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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."

Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernels/
635•nonmaskable•21h ago•241 comments

Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

https://ryan.science/blog/keys-not-included
150•Ryan5453•5h ago•55 comments

My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it

https://jakeasmith.com/blog/http-build-url/
75•jakeasmith•1d ago•8 comments

The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac

https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/events/strings02/dirac/speach.html
25•rramadass•3d ago•3 comments

Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres

https://rohanbansal.com/qorl
528•polyphilz•13h ago•109 comments

Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms

https://egbert.net/blog/articles/comparison-of-arena-architecture-in-malloc.html
59•egberts1•1d ago•5 comments

Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/
420•krackers•12h ago•100 comments

One Year of Sponsored Servo Development

https://servo.org/blog/2026/09/15/one-year-of-sponsorship/
5•AshleysBrain•11m ago•0 comments

Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill

https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill
41•donk8r•3h ago•5 comments

Backups Aren't Simple

https://filipovski.net/2026/09/16/backups-arent-simple.html
224•afilipovski•11h ago•130 comments

Small programming tricks

https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/
505•signa11•16h ago•224 comments

Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus

https://www.amazon.science/blog/developing-provably-correct-rust-code-with-verus
104•Betelbuddy•2d ago•12 comments

Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338
196•matt_d•11h ago•31 comments

A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server

https://labs.watchtowr.com/a-32-year-old-bug-walks-into-a-telnet-server-gnu-inetutils-telnetd-cve...
52•paimapi•1d ago•16 comments

The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/15/engineering-behind-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve
194•johnjwang•1d ago•77 comments

The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind

https://gcaptain.com/the-return-of-sail-power-cargo-ships-are-turning-back-to-the-wind/
84•gumby•7h ago•49 comments

OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework

https://openspec.dev/
135•etoxin•9h ago•53 comments

Lucasart's Afterlife

https://togameforlife.wordpress.com/2023/12/09/on-lucasarts-afterlife/
3•Bondi_Blue•1d ago•0 comments

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382•berkeleyjunk•1d ago•320 comments

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89•jasonpeacock•2d ago•39 comments

HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?

https://harnesstax.github.io/
117•matt_d•10h ago•48 comments

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https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme
2151•arnemunthekaas•1d ago•243 comments

Performance Improvements in .NET 11

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-11/
279•soheilpro•1d ago•57 comments

Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space

https://github.com/browser-use/jev-ultrafast
47•rahimnathwani•5h ago•3 comments

Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries

https://untranslatedjp.substack.com/p/japans-book-scene-is-quietly-moving
180•herbertl•4d ago•75 comments

Reversing Factorio's RNG

https://gegell.github.io/posts/factorio-rng/
198•jheitmann•4d ago•26 comments

US interest rates raised for first time in three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw4gmlyvj422o
48•higginsniggins•8h ago•24 comments

Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c60m3k28j81mo
37•marc__1•6h ago•25 comments

Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

https://evanhahn.com/posts/2026-09-13-programmers-dislike-reduce/
147•vinhnx•3d ago•223 comments

Reverse-engineered Jev-like model

https://github.com/vinnylarouge/jevlike
120•rochansinha•13h ago•17 comments