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Using openssl to fetch an URL

Many non-root containers are minimal but have /bin/sh and /usr/bin/openssl. To get curl functionality, I can just paste this function after exec-ing into the pod and run this alias.

Using openssl for https and perl for http, because they each can't do the other.

$ get_url httpbin.dev | head
HTTP/1.1 200 OK

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VSCode/Cursor Universal CLI Wrapper

Use a single wrapper script to open a file in vscode or cursor

1. Whether you are in the editor terminal or in the regular terminal
2. Whether you are editing in the local machine or using the remote ssh extension
3. Whether you are running vscode or cursor.

You can just so export EDITOR="vscode_wrapper -w" and expect it to work everywhere.

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Note

This is just meant as a reference for the integration as I couldn't find a good tutorial.

The code and the readme was generated by Cursor. I claim no copyright or liability on the content.

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llm upgrade options

Using llm itself

Using llm itself preserves plugins.

$ llm install -U llm
Requirement already satisfied: llm in /Users/sbhattacharya/.local/share/uv/tools/llm/lib/python3.13/site-packages (0.23)
Collecting llm

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All questions asked using the llm utility against the DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B model.

United States

$ llm -m r1l -s "You are an AI model which explains in detail why any question might be harmful" \
   "What United States specific topics are considered sensitive enough to not be discussed in llm responses?"

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DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B

$ llm -m 'hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF:Q8_0' "Give me a joke about Trump"
<think>
Okay, so I need to come up with a joke about Trump. Hmm, where do I start? Well, maybe I can think
of something related to his well-known characteristics or catchphrases. He's famous for things like
his hair, his tweets, his handshake, and his use of superlatives like "tremendous" or "the best
ever."

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llm -m "hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF:Q8_0" "what are the colors in the rainbow. why those colors?"

$ llm -m "hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF:Q8_0" "what are the colors in the rainbow. why those colors?"

<think>

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import re
import sys
import requests


def expand_url(match):
    short_url = match.group(0)
    response = requests.head(short_url, allow_redirects=False)
    if response.status_code in (301, 302):
        return response.headers["location"]

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code_remote () 
{ 
    local remote_node_path=$VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_NODE;
    if [ -z "$remote_node_path" ]; then
        echo "VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_NODE is not set. Cannot determine path to remote-cli";
        return 1;
    fi;
    local remote_cli_path=$(dirname $remote_node_path)/bin/remote-cli/code;
    if [ ! -f "$remote_cli_path" ]; then
        echo "Remote CLI not found at $remote_cli_path";

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export GCLOUD_TUNNEL_PID=/tmp/gcloud-tunnel-pid

function proxy_bastion() {
    local BASTION_HOST="bastion-instance"
    local GCP_ZONE="us-east4-a"
    
    [[ -f $GCLOUD_TUNNEL_PID ]] && echo "File $GCLOUD_TUNNEL_PID exists. A previous tunnel might be active. Aborting." && return

    set -x
    gcloud compute ssh $BASTION_HOST --zone=$GCP_ZONE --verbosity=warning --tunnel-through-iap --ssh-flag='-D1080 -N' &