Articles for category: AI Tools

How to Set Up Your Git Workspace on a PC

Today’s post is all about the command line. It doesn’t matter if you have a PC or a Mac. You can use the command line on any type of computer you have. I have a PC so I’ll be using the PC commands. I learned how to use the command line in Skillcrush 104 when I began learning Ruby. This was very frustrating to use because every command I tried wouldn’t work for me. I wanted to pull my hair each time I got an error. Despite the frustration, I didn’t give up, and it gradually became easier. Today I

Results of the Open Source AI Game Jam

From July 7th to July 11th, we hosted our first Open Source AI Game Jam, an exciting event that challenged game developers to create innovative games within a tight 48-hour window using AI. The primary objective was to create games that incorporate at least one Open Source AI Tool. Although proprietary AI tools were allowed, we encouraged participants to integrate open-source tools into their game or workflow. The response to our initiative was beyond our expectations, with over 1300 signups and the submission of 88 amazing games. You can try them here 👉 https://itch.io/jam/open-source-ai-game-jam/entries The Theme: Expanding To inspire creativity,

Essential White Papers for Senior Software Engineers: Advanced Reading for Technical Leadership

As a senior software engineer, your role extends beyond writing code to architecting complex systems, making critical design decisions, and guiding technical strategy. The white papers on this list address advanced concepts that will help you navigate these responsibilities with confidence and wisdom. System Design at Scale “Designing for Scale and High Availability: Lessons from Google and eBay” by Randy Shoup (2010) Read the paper This paper explores architectural patterns for building highly available and scalable distributed systems, drawing from experiences at Google and eBay. It provides insights into effective partitioning strategies, data replication techniques, and service-oriented architectures. “Large-scale Incremental

Give tools to your LLMs using JavaScript

We have recently been working on Agents.js at huggingface.js. It’s a new library for giving tool access to LLMs from JavaScript in either the browser or the server. It ships with a few multi-modal tools out of the box and can easily be extended with your own tools and language models. Installation Getting started is very easy, you can grab the library from npm with the following: npm install @huggingface/agents Usage The library exposes the HfAgent object which is the entry point to the library. You can instantiate it like this: import { HfAgent } from "@huggingface/agents"; const HF_ACCESS_TOKEN =

Develop Webapps for Everyone: A Guide to Web Accessibility

Introduction We all heard the term Web Accessibility when we started frontend development, but we often forgot to consider this while developing large scale apps. In this blog, let’s talk about something that should be on all our radars but often gets pushed to the backburner: web accessibility. Why Accessibility Matters We’ve all been there—racing to meet deadlines, juggling feature requests, and trying to keep up with the latest framework updates. In that rush, accessibility can feel like “just another requirement” on a long checklist. But here’s the truth: when we build sites that only work for people without disabilities,

Open ML Considerations in the EU AI Act

Like everyone else in Machine Learning, we’ve been following the EU AI Act closely at Hugging Face. It’s a ground-breaking piece of legislation that is poised to shape how democratic inputs interact with AI technology development around the world. It’s also the outcome of extensive work and negotiations between organizations representing many different components of society – a process we’re particularly sensitive to as a community-driven company. In the present position paper written in coalition with Creative Commons, Eleuther AI, GitHub, LAION, and Open Future, we aim to contribute to this process by sharing our experience of the necessary role

🔥 The ULTIMATE Guide to Writing VIRAL Posts on Dev.to 🌟

Are you ready to take your Dev.to game to the next level? 💪 If you’re here, it means you’re not just looking for basic advice—you want advanced, actionable, and data-driven strategies to write posts that go viral, spark conversations, and establish you as a thought leader in the developer community. 🧠💡 In this monster guide, we’ll explore EVERYTHING you need to know about crafting viral posts on Dev.to—from mastering psychological triggers to leveraging advanced SEO techniques. By the end of this post, you’ll have a treasure chest of pro-level tips, tricks, and strategies to create content that captivates, engages, and