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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."

How to Turn Anything into a Router

https://nbailey.ca/post/router/
182•yabones•2h ago•71 comments

Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of the same mass

https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/bird-brains
122•DiffTheEnder•2h ago•62 comments

72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes

https://eco3min.fr/en/us-inflation-is-not-linear/
18•latentframe•52m ago•2 comments

Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26524
115•zaikunzhang•4h ago•38 comments

The curious case of retro demo scene graphics

https://www.datagubbe.se/aipixels/
292•zdw•10h ago•71 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...
848•alberto-m•19h ago•550 comments

I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

https://blog.lysk.tech/excalidraw-frame-export/
185•mlysk•8h ago•83 comments

Build123d: A Python CAD programming library

https://github.com/gumyr/build123d
11•Ivoah•18h ago•1 comments

In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-math-rigor-is-vital-but-are-digitized-proofs-taking-it-too-far-...
30•isaacfrond•4d ago•20 comments

"Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot"

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-g...
57•bundie•42m ago•23 comments

Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

https://www.mgrunwald.com/ghostmoon/
121•mgrunwald_•4h ago•90 comments

The coming PLG to SLG apocalypse

https://www.withsahel.com/blog/plg-to-enterprise-timeline-compression
13•iajiboye•4d ago•5 comments

Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models

https://dani2442.github.io/posts/continuous-rl/
103•sebzuddas•8h ago•28 comments

Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase

https://medium.com/all-things-software/spring-boot-done-right-lessons-from-a-400-module-codebase-...
48•dknj•3d ago•36 comments

Comprehensive C++ Hashmap Benchmarks (2022)

https://martin.ankerl.com/2022/08/27/hashmap-bench-01/
35•klaussilveira•5d ago•11 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...
622•speckx•23h ago•230 comments

Copilot edited an ad into my PR

https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/
1115•pavo-etc•11h ago•321 comments

VHDL's Crown Jewel

https://www.sigasi.com/opinion/jan/vhdls-crown-jewel/
106•cokernel_hacker•11h ago•37 comments

15 Years of Forking

https://www.waterfox.com/blog/15-years-of-forking/
256•MrAlex94•2d ago•54 comments

How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve the Housing Shortage

https://www.noemamag.com/the-architecture-of-cooperation/
19•bookofjoe•5h ago•17 comments

Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed

https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja
60•tosh•3d ago•17 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...
287•pjmlp•21h ago•298 comments

How the AI Bubble Bursts

https://martinvol.pe/blog/2026/03/30/how-the-ai-bubble-bursts/
284•martinvol•3h ago•337 comments

The First Video Game Was Just a Box in the Corner of a Bar

https://lithub.com/the-very-first-video-game-was-just-a-box-in-the-corner-of-a-bar/
28•PaulHoule•3d ago•25 comments

Douglas Lenat's Automated Mathematician Source Code

https://github.com/white-flame/am
51•hydrolox•4d ago•7 comments

Hardware Image Compression

https://www.ludicon.com/castano/blog/2026/03/hardware-image-compression/
50•luu•1d 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
353•Philadelphia•14h ago•173 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/
305•TobiasBerg•20h ago•359 comments

Coding agents could make free software matter again

https://www.gjlondon.com/blog/ai-agents-could-make-free-software-matter-again/
245•rogueleaderr•17h ago•251 comments

Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout

https://github.com/chenglou/pretext
350•emersonmacro•1d ago•62 comments