From AWS Key Leak to evnx: The Origin Story of a Developer's Safety Net
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How an AWS key leak, years of .env frustrations, and a poorly formatted LLM prompt accidentally built a developer tool. Part 1: The Accident — An AWS Key Leak That Changed Everything Every developer has that story. The one they hesitate to tell in interviews, wince at in retrospectives, and quietly reference whenever someone asks why security tooling matters. This is mine. About a year ago, I was deep in a refactor of an Apache Airflow project at work — my first Airflow project