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Thanks to everyone who joined us on the Gurten. see you next year 🏔️ And a huge thanks to Matthias, Christian, @johanngyger.com, Roland, Christof, Marco and Tobias for organizing this with me!

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And my on-stage-contribution this year? I got to moderate the open source panel with @benburtenshaw.bsky.social, @jonny.io, Panos Vagenas and @rjourdan.com.

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@devdevcharlie.com closed the day with creative and experimental AI interfaces, demoed live on stage. perfect way to end a conference.

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@osanseviero.bsky.social walked through what Gemma4 means for on-device AI. New benchmarks, solid technical depth.

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Imanol Schlag gave us a behind-the-scenes look at Apertus, a fully open research project from Switzerland. can't wait for 1.5.

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 26/03/2026

My learning from Uphill Conf '26: being a speaker is so much easier than being an organizer 😅 After the last two years on stage, I switched sides. Nine months of prep, a lot of group chats, and one very humbling ropes course at the speaker event later, we pulled it off!

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I'm working on something pretty exciting🥰

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 11/03/2026

Getting started with AI in the browser has never been easier 🤗 Today we're releasing the Transformers.js #AgentSkill, your shortcut to running ML models in the browser. It provides all the information your coding agent needs to add on-device AI to your web app.

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 24/02/2026

TranslateGemma 4B by Google now runs 100% in your browser on WebGPU with Transformers.js v4. 55 languages. No server. No data leaks. Works offline. A 4B parameter translation powerhouse, right in your browser. Try the demo 👇

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 21/02/2026

Exciting news: this year I'm joining the organizing team of @uphillconf for the first time! 🎉 For the past two years, I've had the opportunity to give a talk, and each time it was a fantastic experience. That's why I decided to actively participate in the planning this year😊

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 08/02/2026

We rearranged our apartment a bit and I had to move my office. A good time for some new paint and a few new plants🥰.

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 14/01/2026

Over the Christmas holidays, I built three apps to replace my Google Sheets workflows: - 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸: A budget tracker that imports bank transactions and allows us to categorize them - 𝗣𝘂𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗹: A gym tracker - 𝗛𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘀: A daily habit tracker

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 30/12/2025

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

🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 24/12/2025

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!

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 24/12/2025

Starting point: Empty React/TypeScript/Tailwind/Vite app Model: Qwen3 Coder 30B via LM Studio (local) Tool: Claude Code CLI Prompt:

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 24/12/2025

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.

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 12/12/2025

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

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 26/11/2025

Okay, the electronics are working fine so far.😅

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 26/11/2025

Unfortunately, not everyone survived the flight without damage. I really hope it's just the lego-case and not the electronics🫣. Stay tuned..

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 26/11/2025

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😊

🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 21/11/2025

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

Experimental Git branch to support Apertus in the browser with Transformers.js

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 20/11/2025

🎉 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

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 05/11/2025

Full house today at code.talks 🤗

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 28/10/2025

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

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 21/10/2025

🎉 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

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 14/10/2025

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

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The next day the afterparty started with "Code in the dark". 8 people have 15' to build a website from a screenshot. The catch: they write the html/css but they can never see a preview until the end. The energy in that room was pretty insane 😅

My talk went great, despite my nerves about presenting it for the first time😅. I was happy, even though a couple demos didn't go exactly as planned, but that's what can happen with live LLM demos. LLMs, which by definition are non-deterministic😄.

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And then there were the talks. Two days, one stage, excellent speakers, and a schedule that worked perfectly. In terms of topics, there was a wonderful mix of UI, compilers, AI, the Web and general industry topics.

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The conference and everything surrounding it was unique. So much attention to detail. At the entrance, you were greeted with live music, there was a ball pit, handcrafting tables, sweets, gifts, ... far too much to list everything.

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 01/10/2025

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!

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

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🤷 Nico Martin @nico.dev · 30/09/2025

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!