Publishing a simple client-side JavaScript package to npm with GitHub Actions

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...

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...

I really like Cog (previously) as a tool for automating aspects of my Python project documentation - things like the SQL schemas shown on the LLM logging page. When using cog in this way it's important to remember to run cog -r to update those generated files before pushing a commit. I've previously been enforcing this using GitHub Actions - as...