What are good tips for personal project hygiene?

Question

I start a lot of seemingly one-off projects that I forget about, and then months later either want to reuse or share with friends. Unfortunately, it ends up being a hassle because I don't remember all the hacks I used to get things off the ground so I have to reread things to figure out what commands to run in what order etc.I've learned some good tips from my work experience, but I've never really done 0 to 1 in a work setting without there being some previous infrastructure for me to work off of.Some of things I'm thinking of- dockerize- all env vars go in a .env file- avoid absolute paths- DDL should be in re-runnable migration filesAre there any other easy wins that people could recommend?

Archelaos · Accepted Answer

My most important advice: Put a README.txt document into the top project folder containing setup information consisely in one place. If necessary, include code snippets and biolerplate command examples to copy&past from.If the project is larger, you may also include MANUAL.txt, SETUP.txt (for detailled setup infos), TIPS.txt, TODO.txt, HISTORY.txt files or similar to keep the README.txt small.