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awesome-selfhosted
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The official source for MDN Web Docs content. Home to over 14,000 pages of documentation about HTML, CSS, JS, HTTP, Web APIs, and more.
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dash.nvim
Discontinued ššØ Search Dash.app from your Neovim fuzzy finder. Built with Rust š¦ and Lua
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docker-cheatset
Docker encapsulation of the cheatset command for generating Docsets for the Dash.app
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Focused Work, Distraction-Free Coding
Zeal (open source, free) is a free/libre/open source docset viewer that runs on Windows, Linux, and BSD. While it is possible to build Zeal for MacOS, the recommendation is to download Dash.
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Local-First Documentation: What It Is and Why Your AI Agent Needs It
This isn't a new idea for developer tools. DevDocs, Zeal, and Dash have offered offline documentation browsing for years. What's new is applying this architecture to AI agents ā giving your coding assistant the same offline, instant, version-accurate access to docs that you'd want for yourself.
- Program on the Subway
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Ask him: Linux offline knowledge base app?
Zeal might be what you are looking for - https://zealdocs.org/
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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:
ā¢ InfoĀ¹ documentation, which I read directly in Emacs. (If you have ever used the terminal-based standalone āinfoā 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.)
ā¢ Gnome DevhelpĀ².
ā¢ ZealĀ³
ā¢ RFC archiveā“ dumps provided by the Debian ādoc-rfcā packageāµ.
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] ā both amazing projects, but somehow they feel more complex, and the formats they use arenāt 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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zealdocs/zeal is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of zeal is C++.
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