S1lander

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

Showing progress bar in Blender

Main problem of showing progress bar in Blender UI is that while a script is running the UI is frozen. So the simplest (?) solution is to break execution whenever the progress status should be updated. For this you can use either timers or modal operators. The last one can't be switched on during all time of Blender execution and has some starting costs.

import bpy
from functools import partial

Exporting your 2FA tokens from Authy to transfer them into another 2FA application

IMPORTANT - Update regarding deprecation of Authy desktop apps

Past August 2024, Authy stopped supported the desktop version of their apps:
See Authy is shutting down its desktop app | The 2FA app Authy will only be available on Android and iOS starting in August for details.

And indeed, after a while, Authy changed something in their backend which now prevents the old desktop app from logging in. If you are already logged in, then you are in luck, and you can follow the instructions below to export your tokens.

If you are not logged in anymore, but can find a backup of the necessary files, then restore those files, and re-install Authy 2.2.3 following the instructions below, and it should work as expected.

	# I'll be doing another one for Linux, but this one will give you
	# a pop up notification and sound alert (using the built-in sounds for macOS)

	# Requires https://github.com/caarlos0/timer to be installed

	# Mac setup for pomo
	alias work="timer 60m && terminal-notifier -message 'Pomodoro'\
	-title 'Work Timer is up! Take a Break 😊'\
	-appIcon '~/Pictures/pumpkin.png'\
	-sound Crystal"

	bind-key C-b send-prefix
	bind-key C-o rotate-window
	bind-key C-z suspend-client
	bind-key Space next-layout
	bind-key ! break-pane
	bind-key " split-window
	bind-key # list-buffers
	bind-key $ command-prompt -I #S "rename-session '%%'"
	bind-key % split-window -h
	bind-key & confirm-before -p "kill-window #W? (y/n)" kill-window