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 short humorous code snippet from The Daily WTF shows a Java developer wrapping `Files.deleteIfExists(filePath)` inside an `if (Files.exists(filePath))` check — a redundant pattern since `deleteIfExists` already handles the non-existence case internally. The author notes this isn't a valid race condition workaround either, as the method is not atomic with respect to other file system operations.

Repeating Your Existence