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pngwn @pngwn.at · 25/09/2026

Just released a new twinkleplop version with some significant performance improvements across both tokenisation and rendering! I finally had time to go back and explore a few other ideas. I was also slightly annoyed that I wasn't faster on all sizes. twinkleplop.pngwn.at/docs/benchma...

A bar chart showing a 72% performance increase in twinkleplop version 0.2.2 over the previous version

A smaller set of bar charts show language specific gains:

- html, 68%
- javascript, 57%
- json, 77%
- markdown, 121%
- python, 45%
- rust, 58%
- sql, 76%
- svelte, 84%
- toml, 81%
- tsx, 41%
- typescript, 42%

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 22/09/2026

After about a year, on and off, I am veeeery happy to release TWINKLEPLOP, a syntax highlighter of tremendous power! The speed of prism with the customisation of Shiki. twinkleplop.pngwn.at

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 09/09/2026

Why is Paul McCartney on Albanian cigarette packs?

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 08/09/2026

When training is finished, ML Intern can push the results to the Hub, generate a report, or even build and deploy a demo in Spaces.

A screenshot of a Hugging Face collection containing a dataset, a model, and a space.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 08/09/2026

From there, ML Intern can create repos, generate datasets, train models and monitor progress as jobs run. Every training run gets a Trackio dashboard so you can follow along.

A screenshot of trackio dashboard showing live training metrics.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 08/09/2026

After you’ve chosen something to build, ML Intern estimates the compute required and recommends a budget. Once approved, that budget is enforced by the system rather than editable by the model.

A screenshot of ML Intern in HuggingChat showing the budget confirmation screen prior to doing any work.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 08/09/2026

ML Intern will research the topic before building. It has access to @hf.co, @github.com, the web and compute, so it can ground its work in real models, datasets, papers and tools.

A screenshot showing ML Intern in HuggingChat presenting its research on the paper "Muon is Not That Special: Random or Inverted Spectra Work Just as Well" after calling it's research tool and reasoning about the results.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 08/09/2026

You can start with a specific ML task or just have a conversation about what’s possible within your constraints.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 08/09/2026

You shouldn’t need to be an ML expert to have an ML idea. Today we’re launching ML Intern in HuggingChat. Start with a conversation. Finish with deployable artefacts.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 25/07/2026

what they do in private is none of your business, claude.

A text snippet from an agent reading: "[...] since the other two agents are hammering the box."

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 09/06/2026

Anthropic have abandoned all pretence and finally admitted that they are just drug dealers.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 20/04/2026

can your syntax highlighter do this?

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 11/04/2026

can your syntax highlighter correctly highlight css-in-js-in-html-in-js?

A highlighted code snippet showing the correct highlighting for a javascript function containing an html tagged template literal rendering html, which itself has a css tagged template literal containing CSS. All highlighted correctly as JS, HTML, and CSS, as appropriate.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 03/04/2026

Added proper HTML parsing too. People are really into their custom components, so added support to the SvelteDOM renderer. Coming together nicely.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 01/04/2026

I created a swift renderer for my incremental parser. True incremental parsing and generation on a server with true(ish) incremental rendering on the client.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 29/03/2026

Unfortunately it doesn't handle ambiguous nodes correctly. It optimisitically handles `*hello` correctly but it never corrects it when a new paragraph or EOF is encountered. Streamdown has a similar issue. We need to render optimisitically while streaming but correct any errors when we know more.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 29/03/2026

I got tables working nice

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 28/03/2026

In an age of LLMs and streaming text, we need to stop trying to get markdown to play ball and restrict the syntax. I specced a stricter markdown sub(er)set several years ago and wondered if it was strict enough to support true streaming. Turns out penguin flavoured markdown was ahead of its time.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 15/12/2025

I’m in Ko Lanta, Thailand right now and though I don’t take stuff from beaches I was marvelling at the beauty of the coral. I thought they would make the most stunning toggles and closures. Then I saw this cute little hermit crab. An important reminder that we are guests here.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 04/12/2025

Why is no one talking about the fact that ChatGPT got a mouth in 5.1.

A screenshot of ChatGPT saying: “Honestly, the best pizzas I've eaten outside Italy have always been the ones that stopped pretending to be somewhere else.”

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 09/11/2025

There is also the enormous variety of tiny spoons which I also love.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 22/10/2025

The new @github.com explore page recommend the JavaScript language to me. Never heard of it. Excited to dig in.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 11/10/2025

I originally created this UI for my WIP syntax highlighter but it seems to have other uses too.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 11/10/2025

When writing parsers your tooling can never be good enough. But i'm pretty happy with this.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 09/09/2025

What's really cool is the CSS Highlight API is based around Range objects. These are really powerful primitives because they can capture a series of DOM elements or even parts of a text node. And you can access positional information of those ranges, enabling stuff like this.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 07/09/2025

They stack too, which is kinda cool.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 08/08/2025

I enjoy creative use of language as much as the next person but “breastfeeding”… Courtesy of GPT-5.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 28/07/2025

Turkey isn’t just cute cats begging for food. It is also cute dogs begging for food.

A young dog staring up into the camera, in anticipation of some kind of treat (a treat that was swiftly given).

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 27/06/2025

But do you have a fetish for small cubes of metal? Love this experiment but I genuinely laughed at this. Hilarious.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 25/06/2025

Gradio is about to load much faster! I spent sometime taking care of most of our major performance issues. Coming soon!!

