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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."

It's time to talk about my writerdeck

https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck/
70•hggh•1h ago•46 comments

On The <dl> (2021)

https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/
295•ravenical•7h ago•93 comments

Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

https://reclaimthenet.org/texas-woman-arrested-for-facebook-post-about-town-water-quality
304•abawany•2h ago•124 comments

My two-part desk setup

https://arslan.io/2025/11/18/my-two-part-desk-setup/
122•James72689•2d ago•69 comments

Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980

https://www.righto.com/2026/05/reverse-engineering-spacelab-computer.html
58•elpocko•3h ago•5 comments

Hengefinder: Finding When the Sun Aligns with Your Street

https://victoriaritvo.com/blog/hengefinder/
51•evakhoury•23h ago•14 comments

We made our filesystem 47× faster by deleting it

https://microsandbox.dev/blog/oci-filesystem-47x-faster
31•appcypher•4d ago•19 comments

Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/politics/green-card-changes-trump.html
177•tlhunter•22h ago•489 comments

z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/z386/
87•wicket•5h ago•18 comments

80386 Microcode Disassembled

https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/
187•nand2mario•8h ago•29 comments

PHP's Oddities

https://flowtwo.io/post/php%27s-oddities
65•thejoeflow•3d ago•73 comments

SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starship-v3-megarocket-first-t...
278•busymom0•20h ago•192 comments

Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles (2022)

https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html
125•tosh•8h ago•46 comments

Italy Cancels Boeing Pegasus Order, Shifting to Airbus A330 MRTT

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/21/italy-moves-to-airbus-a330-tankers-in-major-nato-al...
160•embedding-shape•4h ago•51 comments

The Art of Money Getting

https://kk.org/cooltools/book-freak-210-the-art-of-money-getting/
127•dxs•7h ago•86 comments

Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

https://www.anthropic.com/research/glasswing-initial-update
509•louiereederson•1d ago•298 comments

Reflections on Building Forum Software

https://www.counting-stuff.com/reflections-on-building-forum-software/
9•sebg•2d ago•0 comments

- -dangerously-skip-reading-code

https://olano.dev/blog/dangerously-skip/
49•fagnerbrack•10h ago•65 comments

Evaluating Spec CPU2026

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/evaluating-spec-cpu2026
15•zdw•4h ago•2 comments

Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/kindle-loyalists-scramble-amazon-turns-page-old-...
65•cf100clunk•4d ago•77 comments

Lisp in Vim (2019)

https://susam.net/lisp-in-vim.html
38•whent•5h ago•5 comments

Highest Random Weight in Elixir

https://jola.dev/posts/highest-random-weight-in-elixir
51•shintoist•2d ago•2 comments

Oura says it gets government demands for user data

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/oura-says-it-gets-government-demands-for-user-data-will-it-share-...
212•donohoe•6h ago•131 comments

sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library

https://spader.zone/sp/
145•dboon•3d ago•144 comments

Why Japanese companies do so many different things

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many
823•d0ks•1d ago•381 comments

Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda

https://notesbylex.com/shipping-a-laptop-to-a-refugee-camp-in-uganda
637•lexandstuff•22h ago•227 comments

Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby

https://github.com/amatsuda/rubish
152•winebarrel•13h ago•92 comments

Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite

https://twitter.com/i/status/2058064720553222567
91•bundie•8h ago•91 comments

Solving the “Zork” Mystery

https://www.dpolakovic.space/blogs/zork-part2
44•dpola•4d ago•17 comments

Improving C# Memory Safety

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/improving-csharp-memory-safety/
125•soheilpro•2d ago•26 comments