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I smell a dependency to `python-dotenv` dying in my workflow.  I originally read the title of the post and thought, "I know how to manage .env and almost skipped it".  I'm leaning more and more on `uv run` these days, so this should <a href="/just/" class="wikilink" data-title="just" data-description="I just never quite understood why the word can send people over the top. I get it when you don&#39;t know someone, you don&#39;t have history with them, and they..." data-date="2025-06-23">just</a> go in my [[ just file ]] to make it easy to run.

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