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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•6mo ago

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steele•6mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•6mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•6mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•6mo 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•6mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo 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://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-11-29-self-hosting-photos-with-immich/
131•birdculture•5d ago•45 comments

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https://browsewithnook.com
35•ray__•2h ago•24 comments

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https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/
596•meetpateltech•14h ago•450 comments

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https://haveibeenflocked.com/
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https://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2025-12-05/leaving-intel.html
160•speckx•8h ago•74 comments

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https://engineerguy.com/fourier/pdfs/albert-michelsons-harmonic-analyzer.pdf
13•o4c•2h ago•2 comments

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https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-vision/
400•xnx•13h ago•199 comments

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https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm#pixter
17•dmitrygr•2h ago•2 comments

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https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros
1529•meetpateltech•17h ago•1172 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orsmFndx_o
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https://frinkiac.com/
58•GlumWoodpecker•3d ago•21 comments

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https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html
364•mooreds•16h ago•266 comments

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103•PaulHoule•7h ago•49 comments

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https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/bj1qbwcklg
192•mystraline•4h ago•114 comments

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https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/perpetual-futures-explained/
82•sirodoht•8h ago•32 comments

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https://www.morling.dev/blog/on-idempotency-keys/
106•defly•4d ago•41 comments

Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust

https://corrode.dev/blog/defensive-programming/
235•PaulHoule•13h ago•47 comments

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180•proberts•13h ago•228 comments

Guide to making a CHIP-8 emulator (2020)

https://tobiasvl.github.io/blog/write-a-chip-8-emulator/
6•AlexeyBrin•6d ago•0 comments

Fizz Buzz in CSS

https://susam.net/fizz-buzz-in-css.html
78•froober•9h ago•20 comments

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https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-now-powering-30-of-netflix-streaming-02f592242d80
490•CharlesW•1d ago•256 comments

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https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/mobile/
126•mohamad08•3d ago•51 comments

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https://signoregalilei.com/2025/11/12/tides-are-weirder-than-you-think/
91•surprisetalk•4d ago•25 comments

The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript

https://github.com/W4G1/multithreading
54•W4G1•8h ago•15 comments

Making RSS More Fun

https://matduggan.com/making-rss-more-fun/
193•salmon•16h ago•94 comments

Frank Gehry has died

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2p22z9gno
152•ksajadi•8h ago•55 comments

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1•D_R_Farrell•12h ago

Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal
210•pabs3•5h ago•177 comments

How fast can browsers process base64 data?

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/11/29/how-fast-can-browsers-process-base64-data/
33•mfiguiere•6d ago•20 comments