🚀 Transformers.js v4 update: We've migrated from webpack to esbuild. Results: - Build time: 2s → <200ms (10x faster) - Bundle size: 10-50% smaller Sometimes it's not about new features. It's about building a more robust architecture that makes everything else possible🔥. github.com/huggingface/...

Happy new year🍾

Passkeys aren't just more secure because of the tech, but also because of UX. Normally I would max out session tokens to avoid typing email/pw. Now with passkeys? Login is one click. Reauthenticate every time? Absolutely no problem..

I made myself a little Christmas present: a workout tracker that runs 100% offline in your browser. I's built entirely with Claude Code, zero manual coding, just conversations. Every component, every database query, even the deployment config. pumpel.nico.dev

Last week Google released FunctionGemma, a tiny open model for tool calling. And of course it does work in Transformers.js🔥! The remarkable part? This example uses the q4 variant, which only works because it's fine-tuned (locally) to the specific functions!

This is a todo app. BUT, it was entirely coded by Qwen3 Coder 30B running locally via LM Studio on my Mac M3. All within Claude Code. One prompt, done. No cloud. No API costs. Just a really good 30B model and agentic coding.

Are there any #WebAI people around edinburgh?

I'm pretty stoked to release a little side-project. The Language Model Polyfill, a cross platform polyfill for the Prompt API based on Transformers.js and the Qwen3-4B model: github.com/nico-martin/...

Can we take a moment to appreciate how good the Islands theme looks in @jetbrains.com 2025.3? The design team absolutely nailed it🥰

After an incredible year of conferences, I'm looking at 2026 with a fresh slate✨. Which conferences should be on my radar? Always happy to connect with organizers! I love creating and speaking about hands-on demos around WebML, Transformers.js, and bringing AI to browsers.

Did you know that you can use Transformers.js with the @vercel.com AI SDK? Huuuge shout out to www.jakobhoeg.dev for building an on-device AI provider! github.com/jakobhoeg/bu...

Hello London, nice to be back😊 Somehow, in recent years, it has turned out that the last conference of the year has almost always been in London🇬🇧. Really looking forward to @reactadvanced.gitnation.org! Workshop tomorrow, conference on Friday😊

#WebGPU is now supported in all major browsers! 🎉 web.dev/blog/webgpu-...

👀 I am working on something pretty cool.. Hopefully, it will soon be possible to try #Apertus 🇨🇭 directly in your browser, powered by Transformers.js 🎉

🎉 Transformers.js v3.8.0 is out! ✨ What's new: - EdgeTAM support added - Supertonic TTS support added - SAM2/SAM3 support added 🔧 What's fixed: - add_prefix_space=true for metaspace pretokenizer (backwards compatibility) - small typo fix in ImageProcessor

Full house today at code.talks 🤗

📢 New blog post! Running Node.js 🐢🚀 in a Hugging Face 🤗 Space: blog.tomayac.com/2025/11/03/r... I found out about Hugging Face Spaces and that it supports Docker, which allowed me to create an evergreen template for running Node.js in a Hugging Face Space.

My office on wheels for today👷. Sometimes it's hard to leave the snow-covered mountains. But for the @programmier.bar, I'm happy to do so!😊 Soon at #ProgrammierCon

🎉 Transformers.js v3.7.6 is out! ✨ What's new: - NanoChat (by @karpathy.bsky.social) support added - Parakeet CTC (by Nvidia) support added 🔧 What's fixed: - Fixed temperature=0 with do_sample=true - Type error fixes

@nico.dev learning us how to build K.I.T.T. with Javascript.

My talk from @nordicjs.com is available on youtube🤗

"the early bird catches the worm" - lets hope I'm the bird and not the worm😅. Soon at #DevfestNantes @gdgnantes.bsky.social 🤗

Back from @nordicjs.com, there are many, many impressions to process. It was my first time at @nordicjs.com. In fact, it was my first time in Stockholm or even Sweden. But it certainly won't be my last!

Don't worry. I won't be posting every PR here. But yesterday, my first PR was merged into Transformers.js 🎉🥳. The first of many😊. Its not huge, but it solves a problem I faced myself when setting the temperature to 0 when working with LLMs. github.com/huggingface/...

Thank you @nordicjs.com! It was so cool to be part of this amazing conference! In case you haven't been able to scan the qr code for my slides, you find them here: slides.nico.dev/251002-no-ha...

