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Carry the shared secrets baseline in .gitignore Only MNW ignored *.pem/*.key/*.p8/*.p12/*.pfx, and spaghetti, buckets_of_money and most libraries had no .env rule at all, so the guardrail depended on which repo a secret happened to land in. Suffix matching rather than *.env keeps committed environment files that hold no secrets visible, and .env.example is negated back in.

Author: Max Johnson <me@maxj.phd> · 2026-08-08 23:47 UTC

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Commit: 65e133718ac5b57f62d9329e5277eb6c79a0e0e9

Parent: d3e57e4

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M .gitignore +13

			@@ -38,3 +38,16 @@
38	38
39	39		# Inspiration scrape — third-party images, not ours to redistribute
40	40		docs/inspo/
	41	+
	42	+	# Secrets and credentials. The baseline every repo under ~/Code carries, kept
	43	+	# identical so no repo is the one that forgot. Suffix-matched rather than
	44	+	# `*.env`, which would also catch committed environment files that hold no
	45	+	# secrets (sweep systemd/sweep.env). `.env.example` is a tracked template and
	46	+	# is negated back in.
	47	+	!.env.example
	48	+	*.pem
	49	+	*.key
	50	+	*.p8
	51	+	*.p12
	52	+	*.pfx
	53	+	credentials.json