The Daily WTF is a humorous yet insightful blog that highlights absurd, puzzling, and downright bizarre coding practices, software design decisions, and IT anecdotes encountered in the wild. Through anonymous submissions and reader-contributed stories, The Daily WTF exposes the pitfalls of poor software engineering, questionable coding practices, and humorous tales from the trenches of IT. Developers can learn  lessons from the mistakes and misadventures shared on The Daily WTF, reminding them of the importance of code quality, best practices, and maintaining sanity in the world of software development.

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A code review story from The Daily WTF examining a developer's unnecessary reimplementation of Postgres array string formatting in JavaScript when using the Knex query builder. The code manually constructs Postgres array syntax and builds parameterized query arrays, despite Knex's `whereRaw` already handling this natively. The post also touches on the broader anti-pattern of accumulating poorly reinvented utility functions in a catch-all file, and includes a minor tip on optimizing comma-separated string generation in loops.

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