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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."

.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

https://hccf.onmy.cloud/2026/06/21/reclaiming-our-digital-selves-hccfs-vision-for-a-human-centere...
311•HumanCCF•5h ago•174 comments

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/
589•stared•8h ago•504 comments

Free the Icons

https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/06/26/free-the-icons/
185•zdw•2d ago•49 comments

Memory Safe Context Switching (longjmp, setjmp) in Fil-C

https://fil-c.org/context_switches
11•modeless•45m ago•0 comments

Rocketlab acquires Iridium

https://investors.rocketlabcorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rocket-lab-acquire-iridium...
360•everfrustrated•11h ago•226 comments

Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-scientists-molecular-evidence-liquid.html
50•wglb•3h ago•17 comments

Exploring PDP-1 Lisp (1960)

https://obsolescence.dev/pdp1-lisp-introduction.html
7•ozymandiax•26m ago•5 comments

Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

https://github.com/deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1
147•danboarder•8h ago•32 comments

A native graphical shell for SSH

https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2026/06/28/native-graphical-shell-for-SSH.html
238•mrcslws•9h ago•110 comments

South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/south-korea-to-spend-1t-on-more-memory-chip-production-and-hum...
102•jnord•3h ago•58 comments

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/supreme-court-geofence-warrants-case-decision
427•cdrnsf•9h ago•200 comments

Kb – Prolog Knowledge Base

https://github.com/mat-mgm/kb-prolog
27•triska•2d ago•3 comments

30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/26/daniel-sanchez-estrada-zines-prairieland-free-speech/
280•xrd•1d ago•154 comments

Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22283
113•Jimmc414•2d ago•15 comments

WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

https://humphri.es/blog/WATaBoy/
176•energeticbark•10h ago•29 comments

LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active

https://longcat.chat/blog/longcat-2.0/
4•benjiro29•53m ago•0 comments

Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/hiking-with-wallace/
109•chantepierre•3d ago•20 comments

SQLite improving performance with pre-sort

https://andersmurphy.com/2026/06/07/sqlite-improving-performance-with-pre-sort.html
23•tosh•3d ago•2 comments

One million passports leaked online

https://cambridgeanalytica.org/data-breaches-scandals/passports-driver-licenses-exposed-public-in...
129•jruohonen•1d ago•78 comments

Working With AI: A concrete example

https://htmx.org/essays/working-with-ai/
86•comma_at•10h ago•29 comments

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

https://fergusfinn.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-run-a-gpu-kernel/
202•mezark•12h ago•25 comments

Dark Sky Lighting

https://www.savingourstars.org/darkskylighting#whatisdarkskylighting
144•alexandrehtrb•4d ago•24 comments

Netflix Simplified Batch Compute with Kueue

https://netflixtechblog.com/how-netflix-simplified-batch-compute-with-kueue-87860682629c
5•dalvrosa•2d ago•0 comments

Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API

https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-06-29-micro-agent-frontier-models
50•matt_d•7h ago•17 comments

Open Memory Protocol – One Memory Store for Claude, ChatGPT, Curso

https://github.com/SMJAI/open-memory-protocol
5•soji_mathew•1h ago•1 comments

What can you confidently guarantee about your software?

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3819084
96•eatonphil•11h ago•42 comments

JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management

https://github.com/jumpserver/jumpserver
54•neitsab•6h ago•22 comments

Ornith-1.0: Self-scaffolding LLMs for agentic coding

https://deep-reinforce.com/ornith_1_0.html
53•kordlessagain•1d ago•7 comments

Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU

https://www.cpushack.com/2026/06/03/sandia-national-labs-sa3000-8085-cpu/
161•rbanffy•15h ago•40 comments

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage

https://torrentfreak.com/european-isps-want-rightsholders-held-accountable-for-overblocking-damage/
344•Brajeshwar•9h ago•96 comments