Twitter has inexplicably turned off access to sign in with Twitter SSO
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I really feel for any developers who are impacted by this, as well as users who may not be able to get to some of their data.
Hopefully it's temporary, although with the Doge icon who knows...
Sure there are advantages to it, but if the email is bigCo, it effectively has the same drawbacks as SSO from same bigCo (i.e unfair account suspension, you're screwed)
With email+password, even if you lost access to let's say your Gmail, you can still login with that Gmail address and your password and go change the email in your account profile.
Oh well, twas fun while it lasted.
(I would not be surprised if it was literally this, some sort of absurdist "no exceptions" aspect to the API-killing diktat.)
You only hear about the failures. You don't hear about the systems that keep on working.
and to see how you grow as an engineer beyond this kind of uninformed nonsense.
In other words, "grow as an engineer" means "parroting the lies that keep you employed"? As the saying goes, "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it". And that explains the sad state of most "modern" software.
That's a good point.
For the software you worked on, is there some kind of public case story or similar that people can be pointed at to learn more?
Exactly. Software that changes as frequently as something like a Twitter (or anything of that ilk) never has the chance to reach that kind of stability. Your thirty-year system wouldn’t have the track record it does under the same set of conditions.
> In other words, "grow as an engineer" means "parroting the lies that keep you employed"?
I’m not sure what kind of leap you’re making, but it seems breathtaking.
In any case, you’ve clearly had the privilege of working on software under vastly different constraints and timeframes. That sounds fun, and interesting, but it’s comparing apples to oranges.