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The Vonage Dev Discussion: Making mistakes
Liz Acosta April 24, 2026
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Nobody is perfect! Even the most seasoned developers have made mistakes – it’s all just part of the...
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Nobody is perfect! Even the most seasoned developers have made mistakes – it’s all just part of the learning process.
One mistake that is so common in software development is accidentally pushing secrets to a public repository 🙈🙉🙊
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Fortunately, there are lots of different guardrails you can put in place to help prevent the exposure of sensitive information like API keys, and we’ve covered a few of them in these posts about environment variables.
But we’re curious: What are some mistakes you’ve made as a developer? What did you learn from those mistakes?
Share your wisdom in the comments below! 🙏👇
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