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stephbook 22 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Twelve-Factor App (2025)

No, they are not stored permanently on disk according to 12f. They are only injected for the lifetime of the application and destroyed when stopped.

It's not okay to store your secret on your own machine disk's .bashrc forever.

It seems we're in agreement anyway.

minitech 22 days ago [–]

> "The environment" is not "environment variables" and not ".env files"

Is there confusion because an extra “not” leaked in?

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