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Open Source Friday - varlock - 09-19-2025 #153

@philmillman

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@philmillman

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Phil Miller, Theo Ephraim

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@philmillman @theoephraim

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Phil and Theo are the founders of DMNO Inc., creators of dmno and varlock.

Phil is an alumnus of places like Breather, DigitalOcean and Daily.co. He's been a full-stack engineer, a builder of UX-focused engineering teams, and a devrel engineer among many other things. His most recent focus is the intersection of infrastructure, developer experience, and security.

Theo has been building software (mostly) for the web for over 20 years. He's a full-stack engineer, designer, entrepreneur, and has worn many hats as an early team member at startups like Breather, Clearco, Clay, and System Initiative. He is passionate about developer tools and making it easier to build better software, with just a little bit of magic.

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varlock

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https://github.com/dmno-dev/varlock

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@wearedmno

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https://bsky.app/profile/dmno.bsky.social

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https://www.linkedin.com/company/dmnodev/

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At DMNO, we build open source tools for configuration and secrets management, with a developer focus. Our most recent is varlock which makes .env files safer and more useful for teams.

It's built on top of a simple DSL we call @env-spec, RFC here.

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