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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•9mo ago

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steele•9mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•9mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•9mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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."

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03823
17•mpweiher•44m ago•1 comments

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https://devblog.ecuadors.net/cloud-vm-benchmarks-2026-performance-price-1i1m.html
208•dkechag•8h ago•95 comments

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https://kaizoudou.com/from-rgb-to-lab-color-space/
24•kqr•3d ago•2 comments

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https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/17643
154•networked•7h ago•45 comments

CasNum

https://github.com/0x0mer/CasNum
275•aebtebeten•12h ago•36 comments

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https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame
68•azhenley•6h ago•38 comments

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https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5
120•Curiositry•9h ago•28 comments

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https://curiosity-telescope.vercel.app/
6•big_Brain69•1h ago•0 comments

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https://thecloudlet.github.io/blog/project/emacs-02/
66•thecloudlet•2d ago•1 comments

A decade of Docker containers

https://cacm.acm.org/research/a-decade-of-docker-containers/
293•zacwest•16h ago•202 comments

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https://arcanenibble.github.io/dumping-lego-nxt-firmware-off-of-an-existing-brick.html
199•theblazehen•2d ago•11 comments

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https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260302-the-yoghurt-delivery-women-combatting-loneliness-in-j...
278•ranit•19h ago•151 comments

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https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/a-grand-vision-for-rust/
51•todsacerdoti•3d ago•38 comments

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https://pulsefeedback.io/
71•kilroy123•3d ago•37 comments

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https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
109•simonpure•12h ago•29 comments

The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database

https://muddy.jprs.me/links/2026-03-06-the-surprising-whimsy-of-the-time-zone-database/
112•jprs•14h ago•34 comments

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https://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/03/best-performance-of-a-cpp-singleton/
29•jandeboevrie•1d ago•22 comments

In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/maxell-life-size-robots/
107•rfarley04•3d ago•13 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE
3•surprisetalk•3d ago•1 comments

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https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/agents-context-file-value-review/
8•noemit•1h ago•7 comments

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208•marc__1•17h ago•62 comments

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https://brandonvin.github.io/2026/03/04/ten-years-of-deploying-to-production.html
24•mooreds•2d ago•5 comments

macOS code injection for fun and no profit (2024)

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2024-07-20-macos-code-injection-fun/
92•jstrieb•3d ago•15 comments

To the Polypropylene Makers

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HQTueNS4mLaGy3BBL/here-s-to-the-polypropylene-makers
25•raldi•2h ago•3 comments

Lisp-style C++ template meta programming

https://github.com/mistivia/lmp
45•mistivia•10h ago•7 comments

Files are the interface humans and agents interact with

https://madalitso.me/notes/why-everyone-is-talking-about-filesystems/
216•malgamves•22h ago•117 comments

How important was the Battle of Hastings?

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/how-important-was-battle-hastings
31•benbreen•4d ago•28 comments

Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf]

https://vfxforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4/no4/article4.pdf
111•PaulHoule•4d ago•9 comments

LLM Writing Tropes.md

https://tropes.fyi/tropes-md
185•walterbell•11h ago•74 comments

Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/recreating-the-complex-cuisine-of-prehistoric-europeans/
78•apollinaire•1d ago•32 comments