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 humorous code horror story from The Daily WTF: a MongoDB `updateOne` call was mistakenly given an Express.js route callback signature (with `err`, `result`, and `next` parameters) instead of the correct options object. The broken code somehow made it to production in 2019 and only started blowing up logs recently, when a developer discovered and removed it from multiple places.

The Update Route