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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."

F-Droid 2.0

https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html
383•daveoc64•2h ago•97 comments

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https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard
34•sidharthkmenon•32m ago•1 comments

Two-tier encryption in the UK

https://macanorak.com/two-tier-encryption-in-the-uk/
270•ReturnoftheHack•7h ago•260 comments

WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations

https://github.com/christianrowlands/wavedigger
34•882542F3884314B•1d ago•4 comments

Nokia Design Archive (2025)

https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_b66a9391-dcf8-4399-8e87-611f84c3fc4c
177•pillars•8h ago•94 comments

GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks

https://successfulsoftware.net/2026/09/24/github-has-not-removed-malicious-imitation-software-aft...
132•hermitcrab•2h ago•51 comments

Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linux
575•aaronday•19h ago•244 comments

Experiencing writing at our recent Chinese calligraphy workshop

https://viewsproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/chinese-calligraphy-workshop/
8•surprisetalk•2h ago•1 comments

Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

https://electrek.co/2026/09/23/toyota-best-selling-corolla-electric/
27•cisc•19h ago•13 comments

B5-BJ2 – Ice Cream Barges – Concrete Ship Constructors (2023)

https://thecretefleet.com/blog/f/b5-bj2---ice-cream-barges---concrete-ship-constructors
8•nixass•2d ago•3 comments

Apple iPhone 4 “Antennagate” Q&A (2010) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN5ERktXz0
14•philistine•3h ago•6 comments

Search – A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS

https://github.com/driceroland/Search
26•metrofun•8h ago•0 comments

Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1095425/2d9f411252325784/
340•signa11•15h ago•417 comments

The science of Monkey Island: can grog dissolve a metal mug that fast?

https://jgeekstudies.org/2026/09/23/the-science-of-monkey-island-can-grog-actually-dissolve-a-met...
96•zdw•1d ago•19 comments

Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatch...
5•xnx•4h ago•10 comments

RAM: the forgotten history (2024)

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/memory-the-forgotten-history
97•Luc•2d ago•3 comments

When the Debugger Lies

https://danielmangum.com/posts/when-the-debugger-lies/
56•hasheddan•2d ago•17 comments

ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit

https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/
288•JohnHammersley•19h ago•38 comments

Enjoy Every Sandwich

https://bradmontague.substack.com/p/enjoy-every-sandwich
158•NaOH•1d ago•75 comments

Coulomb's law remains tricky to test at home

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/coulombs-law-remains-tricky-to-test
17•surprisetalk•2d ago•16 comments

The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi

https://www.xda-developers.com/newest-esp32-run-linux-close-to-raspberry-pi/
173•adunk•6h ago•81 comments

VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)

https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/
294•Rapzid•20h ago•190 comments

Contrastive Language Models

https://contrastive-lm.notion.site/
147•erichocean•13h ago•46 comments

Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-24/oracle-cites-force-majeure-to-shield-itself-on...
102•simonpure•4h ago•89 comments

The "Windows XP Box" (2003)

https://www.mini-itx.com/projects/windowsxpbox/
216•doubletwoyou•2d ago•45 comments

Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-04-11-211700.html
510•avidly•1d ago•113 comments

The Year of Internal Tools

https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2026-09-23-the-year-of-internal-tools
55•thecodemonkey•10h ago•21 comments

Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers

https://medium.com/@arielsimon/dark-sourcery-how-hackers-manipulate-ai-to-scam-you-88df434d2073
121•ArielSimon•5h ago•40 comments

Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/why-whats-opera-doc-looks-like-that
128•CharlesW•1d ago•24 comments

LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data

https://therecord.media/linkedin-wins-court-order-blocking-mass-scraping
40•ilamont•1h ago•27 comments