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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."

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

https://ckardaris.com/blog/2026/08/28/keyboard-driven-guis.html
275•ckardaris•4h ago•156 comments

Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit
130•avsm•3h ago•50 comments

Htmx 4.0

https://four.htmx.org/announcements/2026-08-28-htmx-4.0.0-is-released
290•rmsaksida•6h ago•62 comments

U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

https://www.inventati.org/
326•exiguus•6h ago•296 comments

Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

https://www.orbify.eu/demo/
310•smoser•7h ago•113 comments

Curvature Beziers

https://acko.net/blog/curvature-beziers/
16•leephillips•4d ago•6 comments

Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23691
30•stephenchung•2h ago•0 comments

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight

https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3
387•jeudesprits•4h ago•137 comments

Barrier lake continues to pose flood risk, China warns

https://kathmandupost.com/national/2026/08/28/barrier-lake-continues-to-pose-flood-risk-china-warns
62•r721•4h ago•12 comments

The Analytical AI Handbook

https://handbook.sutro.sh
6•sethkim•36m ago•0 comments

Attimet (YC F24) Is Hiring Members of Technical Staff – Engineering and Research

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/attimet/jobs/6btZFDg-member-of-technical-staff-engineering
1•kbanothu•2h ago

Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need

https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-08-25-verschlimmbesserung/
68•speckx•5h ago•29 comments

The Twelve-Factor App

https://12factor.net/
143•jxmorris12•20h ago•78 comments

Global demand for sand spawned a worldwide boom in illegal mining (2015)

https://www.wired.com/2015/03/illegal-sand-mining/
32•EndXA•2d ago•10 comments

Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/africa-wild-dogs-most-hated-carnivores-continent-he...
49•speckx•4h ago•16 comments

Get your Windows license refund

https://en.refund4freedom.org/
547•smartmic•5h ago•215 comments

Visual Analysis of Binary Files

https://binvis.io/#/
10•vismit2000•2d ago•3 comments

Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018)

https://alyssarosenzweig.ca/blog/hilariously-fast-volume-computation-with-the-divergence-theorem....
219•luu•10h ago•58 comments

State of the Map 2026

https://2026.stateofthemap.org/
102•lode•5h ago•39 comments

Migrating to HTTPX2

https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/httpx2.md
168•tosh•7h ago•73 comments

An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/are-crows-really-our-friends
86•speckx•6h ago•50 comments

EasyEffects can massively improve laptop speaker sound quality

https://www.osnews.com/story/145883/easyeffects-should-be-part-of-every-linux-distribution-and-de...
39•birdculture•4h ago•16 comments

Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/
327•miniBill•13h ago•111 comments

Bhartrhari's Paradox

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/08/18/bhartrharis-paradox/
37•surprisetalk•7h ago•49 comments

Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02506-4
74•sohkamyung•7h ago•104 comments

Don't use musl if you care about performance

https://blog.brokk.ai/dont-use-musl-if-you-care-about-performance/
70•jbellis•4h ago•41 comments

Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/debugging-my-new-network-when-10-gigabit-ethernet-runs-at-300-mega...
44•speckx•5h ago•15 comments

Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/technology/anthropic-government-blacklisting-ruling.html
375•jbegley•17h ago•290 comments

How Dactyl Works

https://dactyl.dev/blog/how-dactyl-works/
60•anorak27•3h ago•11 comments

“It works better in the app”

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/it-works-better-in-the-app/
595•blenderob•7h ago•399 comments