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You know what's worse than not being able to log in?

Being told everything worked right up until you try to actually use your account.

That was the bug.

And, somehow, once again, I ended up being pulled into my favourite corner of software engineering: authentication. At this point, I'm beginning to suspect authentication bugs have a personal grudge against me. 😅