Gitignore Is My Best Friend

Gitignore Is My Best Friend
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Every developer's worst nightmare: accidentally committing your entire collection of API keys and secrets to a public repo. Here we see .gitignore heroically holding back the flood of credentials that would get your AWS bill to five figures and your security team scheduling an "urgent meeting."

The .env file is chilling right there with .gitignore because they're basically besties in the "keeping you employed" department. Meanwhile GitHub is just waiting below like a hungry void, ready to index your secrets and have bots scraping them within 30 seconds of pushing.

Pro tip: That SSH_PRIVATE_KEY in the image? Yeah, if that ever touches GitHub, you might as well just hand over your server keys to every script kiddie on the internet. Your .gitignore file is literally the only thing standing between you and a very awkward Slack message from DevOps.

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