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The Nikos Show

Nikos Katsikanisโ€ขlearnwithus.simplecast.fm
๐™๐™๐™š ๐™‰๐™ž๐™ ๐™ค๐™จ ๐™Ž๐™๐™ค๐™ฌ delivers your story and expertise to the world. It hosts expert-level conversations with people from various fields including tech, software, faith, philosophy, engineering and markets. Show host Nikos Katsikanis has a Msci in Biophysics (5 years advanced degree), 13+ years of software development experience and various entrepreneurial ventures. ๐Ÿ“น Selected shows are uploaded to YouTube and can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/c/QuantumInformation
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๐Ÿ“น ๐Ÿ’ป Filtering NSFW content with TensorFlow.js - Gant Laborde

Video here Gant Laborde is an owner of Infinite Red , mentor, adjunct professor, published author, and award-winning speaker. For 20 years, he has been involved in software development and continues strong today. He is an โ€œopen sourcererโ€, team leader, and aspires to one day become a mad scientist. He blogs, videos, and maintains popular repositories for the community. In this talk we discussed one of his open-source projects NSFW.js ....

Sep 13, 2020โ€ข1 hr 7 min

๐Ÿ“น Daniel Norman - Prisma

๐Ÿ“น Watch on YouTube here Daniel is a software engineer with broad experience across modern web and cloud environments. He's passionate about open source and modern development tooling and likes bringing ideas from different disciplines to software development. These days, Daniel is a developer advocate at Prisma, focusing on next-generation database access for Node.js and Typescript. Outside the software world, Daniel is interested in woodworking and motorcycling....

Jul 14, 2020โ€ข1 hr 17 min

Alex Zdanov ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณย Lead Application Developer at BeiMex (๐Ÿฅฉ trading)

Alex is currently the lead developer for a startup in China that is pioneering an online spot market platform for the beef and mutton industries. But that's where the somewhat normal resume part stops. Since graduating two years ago from Georgia Tech, Alex has been travelling through Asia with just a book bag of possessions, working as a remote developer. Currently living in Vladivostok, Russia, Alex has set out on a year-long metaphorical journey that might push him to new heights, or spell his...

Jul 10, 2020โ€ข1 hr 46 min

๐Ÿ“น Rob Cameron ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Redwood.js Part 2 -Login, User customisation & Netlify

๐Ÿ“น Watch on YouTube here . Rob has worked with computers for more than 20 years, starting out in the mid 90s as a self-taught web designer. He later moved to ColdFusion and created the ColdFusion on Wheels open source framework (still in active development). In the mid 2000s he moved to Ruby and Rails and now works primarily on RedwoodJS, an open source framework built on React and GraphQL. Find him as @cannikin on Twitter and GitHub . ------------------------------------------------ Fancy liste...

Jul 03, 2020โ€ข1 hr 30 min

๐Ÿ“น Rob Cameron ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Redwood.js Part 1 - Core Team

๐Ÿ“น Watch on YouTube here . Rob has worked with computers for more than 20 years, starting out in the mid 90s as a self-taught web designer. He later moved to ColdFusion and created the ColdFusion on Wheels open source framework (still in active development). In the mid 2000s he moved to Ruby and Rails and now works primarily on RedwoodJS, an open source framework built on React and GraphQL. Find him as @cannikin on Twitter and GitHub . ------------------------------------------------ Fancy liste...

Jul 01, 2020โ€ข39 min

Designing Ambient Soundscapes ๐ŸŽต๐ŸŒ†๐ŸŒ…๐ŸŒŒ๐ŸŒƒ Tim Roven ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Tabletop Audio ๐ŸŽฒ

Tim Roven is a musician, composer and sound designer from Brooklyn New York. He started studying classical violin at age 4 and played in orchestras and chamber groups through college. After college he played guitar and violin in various bands in Chapel Hill, North Carolina before moving back to New York. In New York City he started the web design firm Blue Hypermedia which he eventually sold. Throughout this time he was doing studio session work and occasional touring with bands. After his first...

Jun 24, 2020โ€ข1 hr 3 min

Dylan Schiemann ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น HalfStack Conference Goes Online, Lessons Learned

Another episode spent with Dylan Schiemann after running his first online conference https://halfstackconf.com/online/ Got feedback for the show? Tweet ๐Ÿฆ #learnwithuspod and @nikoskatsikanis and I will get back to you. Fancy listening to me talk to other fascinating guests in a non tech setting? Why not had over to the Cafe โ˜• https://cafe.nikoskatsikanis.com Want to help support the show? I am open for new sponsorships, feel free to reach out....

Jun 18, 2020โ€ข1 hr 1 min

Adrian Stephens ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Coding master & Former technical director at SEGA Technical Institute

Adrian Coded from scratch a 3-D games engine written an assembly language back in the 90s for Stunt Island . He also ran several games companies and does consulting. His company website is here . ----------------------------------------------- Got feedback for the show? Tweet ๐Ÿฆ #learnwithuspod and @nikoskatsikanis and I will get back to you. Also reviews on iTunes are invaluable if you can find the time to leave one. Fancy listening to me talk to other fascinating guests in a non tech setting? ...

May 21, 2020โ€ข1 hr 9 min

Erez Zukerman ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ โŒจ๏ธ Spaced Repetition as a way to level-up your coding

Erez created some keyboards that my friends rave about and he founded mem.dev ----------------------------------------------- Got feedback for the show? Tweet ๐Ÿฆ #learnwithuspod and @nikoskatsikanis and I will get back to you. Also reviews on iTunes are invaluable if you can find the time to leave one. Fancy listening to me talk to other fascinating guests in a non tech setting? Why not had over to the Cafe โ˜• https://cafe.nikoskatsikanis.com Want to help support the show? I'd be super thankful ๏ฟฝ...

