Visual Studio Code: Visually Hide Secrets in Environment Files with Cloak

Sparked by an idea by Wes Bos, John Papa has created and released a first version of Cloak:

Cloak hides/shows your secrets in environment files, to avoid accidentally sharing them with everyone who sees your screen.

Handy when doing screencasts and the like.

Do note that it only visually hides the secrets, no changes are made. Only ENV files are supported for now.

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Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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