The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Code Snippet Of the Day (CodeSOD) features interesting and usually incorrect code snippets taken from actual production code in a commercial and/or open source software projects.

The Getter Setter Getter

by Remy Porter in CodeSOD on 2025-09-11

Today's Java snippet comes from Capybara James.

The first sign something was wrong was this:

5 comments - Last comment @ 2025-09-12

Upsert Yours

by Remy Porter in CodeSOD on 2025-09-10

Henrik H sends us a short snippet, for a relative value of short.

We've all seen this method before, but this is a particularly good version of it:

30 comments - Last comment @ 2025-09-12

Pretty Little State Machine

by Remy Porter in CodeSOD on 2025-09-08

State machines are a powerful way to organize code. They are, after all, one of the fundamental models of computation. That's pretty good. A well designed state machine can make a complicated problem clear, and easy to understand.

Chris, on the other hand, found this one.

21 comments - Last comment @ 2025-09-12

Adding to the Argument

by Remy Porter in CodeSOD on 2025-09-03

David G saw a pull request with a surprisingly long thread of comments on it. What was weirder was that the associated ticket was all about adding a single parameter to an existing method. What could be generating that much discussion?

How could adding an argument add to an argument?

6 comments - Last comment @ 2025-09-08

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