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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•6mo ago

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steele•6mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•6mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•6mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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."

I Tried and Failed to Rebuild the 1996 Space Jam Website with Claude

https://j0nah.com/i-failed-to-recreate-the-1996-space-jam-website-with-claude/
76•thecr0w•1h ago•35 comments

At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 submissions

https://gptzero.me/news/iclr-2026/
361•puttycat•5h ago•257 comments

Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory

https://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/
230•Alifatisk•6h ago•77 comments

Scala 3 slowed us down?

https://kmaliszewski9.github.io/scala/2025/12/07/scala3-slowdown.html
98•kmaliszewski•4h ago•33 comments

An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform

https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/
45•pykello•5d ago•6 comments

Java Hello World, LLVM Edition

https://www.javaadvent.com/2025/12/java-hello-world-llvm-edition.html
135•ingve•7h ago•38 comments

Why Fighter Jets Ban 90% of C++ Features [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sDL9Ljww
47•AareyBaba•1h ago•26 comments

Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein Relies on Open Source and Saves Millions

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Goodbye-Microsoft-Schleswig-Holstein-relies-on-Open-Source-and-saves...
409•doener•5h ago•192 comments

Vanity Activities

https://quarter--mile.com/vanity-activities
19•surprisetalk•6d ago•8 comments

Using LLMs at Oxide

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576
600•steveklabnik•17h ago•232 comments

The Anatomy of a macOS App

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/04/the-anatomy-of-a-macos-app/
108•elashri•6h ago•21 comments

Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK2N99BDw7A
514•zdw•19h ago•114 comments

How the Disappearance of Flight 19 Fueled the Legend of the Bermuda Triangle

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-disappearance-of-flight-19-a-navy-squadron-lost-in...
34•pseudolus•6h ago•7 comments

GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115647408229616018
722•akyuu•1d ago•337 comments

Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab

https://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/
296•embedding-shape•16h ago•67 comments

Building a Toast Component

https://emilkowal.ski/ui/building-a-toast-component
50•FragrantRiver•4d ago•20 comments

Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)

https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/
408•turrini•21h ago•173 comments

Semantic Compression (2014)

https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0015
10•tosh•2h ago•1 comments

The past was not that cute

https://juliawise.net/the-past-was-not-that-cute/
344•mhb•21h ago•428 comments

Discovering the indieweb with calm tech

https://alexsci.com/blog/calm-tech-discover/
173•todsacerdoti•15h ago•17 comments

Locks in PostgreSQL

https://habr.com/en/companies/postgrespro/articles/504498/
49•fanf2•3h ago•5 comments

Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

http://www.tinycorelinux.net/
489•LorenDB•1d ago•218 comments

Perl's decline was cultural

https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical
346•todsacerdoti•1d ago•389 comments

Should CSS be a constraint system instead?

https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/why-css-bad.html
4•fanf2•27m ago•0 comments

What even is "literate programming"? (2024)

https://pqnelson.github.io/2024/05/29/literate-programming.html
58•joecobb•4d ago•33 comments

OpenAI disables ChatGPT app suggestions that looked like ads

https://techoreon.com/openai-disables-chatgpt-app-suggestions-ads-backlash/
49•GeorgeWoff25•3h ago•30 comments

Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler (yes)

https://jonathan.protzenko.fr/2025/10/28/eurydice.html
163•todsacerdoti•17h ago•91 comments

Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters

https://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image
363•doener•1w ago•143 comments

Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/11/29/bikeshedding-or-laptop.html
196•cspags•6d ago•220 comments

The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to Be Painful and Healthy

https://ceodinner.substack.com/p/the-ai-wildfire-is-coming-its-going
44•LordAtlas•2h ago•45 comments