Just a hint, which I think works well for some more complicated programming project setups: if the project is close to be shelved then preserve it in a virtual

Just a hint, which I think works well for some more complicated programming project setups: if the project is close to be shelved then preserve it in a virtual machine. Make some trivial auth, or auto login, put some notes on login/desktop screen, setup some IDE inside, check if it builds with no Internet. Myself I use lightweight Xubuntu destkop for my VMs. I also dump hard disks of old Windows machines I am done with and make sure they run fine as VMs.