Programmer Humor

Very few things on the internet and computer actually need accounts. Everything requiring a login is a cancer.

Password manager users living life on easy mode.

Recently finished a side project and I was glad I could go with pure login/pass auth. No email no oauth, just a pass phrase for account recovery. It's refreshing and so damn simple.

A lot of motherfuckers typing in code with a keyboard need a beating with said keyboard.

If a programmer can’t get a login form right they need permabanned from ever shipping another release.

It's over the phone, but the "We'll send you a text to confirm your identity if you provide a phone number." Has got to be one of the stupidest wastes of time.

Worst one I've seen: username and password plus a 2FA email, BUT if you hit enter instead of clicking the last button it refreshes the page.

Passkeys or oauthn/fido. I just can’t believe we’re still talking about passwords in 2025 when these very robust, user friendly features have been widely available for years.

On the other end, there is an excessive use of 2FA with systems for whom the concept of SSO seems to be a foreign thing. It's also sort of funny that 2FA can just mean using a TOTP capable password manager, reverting it back to one factor.

I can imagine that the sites want to validate that you still have access to the email associated with the account, and asking people to check their settings is annoying, and they know no one will do it. I can also imagine that sites want to know as much about you as possible, don't want you to be using burner email addresses, and are probably selling the fact that your email address can still receive email to marketing firms who compile that info.

Exactly

Magic link only is the wirst kind of login systems. However, I don’t know any big real companies that use this.
If you don’t like passwords, just use passkeys.

But if they don't get an active email and/or phone number.

How can they then turn around and sell that to info brokers and spammers.