Theo Ephraim
theozero.bsky.social
Theo Ephraim
@theozero.bsky.social
🧙‍♂️🪄🔒 https://varlock.dev
Full-stack devtools builder and entrepreneur
Thanks so much! Let us know if you try it out. Would love to hear what you think. Happy to give you a demo as well.
Cheers!
December 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We provide drop in integrations that make it just work :) also can swap out direct calls to dotenv, or swap out the module itself with dependency overrides.
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
But great ideas are often at first totally misunderstood… so maybe it’s AMAZING?! 🤷‍♂️

Communication is hard 😂
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It’s meant to be a drop in replacement for dotenv. No integration planned for the encryption parts in dotenvx at the moment.
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Thanks :) 🧙‍♂️

The exec function lets you call out to any cli, but it’s a bit clunky. We just released a plugin system that enables deeper integrations without clis.

First plugin was for 1pass, cross platform native os keyring is next. Simple encryption, and other backends are in the works.
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Thanks for this!

Also varlock.dev is a nice addition for securing secrets in general, especially with our 1pass plugin.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
check out varlock.dev and the 1password plugin :)
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November 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
So native .env loading is cool, but if you’re looking for not just an alternative, but an upgrade, you might like varlock.dev
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November 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
you might like varlock.dev - there is as 1pass plugin, so you can have a full schema (with validation and docs!) and then set it via `fly secrets import < (varlock load --format env)`
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November 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Hoping they will add the ability to use the local app's cache. Not just for when you are offline, but also to reduce latency and rate limits.

I opened this issue - github.com/1Password/on... which is specifically about the JS sdk.

We are building some nice tooling on top of 1pass at varlock.dev
Option to connect to 1password desktop application - for auth and local data · Issue #111 · 1Password/onepassword-sdk-js
Use Case I am building developer tools, and for local development, I'd like to be able to use the SDK without a service account token, and instead rely on the local 1password application. This is s...
github.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
For sure :) we’ll be adding a plugin system soon that introduces custom functions to interact with different providers.
August 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Have you seen varlock.dev
August 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Devs are leaking sensitive api keys to AI coding assistants every day without realizing it. We are soon launching some encryption helpers to get these keys out of plaintext and totally solve that problem.

Plus our guardrails (leak detection) helps devs using AI move quickly w/ more safety.
July 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Also, if you haven't already, check out moonrepo.dev - I found it does a great job of fixing some of the rough edges of turborepo.
A developer productivity tooling platform. | moonrepo
From build to deploy, moonrepo is a better way to manage codebases, save developer time, and boost your business.
moonrepo.dev
March 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Looks neat! Do you have any stated goals of how you want it to be different than existing tools?
March 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Turborepo does the cli ui thing with multiple tabs. it's... fine.

Seems like moving it into a web browser would probably gives more opportunity to build a much better DX. Have been contemplating building that for quite a while...
March 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
have you seen dmno.dev ? There is an Infisical plugin :)
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DMNO makes your configuration safer and smarter. It integrates with the tools you already use and it's powered by TypeScript and Vite.
dmno.dev
March 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM