Build your own BitTorrent
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Build your own BitTorrent
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Re: Build your own BitTorrent
#2Why in the world does this want access to my github account, with 0 explanation as to why.
Re: Build your own BitTorrent
#3Why in the world does this want access to my github account, with 0 explanation as to why.
It does say it only asks for your email (read) privileges tbf, but yeah I didn't bother either after that step.
Re: Build your own BitTorrent
#4Why in the world does this want access to my github account, with 0 explanation as to why.
Looks like one reason is Codecrafters is a learning site which uses Github to store users code, instead of hosting it themselves. This post is about one project which is at Codecrafters
They should explain why though
Re: Build your own BitTorrent
#5Why in the world does this want access to my github account, with 0 explanation as to why.
Looks like they're just leaning on Github as an auth provider without offering any alternatives. Most sites that do this offer a range of options, including normal email signup.
Re: Build your own BitTorrent
#6As the years go on, I find there are fewer and fewer small project ideas that give me butterflies. But this is one!
Hadn't heard of CodeCrafters before but I love how academic their challenge ideas are (eg build a DB). I'd love to see a compiler build in there too.
Re: Build your own BitTorrent
#7Why in the world does this want access to my github account, with 0 explanation as to why.
It does say it only asks for your email (read) privileges tbf, but yeah I didn't bother either after that step.
This gives the site read access to your private (hidden) Github email address(es) - I think often developers implementing the Github API think this permission is needed to access your public email, & it gets requested unintentionally.
Re: Build your own BitTorrent
#8Jon Gjengset[1] is currently doing a livestream on the same challenge in Rust, on his YT channel[2].
Re: Build your own BitTorrent
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does say it only asks for your email (read) privileges tbf, but yeah I didn't bother either after that step.
This gives the site read access to your private (hidden) Github email address(es) - I think often developers implementing the Github API think this permission is needed to access your public email, & it gets requested unintentionally.
Not every account sets a public email, so this ensures that the app gets a reachable email address for every user.
Re: Build your own BitTorrent
#10Reminds me of building a bittorrent client in go: https://blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/