What was the old website featuring hilarious stories about software failures?
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MellowPine42
I'm trying to remember the name of an older, once-popular website where people submitted medium-length stories about disastrous software projects, accidental commits, bizarre bugs, and painful fixes. The stories were organized into a few categories and were often hilarious. It had a similar feel to Coding Horror, though that's definitely not the site I'm thinking of. Does anyone remember it?
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You’re probably thinking of The Daily WTF. It’s a collection of real-world programming and software-development horror stories, usually involving spectacular mistakes, confusing code, and painful technical decisions.
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If you enjoy that kind of story, BOFH is another fun, related series about an especially unhelpful system administrator. It’s more fictional and comedic, but has a similar old-school tech-horror vibe.
SilverKite31: That looks entertaining too—I’ll have to check it out later.
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MellowPine42: Yes, that’s absolutely it! I’m delighted it’s still active—the internet hasn’t completely forgotten its classics.