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awesome-selfhosted
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
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SaaSHub
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terraform-docs-as-pdf
Complete Terraform documentation (core + all official providers) as PDF files. Updating nightly.
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docker-cheatset
Docker encapsulation of the cheatset command for generating Docsets for the Dash.app
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Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
For offline documentation, I use these in order of preference:
• Info¹ documentation, which I read directly in Emacs. (If you have ever used the terminal-based standalone “info” program, please try to forget all about it. Use Emacs to read Info documentation, and preferably use a graphical Emacs instead of a terminal-based one; Info documentation occasionally has images.)
• Gnome Devhelp².
• Zeal³
• RFC archive⁴ dumps provided by the Debian “doc-rfc“ package⁵.
1. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/info/
2. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Devhelp
3. https://zealdocs.org/
4. https://www.rfc-editor.org/
5. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/doc-rfc
- Man pages are great, man readers are the problem
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Patterns for Personal Web Sites (2003)
Yeah, I keep thinking that CHM was the peak format for offline docs. Today we have Kiwix [0] and Dash/Zeal [1] – both amazing projects, but somehow they feel more complex, and the formats they use aren’t as ubiquitous.
[0]: https://kiwix.org/en/
[1]: https://kapeli.com/dash for macOS, https://zealdocs.org/ for others
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Ask HN: What is one software product that boosted your productivity?
Dash is great. I use the open source alternative, works for Linux, Windows and macOS.
https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal
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DevDocs
There's also Zeal (https://zealdocs.org/) which is basically the same as Dash but open source and runs on non-Mac devices.
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How would you work effectively with an extremely slow 56Kbps connection?
For offline tech documentation you can use Zeal. Must have tool for poor internet connection places. Present in ubuntu repos. https://zealdocs.org/
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Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company
ads don't have to proprietary
here's one example of ads in FOSS https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/issues/779
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Ask HN: How do I code offline for a week?
There’s stuff like https://zealdocs.org/ that allow you to take all relevant documentation with you so offline coding will work.
If you just want to be productive, you could also bring a lot of books or downloaded tutorials on a drive.
Btw, make sure your drive is encrypted and you think of a way to backup your data so you don’t lose the offline progress.
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Memex is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed
I’d suggest you look into Kiwix¹ and also Zeal².
1. https://www.kiwix.org/
2. https://zealdocs.org/
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What's the Difference Between `ruby-doc.org` and `docs.ruby-lang.org`?
For offline documentation, I use Zeal (called Dash on macos) which looks/works almost identically to rubydoc.info but much faster since it's offline, has a standard interface for all installed language documentations, and only 1 global hotkey away while programming.
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
www.influxdata.com | 18 Jun 2025
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The primary programming language of zeal is C++.
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