Claudecode

Claude Code is Anthropic’s official CLI tool for interacting with Claude models directly from your terminal. By default, it connects to Anthropic’s API, but sometimes you may want to use a different LLM provider — for cost savings, privacy, or to experiment with alternative models. In this guide, I’ll show how to redirect Claude Code requests through a LiteLLM proxy, allowing you to swap in any compatible model while keeping the Claude Code interface you’re familiar with. ...

Why would you need this? The standard Claude Code installer runs curl ... | bash and downloads the binary on the fly. That works great — unless your Mac can’t reach the internet. Corporate networks with strict firewalls, air-gapped environments, or simply a flaky hotel Wi-Fi can all get in the way. The fix is simple: download the binary on a machine that does have internet, transfer it, and run the built-in installer. ...

TL;DR Create an AWS account, S3 bucket in a cheap region, and a dedicated IAM user with minimal S3 related permissions Install & configure AWS CLI on the machine that will do the upload Stage 1 — Archive: Run glacier_archive_split.sh to compress source folders into ~100GB .tar.gz chunks across two transit disks (uses pigz for fast parallel compression) Stage 2 — Upload: Run glacier_upload.sh to upload archives to S3 Glacier Deep Archive via resumable multipart upload (100MB parts, crash-safe) Cost: ~$1/month per TB stored; uploads are free; full retrieval of 1TB costs ~$96 (mostly data transfer out) Safety: original data is never touched, every upload is verified, resume survives power outages (loses at most ~100MB) This post has CLAUDE.md file so you can update setup according to your needs via Claude Code. ...