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So I have been using GitHub for quite a while.

When I tried to log in a couple of days ago, it told me my password is wrong. Which is impossible. I remember it. I wrote it down. It's the same as it was before.

Luckily I was able to get hold of the old outlook.com email I was using when I signed up. Haven't used Outlook in ages and it greeted me with a prompt to give them a phone number. I refused and luckily it told me that I can skip it for now but they will disable access completely in 7 days.

So I got a password reset link from GitHub. When I tried to use the same password again that I used before GitHub told me:

    The new password you provided has been
    reported as compromised due to re-use of
    that password on another service by you or
    someone else. GitHub has not been
    compromised directly. Your password was not
    saved. Please choose a stronger password.

So is this the reason for the lockout? That they somehow false-positively thought my password was reused somewhere?

It is impossible that it really has been used anywhere else. It is a long random-like password that I only used on GitHub. haveibeenpwned.com also comes back empty on my email.

How can I get more info about this?

What if I had let slip those 7 days Microsoft gave me to access my old email account? Would my access to my GitHub account be gone forever?

What do I do now to keep my account secure? I would never give Microsoft my phone number. So that's not an option for me.

I travel pretty often. I'm not exactly a digital nomad but I like to stay in cities around in other cities and do whatever I would have done at home otherwise. Mostly working on web projects.

And it's insane, how much time I spent on AirBnB and Booking.com, looking for the right apartments. Hours and hours of work that could be replaced with a simple database query if they had structured data. But even without, it could be made much easier with the right interface.

Two of my requirements make it so hard:

1) Top floor. I don't like people running 'on my head'.

2) A view. I don't like to look out of the window and stare at another house.

So I have to look at each offer on AirBnB and Booking.com and try to figure out if it matches those. This is hard enough. I even became super good at finding the apartments on Google Earth so I can look at them from the outside. Insane.

To add insult to injury, neither of the two sites offer to tag apartments as "I don't like it". So when I look at the same city another day, I have to start over and look at all those apartments I already looked at again.

On AirBnB I abuse the 'Wishlist' feature to mark apartments as 'Dont like it'. So my 'wishlists' are really 'dont wish lists'. But at least it somewhat works. They mark apartments on one of your wishlists with a heart. So I know that the apartments with a heart are those that I don't like :) Since they only allow 50 or so apartments on a wishlist, I have multiple wishlists for every city.

Realizing how much time I spend on this, I am considering to hire somebody for it. So I will have a database with apartments with a view.

What do you guys think? Should I then put it online? Like 'Nomad list with a view'? Or am I a unique snowflake? Or does something like this already exist?