cookiecutter VS Yacy

Sometimes I use this to abstract boilerplate https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter

It can use a repo as a template.

It supports some interactive questions to choose options but mostly it is jinja templates.

Having libraries would be another option.

Install the cookiecutter package using the following command:

Consider taking a look at cookiecutter to generate projects from templates. There is also cookiecutter-django. As for your environment variables you should have an example .env file containing all the environment variables required by your project (without setting them) that can be safely pushed into your repository for you and other developers to copy into the actual .env file that'll be used by your project (add this file to .gitignore)

The Python Cookiecutter library revolutionizes project development by offering streamlined approach to creating template projects and improving developer experience.

We use cookie cutter templates (the Python project, https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter ), we prompt for the module & version etc

Why not use cookiecutter or a similar tool designed for making these sorts of project templates?

Is it common? I don't know. Is it useful? Absolutely. There is a tool called cookiecutter that allows you to define your own setup. For example, my cookiecutter setup for a python library is here. You can see what it's like by first installing the cookiecutter cli and then running

Also cookiecutter.

Visual Cookiecutter enhances the functionality of cookiecutter by offering unique features such as required fields, conditional input parameters, optional descriptions, and the ability to fix mistakes easily. This package seamlessly integrates with cookiecutter so that all existing templates work out-of-the-box.

It turns out you can make it all the way to become president of Harvard [1] while ignoring this rule so it is questionable whether it is as set in stone as you make it out to be, at least in certain disciplines.

In a way these models are a perfect mirror of the current academic climate. They plagiarise without remorse, they follow the latest identity-politics diktat to a point and make up 'facts' when needed to reach a desired narrative. Google Gemini is the latest example [2] of where this leads.

Given that it is plausible that models like these will soon be used in educational settings this is a recipe for disaster. The same goes for the trend to replace search engine results with 'interpreted' results in which LLMs take up the same role as Winston in 1984: Winston works in the Ministry of Truth where he alters historical records to fit the needs of the Party.

It is time for a decentralised distributed search engine which limits itself to pure search, something like YaCy [3]. Something to replace Winstonian search engines like Google and Bing (et al.).

[1] https://www.campusreform.org/article/claudine-gay-is-a-dei-h...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465255

[3] https://yacy.net/

> Now I just need some kind of open source search engine to run on it ...

Here you go: https://yacy.net

I remember https://yacy.net/ but the big problem of this project was java and had not implementations in others languages. I mean it as imagine torrent was only in perl.

Admarus is similar as Yacy but aims to be distributed where Yacy is federated. Both are made for the web

You should check out https://yacy.net: a global, P2P web search engine, where each peer can build and share its own index, etc.

I also have an instance of Yacy installed, which I use to index the entire system, giving me my own private, internal search engine.