Valentin Ursuleac ursuleacv

Security Checklist (What can be done in CursorAI & software-level not infrastructure!)

Configuration Security

Detect secrets in code
Identify secrets committed to version control
Flag hardcoded credentials

Authentication & Authorization

Identify missing authentication checks
Detect improper authorization patterns

Disclaimer: I'm in the Top 1% of StackOverflow contributors with 23,315 rep points.

I asked 1 high-quality question in 2024, and it was closed almost immediately, and I haven't engaged with the site since.

If someone with 20,000+ karma has their nicely-formatted questions closed so quickly, what must the newbies and rank-in-file encounter? This is probably a big reason why it's declining.

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

THE PROBLEM

🌲 Invert a binary tree! 🌲

Except with 3 catches:

It must invert the keys ("bit-reversal permutation")
It must be a dependency-free, pure recursive function
It must have type Bit -> Tree -> Tree (i.e., a direct recursion with max 1 bit state)

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

How to deploy Laravel application to Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Some things you need :

Laravel project
VPS / Virtual Private Server
Domain (if any)

Here's how to deploy your Laravel application to the server

Put your Laravel project into source code management (github/gitlab/others)
Here I will use my company-management reporsitory.

Discord ClydeAI Jailbreaks

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/13066317497239-Clyde-Discord-s-AI-Chatbot
Public servers with ClydeAI enabled:

When using this prompts, make sure to reply to Clyde's last message to continue the prompt. Everytime you ping Clyde, you start a new session.

Raw Notes

These are my unstructured notes from the workshop. Read with caution (they're biased to my own interpretation).

Notes

1,000,000 Julian.com visitors Part 1: What's your objective for your article? Part 2: pair it with an objective objective + motivation good nonfiction = 70% novelty + 25% story + 5% style

	Project Approach

	* Always check for a PRD (Product Requirements Document) before starting a new task and follow it closely
	* Look for comprehensive project documentation to understand requirements before making changes
	* Focus only on code areas relevant to the assigned task
	* Prefer iterating on existing code rather than creating new solutions
	* Keep solutions simple and avoid introducing unnecessary complexity

	Code Quality

	# SETUP #
	DOMAIN=example.com
	PROJECT_REPO="[email protected]:example.com/app.git"
	AMOUNT_KEEP_RELEASES=5

	RELEASE_NAME=$(date +%s--%Y_%m_%d--%H_%M_%S)
	RELEASES_DIRECTORY=~/$DOMAIN/releases
	DEPLOYMENT_DIRECTORY=$RELEASES_DIRECTORY/$RELEASE_NAME

	# stop script on error signal (-e) and undefined variables (-u)