3xiondev — 1/29/2026, 4:28:04 PM

@jeffalo how painfully obvious is it that i only just learned how to use nodejs and bcrypt 😭

this could very well be some of if not the worst javascript ive ever written

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jeffalo:

what could this possibly be for. why do you not have authentication. why does api never respond. why are you searching over every user in the database. wh

1/29/2026, 6:20:00 PM
3xiondev:
  1. autism

  2. the query doesn’t send unless the client provides a valid superuser password (that’s what i was using bcrypt for, albeit poorly)

  3. uhhhh

  4. uhhhh

  5. u

1/29/2026, 7:43:45 PM
jeffalo:
  1. but do you not have cookies? tokens? is this a website?

1/30/2026, 12:08:31 AM
confusedg:
  1. (co-dev here) I’m pretty sure we did, but we’re balls deep in nodejs anyway so I’m pretty sure 3xion is treating it more as a pride thing than a efficiency or code cleanliness thing (or perhaps there’s a better reason for using the password system that I forgot)

1/30/2026, 1:35:05 AM
3xiondev:
  1. its locally hosted and I have absolutely no experience with secure password handling (this is my attempt to write a very basic system that does actually work but is probably not efficient or secure in any way)

2/2/2026, 1:09:41 PM
busybird15:

sql in the big 26 😞 🙏 🥀 💔

1/29/2026, 5:05:07 PM
3xiondev:

hating on my KING postgresql in the humongous ‘26 💔💔

1/29/2026, 5:54:55 PM
flux:

what else could there possibly be

1/29/2026, 8:53:21 PM