Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/

8•edent•1y ago

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steele•12mo ago

Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management

aabhay•12mo ago

Lmao, gentrify cracked me up

neilv•12mo ago

Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?

cypherpunks01•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo ago

Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.

cypherpunks01•12mo 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•12mo ago

May as well just release an executable tbh.

theamk•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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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