https://www.alexiscouvreur.fr/tags/vault/Recent content in Vault on Alexis CouvreurHugoen-usTue, 20 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0400https://www.alexiscouvreur.fr/blog/direnv/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0400https://www.alexiscouvreur.fr/blog/direnv/<p>Most of what I read these days is about something new. A new model, a new agent, a new way to not write code. Fine. This post goes back to basics: a small tool that has been around for years and quietly removed a whole category of onboarding problems at work.</p> <p>The tool is <a href="https://direnv.net">direnv</a>.</p> <h2 id="the-problem">The problem</h2> <p>Every project needs an environment to run. Default config, like which Vault to talk to or the log level. And secrets, like a database password. Before, everyone kept a local <code>.env</code> with all of that copied in by hand. It worked on day one. Then a password was rotated or a default changed, and your copy was quietly out of date. And since that file was full of real values, it was always one <code>.gitignore</code> slip away from a commit.</p>