SirTunnel VS clamshell

If you want to self-host, there are many options. For something production ready frp is probably what you want. If you're a developer, I'd recommend starting with my own SirTunnel project and modifying it for your needs. For non-developers and those wanting more of a GUI experience, I created boringproxy. It's my take on a comprehensive tunnel proxy solution. It's in beta but currently solves almost everything I want. Once the server is running this is a very easy tool to use and has some nice features.

* Great examples which provided inspiration include Cloudflare tunnel, Tailscale Funnel, SirTunnel, Localhost.run, Fractual Mosaic, Pinggy, Tunll, and of course, the original Ngrok.

All you need is a cheap VPS with decent transfer allowance (RAM and CPU doesn't matter much) and this

Personally I'd recommend setting up a one-time ssh remote tunnel on a VPS. That's essentially what SirTunnel does. If that works, try adding Caddy in front of it to get auto-HTTPS.

This is well made case - but I'm not sure I buy the central argument. Within some basic limits, I don't think terseness and readability have the contradiction made out here, because in programming we have abstraction, which gives us both.

To take the example command that's given:

beef.txt | grep "lasagna" | sort -n | uniq

Sure, writing the logic out for this in something like python straight out the bat with only the standard library might look messy, but with one basic convenience function it could quickly be:

search(for='lasagna', in='beef.txt', clear_duplicates=False).sorted()

Obviously you have to write the function in the first place, but I'd say if you're doing something like this often, it's easily worth spending that 2 minutes. And if you're not doing this often, you'll have a faster time writing more code, but keeping less heavy lifting of "how does bash pipe together" in your head.

I shared a project here a few weeks ago experimenting with what my dream shell might look like, what surprised me more than anything else, was how easy writing a repl environment actually is. I put a scrappy one together as one person in a few hours, so I don't understand why as developers we've reached general language models before being able to make a powerful, but new-user friendly shell.

Also, completely unrelated note, but posix only allows passing back strings - but isn't this true of web apis too which we use all the time? How come no json as a standard passback from programs?

Shameless plug for the project I mentioned earlier: https://github.com/benrutter/clamshell

clamshell – experimenting with a python based shell

Check it out here!