How would you work effectively with an extremely slow 56Kbps connection?

• browsh

  88 16,602 5.5 JavaScript

  A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers

  

• web

  11 6 0.0 HTML

  Bugs, enhancements, ideas for our Web presence (by kiwix)

  

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• asciiMol

  5 350 2.8 Python

  Curses based ASCII molecule viewer for terminals.

Eventually I'll explore also the Mosh shell to deal with connection instabilities, but so far a disconnect would not cause any data loss, I just have to reconnect and Tmux will resume everything. Heck, I've even gone as far as visualizing molecules in 3D with ASCII MOL (https://github.com/dewberryants/asciiMol).

• reddio

  19 - -

https://gitlab.com/aaronNG/reddio looks like it might be a decent, maintained alternative.

• devdocs

  238 33,858 9.6 Ruby

  API Documentation Browser

  

Mosh for a stable connection, Offline documentation such as msdn, wikipedia (via kiwi etc), zeal for local access to https://devdocs.io/; Self host tabby for ai autocompletion. For many shell programs check what mulinux was using back then, and what are the modern replacements such as elinks instead of links. Mutt for mail, for irc doesn't matter much, use a desktop one but setup a bouncher on a vps, I used to have one on a raspberry pi 1, you can use rss reader for reddit (not sure if still works) and blogs

• slob

  8 222 1.1 Python

  Data store for Aard 2

• sixel-tmux

  34 456 0.0 C

  sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics

sixel-tmux can help you have both: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• zeal

  100 11,052 8.1 C++

  Offline documentation browser inspired by Dash

  

For offline tech documentation you can use Zeal. Must have tool for poor internet connection places. Present in ubuntu repos. https://zealdocs.org/

• vim-graphical-preview

  7 191 0.0 Rust

  Small plugin for Vim to display graphics with SIXEL characters

sixel can let you do latex math in vim with a few commands. Other image formats require much more effort!

• tmux

  207 32,923 8.3 C

  tmux source code

  

A few days ago I made a suggestion to work around any possible issues but it's up to the main tmux maintainer to decide what to do.

• xsixel

  2 1 6.3 C

  Compiling Xorg to render with Sixels inside a terminal

Here's a sneak preview of Xsixel running inside Wezterm (which supports sixels) showing xeyes that I opened on another tab of wezterm after the export DISPLAY dance

• iiab

  86 877 9.6 Jinja

  Internet-in-a-Box - Build your own LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA with a Raspberry Pi !

  

Use a tool like Internet-in-a-box and keep a "local" version of tons of very useful stuff like Wikipedia and Maps.

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