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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•10mo ago

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steele•10mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•10mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•10mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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."

The curious case of retro demo scene graphics

https://www.datagubbe.se/aipixels/
13•zdw•48m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state

https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decry...
475•alberto-m•9h ago•332 comments

Copilot edited an ad into my PR

https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/
206•pavo-etc•2h ago•59 comments

VHDL's Crown Jewel

https://www.sigasi.com/opinion/jan/vhdls-crown-jewel/
14•cokernel_hacker•1h ago•2 comments

Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

https://techfixated.com/a-1977-time-capsule-voyager-1-runs-on-69-kb-of-memory-and-an-8-track-tape...
468•speckx•14h ago•182 comments

15 Years of Forking

https://www.waterfox.com/blog/15-years-of-forking/
113•MrAlex94•2d ago•9 comments

Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/smart-glasses-ai-meta-courts-20260326.html
174•Philadelphia•4h ago•62 comments

Hardware Image Compression

https://www.ludicon.com/castano/blog/2026/03/hardware-image-compression/
9•luu•1d ago•2 comments

HD Audio Driver for Windows 98SE / Me

https://github.com/andrew-hoffman/wdmhda
15•userbinator•1h ago•1 comments

Gonon: Building a Clock with No Numerals

https://tonygaeta.com/perceptor/code/gonon
13•nullpath•3d ago•10 comments

Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout

https://github.com/chenglou/pretext
263•emersonmacro•1d ago•47 comments

"Roadrunner": a bipedal, wheeled robot for multi-modal locomotion [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kae-UAME1U
17•surprisetalk•4d ago•6 comments

The Cognitive Dark Forest

https://ryelang.org/blog/posts/cognitive-dark-forest/
376•kaycebasques•10h ago•175 comments

Interview: Nobonoko, Master of the Minimal Sequencer

https://fi-le.net/nobo/
20•fi-le•2d ago•2 comments

C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report

https://herbsutter.com/2026/03/29/c26-is-done-trip-report-march-2026-iso-c-standards-meeting-lond...
202•pjmlp•12h ago•157 comments

The road signs that teach travellers about France

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260327-the-road-signs-that-teach-travellers-about-france
78•1659447091•9h ago•32 comments

Moretti replication published in AER

https://blog.michaelwiebe.com/p/moretti-replication-published-in
7•luu•1d ago•0 comments

About the Atmosphere

https://toni.org/2026/03/27/about-the-atmosphere/
45•Kye•2d ago•6 comments

New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays

https://smcleod.net/2026/03/new-apple-silicon-m4-m5-hidpi-limitation-on-4k-external-displays/
217•smcleod•4h ago•102 comments

My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix

https://tobiasberg.net/posts/my-macbook-keyboard-is-broken-and-its-insanely-expensive-to-fix/
132•TobiasBerg•11h ago•155 comments

Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again

https://www.gjlondon.com/blog/ai-agents-could-make-free-software-matter-again/
143•rogueleaderr•7h ago•126 comments

I'll buy your electronics to feed our robot

https://www.dayworkx.com/
78•skholinn•3d ago•17 comments

LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

688•hrncode•21h ago•395 comments

The RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub

https://riseproject.dev/2026/03/24/announcing-the-rise-risc-v-runners-free-native-risc-v-ci-on-gi...
128•thebeardisred•3d ago•31 comments

More on Version Control

https://bramcohen.com/p/more-on-version-control
66•velmu•10h ago•20 comments

Ohm's Peg-to-WASM Compiler

https://ohmjs.org/blog/2026/03/12/peg-to-wasm
47•azhenley•3d ago•16 comments

Kyushu Railway Company Train Varieties

https://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/english/train/index.html
74•NaOH•11h ago•11 comments

Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish

https://foojay.io/today/eclipse-glassfish-this-isnt-your-fathers-glassfish/
4•henk53•4d ago•0 comments

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics

https://news.umich.edu/nitrile-and-latex-gloves-may-cause-overestimation-of-microplastics-u-m-stu...
537•giuliomagnifico•20h ago•241 comments

Neovim 0.12.0

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.12.0
340•pawelgrzybek•12h ago•191 comments