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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."

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/
873•stared•14h ago•596 comments

Open Source Low Tech

https://opensourcelowtech.org/
61•grep_it•4d ago•11 comments

.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

https://hccf.onmy.cloud/2026/06/21/reclaiming-our-digital-selves-hccfs-vision-for-a-human-centere...
477•HumanCCF•12h ago•271 comments

Free the Icons

https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/06/26/free-the-icons/
409•zdw•2d ago•112 comments

LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active

https://longcat.chat/blog/longcat-2.0/
117•benjiro29•7h ago•34 comments

Memory Safe Context Switching

https://fil-c.org/context_switches
106•modeless•7h ago•23 comments

Old Computer Challenge

http://occ.sdf.org/
54•wrxd•2d ago•15 comments

The end of the AArch64 desktop experiment

https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2026/06/26/the-end-of-the-aarch64-desktop-experiment/
26•signa11•3h ago•6 comments

Rocketlab acquires Iridium

https://investors.rocketlabcorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rocket-lab-acquire-iridium...
401•everfrustrated•17h ago•262 comments

Exploring PDP-1 Lisp (1960)

https://obsolescence.dev/pdp1-lisp-introduction.html
57•ozymandiax•7h ago•16 comments

Linux for the Sega MegaDrive

https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd
86•HardwareLust•16h ago•11 comments

Popping the GPU Bubble

https://moondream.ai/blog/popping-the-gpu-bubble
99•radq•2h ago•18 comments

Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

https://github.com/deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1
200•danboarder•14h ago•39 comments

US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers

https://noyb.eu/en/us-supreme-court-just-blew-eu-us-data-transfers
80•tomwas54•2h ago•31 comments

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/supreme-court-geofence-warrants-case-decision
513•cdrnsf•16h ago•243 comments

One million passports leaked online

https://www.theverge.com/tech/947157/passports-data-breach-cannabis-club-systems-nefos-puffpal
247•jruohonen•1d ago•132 comments

How to corrupt an SQLite database file

https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html
64•tosh•3d ago•14 comments

Alan Kay on the meaning of "object-oriented programming" (2003)

https://notes.shixiangxi.com/en/docs/appendix/alan-kay-on-oop/
56•sxx0•2d ago•16 comments

Zig – SPIR-V Backend Progress

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-06-26
55•Retro_Dev•4d ago•17 comments

British Origami: the 1955 exhibition by Akira Yoshizawa (2005)

https://www.britishorigami.org/cp-lister-list/the-1955-exhibition-by-akira-yoshizawa/
30•dang•1d ago•3 comments

Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22283
158•Jimmc414•2d ago•22 comments

A native graphical shell for SSH

https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2026/06/28/native-graphical-shell-for-SSH.html
291•mrcslws•16h ago•159 comments

Dark Sky Lighting

https://www.savingourstars.org/darkskylighting#whatisdarkskylighting
198•alexandrehtrb•4d ago•33 comments

WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

https://humphri.es/blog/WATaBoy/
202•energeticbark•16h ago•33 comments

Kb – Prolog Knowledge Base

https://github.com/mat-mgm/kb-prolog
68•triska•2d ago•7 comments

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

https://fergusfinn.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-run-a-gpu-kernel/
252•mezark•18h ago•30 comments

South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/south-korea-to-spend-1t-on-more-memory-chip-production-and-hum...
212•jnord•9h ago•134 comments

Working With AI: A concrete example

https://htmx.org/essays/working-with-ai/
152•comma_at•17h ago•49 comments

30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/26/daniel-sanchez-estrada-zines-prairieland-free-speech/
531•xrd•1d ago•328 comments

Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/hiking-with-wallace/
133•chantepierre•4d ago•23 comments