A yak-shaving day:
Our website broke because a wordpress plugin decided to make one of its features paid-only.
So: write our own plugin.
Need: a development WP server
Problem: work PC is so out of date
Now falling down a rabbit hole of dependencies for docker

I want to use docker-compose, but it tries to run my system's Python 2, which has a broken version of pyopenssl. I don't have root, so I need a python virtual environment.

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