--- title: Best The Daily WTF posts — September 2025 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted The Daily WTF posts from September 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf/best-of/2025/09 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf/best-of/2025/09 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best The Daily WTF posts — September 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted The Daily WTF posts from September 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of The Daily WTF — September 2025 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-modern-job-hunt-part-1-xdovqgbdb "The Modern Job Hunt: Part 1") Article The Daily WTF · 1y The Modern Job Hunt: Part 1 A personal narrative about navigating the challenging modern job market, focusing on mental health strategies and reframing techniques to cope with job search stress. The story follows Ellis as she processes rejection and uncertainty by using cognitive reframing methods, viewing her job hunt as a search algorithm navigating obstacles, and finding meaning in the struggle through potential future writing about the experience. 72 6 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-getter-setter-getter-76sibfzmg "The Getter Setter Getter") Article The Daily WTF · 52w The Getter Setter Getter A Java code example demonstrates poor naming conventions where a getter method calls a setter method, neither of which actually gets or sets values. The real issue is converting a Java DTO object to a Map, which indicates discomfort with object-oriented programming and creates unnecessary complexity when Java already provides transparent serialization capabilities. 24 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/one-last-id-pbjdbcftj "One Last ID") Article The Daily WTF · 50w One Last ID A web development company made a costly SQL mistake by adding an unnecessary FROM clause to a last\_insert\_id() query, causing MySQL to return millions of duplicate values instead of a single ID. This simple error resulted in 30MB responses for each INSERT operation, generating terabytes of unexpected data transfer costs and blowing the operational budget. The technical fix was simple, but coordinating the deployment took six weeks, including two weeks just to convince the company the problem existed. 10 [See all The Daily WTF archives](/sources/thedailywtf/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf/best-of/2025/09#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf/best-of/2025/09","name":"Best The Daily WTF Posts — September 2025","description":"The most upvoted The Daily WTF posts from September 2025, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf/best-of/2025/09#items","numberOfItems":3,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-modern-job-hunt-part-1-xdovqgbdb","name":"The Modern Job Hunt: Part 1"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-getter-setter-getter-76sibfzmg","name":"The Getter Setter Getter"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/one-last-id-pbjdbcftj","name":"One Last ID"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The Daily WTF","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/thedailywtf/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"September 2025"}]}]} ```