Ask HN: Developing .NET with poor/no Internet
With the rise in remote working and the digital nomad lifestyle, what are your tricks for coping with unreliable Internet?
A couple I've come across:
- Visual Studio has a Help Viewer that allows you to download offline versions of the docs
- There are various ways to get offline backups of stack overflow (e.g. Stacked off) For docs you can host a web server such as nginx or Microsoft IIS. For instance I stashed a copy of the Python docs on my laptop so I could access them on the go. You have to make peace with build issues. There are systems like maven, pypi, npm, etc. that are endemic. They do a lot of downloading so you need to plan around that.