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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://github.com/ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad/tree/main
78•asronline•1h ago•39 comments

Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

https://javoriuski.com/post/youtube
347•javxfps•4h ago•174 comments

Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archive/-/work_items/234
201•Cider9986•3h ago•95 comments

Verizon is About to Break our Watches

https://www.jefftk.com/p/verizon-is-about-to-break-our-watches
77•jefftk•2h ago•31 comments

Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/74066
241•chatmasta•6h ago•116 comments

Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)

https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/
333•theanonymousone•8h ago•42 comments

Drone Physics

https://iahmed.me/post/drone-physics/
31•wrxd•4d ago•5 comments

Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-06-30
42•tosh•4h ago•4 comments

BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments

https://github.com/pIat0n/BareMetal-RAM-Dumper
36•liffik•3h ago•10 comments

Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc)

https://github.com/maximqaxd/wince-dc
64•msephton•5h ago•11 comments

Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/cheyenne-suspends-data-center-fill-and-fl...
152•sensanaty•4h ago•49 comments

Curveball

https://mightyburger.net/projects/curveball/
33•toilet•4h ago•7 comments

Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe

https://www.quantamagazine.org/astrophysicists-puzzle-over-webbs-new-universe-20260702/
168•jnord•11h ago•103 comments

EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet?

https://www.endbasic.dev/2026/07/endbasic-0.14.html
18•jmmv•3h ago•0 comments

Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/07/03/wicklow-hotel-cancels-secretive-peter-thiel-confere...
41•01-_-•1h ago•9 comments

Maybe you should learn something

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_135_learn/
385•tylerdane•17h ago•178 comments

The .join() that should be a bug

https://kronotop.com/blog/the-join-that-should-be-a-bug/
13•mastabadtomm•4d ago•0 comments

Plein Air

https://art.joonas.wtf/
44•bookofjoe•3h ago•5 comments

Designing DB partitions you don't have to babysit

https://explainanalyze.com/p/designing-partitioning-you-dont-have-to-babysit/
38•rtolkachev•3d ago•6 comments

Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/06/30/finlands-last-analogue-landline-phones-go-silent-after-1...
65•ohjeez•3h ago•15 comments

It's not me, it's the compiler

https://parsa.wtf/cast/
11•SVI•3d ago•1 comments

Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language

https://www.freepressjournal.in/education/breaking-the-bird-barrier-scientist-decodes-zebra-finch...
67•yyyk•3d ago•19 comments

Fable created novel 4D splat format

https://adamraudonis.github.io/splats4D/
28•adamraudonis•5h ago•4 comments

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https://www.databricks.com/blog/lakebase-ltap-rethinking-database-storage
145•andrenotgiant•3d ago•50 comments

Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting

https://studios.disneyresearch.com/2026/07/01/neural-render-proxies-for-interactive-and-different...
26•tobr•2d ago•3 comments

Game Boy Advance Dev: Logging to the Console

https://www.mattgreer.dev/blog/gba-dev-logging/
11•jandeboevrie•3h ago•0 comments

Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper

https://www.wafer.ai/blog/glm52-amd
337•latchkey•23h ago•132 comments

Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all

https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral-1-5/
341•programLyrique•22h ago•93 comments

The bottleneck might be the air in the room

https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/
704•gslin•14h ago•402 comments

Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches
73•gverrilla•4d ago•26 comments