May 08, 2020โ€ข1 hr 7 min

Dylan Schiemann ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น HalfStack Dev Conferences ๐Ÿข Dojo.js ๐Ÿ‰

Another episode with I spent the afternoon with Dylan Schiemann talking about how he is dealing with the Tech Conference Armageddon. We also go detail into the Dojo.js Framework . If you want to go to Virtual Half stack you can go here: https://halfstackconf.com/online/ Got feedback for the show? Tweet ๐Ÿฆ #learnwithuspod and @nikoskatsikanis and I will get back to you. ----------------------------------------------- Fancy listening to me talk to other fascinating guests in a non tech setting? Wh...

Apr 25, 2020โ€ข1 hr 6 min

Alpine.js - Caleb Porzio ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ- Author

Alpine is a rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup. I talked to the founder about its use cases and motivation. Caleb is an open-source PHP/JavaScript developer from Buffalo, NY. His main projects are Laravel Livewire and AlpineJS. His mission is to make developers happier and more productive with the tools he makes. He tries really hard to make things as simple as possible and fight the onslaught of complexity that is the modern JS ecosystem. When he is not w...

Mar 25, 2020โ€ข39 min

Wallaby.js - Simon McEnlly - Chief Operating Officer

Wallaby.js is a staple of my unit testing in JavaScript land. It integrates with all popular IDEs and allows you to quickly see what code is coveraged. It dramatically increases my speed of workflow when it comes to unit testing. I talk to Simon who is the chief operating officer and a developer of the software....

Mar 04, 2020โ€ข50 min

Author of Svelte and Sapper in Action - Mark Volkmann

Mark Volkmann is a partner at Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) in St. Louis where he has provided software consulting and training since 1996. As a consultant, Mark has assisted many companies with JavaScript, Node.js, Svelte, React, Vue, Angular, and more. Mark has created and taught many courses on topics including React, Vue, AngularJS, Node.js, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Ruby, Java, and XML. Mark is the author of the Manning book "Svelte and Sapper in Action". He is a frequent presenter at...

Feb 10, 2020โ€ข1 hr 11 min

Capturing Computer Audio on macOS - Devin Roth - Author of Black Hole and Movie Composer

Canadian composer and programmer, Devin Roth , has contributed to the music for a number of noteworthy films and television shows including Guillermo del Toro โ€™s Netflix series Trollhunters , Hotel Transylvania 2 , The Book of Life , Crazy-Ex Girlfriend , and Emmy nominated Elf: Buddyโ€™s Music Christmas (NBC). Devin has collaborated with multi-Oscar winning composer, Gustavo Santaolalla ; composer and co-founder of Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh ; Emmy nominated composer and orchestrator, Christopher Gu...

Jan 11, 2020โ€ข45 min

Indi-Funding with Program Manager of TinySeed - Tracy Osborne

Tracy is the the Program Manager at TinySeed (https://tinyseed.com), a year-long accelerator for bootstrapped businesses. She also self-publishes books through Hello Web Books. Learn design with Hello Web Design (https://hellowebbooks.com/learn-design) or build your first web app with Python/Django with Hello Web App (https://hellowebbooks.com/learn-django). She also speaks and keynotes conferences around the world, specializing in teaching beginning topics to programmers (introductions to desig...

Jan 06, 2020โ€ข45 min

Tracking your Eyes Ad Attention with Webcams - Michael Follett

We discuss how Lumen Research uses Webcams to do research for companies on how well ads draw peoples attention. Lumen was started in 2013 by Michael . The YouTube video we talked about with my cycling in London with my eye gazes tracked. Apologies for my bad audio sometimes due to some interference.

Dec 04, 2019โ€ข49 min

Running a Tech Recruitment Business - Guy Bevington

Just a general catchup with a long term friend ( Guy Bevington ) who founded his own Python recruitment agony called True North Group in 2019. Previously he had been in the in the industry since 2008. We discus the advantages of recruiters meeting actually candidates face face, the pros and cons of technical tests and appealing to candidates. The candidate is the commodity. We also advice Uni grads on finding their first occupation....

Nov 29, 2019โ€ข50 min

Join Nikos as he builds a Svelte based social network - mentorcv.com

So this is the discord link if you want to see this project ( MentorCV ) development updates live and interact with my community based around it: https://discord.gg/RBxDa7Z Some of my repos I mentioned: https://github.com/QuantumInformation/solar-popup https://github.com/quantuminformation/vanilla-typescript My Svelte stuff on youtube: ๐Ÿ“˜Svelte and Google Cloud masterclass playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCrwuqjmVebK08Cwz_XB55cNKFfFYOMGo ๐Ÿ“˜Svelte Compiler playlist: https://www.y...

Nov 19, 2019โ€ข11 min

Should I start a tech podcast and how do I it? - Nikos Katsikanis

Key points: How to make the effort to record podcasts enjoyable and efficient. Don't make a podcast just to make money. Make your guests feel relaxed. The conversation should be the same as you would in person, without recording. Be prepared for very low listener counts the first 40 episodes ๐Ÿ“น My Gear Mic: Rode NT and my Macbook setup video

Nov 19, 2019โ€ข14 min
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