Problem with LinkedIn

TLDR; LinkedIn has an authenticity problem, and with AI today, I think it has become much worse and cringey! LinkedIn is just another social media platform, designed to drive engagement and profit, while trying hard to present itself as a place for professional careers and networking. But the difference between LinkedIn and other social media,… Continue reading Problem with LinkedIn

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Moving away from Minio

tldr: minio has removed the administration features from the console in their community open-source edition, and that sucks! discovering Minio for me was super exciting, a free and open-source s3 API compatible object storage, written in GO and super fast? what else could I want for my side projects! Just being able to slap the… Continue reading Moving away from Minio

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Twitter API OAuth 403 Forbidden Fix

I was recently integrating “Login with X” (Twitter OAuth 2.0) for a project, and everything seemed smooth — got the access token without issues. But when I tried calling https://api.twitter.com/2/users/me, I hit a 403 Forbidden response. No clear errors. No useful clues. After tons of debugging, the fix was surprising: Twitter (X) requires the tweet.read… Continue reading Twitter API OAuth 403 Forbidden Fix

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