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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•7mo ago

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steele•7mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•7mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•7mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•7mo 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•7mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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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http://mpaxos.com/blog/rusty-cpp.html
16•shuaimu•1h ago•1 comments

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18•tristenharr•3d ago•5 comments

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https://github.com/huseyinbabal/taws
262•huseyinbabal•10h ago•121 comments

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115•CqtGLRGcukpy•4h ago•70 comments

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https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/674129/why-does-a-linear-least-squares-fit-appear-to-ha...
210•azeemba•10h ago•50 comments

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https://candost.blog/the-unbearable-joy-of-sitting-alone-in-a-cafe/
538•mooreds•16h ago•319 comments

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https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_warrier/
347•birdculture•16h ago•58 comments

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https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250417-the-baffling-purple-honey-found-only-in-north-carolina
52•rmason•4d ago•13 comments

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https://matduggan.com/the-year-of-the-3d-printed-miniature-and-other-lies-we-tell-ourselves/
163•sagacity•6d ago•105 comments

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https://idiallo.com/blog/18000-dollars-static-web-page
230•caminanteblanco•2d ago•55 comments

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https://consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov/
175•memalign•2h ago•44 comments

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https://howbrowserswork.com/
212•krasun•15h ago•31 comments

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https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3534854
141•nithssh•4d ago•103 comments

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https://ma.ttias.be/web-development-is-fun-again/
355•Mojah•15h ago•421 comments

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https://mehmetince.net/the-story-of-a-perfect-exploit-chain-six-bugs-that-looked-harmless-until-t...
49•ozirus•3d ago•4 comments

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https://granda.org/en/2026/01/02/claude-code-on-the-go/
277•todsacerdoti•10h ago•182 comments

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https://ripplegame.app/
107•mooreds•12h ago•25 comments

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https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/eurostar-ai-vulnerability-when-a-chatbot-goes-off-t...
115•speckx•9h ago•31 comments

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https://warontherocks.com/2015/11/millennium-challenge-the-real-story-of-a-corrupted-military-exe...
30•lifeisstillgood•6h ago•25 comments

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https://ryjoxdemo.com/architecture
3•JosephjackJR•5d ago•1 comments

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https://www.dampfkraft.com/showa-100.html
38•polm23•5d ago•16 comments

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https://github.com/nibzard/awesome-agentic-patterns
105•PretzelFisch•11h ago•15 comments

Moiré Explorer

https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/#/src/demos/moire_explorer
151•Luc•17h ago•18 comments

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https://phys.org/news/2025-12-bison-illinois-kane-county-years.html
142•bikenaga•5d ago•44 comments

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https://scitechdaily.com/anti-aging-injection-regrows-knee-cartilage-and-prevents-arthritis/
268•nis0s•15h ago•100 comments

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https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/english-prose-has-become-much-easier
48•dsubburam•4d ago•37 comments

ICE Is Using Facial-Recognition Technology to Quickly Arrest People

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-facial-recognition-app-mobile-fortify-dfdd00bf
27•KnuthIsGod•1h ago•5 comments

NeXTSTEP on Pa-RISC

https://www.openpa.net/nextstep_pa-risc.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDg73E1n5-g
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