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I’ve wanted to get proper password management for a long while. I guess I’ve had an irrational repulsion from password managers in the past but I understand that they have many benefits in terms of security and ease of use. However, this is provided that the manager stores passwords securely. The approach I landed on is using pass, a password manager inspired by the unix philosophy. It uses the OpenPGP standard and a directory-based approach to storing encrypted passwords. I liked the idea, since its file-based structure allows the password store to be used with git and be synced with any device that can use git. I guess I really enjoy version controlling everything in my life :p ...

I use Python a lot. In the (hopefully) final semester of my Bachelor’s, almost all my courses involve using Python at some point or another. I’m doing my senior project mainly in Python, I have an ML course where most assignments require1 Python, I’m doing research with LLMs so that also devolves into Python. In all this mess, I’m dealing with Python and Python packages. First, I will tell you the way I started to deal with these, and then I will introduce my current method. ...