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Direnv and Dotenv
direnv and dotenv: both utilities for managing 12-Factor-style environment-based configuration. Where do they overlap, how do they differ, and, most i…
.env for Devcontainers
Nobody likes repeatedly typing out lengthy command-line incantations. Today let's make our containerized work easier by customizing our environment!
Subprocesses Part 12: Fork and Exec
Learn the twin pillars at the root of the UNIX process-spawning architecture!
Subprocesses Part 8: Environmental Isolation
In today's episode we'll see how to discover what environment variables our programs are implicitly relying on.
Finding $HOME
How to reliably discover a user's home directory.