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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."

Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/74066
17•chatmasta•32m ago•4 comments

Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux

https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/
59•theanonymousone•2h ago•11 comments

Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe

https://www.quantamagazine.org/astrophysicists-puzzle-over-webbs-new-universe-20260702/
103•jnord•5h ago•51 comments

Maybe you should learn something

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_135_learn/
234•tylerdane•10h ago•113 comments

Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained

https://www.databricks.com/blog/lakebase-ltap-rethinking-database-storage
83•andrenotgiant•3d ago•24 comments

The bottleneck might be the air in the room

https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/
511•gslin•8h ago•312 comments

The Vespa at 80: Why the Italian scooter remains the coolest thing on 2 wheels

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/vespa-italy-postwar-design-9.7252641
62•cf100clunk•3d ago•56 comments

Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper

https://www.wafer.ai/blog/glm52-amd
298•latchkey•16h ago•112 comments

Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all

https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral-1-5/
297•programLyrique•16h ago•86 comments

Costco is the anti-Amazon

https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-anti-amazon/
466•bookofjoe•23h ago•425 comments

Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era

https://mirtitles.org
123•clmul•3d ago•52 comments

Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research

https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/giant-trees-have-no-trouble-...
232•hhs•15h ago•104 comments

Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches
34•gverrilla•3d ago•9 comments

Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV

https://github.com/FossPrime/Steam-Controller-Auto-Charge
167•zdw•15h ago•36 comments

Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island

https://danluu.com/ai-coding/#appendix-agentic-loops-and-writing-this-post
135•gm678•9h ago•63 comments

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

https://github.com/jamesob/local-llm
375•livestyle•23h ago•168 comments

FreeBSD ate my RAM

https://crocidb.com/post/freebsd-ate-my-ram/
167•theanonymousone•19h ago•68 comments

MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds

https://mrbruh.com/msicenter/
116•MrBruh•13h ago•48 comments

Synthesis is harder than analysis

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/07/03/synthesis-is-harder-than-analysis/
117•azhenley•11h ago•30 comments

SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine

https://github.com/searxng/searxng
246•theanonymousone•18h ago•66 comments

Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language

https://www.freepressjournal.in/education/breaking-the-bird-barrier-scientist-decodes-zebra-finch...
7•yyyk•3d ago•0 comments

The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-amsterdam-invented-the-fire-department/
113•zdw•15h ago•20 comments

2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results

https://www.hyperstitionai.com/unslop-results
35•networked•8h ago•98 comments

Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming

https://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/
198•stock_toaster•15h ago•270 comments

New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview

https://epoch.ai/data-insights/cve-severity-spike
132•cubefox•17h ago•57 comments

Ship traces journey Spanish Armada sailors made in 1588

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/06/30/it-is-a-huge-honour-ship-traces-journey-spanish-arm...
17•austinallegro•3d ago•8 comments

How working memory could give rise to consciousness

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-working-memory-could-give-rise-to-consciousness/
6•bookofjoe•32m ago•9 comments

The Scanline Sweeper: A Glyph Rendering Algorithm [pdf]

https://rookandpossum.com/papers/scanline_sweeper_preprint.pdf
25•kouosi•3d ago•2 comments

Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web

https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/gone-but-not-forgotten-recovering-the-dead-web/
89•wslh•3d ago•33 comments

Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models

https://soatok.blog/2026/06/30/soatoks-informal-guide-to-threat-models/
113•zdw•13h ago•27 comments