$DOTENV Author @motdotla is a key figure in the open-source developer tools space. He is the creator of dotenv, an open-source library for loading environment variables from .env files, which has become a standard in developer tools, installed billions of times, and has spawned variants in multiple programming languages. On GitHub, he has 1.2k followers, with dotenv (20.3k stars, 926 forks, 97 contributors).