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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•12mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•12mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•12mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•12mo 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•12mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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 don't think AI will make your processes go faster

https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2026-05-15-i-dont-think-ai-will-make-your-processes-go-faster/
302•TheEdonian•4h ago•235 comments

I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation

https://github.com/tech4bot/rk3562deb
89•tech4bot•3h ago•43 comments

Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit

https://www.techspot.com/news/112410-security-researcher-microsoft-secretly-built-backdoor-bitloc...
296•nolok•3h ago•134 comments

Native all the way, until you need text

https://justsitandgrin.im/posts/native-all-the-way-until-you-need-text/
261•dive•5h ago•172 comments

Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise

https://www.thestateofbrand.com/news/ai-subscription-time-bomb
243•mooreds•5h ago•211 comments

Hindenburg's Smoking Room

https://www.airships.net/hindenburg-smoking-room/
46•crescit_eundo•2d ago•17 comments

Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon

https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/prolog-basics-pokemon/
132•birdculture•2d ago•18 comments

Scientists believe ibogaine can help veterans overcome PTSD

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260514-how-hallucinogenic-ibogaine-helps-veterans-overcome-ptsd
39•bushwart•5h ago•30 comments

AI is a technology not a product

https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/ai_is_technology_not_a_product
129•ch_sm•3h ago•43 comments

High-Entropy Alloy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-entropy_alloy
37•leonidasrup•3d ago•4 comments

Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter

https://www.williamangel.net/blog/2026/05/17/offline-llm-energy-use.html
194•datadrivenangel•4h ago•166 comments

WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/world/africa/ebola-congo-uganda-who-public-health-emergency.html
167•zzzeek•3h ago•87 comments

Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

https://crates.io/crates/zerostack/1.0.0
494•gidellav•18h ago•271 comments

CUDA Books

https://github.com/alternbits/awesome-cuda-books
39•dariubs•4h ago•4 comments

Agentic Trading with Safe Guardrails

https://github.com/ShurikenTrade/shuriken-skills
24•jgan0978•4h ago•10 comments

Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/05/15/mozilla-to-uk-regulators-vpns-are-essential-privacy...
482•WithinReason•10h ago•213 comments

How Diamonds Are Made

https://diamond.jaydip.me/
56•lemonberry•1d ago•34 comments

Colossus: The Forbin Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
178•doener•2d ago•58 comments

A nicer voltmeter clock

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-nicer-voltmeter-clock
266•surprisetalk•18h ago•33 comments

Legacy Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems

https://legacyupdate.net/download-center/download/51025/update-for-windows-8.1-x64-kb3132080
6•kristianp•1d ago•5 comments

Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller

https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcusite/
190•zdw•15h ago•16 comments

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/
621•mpweiher•1d ago•351 comments

OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/
275•bookofjoe•20h ago•302 comments

Mado: Fast Markdown linter written in Rust

https://github.com/akiomik/mado
35•nateb2022•2d ago•2 comments

XS: A programming language. Anywhere, anytime, by anyone

https://xslang.org
6•yacin•2h ago•0 comments

SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video

https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/
379•mjgil•1d ago•144 comments

We've made the world too complicated

https://user8.bearblog.dev/the-world-is-too-complicated/
400•James72689•1d ago•374 comments

Roman Letters

https://romanletters.org/
79•diodorus•2d ago•10 comments

Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/twilight-of-the-velocipede/
41•benbreen•19h ago•2 comments

Illusions of understanding in the sciences

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42113-026-00271-1
88•sebg•2d ago•43 comments