Login works on localhost.
It breaks in production.
That’s the story every developer eventually lives.
HTTPS, cookies, SameSite, redirects, proxies — authentication stops being code and starts being context.
Most issues aren’t logic bugs.
They’re environment lies.
Once I stopped blaming my code and started understanding the request lifecycle, auth stopped feeling magical and started feeling mechanical.
There’s comfort in that.
Machines are honest — if you ask the right questions.
It breaks in production.
That’s the story every developer eventually lives.
HTTPS, cookies, SameSite, redirects, proxies — authentication stops being code and starts being context.
Most issues aren’t logic bugs.
They’re environment lies.
Once I stopped blaming my code and started understanding the request lifecycle, auth stopped feeling magical and started feeling mechanical.
There’s comfort in that.
Machines are honest — if you ask the right questions.