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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."

Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible

https://www.bitlog.com/2026/10/27/software-may-be-getting-worse-but-it-used-to-be-horrible/
62•jakevoytko•53m ago•29 comments

Python's experimental JIT to be removed

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/0c00e4d550f25f8c/
43•f311a•1h ago•4 comments

Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking

https://open3dlab.com/news/roblox-downloaded-145-gb-of-models-from-our-sites/
155•choult•1h ago•109 comments

Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-wikiproject-ai-writing-cleanup
43•rbanffy•1h ago•20 comments

Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics

https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/
970•jonluca•14h ago•514 comments

The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI

https://j11g.com/the-mythical-man-month-in-the-age-of-ai
228•ilreb•5h ago•157 comments

Gforth 1.0

https://gforth.org/manual/1.0/NEWS.html
31•joshcsimmons•2h ago•2 comments

The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]

https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-Octob...
668•vok•14h ago•250 comments

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models
740•sgiannopoulos•21h ago•102 comments

I will no longer upload to NEW

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/10/msg00263.html
127•edward•2h ago•55 comments

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

https://blog.enlyth.com/posts/oldest-windows-gui-app-win-11/
461•enlyth•18h ago•275 comments

I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0

https://eliasfarhan.ch/graphics/cpp/2026/01/27/why-i-teach-opengles.html
84•majorchord•10h ago•53 comments

Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261023-how-solar-became-bigger-than-nuclear
385•geox•20h ago•558 comments

Writing about pratt parsing so I remember it

https://www.unix.dog/~yosh/blog/2026-10-25_pratt-parsing.html
50•dverlaeckt80•6h ago•6 comments

Type Server Protocol

https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/docs/tsp/type-server-protocol.md
249•adamnemecek•18h ago•169 comments

CSS-Tricks has a new owner

https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/
499•edent•20h ago•107 comments

Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kv-cache-exposure-remediation/
145•wondersky•13h ago•47 comments

A Printer Printing onto Paper

https://twitter.com/macrofying/status/2112904628509528219
148•MrBuddyCasino•4d ago•33 comments

16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
102•doener•11h ago•27 comments

How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)

https://www.cocoterra.com/guide-on-how-to-grow-chocolate-at-home/
93•felipevb•1d ago•31 comments

New iPad mini

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-gives-ipad-mini-its-biggest-update-ever/
223•soheilpro•23h ago•541 comments

Txoko: Basques' traditional feast a gastronomic peek into a culture (2024)

https://johnhendersontravel.com/txoko/
34•jxub•3d ago•11 comments

Websites Should Be Printable

https://brennenputh.me/blog/printable-websites/
357•bagatelle•1d ago•204 comments

A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-man-from-future-why-johnny-cant.html
185•aray07•18h ago•85 comments

Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)

https://humantransit.org/2024/12/one-of-the-greatest-inventions-in-the-history-of-human-transport...
296•skadamat•4d ago•151 comments

Anthropic S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026067168/anthropicpbc-sx1.htm
1639•SiNTEx•23h ago•1562 comments

Nietzschian Debugger

https://github.com/DilawarShafiq/nietzschian-debugger
193•dilawargopang•18h ago•57 comments

APC says let there be light, with standards to speed up photonics manufacturing

https://www.nextplatform.com/connect/2026/10/23/apc-says-let-there-be-light-with-raft-of-standard...
39•rbanffy•1d ago•8 comments

SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller

https://shraiwi.com/blog/simd-fast-esp32s3/
217•zdw•1d ago•61 comments

LimonOS Custom x86-64 Kernel

https://github.com/AnonimusShamshiAlex/LimonOS
17•DrMoris•2d ago•1 comments