Deadenv

Sat, 16 May 2026 00:09:59 +0530

Every developer I know has a .env file they shouldn’t. Maybe it has a production API key. Maybe it’s tracked in git with a .gitignore entry that someone forgot to add. Maybe it’s just sitting there, world-readable, on a shared dev machine. We all know it’s bad. We keep doing it anyway because there’s no real alternative that doesn’t add significant friction.

deadenv is my attempt to fix that. It’s a cross-platform CLI tool written in Go that stores secrets in the OS-native keychain: Keychain on macOS, libsecret/GNOME Keyring on Linux, Credential Manager on Windows, and injects them into subprocesses at runtime. Secrets never touch the filesystem in plaintext.

SSH for Noobs

Mon, 19 May 2025 21:51:21 +0530

Many of you must have worked with AWS or GCP at some point, and even if you were scared of the terminals, you might have been forced to use it. And you also must have accessed the terminal of your service from your local terminal. But wait, how is that possible? How can you access the console of another system from your own?

The answer: SSH

So, what SSH actually is, and how can you use it effectively without just copy-pasting commands from the internet? Let’s explore that in this blog post.

Security on funinkina's corner

Deadenv

SSH for Noobs

The answer: SSH