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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."

Markets are competitive if and only if P = NP

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20415
120•kscarlet•1h ago•77 comments

Half-Baked Product

https://weli.dev/blog/half-baked-product/
949•weli•8h ago•284 comments

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

https://github.com/jamesob/local-llm
57•livestyle•2h ago•23 comments

America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/america-1926-an-absurdly-deep-dive
44•momentmaker•1h ago•27 comments

Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/agentics-memorizing-session-transcripts
24•theahura•1h ago•1 comments

The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything

https://www.filfre.net/2026/07/the-life-and-times-of-maxis-part-1-simeverything/
16•doppp•1h ago•0 comments

Factories Are Just Rooms

https://interconnected.org/home/2026/07/03/factories
42•arbesman•1h ago•18 comments

Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things

https://superuserdone.com/posts/2026-07-03-give-smart-people-the-tools/
40•SuperUserDone•2h ago•15 comments

Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug with TLA+

https://ubuntu.com/blog/hunting-a-16-year-old-sqlite-bug-with-tla-is-dqlite-affected
57•peterparker204•3d ago•1 comments

Best Simple System for Now

https://dannorth.net/blog/best-simple-system-for-now/
28•daan-k•2h ago•4 comments

PostgreSQL and the OOM Killer: Why We Use Strict Memory Overcommit

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/postgresql-and-the-oom-killer-why-we-use-strict-memory-overcommit
85•furkansahin•4h ago•31 comments

Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-open-source-the-steam-machine-e-ink-screen-so-you-can...
308•ahlCVA•4h ago•46 comments

The Fall and Rise of Screwworm

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-screwworm
55•crescit_eundo•4h ago•20 comments

My Dad Helped Build North America's Oat Supply Chain: Can It Be Remade?

https://ambrook.com/offrange/perspective/how-we-lost-our-oats
19•surprisetalk•3d ago•2 comments

Wordgard: The new in-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror

https://wordgard.net/
161•indy•8h ago•70 comments

Right to Local Intelligence

https://righttointelligence.org/
425•thoughtpeddler•17h ago•148 comments

Anatomy of Persistent Memory's 3 Layers: Comparing ContextNest, Mem0 and Zep

https://promptowl.ai/resources/persistent-memory-ai-agents/
11•sparkystacey•2h ago•0 comments

CarPlay Is Additive

https://www.caseyliss.com/2026/7/2/carplay-is-additive-you-dolts
478•sprawl_•16h ago•632 comments

How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps

https://iinteractive.com/resources/blog/read-only
71•fortyseven•3d ago•50 comments

The Safari MCP server for web developers

https://webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-server-for-web-developers/
205•coloneltcb•15h ago•58 comments

Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02512
21•simonpure•4h ago•2 comments

crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C

https://github.com/FractalFir/crustc
353•Philpax•18h ago•75 comments

Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL

https://thombrown.blogspot.com/2026/07/load-plcbmbasic81-commodore-64-basic.html
46•hans_castorp•7h ago•8 comments

Local Reasoning for Global Properties

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2026/local_reasoning_for_global_properties.html
25•mpweiher•2d ago•2 comments

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

https://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail
343•vinhnx•5d ago•129 comments

Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)

https://js13kgames.com/games/q1k3
115•mortenjorck•6d ago•16 comments

Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/02/hackers-shoveled-snow-for-company-were-rewarded-w...
58•ike_usawa•3h ago•35 comments

Exapunks (2018)

https://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/
317•yu3zhou4•22h ago•109 comments

Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/alibaba-ban-claude-code-workplace-over-alleged-backdoor-risks...
275•nsoonhui•8h ago•233 comments

Underwater suit-wearing cyborg insect capable of diving and terra-aqua travel

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74235-1
87•gscott•3d ago•41 comments