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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."

Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows

https://mouseless.click
70•riddley•2d ago•35 comments

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03673
202•mimorigasaka•5h ago•74 comments

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https://redis.io/blog/announcing-redis-8-8/
78•ksec•2d ago•33 comments

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https://www.quantamagazine.org/entanglement-builds-space-time-now-magic-gives-it-gravity-20260603/
77•rbanffy•5h ago•53 comments

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https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/
525•EdwinHoksberg•6h ago•337 comments

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https://columnar.tech/blog/introducing-databow//
81•hckshr•2d ago•18 comments

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https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate
78•geotp•6h ago•32 comments

Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995

https://passo.uno/fine-tuning-docs-llm/
119•taubek•8h ago•46 comments

Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]

https://fb.watch/HxPu0fSyeH/
255•jenders•13h ago•99 comments

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https://nango.dev/careers
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https://spectrum.ieee.org/faster-dna-synthesis-sidewinder
68•natalcleft•20h ago•15 comments

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https://github.com/anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness
472•binyu•17h ago•129 comments

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https://herbsutter.com/2026/06/04/c-the-documentary-released-today/
230•ingve•9h ago•141 comments

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https://isupmap.com/
90•mikelgan•9h ago•35 comments

At the Autograph Show

https://oldster.substack.com/p/at-the-autograph-show
14•NaOH•2d ago•1 comments

I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2026/05/27/revolutionize-schooling/
234•andrewstuart•2d ago•356 comments

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https://github.com/zdk/lowfat
27•zdkaster•4h ago•14 comments

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https://github.com/alibaba/open-code-review
217•geoffbp•13h ago•63 comments

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04032
191•Anon84•14h ago•36 comments

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https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/communication-european-tech-sovereignty-accompan...
57•jrepinc•3h ago•37 comments

Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler

https://blog.rubygems.org/2026/06/03/cooldown-let-new-gems-be-vetted.html
3•calyhre•2d ago•0 comments

Ohbin – uv wrapper for installing tools from GitHub

https://github.com/prostomarkeloff/ohbin
27•notmarkeloff•3d ago•11 comments

Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308501
183•giuliomagnifico•2h ago•199 comments

Watching a Z80 from an RP2350

https://emalliab.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/watching-a-z80-from-an-rp2350/
32•ibobev•2d ago•6 comments

Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API

https://tiki.li/blog/blqsort
200•birdculture•2d ago•60 comments

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-04/s-p-dow-jones-keeps-megacap-ipo-rules-as-is-af...
768•tristanj•15h ago•379 comments

Go Experiments Explained

https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/go-experiments-explained
67•ingve•4d ago•17 comments

Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople Restored

https://www.louvre.fr/en/explore/life-at-the-museum/delacroix-s-entry-of-the-crusaders-into-const...
51•rawgabbit•11h ago•21 comments

Linear Cosine Palettes(2025)

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-09-14_cosine-palettes/
49•num42•10h ago•2 comments

Investigation: Russian censorship systems (TMCT) expose Chinese DPI signatures

https://freenet.monster/china-unicom.html?lang=en
13•aliowka•1h ago•2 comments