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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."

Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?

https://disassociated.com/personal-blogs-back-niche-blogs-next/
138•gnabgib•5h ago•96 comments

Helping Valve to power up Steam devices

https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html
468•TingPing•10h ago•149 comments

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187•redohmy•1w ago•135 comments

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22•manchoz•6h ago•5 comments

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https://wealthfolio.app/?v=2.0
454•a-fadil•11h ago•156 comments

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https://nautil.us/childhood-friends-not-moms-shape-attachment-styles-most-1247316/
140•dnetesn•1w ago•48 comments

How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024)

https://edw.is/learning-vulkan/
42•jakogut•4h ago•17 comments

LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs

https://lapdhelicoptertracker.com/
107•polalavik•5h ago•123 comments

Self-hosting a NAT Gateway

https://www.awsistoohard.com/blog/self-hosting-nat-gateway
79•veryrealsid•4d ago•49 comments

Pixar: The Early Days A never-before-seen 1996 interview

https://stevejobsarchive.com/stories/pixar-early-days
91•sanj•7h ago•6 comments

Sharper MRI scans may be on horizon thanks to new physics-based model

https://news.rice.edu/news/2025/sharper-mri-scans-may-be-horizon-thanks-new-physics-based-model
19•hhs•3h ago•3 comments

We should all be using dependency cooldowns

https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns
300•todsacerdoti•13h ago•194 comments

The death of tech idealism and rise of the homeless in Northern California

https://lithub.com/on-the-death-of-tech-idealism-and-rise-of-the-homeless-in-northern-california/
59•pseudolus•1h ago•14 comments

Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC

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96•Venn1•8h ago•27 comments

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https://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/you-can-now-make-ps2-games-in-javascript
244•tosh•11h ago•58 comments

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https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/is-matrix-multiplication-ugly/
49•jamespropp•5h ago•27 comments

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17•FinnLobsien•4d ago•1 comments

When functions dissolve (2020)

https://rubber-duck-typing.com/posts/2020-12-12-when-functions-dissolve.html
6•vitalnodo•6d ago•0 comments

3D printing with unconventional vase mode

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25•dgroshev•4h ago•6 comments

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222•pseudolus•1d ago•341 comments

Infinibay LXD Container

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4•angaroshi•1h ago•0 comments

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118•ingve•1d ago•38 comments

Shop Sans is a typeface for curved text paths

https://www.futurefonts.com/hex/shop-sans
124•tobr•1w ago•34 comments

Make product worse, get money

https://dynomight.net/worse/
66•zdw•12h ago•61 comments

Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines

https://susam.net/fizz-buzz-with-cosines.html
128•hprotagonist•10h ago•35 comments

Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI

https://allenai.org/blog/olmo3
365•mseri•21h ago•120 comments

FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter

https://martin.janiczek.cz/2025/11/21/fawk-llms-can-write-a-language-interpreter.html
212•todsacerdoti•17h ago•185 comments

Pivot Robotics (YC W24) Is Hiring for an Industrial Automation Hardware Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pivot-robotics/jobs/7xG9Dc6-mechanical-engineer-controls
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RRules (yes handling RSCALE) using only PL/pgSQL

https://github.com/sirrodgepodge/rrule_plpgsql
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Homeschooling hits record numbers

https://reason.com/2025/11/19/homeschooling-hits-record-numbers/
212•bilsbie•1d ago•585 comments