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- Pen and paper design and thinking, then writing it down once I am homeby paretolaw
- i used to connect my phone via USB Tethering. If a network strictly blocks certain websites or port connections, plug in you phone, turn on USB tethering, and bypass the entire local network security by using your mobile data instead. Some of my friends used to set up automated bots or private channels on platforms like Discord or Telegram (or even SMS) to send small snippets of code to a server at home, which runs the code and replies back with the terminal output.by itsub_sa
- Carry a bootable USB drive with an OS of your choice. Boot up and work off that live environment, if the system will allow booting from a USB drive.
GitHub Codespaces, or any similar platform, may also be an option.
by al_borland - When I was making gears, there was an un-networked PC that I was given access to, to develop a program to track gear hobs.
I used git to sync it with a usb thumb drive so I could keep a copy in sync at home.
Edit: sadly it seems I've lost the source to that program 8(
In the long ago, we used PKzip to archive our source code on 1.44 mb floppy disks.
Before that, we didn't have hard drives, so we made copies of our 5 1/4” floppies with tape over the write protect slot. We also had multiple "good" copies of our boot disks, write protected, just in case.
by mikewarot