I'm trying to make a website with a login page right now. Nothing too fancy, just something where a user can type in their name and password and it will set up session cookies or HTTP basic authentication or whatever. And there appears to be no information about how to do this anywhere on the internet: just how to integrate with single-sign-on providers, how to set up two-factor authentication, how to customize the login page of an existing CMS, and a whole lot of companies trying to sell their login solution. It's exhausting.
Also dead links. So many dead links. There seem to have been tools for this at one point but they are no longer maintained and their sites are now down.
love it when i find a library that does approximately what i want it to do, follow the documentation perfectly, get an error message that makes no sense, and have to start looking into the library's source code for answers
(One time this same thing happened to me at a summer job I had in college. Except I had to go several layers deeper; I couldn't figure out what was going wrong from this dependency, so I looked into the source code of its dependencies in hopes I could find the root cause of the problem, looking deeper into the stack trace each time. I got into the source code of a second-or-third-order dependency called "systemd" before I realized: this isn't a library, this is the linux kernel. There were no answers to be found that day.)