This article discusses how long-term survival rate of internal software projects can be improved. The primary audience are senior software engineers and engineering managers working in medium to large organizations. When searching for “maintainable software”, many articles ([1], [2], [3]) focus on good coding practices. And certainly, good naming conventions, readable code, continuous integration, unit testing, … are all very important. However, I feel that many discussions implicitly assume a caring person who is motivated and capable to take care of the required maintenance indefinitely....

This article shares experiences with Python drawing libraries that I was missing when I started. The primary audience are software engineers who are looking for the tool for simple graphics. In 2020 the pandemic disrupted life. This included the cancellation of the traditional May Bumps rowing race that happens in Cambridge every year. Therefore, a group of rowing enthusiasts got together and organised a decentralized running event called Virtual May Bumps....