Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access?

Re:Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access? by tlb on Sunday October 21, 2018 @04:28PM (#18270027)

Consider Dash [0], an offline documentation browsing tool. It takes a little while to set up, but then you have all the docsets you need offline with very fast search.

It also helps me control my internet addiction when I'm not off the grid, because I can have no browsers running while I code, so I'm not a tab away from HN.

[0] https://kapeli.com/dash

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Re:Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access? by bkcreate on Sunday October 21, 2018 @04:40PM (#18270097)

Is this mac only?

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Re:Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access? by dddw on Sunday October 21, 2018 @04:49PM (#18270149)

Zeal is a good offline code docset reader for linux and windows (but not mac!)

https://zealdocs.org/

The docsets come from Dash, which is very nice since that is payware. So here apple users pay for non-apple users it seems :)

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Re:Ask HN: What would you work on without internet access? by abathur on Sunday October 21, 2018 @10:19PM (#18271689)

Use Dash on mac, Zeal on NixOS.

I see it as a no-brainer for anyone who has more code to write than time to write it. I can't always solve a problem in Dash, but it enables me to work for hours at a time with wifi off. This is even more important for productivity when there is wifi available. Only downside that I know I'm reducing my chance of stumbling on Google Foobar trigger terms :)

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