Guides, tutorials, and best practices for secure secrets management and environment variables.
Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and other AI coding tools automatically load your .env files into their context. Your API keys, database passwords, and tokens are sent to LLM providers. Here's how to fix it.
A new dev joins your team, clones the repo, runs npm install, then npm run dev. Nothing works. The next 3 hours are spent asking for credentials on Slack. Here's how to fix this.
A fair question. You've been burned before. Here's why Keyway isn't going anywhere, and what happens if it does.
After 25 years of coding, working on dozens of projects with countless collaborators, I kept seeing the same problem everywhere - sharing environment variables is still broken. So I built a fix.
Everything you need to know about environment variables in Next.js - how they work, security implications, validation patterns, and team workflows.