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Long story short Internet access is becoming more and more unstable, probably will go completely out within the next week.
I want to know what can I do to utilize my free time to be a better developer, but almost every development environment/learning resources requires internet access.
- I have 1 YOE as an Android Developer
- I am self-taught
Also, for variety, I may discipline my thought process further by learning mathematical proof techniques. The extra discipline will help me acquire knowledge of deeper subjects, with less effort.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_W...
You can also download Android documentation:
https://androidsdkoffline.blogspot.com/p/android-offline-doc...
You can KINDA download MDN (very YMMV and $$$):
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/plus/docs/features/offli...
You can download all of Wikipedia (20 GB for English): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_W... You can also download Android documentation: https://androidsdkoffline.blogspot.com/p/android-offline-doc... You can KINDA download MDN (very YMMV and $$$): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/plus/docs/features/offli...
SICP exercises, "learn to code" books are generally structured that way. 'How to build X' books are similar.
Not a suggestion necessarily, but 'Land of Lisp' is mostly taught through author-guided tutorials and how-tos for small projects. I imagine that format would be useful in a disconnected area.
But before you go just download a couple of IDEs and all the documentation for them and the language you want to use and install all the libraries you might think of using. Then turn off the net and see how it goes.
Or just download Emacs and a bunch of elisp resources. The create some applications and tools in Emacs. It is pretty self contained.
We used to write huge applications without any network access of any kind.
You can download documentations (directly, or through apps like zeal or dash), e-books for your preferred topics, make local copies of videos (with yt-dlp) and from open source-projects. Just studying source code and documentation, and making some small projects of your own should help you by leap and bounds.
I used to spend several months with very little Internet access (every other week on my cell phone). I made a small server with Jellyfin, tons of podcasts with airsonic, several youtube channels, a big Kiwix library (Wikipedia and Wiktionary - several languages), an ebook library (I haven't found the right way to do it, Calibre-server is a little complicated). https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
And also a dozen of physical books, typically in a language I'm learning.
Computing systems would be a good subject to study. I'd also recommend downloading Ubuntu to a self booting flash drive. Linux has a lot of useful developer tools for someone without internet.
https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows#1...