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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."

PyPI package telnyx has been compromised in yet another supply chain attack

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/telnyx-pypi-compromised-teampcp-canisterworm
41•overflowy•1h ago•13 comments

Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/anatomy-of-the-claude-folder
244•freedomben•4h ago•125 comments

Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS Certificate on a Brother Printer with Certbot

https://owltec.ca/Other/Installing+a+Let%27s+Encrypt+TLS+certificate+on+a+Brother+printer+automat...
141•8organicbits•5h ago•39 comments

Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1064541/1a399d572a046fb9/
9•corbet•31m ago•2 comments

Sand from Different Beaches in the World

https://magnifiedsand.com/
94•RAAx707•4d ago•23 comments

Desk for people who work at home with a cat

https://soranews24.com/2026/03/27/japan-now-has-a-special-desk-for-people-who-work-at-home-with-a...
219•zdw•3h ago•82 comments

Building FireStriker: Making Civic Tech Free

https://firestriker.org/blog/building-firestriker-why-im-making-civic-tech-free
31•noleary•1d ago•5 comments

Telnyx Python SDK: Supply Chain Security Notice

https://telnyx.com/resources/telnyx-python-sdk-supply-chain-security-notice-march-2026
7•KomoD•1h ago•1 comments

Meow.camera

https://meow.camera/#4258783365322591678
77•surprisetalk•4h ago•17 comments

How and why to take a logarithm of an image [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxFjLJ3rVY
162•jgwil2•4d ago•58 comments

Hold on to Your Hardware

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/
483•LucidLynx•9h ago•395 comments

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-tru...
189•cptroot•2h ago•132 comments

Byte Magazine Archive 1975 to 1995

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm
10•oldnetguy•2h ago•2 comments

Embracing Bayesian Methods in Clinical Trials

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2847011
24•nextos•3d ago•0 comments

People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/people-inside-microsoft-are-fighting-to-drop-...
282•breve•5h ago•258 comments

A Faster Alternative to Jq

https://micahkepe.com/blog/jsongrep/
332•pistolario•12h ago•205 comments

‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms

https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/26/suddenly-energy-independence-feels-practical-europeans-are-bu...
110•vrganj•10h ago•111 comments

Apple discontinues the Mac Pro

https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/
606•bentocorp•22h ago•565 comments

Schedule tasks on the web

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/web-scheduled-tasks
259•iBelieve•14h ago•215 comments

Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust

https://iev.ee/blog/gzip-decompression-in-250-lines-of-rust/
79•vismit2000•3d ago•30 comments

Can It Resolve Doom? Game Engine in 2k DNS Records

https://core-jmp.org/2026/03/can-it-resolve-doom-game-engine-in-2000-dns-records/
10•Einenlum•3d ago•0 comments

Nashville library launches Memory Lab for digitizing home movies

https://www.axios.com/local/nashville/2026/03/16/nashville-library-digitize-home-movies
4•toomuchtodo•3d ago•0 comments

The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/
465•robin_reala•6h ago•382 comments

Iran-linked hackers have breached FBI director's personal emails

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/27/politics/iran-linked-hackers-fbi-director-patel
143•vrganj•2h ago•61 comments

21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains

https://jacobfilipp.com/yu/
35•freediver•1d ago•58 comments

EMachines never obsolete PCs: More than a meme

https://dfarq.homeip.net/emachines-never-obsolete-pcs-more-than-a-meme/
46•zdw•3d ago•25 comments

Everything old is new again: memory optimization

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/03/everything-old-is-new-again-memory.html
142•ibobev•4d ago•105 comments

Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/27/apple-says-no-one-using-lockdown-mode-has-been-hacked-with-spyw...
78•jbegley•3h ago•51 comments

Should QA exist?

https://www.rubick.com/should-qa-exist/
52•PretzelFisch•8h ago•87 comments

Last gasps of the rent seeking class?

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/02/26/the-last-gasps-of-the-rent-seeking-class....
105•surprisetalk•4h ago•102 comments