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HTTP 418 · Oddities

Update pop-up crashes the party at Brighton beach gig

During July's On The Beach festival in Brighton, an update dialog photobombed the giant stage screen mid-set, offering the crowd a choice between 'Remind me later' and 'Install updates' while David Rodigan played on, her…

HTTP 418 · Oddities

A Code Comment That Simply Does Something Wonderful

The Daily WTF spotlights a doc comment found by reader Mark W. in an otherwise solid 100,000-line codebase: a function whose entire XML documentation reads "Does something wonderful." A small gem of unhelpful documentati…

HTTP 418 · Oddities

When an interface becomes a numbered list

A developer discovers an ITableSelector interface with 31 hard-coded methods—selectTable1() through selectTable31()—each returning a string. A masterclass in how not to abstract database logic: the German programmer's ex…

HTTP 418 · Oddities

BASIC-256 Gets QT6 Makeover, Lands in the Browser

BASIC-256, an educational dialect derived from KidBASIC, has been ported to QT6 by developer UglyMike. The new release includes a WebAssembly build that runs in browsers, plus native versions for macOS (Apple Silicon), x…

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