Dominik Spitzli

Maintainer of Tabularis and Rust enthusiast. Building open-source developer tools. @NewtTheWolf

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Dominik Spitzli

Jun 29, 2026, 10:00·9 min read

Where Tabularis Keeps Its Secrets: Thank You, 1Password

An open-source project accumulates secrets like signing keys, certificates and deploy tokens, and they end up pasted across GitHub repo settings with no real story for rotation or audit. 1Password gives open-source projects a free plan, we qualified for it, and it's good enough to deserve a genuine thank-you. Here's why 1Password is a great secret manager for developers, and how we plan to move Tabularis' CI secrets into one vault and pull them into GitHub Actions with op:// references.

Dominik Spitzli

Jun 19, 2026, 10:00·9 min read

Translating Tabularis, the Right Way: Why We Chose Tolgee

Tabularis ships in 8 languages, but contributing a translation has meant editing raw JSON in a Git diff with no idea where the string lived. We've picked Tolgee to change that: open source, self-hostable, context-rich translating. Tolgee is also backing the project while we do it. Here's the honest why, and what's coming: community translations from the web, delivered over the air, with in-app translating as the long-term goal.