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Resilient Desktop Work in the Face of War
Extreme Conditions
How do you work, program, and be productive with intermittent Internet and electricity? This is my challenge in Ukraine now. But it is a situation that is increasingly occurring in peaceful countries in face of climate change and other emergencies.
In a location with intermittent Internet and power, you discover that your choices of software to use have to change. Even wonderfully constructed web applications and desktop software become useless in such an environment.
Crucial Applications
Let’s focus on two common types of applications that everybody uses and are crucial:
- work management such as task management, project planning, To Do lists, and Kanban boards.
- editors such as rich text and WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) — thing Microsoft Word
Useless Web Applications
With intermittent Internet and electricity you immediately discover that web applications become useless. Even those constructed with PWA — progressive web apps, technology. A PWA application is web applications that store data in the browser. This includes things like Google Docs. For them to be useful when such a situation occurs you need to have the web…
