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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•6mo ago

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steele•6mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•6mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•6mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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."

Using LLMs at Oxide

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576
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https://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/
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https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/
236•turrini•8h ago•89 comments

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https://jonathan.protzenko.fr/2025/10/28/eurydice.html
58•todsacerdoti•5h ago•11 comments

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https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115647408229616018
551•akyuu•16h ago•244 comments

The past was not that cute

https://juliawise.net/the-past-was-not-that-cute/
116•mhb•8h ago•139 comments

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http://www.tinycorelinux.net/
406•LorenDB•16h ago•182 comments

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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/untold-earth-105-salish-sea-bioluminescence
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https://alexsci.com/blog/calm-tech-discover/
25•todsacerdoti•3h ago•3 comments

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https://www.usap.gov/usapgov/travelAndDeployment/documents/Continental-Field-Manual-2024.pdf
80•SheinhardtWigCo•8h ago•15 comments

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https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical
223•todsacerdoti•13h ago•276 comments

Dhrystone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhrystone
16•krelian•4d ago•1 comments

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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251203-japans-disappearing-snow-monsters
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https://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image
279•doener•6d ago•115 comments

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17272
91•mirrir•10h ago•43 comments

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https://sites.gatech.edu/omscsopencourseware/
168•kerim-ca•11h ago•67 comments

HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)

https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessible_HTML.html
224•el3ctron•15h ago•111 comments

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https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/11/29/bikeshedding-or-laptop.html
93•cspags•6d ago•68 comments

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https://git.sr.ht/~nkali/vision-sdk/tree/main/item/note/index.md
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https://catala-lang.org
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http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/12/oblast-better-blasto-game-for-commodore.html
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https://tambo.co/blog/posts/what-is-generative-ui
24•grouchy•3d ago•24 comments

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https://www.prisma.io/blog/announcing-prisma-orm-7-0-0
57•2233•4d ago•23 comments

Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/coffee-linked-to-slower-biological-ageing-among-those-with-severe-ment...
130•bookofjoe•9h ago•75 comments

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https://github.com/KaiNorberg/PatchworkOS
38•pykello•7h ago•2 comments

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https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fusecells-logic-grid-puzzle/id6754704139
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Mathematics Without Numbers (1959)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20026529?seq=1
44•measurablefunc•5d ago•15 comments