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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."

Kagi Small Web

https://kagi.com/smallweb/
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402•doener•2h ago•137 comments

Building a Shell

https://healeycodes.com/building-a-shell
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https://brianmoore.com/fontsmuggler/
41•lanewinfield•3d ago•11 comments

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https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral
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https://www.osti.gov/biblio/3013883
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143•lairv•3d ago•29 comments

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26•bigbobbeeper•35m ago•18 comments

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https://matijacniacki.com/blog/openviktor
62•zggf•5h ago•21 comments

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https://phys.org/news/2026-03-ryugu-asteroid-samples-dna-rna.html
32•bookofjoe•1h ago•26 comments

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465•speckx•20h ago•197 comments

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27•memalign•3d ago•3 comments

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346•greyface-•10h ago•197 comments

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630•djoldman•13h ago•350 comments

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117•tosh•3d ago•30 comments

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464•enz•1d ago•227 comments

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391•Vaslo•1d ago•119 comments

Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line

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156•rmason•16h ago•377 comments

A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1376114/
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47•shad42•4d ago•20 comments

Fatal Core Dump Game

https://www.robopenguins.com/core-dump-game/
17•pabs3•4d ago•4 comments

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https://github.com/mr-fatalyst/oxyde
128•mr_Fatalyst•3d ago•66 comments

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134•snide•3d ago•29 comments

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284•jkpe•1d ago•208 comments

AirPods Max 2

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299•ssijak•1d ago•491 comments