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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."

The Website Specification

https://specification.website/
76•k1m•1h ago•21 comments

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544•aaronbrethorst•11h ago•318 comments

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https://cryptography101.ca/wp-content/uploads/lattice-based-cryptography.pdf
73•jayhoon•2d ago•1 comments

Shantell Sans (2023)

https://shantellsans.com/process
219•aleda145•10h ago•20 comments

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http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/05/ahoy-decmate-ii-little-pdp-8-that-could.html
30•TMWNN•3h ago•2 comments

A pictorial introduction to differential geometry (2017)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08492
22•ricudis•2h ago•0 comments

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29•croes•2d ago•11 comments

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https://github.com/marekkowalczyk/breathe-cli
9•marekkowalczyk•11h ago•1 comments

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https://hi.telli.com/join-us
1•sebselassie•1h ago

I found a seashell in the middle of the desert

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310•Hawzen•2d ago•79 comments

Avian Visitors

https://theodore.net/projects/AvianVisitors/
23•fdb•2h ago•0 comments

The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)

https://av2.aomedia.org
177•ksec•10h ago•61 comments

One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust

https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/one-year-of-roto-the-compiled-scripting-language-for-rust/
14•Hasnep•1d ago•0 comments

Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion

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821•antipurist•9h ago•290 comments

Accenture to acquire Ookla

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276•Garbage•15h ago•143 comments

Racket v9.2

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/05/racket-v9-2.html
102•spdegabrielle•2d ago•14 comments

Mechanical Pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us

https://mechanical-pencil.com/
62•Muhammad523•8h ago•7 comments

Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing

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102•sohkamyung•9h ago•23 comments

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https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync
386•sph•21h ago•151 comments

Voxel Space (2017)

https://s-macke.github.io/VoxelSpace/
279•davikr•18h ago•58 comments

wolfSSL releases a new product; wolfCOSE a zero alloc C embbedded COSE stack

https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfCOSE
88•aidangarske•11h ago•17 comments

Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-30
200•kristoff_it•14h ago•67 comments

Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929
136•justdotJS•5h ago•50 comments

Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (2013)

https://lowendmac.com/2013/jef-raskin-the-visionary-behind-the-mac/
99•tylerdane•12h ago•43 comments

Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping

https://remyhax.xyz/posts/reproducing-lawful-tls-wiretapping/
92•jerrythegerbil•12h ago•41 comments

OpenRouter raises $113M Series B

https://openrouter.ai/announcements/series-b
413•freeCandy•14h ago•197 comments

Pandoc Templates

https://pandoc-templates.org/
391•ankitg12•22h ago•50 comments

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https://github.com/kurikomi-labs/komi-learn
11•rainxchzed•3h ago•1 comments

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https://ajin.im/is/building/omen.ops/
117•poppypetalmask•13h ago•22 comments

Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange

https://www.righto.com/2026/05/microcode-inside-intel-8087-floating.html
113•pwg•14h ago•18 comments