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Building my npx business card

https://ashley.dev/posts/turning-feedback-into-features/
8•edent•9mo ago

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steele•9mo ago
Ooh, free real estate, let's colonize and gentrify package management
aabhay•9mo ago
Lmao, gentrify cracked me up
neilv•9mo ago
Do these npx business cards run arbitrary code on your computer?
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a very smart but inherently flawed idea.
cypherpunks01•9mo 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•9mo ago
May as well just release an executable tbh.
theamk•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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."

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https://felixturner.github.io/hex-map-wfc/article/
370•imadr•7h ago•52 comments

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232•TechTechTech•8h ago•66 comments

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323•dahlia•9h ago•357 comments

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48•Hooke•4h ago•11 comments

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147•newer_vienna•7h ago•146 comments

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112•belisarius222•6h ago•55 comments

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184•spenvo•4h ago•89 comments

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286•minimaxir•5h ago•246 comments

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422•rendx•15h ago•133 comments

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300•1970-01-01•7h ago•427 comments

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84•kumar_abhirup•9h ago•83 comments

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30•mitchbob•5h ago•9 comments

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92•ibobev•9h ago•48 comments

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Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems

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https://fortune.com/2026/03/09/irans-attacks-on-amazon-data-centers-in-uae-bahrain-signal-a-new-k...
10•rawgabbit•36m ago•1 comments

No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026

https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/thread/P6D36VZSZBUSSTSMZKFXKF4T4IXWN23P/
69•speckx•12h ago•81 comments

ma

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https://blog.engora.com/2026/03/rendezvous-with-rama.html
84•Vermin2000•3h ago•89 comments

Velxio, Arduino Emulator

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140•baconomatic•12h ago•60 comments