I tend to not like cookiecutter/boilerplate repos because those tend to get out of date quickly, and usually just base new projects off of whatever project I’ve been mostly recently working on. However, I figured it might be better to make occasional blog posts to get some check points on what I think is a good setup for a Python project, which can be interesting to see later on how things change.

With the general state of the world right now, the chance that current allies turn on each other seems ever-growing. I’m not a huge fan of having my main data, especially emails, be handled on servers outside of Europe these days, so I’ve been looking at options of having a service managing it within Europe. This also has benefits in ensuring EU laws around privacy and digital rights, along with generally supporting European companies.

I created this five years ago and then haven’t written any posts. To be honest, I didn’t know what to write about, nor did I have the energy to do so. What I realized now though is that I quite enjoy the thrill of setting up the infrastructure to be the fun part. That probably reflects in my professional work as well, being a Python developer but also being heavily involved in infrastructure.