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> he no longer feels that the Lucia library is an ergonomic way of implementing auth

has he written up why? lots to learn here

edit: oh: https://github.com/lucia-auth/lucia/discussions/1707

this is great. he saw the coming complexity explosion, that the library was no longer useful to him personally, and took the humble route to opt out of the Standard Model of library slop development. rare.

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There is a Github Discussion where he goes into more detail. He also talks about it on his twitter:

https://github.com/lucia-auth/lucia/discussions/1707

https://x.com/pilcrowonpaper/status/1843258855280742481

What an insanely impressive dude. All that and he just started going to university this year.

I often wonder what universities brings to students who are already performing in professional life. I’m tempted to ask “So what is he going to teach?” to such stories.

Awareness about fundamentals and networking with other similarly gifted people, hopefully.

Maybe they were always interested in drama or philosophical studies, CS is not the only interesting topic in this life :)

Networking, physical and information resources, help with learning things he might have had trouble grokking, and the signal provided by a degree to get into organizations or events that might not have heard of him. If a very smart and already accomplished person doesn't worry about money, academia (at least attendance) can be a very good choice.

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