AWS Login
A standalone AWS account, two developers who needed CLI access by tomorrow, and none of the usual options quite fit. `aws login` gave me short-lived credentials with almost no setup—and no long-lived access keys.
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A standalone AWS account, two developers who needed CLI access by tomorrow, and none of the usual options quite fit. `aws login` gave me short-lived credentials with almost no setup—and no long-lived access keys.
The first ten minutes in a new repository reveal a lot. READMEs, scripts, file structure, tests, and setup all send signals about how a team works. For anyone focused on developer experience, these early moments often tell you what working in the system will really feel like for months to come.
Managing local secrets with gitignored env files works—until it doesn’t. Let's walk through using 1Password and the `op` CLI to inject secrets into dotfiles, keeping credentials centralized, recoverable, and out of your repository while preserving a clean, public configuration setup.