Nice to find Kiwix again. Shameless plug, I made my own Kiwix alternative for macOS: https://github.com/technusm1/kiwings
The Overflow Offline project
11–20 of 40 posts
Re: The Overflow Offline project
#12This is awesome! At first I thought this only supported Stack Overflow and not the other 170+ StackExchange forums, but it looks like it does (or will?). From the blog: > “We built the Sotoki (Stack Overflow to Kiwix) scraper in such a way that it can capture each and every one of the 180 Stack Exchange websites.” Unclear to me if "can" means "does" or "will soon" or just "could"
It already does - everything from the technical stack exchanges to the sites on cooking and gardening :)
Re: The Overflow Offline project
#13I assume this is so people can train AI on it. It's just hard to say that outright because some people don't like the idea.
It was already possible to download dumps since a long time.
Re: The Overflow Offline project
#14To me this basically seems like boat programming made respectable.
Of course, if you asked me, it always was. You couldn't assume great connectivity then and you often still can't today.
Re: The Overflow Offline project
#15Love this. Reminds me of the other Kiwix projects to make MediaWiki services like Wikipedia available offline[1]. The entirety of English Wikipedia is ~50GB of text and ~100GB of images. 1. https://wiki.kiwix.org/
I feel like their homepage could be greatly improved. It doesn't really make obvious what great capability it provides
Re: The Overflow Offline project
#16I already downloaded documentations, like the python api, or the cpp preference website as a pdf or html archive. I don't know if it's available for html or js or css, or opengl.
You should check out Zeal, it's an offline documentation browser with existing documentation packages for HTML and a whole bunch of things
Re: The Overflow Offline project
#17I remember already being able to use certain stackexchanges with kiwix before, as well as the arch wiki, wikipedia without images, and some other great resources. It is nice to see that they actually pay attention to this use-case and I look forward to updated workflows with kiwix or similar in the future. Latency is way better that way, even with good and stable internet. OpenZIM[1] is also useful in turning any page for use with kiwix.
I also have great memories from a University exam where we were allowed to have laptops that were not connected to the internet.
Re: The Overflow Offline project
#18I already downloaded documentations, like the python api, or the cpp preference website as a pdf or html archive. I don't know if it's available for html or js or css, or opengl.
https://devdocs.io/ exposes a huge catalog of indexed and searchable collections of documentation for a wide variety of languages, libraries, and subjects, including HTML, JS, and CSS – though, the only GL I see is WebGL – and _all_ of it can be downloaded to an IndexedDB for offline use.
It's been a very handy tool in my toolbelt.
Re: The Overflow Offline project
#19They could actually try to build a Copilot competitor off their data.
/s
Re: The Overflow Offline project
#20To me this basically seems like boat programming made respectable. Of course, if you asked me, it always was. You couldn't assume great connectivity then and you often still can't today.
My favorite consultant I ever worked with was a boat programmer. You hired him for super specialized MySQL magics so he, well his company, charged a pretty substantial hourly rate and he apparently had enough revenue/leverage to get his company to foot the bill for two separate satellite internet connections on his boat. I feel like I would get lonely but it's definitely a vibe.