I work on buses, trains and airplanes, in cafés, Biergarten, parks and hotels with bad wi-fi. There's no fast internet there. Even things loaded from a CDN brou

I work on buses, trains and airplanes, in cafés, Biergarten, parks and hotels with bad wi-fi. There's no fast internet there. Even things loaded from a CDN brought my development speed to a crawl. If it can't run offline on my machine, I don't use it. Another aspect is portability. If the only requirement is "some sort of linux box", it's easier to deploy code anywhere, and to share it with anyone. It also encouraged me to develop websites that work well on bad connections. Small websites that load the important bits early, and that communicate async request states properly.