{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Old School / New Tech","title":"E05: Sessions - I built an Open-Source Secrets Tool Live (and OBS Died Halfway)","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/bc24cd21\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5370,"description":"Why can't we just commit our .env files?\" A clip of that question showed up on my feed, and instead of tweeting about it, I sat down and built the answer - live, in one sitting, from an empty repo to a working open-source tool.\nThis is that build. Envapor is a Git-native utility that encrypts the values in your .env files: you edit .env exactly like you do now, Git stores it encrypted on commit and hands back plaintext on checkout. No .env.enc, no wrapper commands, nothing to change about how your app loads config.\nAlong the way: why deterministic encryption is the whole ballgame for keeping diffs readable, the difference between a tool that looks done and one you'd actually trust with production secrets, an unplanned OBS crash 20 minutes in that moved the whole thing to YouTube, and the judgment calls an AI agent gets subtly wrong that would've shipped a broken security tool.\nTwo and a half hours, no script, no highlight reel. The finished tool is open source and linked below.\n🔗 Repo: https://github.com/automazeio/envapor\n🔗 Full unedited build (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4BYP9DFp9c&list=PLWwTwUPfg-UU\n\n-----\nOld School / New Tech is produced by VarOps.\nSubscribe to the newsletter – the written version of this show, weekly: varops.com\nRead the books – Company-Scale Agentic AI (for operators and the C-suite) and Production-Grade Agentic AI (for engineers): varops.com/books\nWork with us – VarOps installs resident AI inside mid-market companies. It runs where your work already happens, sees the whole operation, and what it learns belongs to you: varops.com/transform","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/13nrINn33mdG7k8LoP1Ez_oYKpPxbcHmR2r_rrXw8jQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85YTRj/ZGQ0Y2RkZDdmMGY4/NzdjYjgxNjI4OWQ5/YTdkYS5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}