Coding in the Dark: How Local Gemma 4 Saved My Python Progress During Ukrainian Blackouts

Hey everyone! 👋 I’m a student developer from Ukraine🇺🇦️, currently diving deep into the worlds of Django and Machine Learning. Like many of you, I spend my days (and nights) battling bugs and learning new frameworks. But there’s one "bug" I can’t fix with a simple pip install: the blackouts😔️ Because of the ongoing war, our power grid is often under attack. One minute I’m coding a new feature, and the next—total darkness. Silence. No Wi-Fi. No Google. No ChatGPT. For a long time, this mea...