John Efemer johnefemer

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

PostgreSQL is Enough

Background and Cron Jobs

🚨 2020 Update: I recommend using mkcert to generate local certificates. You can do everything below by just running the commands brew install mkcert and mkcert -install. Keep it simple!

This gives you that beautiful green lock in Chrome. I'm assuming you're putting your SSL documents in /etc/ssl, but you can put them anywhere and replace the references in the following commands. Tested successfully on Mac OS Sierra and High Sierra.

Set up `localhost.conf`

sudo nano /etc/ssl/localhost/localhost.conf

Kafka Cheat Sheet

Display Topic Information

$ kafka-topics.sh --describe --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic beacon
Topic:beacon	PartitionCount:6	ReplicationFactor:1	Configs:
	Topic: beacon	Partition: 0	Leader: 1	Replicas: 1	Isr: 1
	Topic: beacon	Partition: 1	Leader: 1	Replicas: 1	Isr: 1

A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications

A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.

Who pays when startup employees keep their equity?

JD Maturen, 2016/07/05, San Francisco, CA

As has been much discussed, stock options as used today are not a practical or reliable way of compensating employees of fast growing startups. With an often high strike price, a large tax burden on execution due to AMT, and a 90 day execution window after leaving the company many share options are left unexecuted.

There have been a variety of proposed modifications to how equity is distributed to address these issues for individual employees. However, there hasn't been much discussion of how these modifications will change overall ownership dynamics of startups. In this post we'll dive into the situation as it stands today where there is very near 100% equity loss when employees leave companies pre-exit and then we'll look at what would happen if there were instead a 0% loss rate.

What we'll see is that employees gain nearly 3-fold, while both founders and investors – particularly early investors – get dilute

Comprehensive Introduction to @ngrx/store

By: @BTroncone

Also check out my lesson @ngrx/store in 10 minutes on egghead.io!

Update: Non-middleware examples have been updated to ngrx/store v2. More coming soon!

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Essential JavaScript Links

I no longer mantain this list. There are lots of other very comprehensive JavaScript link lists out there. Please see those, instead (Google "awesome JavaScript" for a start).

	#!/bin/sh

	# Based on instructions found here: http://wiki.razuna.com/display/ecp/FFMpeg+Installation+on+CentOS+and+RedHat#FFMpegInstallationonCentOSandRedHat-InstallX264

	if [ "`/usr/bin/whoami`" != "root" ]; then
	echo "You need to execute this script as root."
	exit 1
	fi

	cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/centos.repo<<EOF

	angular
	.module('uuidApp', ['lvl.services'])
	.controller('uuidCtl', ['$scope', 'uuid', function($scope, uuid){
	$scope.generateUuid = function() {
	$scope.new = uuid.new();
	$scope.nInfo = new Date();
	};

	$scope.showEmpty = function() {
	$scope.empty = uuid.empty();