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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•10mo ago

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steele•10mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•10mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•10mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•10mo 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•10mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo 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."

Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/a-tale-of-two-bills-lawful-access-returns-with-changes-to-war...
707•opengrass•12h ago•200 comments

Starlink Mini as a Failover

https://www.jackpearce.co.uk/posts/starlink-failover/
36•jkpe•1h ago•25 comments

How I write software with LLMs

https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-i-write-software-with-llms/
199•indigodaddy•8h ago•141 comments

The 49MB web page

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
560•kermatt•14h ago•249 comments

Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp-debug-your-browser-session
475•xnx•14h ago•198 comments

Home Assistant waters my plants

https://finnian.io/blog/home-assistant-waters-my-plants/
25•finniananderson•3d ago•2 comments

Kona EV Hacking

http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/ev/
44•AnnikaL•4d ago•14 comments

Electric motor scaling laws and inertia in robot actuators

https://robot-daycare.com/posts/actuation_series_1/
84•o4c•3d ago•16 comments

What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic (1991) [pdf]

https://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/bachelor/IEEE754_article.pdf
66•jbarrow•4d ago•5 comments

LLM Architecture Gallery

https://sebastianraschka.com/llm-architecture-gallery/
404•tzury•18h ago•31 comments

Stop Sloppypasta

https://stopsloppypasta.ai/
331•namnnumbr•16h ago•148 comments

LLMs can be exhausting

https://tomjohnell.com/llms-can-be-absolutely-exhausting/
213•tjohnell•13h ago•153 comments

Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager

https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-window-management/
292•dpassens•18h ago•150 comments

The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text

https://man7.org/tlpi/academic/index.html
98•teleforce•10h ago•11 comments

How far can you go with IX Route Servers only?

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/how-far-can-you-get-with-ix-route-servers
35•ingve•3d ago•3 comments

Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs

https://www.moment.dev/blog/lies-i-was-told-pt-2
74•antics•3d ago•39 comments

Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/glassworm-returns-unicode-attack-github-npm-vscode
263•robinhouston•20h ago•163 comments

//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner

https://go.dev/blog/inliner
153•commotionfever•4d ago•66 comments

The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books

https://www.alexerhardt.com/en/enshittification-amazon-paperback-books/
157•aerhardt•1d ago•124 comments

What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)

https://blog.zuthof.nl/2023/06/02/what-makes-intel-optane-stand-out/
205•walterbell•18h ago•147 comments

SpiceCrypt: A Python library for decrypting LTspice encrypted model files

https://github.com/jtsylve/spice-crypt
40•luu•1d ago•4 comments

A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015)

https://r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/
361•vismit2000•23h ago•31 comments

A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-new-bigfoot-documentary-helps-explain-our-conspiracy-minded-e...
64•zdw•11h ago•66 comments

Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro

https://kenschutte.com/lima-to-rio-by-bus/
171•ks2048•4d ago•69 comments

Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)

https://www.salk.edu/news-release/cannabinoids-remove-plaque-forming-alzheimers-proteins-from-bra...
125•anjel•9h ago•80 comments

Six ingenious ways how Canon DSLRs used to illuminate their autofocus points

https://exclusivearchitecture.com/03-technical-articles-CSDS-00-table-of-contents.html
31•ExAr•1d ago•0 comments

Learning athletic humanoid tennis skills from imperfect human motion data

https://zzk273.github.io/LATENT/
156•danielmorozoff•18h ago•31 comments

Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation

https://righttoprivacyact.github.io
80•pilingual•8h ago•44 comments

ASCII and Unicode quotation marks (2007)

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
19•exvi•5h ago•11 comments

Bandit: A 32bit baremetal computer that runs Color Forth [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK0uAKkt0AE
73•surprisetalk•3d ago•5 comments