Using uv to develop Python command-line applications

I wanted to know how large the deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-Base repo on Hugging Face was without actually downloading all of the files. With some help from Claude, here's the recipe that worked. First, clone the repo without having Git LFS download the files: GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-Base cd...

I was exploring the original BERT model from 2018, which is mainly useful if you fine-tune a model on top of it for a specific task. dslim/distilbert-NER by David S. Lim is a popular implementation of this, with around 20,000 downloads from Hugging Face every month. I tried the demo from the README but it didn't quite work - it complained about...

I was getting the following warning for one of my Python test suites: DeprecationWarning: datetime.datetime.utcnow() is deprecated and scheduled for removal in a future version. Use timezone-aware objects to represent datetimes in UTC: datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC). I also saw a deprecation warning elsewhere for my usage of...

Here's what I learned about publishing a single file JavaScript package to NPM for my Prompts.js project. The code is in simonw/prompts-js on GitHub. The NPM package is prompts-js. A simple single file client-side package For this project, I wanted to create an old-fashioned JavaScript file that you could include in a web page using a tag. No...

My tools.simonwillison.net site is a growing collection of small HTML and JavaScript applications hosted as static files on GitHub Pages. Many of those tools take advantage of external APIs such as those provided by OpenAI and Anthropic and Google Gemini, thanks to the increasingly common access-control-allow-origin: * CORS header. I want to...