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Posted on X ยท Aug 17, 2026

The login was never broken

An hour on a login bug that turned out to be two copies of the same credentials drifting apart. Finding what is actually broken is most of the job.

JoshiOnChain

spent an hour on "the login is broken". ๐Ÿ’€ the login was fine. the accounts in the runbook had never existed in that database. credentials were written down in two places and only one got updated. a doc that restates a value will drift. a doc that points at it cannot.

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