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A dumb-sounding trick that holds up. Encrypt env var values before you paste them into Vercel or Railway, hardcode the decryption key in your source, and decrypt at runtime. A leak of the provider's control plane then only gets ciphertext.

Encrypt Your Env Vars Before Your Host Ever Sees Them

Wire AWS SES inbound email to GitHub Actions so a single dictated email can kick off an AI agent that files an issue, does the work, and opens a PR waiting for review.

Trigger an AI Agent by Sending an Email

How to make serverless monorepo deploys faster and safer by deriving deployment waves from git changes, package dependencies, and infrastructure-as-code graphs.

Smart Deploys for Serverless Monorepos

Gating serverless function invocations using various authentication methods

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Encrypt Your Env Vars Before Your Host Ever Sees Them

Trigger an AI Agent by Sending an Email

Smart Deploys for Serverless Monorepos

7 Serverless Auth Strategies for Protecting Gated Functions

The Serverless Revolution

David Wells

Builder of things

Software architect& product wrangler

Get the next post

Encrypt Your Env Vars Before Your Host Ever Sees Them

Trigger an AI Agent by Sending an Email

Smart Deploys for Serverless Monorepos

7 Serverless Auth Strategies for Protecting Gated Functions

The Serverless Revolution

Software architect
& product wrangler