The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

April Showers

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-04-24

"RFC 1738 (and 3986) disagree" and so does Daniel D. "Reddit API has some weird app creation going on with lots of recently migrated and undocumented stuff. But having redirect URL set to localhost (or 127.0.0.1) usually works. Well, if you don't disagree with Sir Tim Berners-Lee about what URL is. Which Reddit does. hostnumber = digits "." digits "." digits "." digits". I'd file this one with all the websites that try to perform validation on email addresses, and get it wrong.

12 comments - Last comment @ 06:10

Having a Beastly Time

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-04-17

It's time again for a reader special, and once again it's all The Beast In Black (there must be a story to that nick, no?).

"MySQL is not better than your SQL," he pontificated, "especially when it comes to the Workbench Migration Wizard"

12 comments - Last comment @ 2026-04-18

Youth is Wasted on the Junge

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-04-10

"My thoughts exactly" muttered Jason H. "I was in a system that avoids check constraints and the developers never seemed to agree to a T/F or Y/N or 1/0 for indicator columns. All data in a column will use the same pattern but different columns in the same table will use different patterns so I'm not sure why I was surprised when I came across the attached. Sort the data descending and you have the shorthand for what I uttered." How are these all unique?

9 comments - Last comment @ 2026-04-13

Clever domain name here

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-04-03

An anonymous cable-puller wrote "Reading a long specification manual. The words "shall" and "shall not" have specific meaning, and throughout the document are in bold italic. Looks like someone got a bit shall-ow with their search-and-replace skills."

11 comments - Last comment @ 2026-04-05