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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•11mo ago

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steele•11mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•11mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•11mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•11mo 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•11mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•11mo 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•11mo 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."

What is jj and why should I care?

https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutorial/introduction/what-is-jj-and-why-should-i-care.html
197•tigerlily•3h ago•112 comments

DaVinci Resolve – Photo

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/photo
772•thebiblelover7•11h ago•203 comments

NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2026/04/07/nimconf-2026.html
52•moigagoo•2h ago•10 comments

A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking
543•zdw•11h ago•324 comments

Backblaze has stopped backing up your data

https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/
424•rrreese•5h ago•271 comments

Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them

https://anchor.host/someone-bought-30-wordpress-plugins-and-planted-a-backdoor-in-all-of-them/
1055•speckx•20h ago•300 comments

Introspective Diffusion Language Models

https://introspective-diffusion.github.io/
122•zagwdt•6h ago•31 comments

GitHub Stacked PRs

https://github.github.com/gh-stack/
792•ezekg•17h ago•429 comments

The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer

https://cfallin.org/blog/2026/04/09/aegraph/
18•tekknolagi•4d ago•1 comments

Franklin's bad ads for Apple ][ clones and the beloved impersonator they depict

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/franklin-ace-1000/
61•rfarley04•3d ago•34 comments

Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It

https://ciphercue.com/blog/ransomware-claims-grew-faster-than-security-spend-2025
51•adulion•5h ago•40 comments

The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models

https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/grammar-parser-maintenance-contract
41•remilouf•4d ago•13 comments

Distributed DuckDB Instance

https://github.com/citguru/openduck
103•citguru•7h ago•21 comments

The exponential curve behind open source backlogs

https://armanckeser.com/writing/jellyfin-flow
14•armanckeser•2h ago•6 comments

The Case Against Gameplay Loops

https://blog.joeyschutz.com/the-case-against-gameplay-loops/
22•coinfused•2h ago•12 comments

Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug

https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-who-watches-the-watchers.html
308•bumbledraven•13h ago•144 comments

The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-great-majority/
13•apollinaire•3d ago•1 comments

Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions

https://www.sebastian-jais.de/blog/two-months-alma-experiment
47•gleipnircode•34m ago•43 comments

WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

https://github.com/fabienmillet/WiiFin
199•throwawayk7h•14h ago•91 comments

Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem

https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-distributed-llms.html
65•tie-in•8h ago•27 comments

A soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears

https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2026/04/08/soft-robot-has-no-problem-moving-no-motor-and-n...
53•hhs•4d ago•15 comments

Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets

https://github.com/sterlingcrispin/nothing-ever-happens
450•m-hodges•22h ago•246 comments

MOS tech 6502 8-bit microprocessor in pure SQL powered by Postgres

https://github.com/lasect/pg_6502
46•adunk•8h ago•5 comments

Lumina – a statically typed web-native language for JavaScript and WASM

https://github.com/nyigoro/lumina-lang
32•light_ideas•4d ago•12 comments

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

https://nypost.com/2026/04/11/us-news/us-appeals-court-declares-158-year-old-home-distilling-ban-...
420•t-3•1d ago•284 comments

Design and implementation of DuckDB internals

https://duckdb.org/library/design-and-implementation-of-duckdb-internals/
153•mpweiher•4d ago•11 comments

Write less code, be more responsible

https://blog.orhun.dev/code-responsibly/
129•orhunp_•3d ago•74 comments

Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)

https://hamvocke.com/blog/a-guide-to-customizing-your-tmux-conf/
408•speckx•23h ago•251 comments

Android now stops you sharing your location in photos

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/android-now-stops-you-sharing-your-location-in-photos/
399•edent•1d ago•309 comments

N-Day-Bench – Can LLMs find real vulnerabilities in real codebases?

https://ndaybench.winfunc.com
86•mufeedvh•16h ago•27 comments