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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."

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https://victorpoughon.github.io/interval-calculator/
67•fouronnes3•5h ago•5 comments

Claude Design

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs
969•meetpateltech•15h ago•636 comments

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https://eshelyaron.com/posts/2026-04-15-towards-trust-in-emacs.html
78•eshelyaron•2d ago•7 comments

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576•aray07•14h ago•403 comments

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https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/The_toxic_side_of_the_Moon
298•cybermango•12h ago•170 comments

Spending 3 months coding by hand

https://miguelconner.substack.com/p/im-coding-by-hand
170•evakhoury•14h ago•178 comments

A simplified model of Fil-C

https://www.corsix.org/content/simplified-model-of-fil-c
151•aw1621107•8h ago•73 comments

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168•louiereederson•2d ago•41 comments

Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)

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690•ColinWright•18h ago•272 comments

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https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm
299•binsquare•13h ago•92 comments

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https://awnist.com/slop-cop
143•ericHosick•15h ago•88 comments

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https://github.com/paniclock/paniclock/
172•seanieb•13h ago•67 comments

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https://twitter.com/finmoorhouse/status/2044933442236776794
172•nowflux•13h ago•136 comments

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https://blog.calif.io/p/mad-bugs-even-cat-readmetxt-is-not
152•arkadiyt•11h ago•81 comments

Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language

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25•atomfinger•4d ago•2 comments

Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01204-5
67•unsuspecting•7h ago•61 comments

NASA Force

https://nasaforce.gov/
257•LorenDB•14h ago•260 comments

Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin

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219•speckx•15h ago•99 comments

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27•b-man•5h ago•5 comments

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48•surprisetalk•1d ago•2 comments

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190•mooreds•15h ago•44 comments

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Introducing: ShaderPad

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72•evakhoury•2d ago•13 comments

Generating a color spectrum for an image

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37•evakhoury•2d ago•5 comments

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1•gkamradt_•9h ago

The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded

https://inria.hal.science/hal-05591661
76•matt_d•3d ago•16 comments

Ban the sale of precise geolocation

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/it-is-time-to-ban-the-sale-of-precise-geolocation
669•hn_acker•15h ago•172 comments

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https://stagereview.app/
111•cpan22•1d ago•96 comments

I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months

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102•wespiser_2018•2d ago•91 comments

Ben Lerner's Big Feelings

https://www.vulture.com/article/ben-lerner-transcription-interview.html
7•prismatic•2d ago•0 comments