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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://blog.nns.ee/2026/06/03/katana-badusb/
139•xx_ns•1h ago•31 comments

Every Byte Matters

https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/01/every-byte-matters
58•ingve•1h ago•16 comments

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https://handwritten.danieljanus.pl/2026-06-01-edsger.html
102•nathell•17h ago•19 comments

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1995966.1996008
29•aragonite•2d ago•1 comments

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https://blog.ammaraskar.com/github-token-stealing/
500•ammar2•21h ago•70 comments

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https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation/
40•gregsadetsky•2h ago•5 comments

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Bun Has Been Converted to Rust. Now What?

https://bytecode.news/posts/2026/06/bun-has-been-converted-to-rust-now-what
8•jottinger•16m ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/s-macke/Test-Drive-3-Maps
137•s-macke•3d ago•33 comments

Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux

https://github.com/c0dejedi/nbd-vram
354•tanelpoder•13h ago•94 comments

MAI-Code-1-Flash

https://microsoft.ai/news/introducingmai-code-1-flash/
491•EvanZhouDev•17h ago•219 comments

The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds

https://research.ligo.bio/posts/unreasonable-redundancy-of-natural-protein-folds/
115•ray__•8h ago•33 comments

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https://law.stanford.edu/press/ai-outperforms-law-professors-in-stanford-law-study/
297•berlianta•12h ago•248 comments

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7•bookofjoe•1h ago•0 comments

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

https://leidendeclaration.ai/
23•zvr•6h ago•9 comments

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https://spectrum.ieee.org/shadow-walker-biped-humanoid-robot
33•sohkamyung•2d ago•10 comments

Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pluto-1-0-release/137296
160•fons-p•13h ago•19 comments

U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-researchers-demonstrate-ai-worm-could-target-any-online-device
67•shscs911•8h ago•16 comments

My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month

https://www.acdw.net/clojure/
241•speckx•16h ago•118 comments

CT scans of BYD car parts

https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/byd
417•viasfo•16h ago•270 comments

Capstone – multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework

https://www.capstone-engine.org/
69•gregsadetsky•10h ago•2 comments

Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

https://blog.roku.com/developer/roku-lt-os
86•dpmdpm•11h ago•27 comments

HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C

https://hpcalcs.com/product/hp-16c-collectors-edition/
186•dm319•17h ago•114 comments

Writing Portable ARM64 Assembly (2023)

https://ariadne.space/2023/04/12/writing-portable-arm-assembly.html
34•luu•2d ago•14 comments

Words of Type

https://wiki.wordsoftype.com/
85•tobr•2d ago•12 comments

Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

https://moddedbear.com/gmail-thinks-im-stupid-so-i-left
1034•speckx•17h ago•683 comments

How we index images for RAG

https://www.kapa.ai/blog/how-we-index-images-for-rag
162•mooreds•20h ago•23 comments

Open Repair Data Standard

https://openrepair.org/open-data/open-standard/
138•cassepipe•17h ago•11 comments

Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release

https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/596/
204•jandeboevrie•22h ago•279 comments

OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing

https://www.openfov.com/
134•mwit2023•3d ago•61 comments