If the internet went down tomorrow, would your code still run?

Mythorian — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:31:01 +0000

In recent years, as AI has transformed how we code, I've noticed the same questions popping up everywhere:

"What will you do if AI disappears?"
"Can you code without AI?"
"How reliant are you on AI tools?"

These are fair questions—but I want to ask something even more urgent:

"What will you do without the internet?"
"Can you code without AI and Stack Overflow, Google, GitHub, and APIs?"
"How reliant are you on the internet itself?"
I'm asking this not hypothetically—I lived it.

I live in Iran, and recently our internet was disrupted for about 18 days due to civil unrest. I won't dive into politics (it's not my place), but the outcome was simple: total loss of global internet access. We had a limited national internet, but as we developers know, that's not gonna fix anything.

Living without the internet was a developer's nightmare. Suddenly:

• No GitHub to pull dependencies 
• No PyPI or npm to install packages 
• No Stack Overflow when stuck 
• No AI assistants 
• No documentation beyond what I'd already downloaded 
• No way to reach collaborators

I had built a site using Bootstrap—but instead of downloading the files, I had linked it to the CDN. When the internet went down? My beautiful layout collapsed into unstyled chaos. (And yes, I used AI to help with the frontend—I'm a backend dev, and I'll admit I didn't have the offline front-end skills to fix it quickly.)

That was just one small example. Imagine your payment APIs failing. Your auth services timing out. Your deployment pipelines breaking. Entire products becoming unusable—not because of bugs, but because the internet vanished.

Yet when people imagine "coding without AI," few consider "coding without Google." And almost no one talks about losing the internet entirely—despite it being far more harmful than an AI shutdown.
So here's my challenge to you:

The internet could go down tomorrow. You have 30GB of offline storage to prepare a "developer survival kit." What do you save—and why?

This is my first actual post on any site, so please forgive me for any minor mistakes I have made. The whole point of this is that we shouldn't take AI for granted—but we also shouldn't take the internet for granted. It's time to start packing our survival kit. I'm not sure about you, but I'd rather go through anything, and I mean ANYTHING than live another day without the internet.

What telegram channels have you joined as a dev?

Mythorian — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 12:32:41 +0000

Hi. I'm not sure if should be asking this here but honestly this is one of the very few communities i know of. I'm a student.I have college entrance exams next year and am trying my best to study. now the only fun in my life is coding and looking around Dev.to and recently i have been using telegram a lot. suddenly I realized that there are a lot of cool channels i could join. I'm personally a python programmer and Dev.to has helped me broaden my horizons A LOT. I'm just curious what kind of channels you think is useful for a dev? maybe even other online communities.

I need a replacement for vscode

Mythorian — Thu, 29 May 2025 18:24:14 +0000

I use django and im on ubuntu. i used vscode until recently whenever i start it the whole laptop goes crazy slow as hell. i want a faster ide but im not that experienced in diffrent ide's and the options are just driving me crazy! also i dont really care about privacy problems . can you guys please help>

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If the internet went down tomorrow, would your code still run?

What telegram channels have you joined as a dev?

I need a replacement for vscode