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
  7. ^ "Ihblria". 2004-10-11. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-08-23.
  8. ^ Announcement: WTF in Français Archived 2009-05-04 at the Wayback Machine (Alex Papadimoulis, The Daily WTF, 2008-03-26)