Sébastien Barbier

Staff Software Engineer. He/Him. Building

[Sébastien Barbier @SebBarbier]

⚙️ Under the hood: It's built as a single progressive web app using Angular, hosted on static block storage with pre-rendering for SEO.

The code is fully open source and available at https://t.co/38FM0hoE8d.

[Sébastien Barbier @SebBarbier]

✨ New Portfolio 📣

I have updated my personal website, which is now available at https://t.co/Y5JMHBsqzr.

[Sébastien Barbier @SebBarbier]

Please feel free to share any feedback to help me make it better 🙏. I know it's far from perfect, but it's fully custom, design included.

I'm really proud of where it's at right now, and it will serve as a great starting point for working on further updates and improvements.

[Sébastien Barbier @SebBarbier]

👨‍💻 As a full-stack developer, illustrating how my skills span across different tech stacks isn't always straightforward. 🌐 I've noticed some use progress bars, but I'm leaning towards trying out radar graphs. 📈 Bad idea ? 🤔

[Sébastien Barbier @SebBarbier]

This week's sprint will involve working on my portfolio, resume, and personal website.
I want to try building in public more, so I'll be sharing updates about that and would love feedback or advice. Feel free to jump in! 🙏

[Sébastien Barbier @SebBarbier]

Having multiple projects in parallel ain't easy.
Currently experimenting with the idea of breaking new features into five-day sprints starting on Mondays, with a forced release on Fridays.
Every Monday is a new sprint with a clear goal in mind, feels great.

[Sébastien Barbier @SebBarbier]

Posting on social networks feels so awkward; it completely leaves me with a cringe feeling.
I assume it's just discomfort from not being used to it, and that with time, this should fade away.
All tips are welcome! 😄

[Sébastien Barbier @SebBarbier]

I always slow down during July and August to enjoy time with friends and family, but September is here, and it's time to be productive! 💪
I am still looking for work and will probably spend the next few days updating my profiles and be sharing about it.

[Sébastien Barbier @SebBarbier]

A month ago, I shared that I was open to new work opportunities and received lots of messages from people I haven't talked to in years.
I am so grateful to be surrounded by so many nice people.
This has made me realize how important networking is and that I want do more of it 🙌

[Sébastien Barbier @SebBarbier]

Going to be more active here sharing content about my pivot from crypto.

I've never been really good with social networks, it's all quite intimidating to me, but will try and be okay as long as it helps me keep moving forward.

Let's do it 💪, all support will be very welcome.

[Sébastien Barbier @SebBarbier]

While I still believe in the potential of cryptocurrencies and will remain involved as part of the community, I am now actively searching for new opportunities, and I would love to hear from you.

Thanks for the support. (3/3)

[Sébastien Barbier @SebBarbier]

👋 Looking for New Opportunities 👋

Hey twitter 🙋‍♂️.

I don’t share much here but I think it is time for a quick personal update and some changes.

Two years ago, I took a leap and left my full-time position to fully immerse myself in the world of cryptocurrencies. (1/3)

[Sébastien Barbier @SebBarbier]

I've had some great experiences, learned a lot, and managed to avoid most scams and hacks 🍀.

However, that place is unbelievably chaotic, and I can feel the impact and tiredness of being surrounded by so much negativity and toxicity. (2/3)

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

STACK OVERFLOW JUST ANNOUNCED THEIR OWN AI!!!

OverflowAI is a tool, that will also have a VS Code plugin. The way this works, if you are on the site and ask a question, it will produce the answer for you while also citing the sources it used to produce the answer.

You can then ask more in the conversational area, even including code, and through Generative AI it can continue building off of the answer.

This is the right move on their part and I am confident a lot of people will be trying it out. Everything releases in August! Great job @StackOverflow. Really great announcement at the @WeAreDevs Conference!

[Min Choi @minchoi]

DragGAN officially launched with its mind blowing "Drag your image"

This is next level image manipulation

With DragGAN, you are not just editing images, you are "dragging" them to match your creative vision

Here are 10 example use cases:

[AK @_akhaliq]

Google presents AudioPaLM: A Large Language Model That Can Speak and Listen

paper page: https://t.co/ZXFa4sRK03

introduce AudioPaLM, a large language model for speech understanding and generation. AudioPaLM fuses text-based and speech-based language models, PaLM-2 [Anil et al., 2023] and AudioLM [Borsos et al., 2022], into a unified multimodal architecture that can process and generate text and speech with applications including speech recognition and speech-to-speech translation. AudioPaLM inherits the capability to preserve paralinguistic information such as speaker identity and intonation from AudioLM and the linguistic knowledge present only in text large language models such as PaLM-2. We demonstrate that initializing AudioPaLM with the weights of a text-only large language model improves speech processing, successfully leveraging the larger quantity of text training data used in pretraining to assist with the speech tasks. The resulting model significantly outperforms existing systems for speech translation tasks and has the ability to perform zero-shot speech-to-text translation for many languages for which input/target language combinations were not seen in training. AudioPaLM also demonstrates features of audio language models, such as transferring a voice across languages based on a short spoken prompt.

[Tariq KRIM @tariqkrim]

if you think the 2016 election was bad, wait for the genAI tsunami of disinformation

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Sometimes all you need for exceptional results is average effort repeated for an above-average amount of time.

[Lior Alexander @LiorOnAI]

This might be the most eventful week AI has ever seen:

Monday:
-Stanford Alpaca 7B

Tuesday:
-GPT4
-Anthropic releases Claude
-Google's PaLM API
-AdeptAI raises $350M
-Google adds GenAI to workspaces

Wednesday:
-Pytorch 2.0
-MidjourneyV5

Thursday:
-Microsoft 365 Copilot

[Patrick Campbell @Patticus]

10 years ago today @aaronsw took his own life after overly aggressive prosecution.

He invented internet infrastructure.

He defeated the greatest threat the Internet had ever seen.

And you probably don't know who he is.

You should.

Here’s his story 🧵