Alec WM alecdwm

hi, i'm daniel. i'm a 15-year-old with some programming experience and i do a little bug hunting in my free time. here's the insane story of how I found a single bug that affected over half of all Fortune 500 companies:

say hello to zendesk

If you've spent some time online, you’ve probably come across Zendesk.

Zendesk is a customer service tool used by some of the world’s top companies. It’s easy to set up: you link it to your company’s support email (like [email protected]), and Zendesk starts managing incoming emails and creating tickets. You can handle these tickets yourself or have a support team do it for you. Zendesk is a billion-dollar company, trusted by big names like Cloudflare.

Personally, I’ve always found it surprising that these massive companies, worth billions, rely on third-party tools like Zendesk instead of building their own in-house ticketing systems.

your weakest link

My Minimal TypeScript Monorepo Setup for ESM Libraries

After a deep dive looking up best practices for TypeScript monorepos recently, I couldn't find anything that suited my needs:

Publish individual (typed) packages to NPM with minimal config.
Supports fast unit testing that spans the entire project (e.g., via Vitest)
Ability to have an interactive playground to experiment with the API in a real-time (e.g., via Vite)

Most solutions point to TypeScript project references,

Vim without NERD tree or CtrlP

I used to use NERD tree for quite a while, then switched to CtrlP for something a little more lightweight. My setup now includes zero file browser or tree view, and instead uses native Vim fuzzy search and auto-directory switching.

Fuzzy Search

There is a super sweet feature in Vim whereby you can fuzzy find your files using **/*, e.g.:

:vs **/*<partial file name><Tab>

	#!/usr/local/bin/bash

	export BORG_REPO="ssh://user@server/borg-repo"

	if [[ ! "${USER}" == "root" ]]; then
	echo Start this script as root
	exit 1
	fi

	echo === Present snapshots ===

	#!/bin/bash

	SSH_KEY=~/.ssh/id_ed25519
	REMOTE_HOST=example.com
	REMOTE_PATH=data
	MAX_DIGEST_LEN=7

	# usage
	if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
	echo "[publish] usage: publish file"

	// UPDATED THANK YOU @al3mart
	util_crypto.xxhashAsHex("System", 128)
	> "0x26aa394eea5630e07c48ae0c9558cef7"

	util_crypto.xxhashAsHex("Account", 128)
	> "0xb99d880ec681799c0cf30e8886371da9"

	// https://westend.subscan.io/account/5ENpP27BrVdJTdUfY6djmcw3d3xEJ6NzSUU52CCPmGpMrdEY
	util_crypto.blake2AsHex(keyring.decodeAddress("5ENpP27BrVdJTdUfY6djmcw3d3xEJ6NzSUU52CCPmGpMrdEY"), 128)
	> "0xbb08f275d00049b315666c2c44130a10"

	const WebSocket = require('ws');
	const http = require('http');
	const Y = require('yjs');
	const wsUtils = require('./utils');
	const cookie = require('cookie');
	const QuillDelta = require('quill-delta');

	//const QuillConverter = require('node-quill-converter');
	//const MdastFromQuillDelta = require('mdast-util-from-quill-delta');

	type BarberId= usize;
	type ShopId = usize;

	struct Shop {
	barber: Option<BarberId>,
	}

	struct Barber {
	shop: Option<ShopId>,
	}