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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

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steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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."

Where the goblins came from

https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/
533•ilreb•5h ago•297 comments

Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans

https://www.noctua.at/en/3d-cad-models
198•embedding-shape•2d ago•32 comments

Zed 1.0

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0
1825•salkahfi•18h ago•586 comments

The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/
236•lumpa•6h ago•97 comments

Craig Venter has died

https://www.jcvi.org/media-center/j-craig-venter-genomics-pioneer-and-founder-jcvi-and-diploid-ge...
225•rdl•7h ago•41 comments

Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs

https://github.com/cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code
124•reconnecting•5h ago•83 comments

Copy Fail

https://copy.fail/
921•unsnap_biceps•14h ago•345 comments

Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell

https://burrito.bio/essays/biology-is-a-burrito
88•the-mitr•5h ago•11 comments

Cursor Camp

https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/
905•bpierre•17h ago•145 comments

London to Calcutta by Bus (2022)

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2022/08/london-to-calcutta-by-bus.html
49•CGMthrowaway•1d ago•18 comments

Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig

https://pure-systems.org/posts/2026-04-29-functional-programmers-need-to-take-a-look-at-zig.html
105•xngbuilds•5h ago•73 comments

FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxies
331•agwa•16h ago•76 comments

OpenTrafficMap

https://opentrafficmap.org/
252•moooo99•13h ago•57 comments

Monad Tutorials Timeline

https://wiki.haskell.org/Monad_tutorials_timeline
31•brudgers•4h ago•5 comments

HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262
1117•homebrewer•14h ago•475 comments

Creating a Color Palette from an Image

https://amandahinton.com/blog/creating-a-color-palette-from-an-image
68•evakhoury•1d ago•9 comments

Mike: open-source legal AI

https://mikeoss.com/
84•noleary•7h ago•31 comments

Will you heed my warnings now?

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9718
50•bwesterb•2h ago•43 comments

A 25-Year-Fight over a 2-Second Sample

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/04/20/a-25-year-fight-over-a-2-second-sample/
6•speckx•1d ago•0 comments

Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/why-i-still-reach-for-scheme-instead-of-haskell/...
222•jjba23•1d ago•113 comments

Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213
6•jaffathecake•1h ago•0 comments

Laws of UX

https://lawsofux.com/
262•bobbiechen•15h ago•37 comments

An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce

https://github.com/GliaX/Stethoscope
249•0x54MUR41•18h ago•109 comments

Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight

https://www.flyingmag.com/joby-nyc-electric-air-taxi-jfk-airport/
47•Jblx2•7h ago•111 comments

Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260427-00/?p=112271
58•aragonite•2d ago•23 comments

A grounded conceptual model for ownership types in Rust

https://cacm.acm.org/research-highlights/a-grounded-conceptual-model-for-ownership-types-in-rust/
31•tkhattra•7h ago•1 comments

Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gooseworks/jobs/ztgY6bD-founding-growth-engineer
1•shivsak•11h ago

How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNyuX1zoOgU
118•sandslash•18h ago•57 comments

I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot

https://lina.sh/blog/ddos-honeypot
109•fishgoesblub•11h ago•49 comments

We need a federation of forges

https://blog.tangled.org/federation/
566•icy•18h ago•358 comments