Tools

Label-Studio: Annotate Text and Image Data for AI and ML training

A few months ago I used streamlit to build a simple UI, so I can collect manually labeled data for a LLM fine-tuning task at work. Streamlit is fine, but the full process of creating a nice UI with required functionalities for data annotation and data storage management wasn’t trivial. Today I found out about label-studio which is an easy to use framework (backend and frontend) for data annotation task. It provides various annotation templates for text, image, audio, and video data! ...

Pydantic Logfire for LLM and API Observability

I’ve been using sentry for automatically logging the errors and exceptions of my python projects. A few months ago I needed to log some information if a specific condition is true in my side project’s backend, but I wasn’t able to do this with sentry. It apparently can only work when something fails, and you can’t capture log messages if there’s no failure or exception. I looked for an affordable and user friendly observability tool and settled on using axiom . It has a generous 500GB ingestion on free tier plan, but you can only view the events for the past 30 days time period. So I’ve been exporting the logs every month into a csv file, since I want to be able to view the trend of some behaviours over time. ...

Classless Css Libraries

For small web projects that you don’t want to get large CSS frameworks like Tailwind to be involved, the classless CSS libraries can be very handy. You just 1-2 lines into the head of the html and get beautifully styled pages. Here are a few classless CSS libraries you can use: concrete.css water.css pico css simple css classless.de mvp.css NES.css drop-in minimal css Usage example To use water.css , just paste this into the <head> of your HTML: ...

Color Palette Generators

I stumbled upon a hackernews thread where people have recommended many interesting tools to help with generating color palettes for various use cases. I’m creating this list for my future self, and will add other options whenever I come across one. uicolors.app : I’ve used this one when working on redesigning the user interface for my latest side project. The nice feature of uicolors.app is its Tailwind export functionality which allows you to quickly export the color palette as a Tailwind config code snippet. tints.dev : Palette Generator + API for Tailwind CSS colorjs.io huemint.com adevade.github.io/color-scheme-generator colorcolor.in colormind.io paletton.com huehive.co : Generate palettes with ChatGPT source ...