I didn’t remember doing this, but I must have gotten so fed up with myself that I locked myself out until 2018. I decide to scrounge up my old account and find my Reddit password. This means waiting, and waiting of course means internet rabbit holes. And Airbnb, it so happens, has a large test suite.
It worked quite well from what I remember.Įventually I got so busy with programming stuff, I completely forgot about it. Perfect - an automated, friend-less solution! (I’d alienated most of them by now, so that was a big selling point.)Ī bit sketchy looking, but hey, any port in a storm.įor a while I set this up this routine - during the week I’d e-mail myself my password, on the weekends I’d receive the password, load up on internet junk food, and then lock myself out again once the week began. A little Google searching, and I came across this: Looks legit.
The technical terminology for this is that they are “nice to you” and will give you back your password if you “beg them.”Īfter a few rounds of this failure mode, I needed a more robust solution. Unfortunately it turns out, friends are very susceptible to social engineering. (Also changed the e-mail for password recovery to cover all the bases.) With that, I’d have a foolproof way to lock myself out of Reddit. Then I asked a friend to e-mail me this password on a certain date. So it occurred to me: how about I lock myself out of my account? 2015 was one of these times - I was singularly focused on improving as a programmer, and Redditing was becoming a liability. But sometimes you need to turn on the blinders and dial down distractions. If I want to procrastinate on something, I’ll often open a new tab and dive down a Reddit-hole. This allows me to consciously engineer my life so that despite having the emotional maturity of a heroin-addicted lab rat, I’m occasionally able to get things done. By Haseeb Qureshi That time I had to crack my own Reddit password (Kinda.) Hack the planet, everybody.