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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•1y ago

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steele•1y ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•1y ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•1y ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•1y ago
npx

Run a command from a local or remote npm package

Description

This command allows you to run an arbitrary command from an npm package (either one installed locally, or fetched remotely), in a similar context as running it via npm run.

neilv•1y ago
Yes, then is a "command from an npm package" arbitrary code?

And what is this "similar context as running it via npm run"?

Would it be better to answer the question directly?

joshka•1y ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•1y ago
Yes I agree! OSS package management ecosystems are a great idea, but allowing submissions without any review or vetting is just asking for supply chain attacks.
Xss3•1y ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•1y ago
Reminds me of JAPH [0] - a tiny Perl program that was used in email/newsgroup signature to give it personal touch.

[0] https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=412464

watusername•1y ago
Terminal business cards are a nice idea, but RCE business cards are just asking for trouble. Instead of npx, what happened to good'ol curl? Something like

$ curl ashley.dev

Some decades ago, we had finger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_%28protocol%29) which is designed for this very use case. Sadly it's no longer installed by default with most distros:

$ finger @ashley.dev

queezey•1y ago
This would be a great advertisement for security consulting.

"I was just able to run arbitrary code on your computer. Here is a sample of your recent browser history. Let me tell you help you mitigate your security vulnerabilities."

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https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/7/astra-why/
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https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native
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https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/gemini-app-now-on-windows/
27•quysala12•2h ago•13 comments

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https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/hands-off-my-cables/
464•Brajeshwar•16h ago•318 comments

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63•nasutton12•8h ago•12 comments

OpenAI Agents API

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents-api/overview
233•aquir•11h ago•131 comments

Working with Git Worktrees in Magit

https://emacsredux.com/blog/2026/09/02/working-with-git-worktrees-in-magit/
20•srijan4•3d ago•3 comments

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https://cognition.com/blog/swe-2
405•seelos•16h ago•170 comments

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https://auberon.xyz/blog/posts/deathray/
154•auberonedu•11h ago•101 comments

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https://www.upsocl.com/en/16-year-old-mexican-student-creates-an-acoustic-fire-extinguisher-that-...
170•rguiscard•6h ago•64 comments

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https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Manipulating_Satellite_Photos_Now_Reveals_Ancient_Images
322•gumby•16h ago•51 comments

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https://system76.com/workstations/thelio-mira-ai
87•jonifico•8h ago•67 comments

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https://www.ntsb.gov:443/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20260909.aspx
94•mckn1ght•10h ago•157 comments

YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning

https://map-yue2.github.io/
85•sexy_seedbox•6h ago•67 comments

Stop making swap partitions–use swap files instead

https://gist.github.com/joshenders/c4960cec9c63a7b7d68ffa9543356c43
8•jenders•2d ago•5 comments

iPhone Duo

https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/
1442•thecosmicfrog•1d ago•2479 comments

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https://mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom/117240535270608201
784•pred_•1d ago•721 comments

Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html
212•aanet•14h ago•87 comments

Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography

https://merybenavente.me/blog/proof-of-capture
99•merybenavente•11h ago•54 comments

Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/16.0.4.md
171•weierstass•15h ago•62 comments

Neki – Sharded Postgres

https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-neki
235•simon_weber•15h ago•129 comments

Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(26)00405-2
80•qclibre22•3h ago•39 comments

Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

https://rustfoundation.org/media/guest-post-rust-is-tier-1-language-at-microsoft/
653•mmastrac•17h ago•390 comments

Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk
168•tosh•4d ago•78 comments

Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026

https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026
119•garo-pro•14h ago•187 comments

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302•thelastgallon•1d ago•255 comments

Customizing my Compaq MX-11800 keyboard

https://blog.webb.page/WM-102
26•NetOpWibby•3d ago•4 comments

What Comes After Git

https://ersc.io/blog/what-comes-after-git
26•tangled•4h ago•6 comments

JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation

https://openjdk.org/jeps/544
90•Skinney•14h ago•32 comments