Getting productive with a Python codebase, especially when unfamiliar with the ecosystem or setting up a new workstation for the first time, can be daunting. Building a cohesive strategy with widely available tooling shortens the time-to-productivity for new contributors to projects internal and open-source, demonstrating that the maintainers care about onboarding and the developer experience. I'll introduce how my team solved this problem using a nearly 50-year-old program and push the audience toward better developer experiences, starting at the greatest common denominator of tooling. Some newer tooling makes some of this easier, but corporate Python projects and open source projects alike benefit from this approach.