> Besides being bad advice, this had the second-order effect of leading devs to believe they could put all their local env secrets in ~/.bashrc files. I don't

> Besides being bad advice, this had the second-order effect of leading devs to believe they could put all their local env secrets in ~/.bashrc files. I don't agree, and I think this is personal belief is unfounded. 12 factor apps clearly apply to deployments, not your local dev environment. The whole industry pivoted towards .env files in local dev environments. Local dev tools still store their secrets where they can: local storage.