Looks like my first day at @hf.co will mainly consist of traveling. Soon in Stockholm and ready for @nordicjs.com 😍

Do you remember #Jarvis, the AI Assistant from Iron Man? I just built one entirely in #JavaScript as an #MCP-Client powered by #TransformersJS. It's a local-first assistant that runs completely in the browser on your machine. No API calls, no cloud dependency!

Nico Martin @nico.dev, Machine Learning Engineer at @hf.co & GDE in AI + Web, is joining Nordic.js! His talk “Look ma, no hands! Multimodal AI-Agents in the Browser” shows how real AI runs client-side. No cloud, no install. 🚀

Awesome Conference in an awesome City. What more could you ask for? 😍

The #CFP for #ReactParis is online. I have had the honor of speaking twice, and both times were unforgettable. The conference is superbly organized, the audience is fantastic, and the speaker activities surrounding it were amazing every time! 👇

Had this on my list for quite some time: installing #Linux on one of my old laptops. So here we go. #Omarchy on my 10y+ Lenovo Thinkpad. Before it was suuuper slow and barely usable with Windows 10, now its actually quite nice😊

In one of my #WebAI demos I switched from React to @preactjs.com. That means around 40KB less to download. Instead of 7'131'943 KB its now just 7'131'903 KB 🎉. Follow me for more performance tips!

I built a small #MCP wrapper around the #JokeAPI so AI Agents can finally be funny! github.com/nico-martin/...

Tomorrow I will be at #BärnerJSTalks and show a few updates on KITT. For example, with #TransformersJS I have reduced the initial response time from about 8sec to just one second! www.meetup.com/barner-js-ta...

Made it! My goal was <60min. Ended up with 55:48 and I think I could have pushed myself a bit harder. Anyways, I'm super proud of the journey😊💪

It's out! I'll be speaking at @nordicjs.com 🎉

Later this year, programmier.con will take place in Bad Nauheim for the first time. The event is being organized by @programmier.bar one of my favorite podcasts! And I'm extremely excited to be a part of it! www.programmier.bar/konferenzen/...

Small LLMs (like in this case #Qwen3 4b) can be tricky to work with. Some times you just need to be persistent. Very persistent.

Yesterday I did my first full 10k. At 6'15. One month to go and I'm pretty confident😊

Sometimes I feel bad for my non-developer friends. They will never experience the satisfaction of refactoring a junk of poorly typed JavaScript (FlowJS) to TypeScript🤤

Beyond happy to announce that I'm joining 🤗 @hf.co as a #MachineLearningEngineer focused on #WebML!

My goal is <60min. And I think that is possible. I usually do a similar route. Between 6 and 9km. And my pace is progressing quite a bit over the last weeks: 7'17 7'32 6'29 6'44 6'20 6'10

Does anyone here know anyone from @anthropic.com? I've built a streamable HTTP #MCP server. Everything works perfectly in the MCP Inspector. But I cant use it in #claude. It just wont find the tools.. memory-mcp.nico.dev/mcp

My talk from @jsnation.gitnation.org in Amsterdam has been published. It was great fun🎉! gitnation.com/contents/let...

So I've built a little #MCP Server that connects #Claude with my #BankAccount. Not sure if it's a good idea, but it works🎉

Bye bye banking👋 I handed in my #resignation at aity AG last week. Not because I lost interest, quite the contrary! I got a unique opportunity to work full-time on an amazing project in #WebAI that perfectly matches my personal interests. More details soon... ✨

This is amazing! @hf.co just released their latest 3B LLM. #SmolLM3 is not only leading in a lot of the benchmarks, but is also the only model that is fully #OpenSource! huggingface.co/blog/smollm3

I signed up for my first 10km run😅! Two years ago I could barely walk upstairs due to injuries from my intense skiing in the past. After physio and cycling (lots of cycling), I'm finally jogging again. My knee's holding up, so it's time for the next challenge. Wish me luck🍀!

I think #ClaudeCode as an IDE plugin is currently the best compromise between #VibeCoding and hand coding. It helps where you ask for it, but leaves me in charge of the code. I'm pretty amazed by the developer experience😍

Every speaker has their #BucketListConference. The conferences they really want to speak at, but never got the opportunity. Well, on my list there was only one. And just today I got my invitation🎉. Hope to share more soon! ✨