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I worked in field robotics and sometimes you would find yourself in a boat without internet fixing robotic software problems at sea. I took 50GB of wiki resour

I worked in field robotics and sometimes you would find yourself in a boat without internet fixing robotic software problems at sea. I took 50GB of wiki resources mirrored in my pocket.

MattGaiser 6y ago
What did you include?
- tlarkworthy 6y ago
  The Robot operating system wiki mirror[1] + python resources [2] [1] http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors [2] https://docs.python.org/3/download.html https://docs.python.org/3/download.html
antpls 6y ago
What software did you use to browse/search in it?
- tlarkworthy 6y ago
  Grep
dvdbloc 6y ago
Sounds like a future Starlink customer
baxtr 6y ago
I was thinking about a situation similar to that in web development. But if there’s no internet, a web application doesn’t make that much sense does it...
- sdenton4 6y ago
  I'm thinking back to a real dumb django 'web' frontend I built for a raspberry pi camera project once... The whole idea was to have a page I could load from a laptop attached to the pi via a ethernet cable for quick debugging and interaction. No external internet needed, and did the job decently.
- canofbars 6y ago
  Our office lost internet connection for a day. We just connected to our phones and continued on.
- ProZsolt 6y ago
  I regularly coded (pre COVID) on transatlantic flights.
easton 6y ago
Dash is fantastic for this. You can download all of stackoverflow and docs for most languages and keep them on your system if you want to go offline. https://kapeli.com/dash https://kapeli.com/dash
- mellow-lake-day 6y ago
  Too bad that website doesn't specify how much space that all takes. Would be interesting to know.
  - bryanrasmussen 6y ago
    Do you really need to know? I doubt it takes up more than 30 GB, you're not downloading all of StackOverflow, just the content.
    - mellow-lake-day 6y ago
      Yeah because the SSD on my laptop isn't that big. It's 240 GB. Most of which is already filled.
  - Kwpolska 6y ago
    I checked, and it’s split per language/library/framework. The SO offline docset for Python is 2.2 GB, and the docset for JS is 3.02 GB right now.
    - mellow-lake-day 6y ago
      Awesome thanks! That's not too bad!
- RMPR 6y ago
  While it's not for documentation per se, I think archivebox[0] can be very useful for that use case. Disclaimer: I never used it, just came across this a while ago and thought it was cool. 0: https://archivebox.io/ https://archivebox.io/
- 6y ago

I worked in field robotics and sometimes you would find yourself in a boat without internet fixing robotic software problems at sea. I took 50GB of wiki resources mirrored in my pocket.

MattGaiser 6y ago

What did you include?

tlarkworthy 6y ago
The Robot operating system wiki mirror[1] + python resources [2] [1] http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors [2] https://docs.python.org/3/download.html https://docs.python.org/3/download.html

antpls 6y ago

What software did you use to browse/search in it?

tlarkworthy 6y ago
Grep

dvdbloc 6y ago

Sounds like a future Starlink customer

baxtr 6y ago

I was thinking about a situation similar to that in web development. But if there’s no internet, a web application doesn’t make that much sense does it...

sdenton4 6y ago
I'm thinking back to a real dumb django 'web' frontend I built for a raspberry pi camera project once... The whole idea was to have a page I could load from a laptop attached to the pi via a ethernet cable for quick debugging and interaction. No external internet needed, and did the job decently.
canofbars 6y ago
Our office lost internet connection for a day. We just connected to our phones and continued on.
ProZsolt 6y ago
I regularly coded (pre COVID) on transatlantic flights.

easton 6y ago

Dash is fantastic for this. You can download all of stackoverflow and docs for most languages and keep them on your system if you want to go offline. https://kapeli.com/dash https://kapeli.com/dash

mellow-lake-day 6y ago
Too bad that website doesn't specify how much space that all takes. Would be interesting to know.
- bryanrasmussen 6y ago
  Do you really need to know? I doubt it takes up more than 30 GB, you're not downloading all of StackOverflow, just the content.
  - mellow-lake-day 6y ago
    Yeah because the SSD on my laptop isn't that big. It's 240 GB. Most of which is already filled.
- Kwpolska 6y ago
  I checked, and it’s split per language/library/framework. The SO offline docset for Python is 2.2 GB, and the docset for JS is 3.02 GB right now.
  - mellow-lake-day 6y ago
    Awesome thanks! That's not too bad!
RMPR 6y ago
While it's not for documentation per se, I think archivebox[0] can be very useful for that use case. Disclaimer: I never used it, just came across this a while ago and thought it was cool. 0: https://archivebox.io/ https://archivebox.io/
6y ago