---
title: "The daily WTF"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/26/the-daily-wtf.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/26/the-daily-wtf.html"
published: "2004-05-26T08:47:00"
updated: "2004-05-26T08:47:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "This site is starting a funny little trend: The Daily WTF speaking about annoying development stuff. He also encourages that you send your own WTFs over through a contact form on the site and he'll blog them. (via Matt…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# The daily WTF

By Roy Osherove May 26, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 26, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

This site is starting a funny little trend: [The Daily WTF](http://thedailywtf.com/) speaking about annoying development stuff. 

He also encourages that you send your own WTFs over through a contact form on the site and he'll blog them.

(via [Matt](http://www.mattberther.com/2004/05/000479.html), the “other” ISerializable ;)  )

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- May 27, 2004

    ### [\[OT\] Why you should never put your picture on the Internet](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/27/ot-why-you-should-never-put-your-picture-on-the-internet.html)

- May 26, 2004

    ### [ok, I get it](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/26/ok-i-get-it.html)

- May 23, 2004

    ### [If you're a developer in Norway, Mercatus is hiring](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/23/if-youre-a-developer-in-norway-mercatus-is-hiring.html)

- May 21, 2004

    ### [Comment spam wave](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/21/comment-spam-wave.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/