Excellent, one of the problems with this is that you can't google it. Well, of course you can but you'll get a million contradicting resources and all that float to the top are too basic anyway. I really enjoyed your post, saved and will pass it along.
Thanks a lot, I planned to do it and I forgot. I've just added the link and it's indeed way better like this.
Substack doesn't really have any way to make a series of articles, or to bundle stuff together, so linking manually is the only thing you can do that will give a little structure.
One more reason to move off it when I find the time.
The mentioned "follow-up" article: https://www.bitecode.dev/p/back-to-basics-with-pip-and-venv (if you find the time, please add a link to it to make it even more complete)