A chart showing the bundle size performance difference between the current version and a future version of gradio. The network transfer reduced from 1.4MB to 0.275MB (an 80% reduction). The resource size went from a whopping 7.4MB down to 0.983MB (an 87% reduction).

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 22/06/2025

There is a little house overlooking it and I think I would like to live there. Although it is built into the cliff and looks a little bit like it could collapse into the sea at any moment.

A sheltered cove of the coast of Kaş, Turkey. In the distance a small house built into the cliffs overlooks the scene.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 22/06/2025

When I travel I don’t really compare places but sometimes you find somewhere that has a good shout for the best place in the world. This little cove in Kaş ticks all of the boxes. ✓ peaceful ✓ sheltered ✓ easy access to the water ✓ little rocks were I can sit ✓ weird hot/ cold mixy water

A sheltered cove of the coast of Kaş, Turkey. Looking out towards the sea. The coastline is visible on the right while the peninsula is visible in the distance. The warm oxidised limestone terrain frames the pristine blue-green waters.

A sheltered cove of the coast of Kaş, Turkey. Looking from one side of cover to another. A shallow blue-green sea entrance is visible in the centre, flanked by high limestone cliffs. A small flat rock shelf is visible in the foreground.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 17/06/2025

I don’t like the new liquid glass look but lots of apps have much better UX in iOS 26 which is good. This, however, should be some kind of UX crime. I keep pressing the wrong ‘x’. It is infuriating .

A screenshot of the search menu in Apple Music in iOS 26. There is an ‘x’ inside the text input to clear the current search but there is another, larger, x to the right of it which closes the search window entirely.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 14/06/2025

I’m increasingly convinced that where and how you eat are as important as what you eat.

A view from a dining table in Kaş, Turkey. In the foreground a bar-style table and chairs are clearly visible. A pergola-type structure frames an idyllic view of Kaş, harbour. The masts of small boats jut into a pristine blue sky while a manmade breakwater forms an almost gallery-like pedestal, elevating the distant island of Kastellorizo (originally Megisti in Greek or Meis in Turkish).

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 13/06/2025

Met this little monster in Turkey today. I stopped to play for a bit which in puppy language means “I’m gonna bite you with my razor sharp teeth”. I made a poor decision because he then decided to change me down the street biting my ankles.

A cute puppy lying in a Turkish street, taking a well earned break from biting me with his razor sharp puppy teeth. Shortly after this photograph was taken, the massacre was resumed, preserving the delicate balance between peace and chaos in the universe.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 11/06/2025

As a side-effect of the @gradio-hf.bsky.social hackathon, we may have just accidentally created the largest open source collection of MCP servers. If you are curious about what can be done with MCP you should really check them out, it’s pretty wild: huggingface.co/spaces?filte...

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 03/06/2025

We have just launched the @gradio-hf.bsky.social hackathon but it isn’t too late to enter! The hackathon has over 1 million dollars in credits and prizes! For all of my svelte friends, there is something here for you too! One of the tracks is ‘custom components’, which are all written in svelte!

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 31/05/2025

I visited Rhodes old town today and at first I was slightly annoyed at the busy tourist-centred streets. But i started to reflect on what exactly it is that I think I want and why this is so bad. It made me think about my own relationship with tourism and our (or my) obsession with ‘authenticity’.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 29/05/2025

Next week, we are hosting a hackathon where you can win actual money!! Build something cool and agenty with gradio to win prizes!! huggingface.co/Agents-MCP-H...

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 16/05/2025

I’ve been away from the sea for a few weeks and I started to get a bit worried. So I went to check on it. It’s still there and doing well. I’ll keep you updated.

A pristine blue sky over a cinematic shot of the sea from a beach in Barcelona. Two parallel stone jetties draw the eye into the distance.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 25/04/2025

The image comparison tool of your dreams will be available in a @gradio-hf.bsky.social app near you very soon! Even has a fancy full screen mode for when you /really/ need to zoom in on the details! (yes it can zoom too) Are you ready?!

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 19/04/2025

But I really don’t want to. Like at all.

An image containing text reading “You can now chat with your SQL database”.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 19/04/2025

I was visited by my cat friend to keep me company for my morning coffee. Glimmers they say.

A cute grey, white and black cat sleeping on a cushion.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 16/04/2025

Okay! I figured out how to add rounded corners and it was more complicated that I expected. But it lives! I might need to tweak it because although it is technically correct, depending on the width of the stroke it can be a little annoying. Will see.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 14/04/2025

The finest image slider in all the land will be coming to a @gradio-hf.bsky.social app near you soon!

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 13/04/2025

I made another critical optimisation. You can have 'open circles' with this tool but when dealing with open dashed shapes, it is critical that the path is bookended by dashes, otherwise you cant see where it ends. It adds a little complexity but the effect is worth it imo.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 13/04/2025

The way it works is pretty fun. Here are the main shapes outlined. We do a bunch of circle maths to convert the values into SVG paths but critically we create individual start and end caps, place them at their 'natural' position and then apply a negative rotation (max) depending on progress.

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pngwn @pngwn.at · 13/04/2025

Since the animation is actually control externally (you just pass a 0-1 progress value), you can essentially 'seek', respecting any easing provided.

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