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Developers are hoarders by necessity. Node.js versions, Python environments, Docker containers, WSL instances, and Android SDKs create a tangled web of environment variables and path conflicts. You run npm install and get a cryptic error about a missing Python 2.7 build tool from 2019. There’s a version of me from six months
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