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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."

Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance of Canadians

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/a-tale-of-two-bills-lawful-access-returns-with-changes-to-war...
466•opengrass•6h ago•123 comments

Chrome DevTools MCP

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp-debug-your-browser-session
396•xnx•8h ago•170 comments

The 49MB web page

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
368•kermatt•8h ago•191 comments

What Is Agentic Engineering?

https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/what-is-agentic-engineering/
70•lumpa•2h ago•44 comments

LLM Architecture Gallery

https://sebastianraschka.com/llm-architecture-gallery/
288•tzury•12h ago•23 comments

LLMs can be exhausting

https://tomjohnell.com/llms-can-be-absolutely-exhausting/
116•tjohnell•7h ago•92 comments

The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text

https://man7.org/tlpi/academic/index.html
44•teleforce•4h ago•3 comments

//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner

https://go.dev/blog/inliner
122•commotionfever•4d ago•46 comments

A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-new-bigfoot-documentary-helps-explain-our-conspiracy-minded-e...
56•zdw•5h ago•37 comments

Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager

https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-window-management/
243•dpassens•12h ago•118 comments

Stop Sloppypasta

https://stopsloppypasta.ai/
168•namnnumbr•10h ago•93 comments

AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals

38•Tim25659•2h ago•32 comments

Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation

https://righttoprivacyact.github.io
31•pilingual•2h ago•18 comments

How I write software with LLMs

https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-i-write-software-with-llms/
33•indigodaddy•2h ago•7 comments

What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)

https://blog.zuthof.nl/2023/06/02/what-makes-intel-optane-stand-out/
190•walterbell•12h ago•123 comments

Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/glassworm-returns-unicode-attack-github-npm-vscode
235•robinhouston•14h ago•149 comments

Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)

https://www.salk.edu/news-release/cannabinoids-remove-plaque-forming-alzheimers-proteins-from-bra...
80•anjel•3h ago•47 comments

SpiceCrypt: A Python library for decrypting LTspice encrypted model files

https://github.com/jtsylve/spice-crypt
9•luu•20h ago•0 comments

Electric motor scaling laws and inertia in robot actuators

https://robot-daycare.com/posts/actuation_series_1/
3•o4c•3d ago•0 comments

Quillx is an open standard for disclosing AI involvement in software projects

https://github.com/QAInsights/AIx
7•qainsights•2h ago•7 comments

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know about Floating-Point Arithmetic [pdf]

https://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/bachelor/IEEE754_article.pdf
5•jbarrow•4d ago•0 comments

Bandit: A 32bit baremetal computer that runs Color Forth [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK0uAKkt0AE
31•surprisetalk•3d ago•2 comments

The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books

https://www.alexerhardt.com/en/enshittification-amazon-paperback-books/
111•aerhardt•18h ago•77 comments

Learning athletic humanoid tennis skills from imperfect human motion data

https://zzk273.github.io/LATENT/
131•danielmorozoff•12h ago•28 comments

Nasdaq's Shame

https://keubiko.substack.com/p/nasdaqs-shame
220•imichael•5h ago•72 comments

An experiment to use GitHub Actions as a control plane for a PaaS

https://towlion.github.io
10•baijum•3h ago•3 comments

Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro

https://kenschutte.com/lima-to-rio-by-bus/
134•ks2048•4d ago•53 comments

A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015)

https://r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/
327•vismit2000•17h ago•30 comments

A Plain Anabaptist Story: The Hutterites

https://ulmer457718.substack.com/p/a-plain-anabaptist-story-the-hutterites
31•gaplong•3d ago•2 comments

Type systems are leaky abstractions: the case of Map.take!/2

https://dashbit.co/blog/type-systems-are-leaky-abstractions-map-take
35•tosh•4d ago•19 comments