The Nikos Show
255 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙞𝙠𝙤𝙨 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙬 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.
📹 Selected shows are uploaded to YouTube and can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/c/QuantumInformation
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☕📈🕴️ [Legacy] Peter Moricz 🇭🇺 Chicago Futures Derivative trader to Blockchain consultant
February 18, 2021 16:32 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBWe learn about his fascinating career: trading in Chicago to his trading carer in London, and his transition into a consultant in the blockchain industry. He also gives us a lowdown on the latest happenings in the industry. His website
☕ 🕴️ [Legacy] Russell Dalgleish 🏴 Chair of Scottish Business Network
February 18, 2021 16:32 - 25 minutes - 24 MBIn this episode, I talk to Russell Dalgleish, named as one of the 100 most influential British Entrepreneurs. We look at how you can grow a business network and gain from his current market knowledge and a wide range of experiances. He is a Managing Partner of the advisory group, Exolta Capital Partners, www.exolta.com @exoltauk. And Chairman Scottish Business Network, www.sbn.scot @sbnscot. Other roles and accolades include, Member of Board of Trade chaired by Ivan McKee, Minister for Tra...
☕🧑🏻💻 [Legacy] Marc Smith - Creator of NodeXL - How to find the top influencers for given hashtags on Twitter
February 18, 2021 16:32 - 31 minutes - 29.5 MBMarc is one of the worlds leading sociologists on the subject for network graphs of people. Marc and his team have created the most fantastic platform NodeXL used within the social media research foundation for people to utilise the Twitter social graph. They can use it to find the top influencers for given Hashtags. Node XL also all allows you to visualise the social network of these hashtags giving you the change to see what kind of structure the network has. This episode is truly rich w...
☕🎭 [Legacy] Doug Rao - Actor & Director - How to succeed as an actor in London
February 18, 2021 16:31 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBDoug talks about he got started as an actor, director and producer. He owns the company Just Make Films. In this episode, he advises how to get started as an actor today in London. Doug also demonstrates his perfect Ali G accent and advising Nikos not to get into stunt acting. We also compare living in London to living in LA. Special thanks to Porsche Mayfair for hosting us to record the podcast.
The show legend and guide to future episodes
February 18, 2021 09:07 - 3 minutes - 2.81 MBHere is the legend as a rough guide on what to expect: 🔬 Programming, same Learn With Us style you are used to ☕Influencer, can be combined with 🎭 actor 👨🎤Singer 🗳️(ballet box) Politician 🧬Biology & Biotech + 🧑🏿🔬👩🏻🔬 ✝️ Faith & theology 🏗️Engineering + 👷🏻♂ 📈 Markets Other, less frequent 🪖Military 💭 Philosophy etc When I have a guest on the show I will generally introduce them by name followed by their country and a description of them and/or the topic. This will evolve and ch...
Hedley Rees 🏴 Managing Consultant, PharmaFlow and Author
February 15, 2021 15:11 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBHedley founded PharmaFlow in 2005 and is managing consultant. He is also a passionate advocate of paradigm shifting modernisation in the life science industry, as well as being author of Supply Chain Management in the Drug Industry: Delivering Patient Value for Pharmaceuticals and Biologics, J Wiley & Sons, NJ 2011 and Taming the Big Pharma Monster by Speaking Truth to Power, Filament Publishing 2019. In his previous career, Hedley held senior positions at Bayer UK, British Biotech, Vernali...
Jarrod Fidden 🇦🇺 🇮🇪 Founder of Wide Awake Media and Awake Dating
February 10, 2021 16:55 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBJarrod described himself as I'm an early adopter of socially inconvenient truths. He is a printed and published author- under a pseudonym in fiction, and in his name in non. Established entrepreneur, and budding TV and Film Producer. Founder of Wide Awake Media LLC and Awake Dating- dubbed 'The dating app for 'conspiracy theorists', featured in hundreds of top tier outlets in around seven languages- Business Insider, GQ, Elle, Esquire, VICE- to name a few. Founder of Eight Star Consulti...
Jarrad Fidden 🇦🇺 🇮🇪 Founder of Wide Awake Media and Awake Dating
February 10, 2021 16:55 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBJarrad described himself as I'm an early adopter of socially inconvenient truths. He is a printed and published author- under a pseudonym in fiction, and in his name in non. Established entrepreneur, and budding TV and Film Producer. Founder of Wide Awake Media LLC and Awake Dating- dubbed 'The dating app for 'conspiracy theorists', featured in hundreds of top tier outlets in around seven languages- Business Insider, GQ, Elle, Esquire, VICE- to name a few. Founder of Eight Star Consulting...
Marcin Jasinski and Nikos, Value investing portfolio updates
January 25, 2021 17:28 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBMarcin has 17+ years on the buy-side of financial services (Fund, Asset, Investment and Wealth Management). Double First-Class in Business and Harvard HBX online course in Disruptive Strategy. Expertise in Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg and Lipper. Follow MJ on eToro here: Follow Nikos on eToro here: Sign up to eToro here: (this is an affiliate link and helps me out a lot) If you want to leave any feedback you are most welcome to: leave a review on iTunes leave a comment in my Discord se...
Peter Efkarpidis 🇬🇷 🇨🇦 Aircraft Leasing & Cargo Charters ✈️📦
January 22, 2021 20:19 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBPeter is a Passionate, Ambitious and Driven Air Cargo Sales professional with a strong understanding of different geographical cargo markets and aircraft types and an unwavering commitment to customer service excellence over the last 15 years! Catering to your global Aircraft Leasing (ACMI - wet & dry leasing) & Cargo charter logistics requirements. Bespoke Aircraft leasing & air transport solutions that fit your specific needs and always with a smile! If you want to leave any feedback you...
Lionel Yeo 🇸🇬 How to get off big cloud 🌧️
January 21, 2021 15:09 - 1 hour - 66 MBLionel Yeo , is a partner of Wesvault, a consultant tech lead that helps businesses that need a short term high impact tech team to roll out fast. He is the Yii2 and Vue.js expert and specialist in Asia. His area speciality includes data analytics & dashboards, Fintech, Testing systems and sales funnels. If you want to leave any feedback you are most welcome to: leave a review on iTunes leave a comment in my Discord server: Comment on my LinkedIn Post Fancy hearing me talk about everyt...
Brett King 🇦🇺 Universal Basic Income, Financial Innovation & Capitalism
January 20, 2021 14:09 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBBrett King is an Australian futurist, author, and co-founder and CEO of Moven, a New York-based mobile banking startup. If you want to leave any feedback you are most welcome to: leave a review on iTunes leave a comment in my Discord server: Comment on my LinkedIn Post Fancy hearing me talk about everything else except tech? Come to the Influencers Cafe show.
Brett King - Universal Basic Income, Financial Innovation & Capitalism
January 20, 2021 14:09 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBBrett King is an Australian futurist, author, and co-founder and CEO of Moven, a New York-based mobile banking startup. If you want to leave any feedback you are most welcome to: leave a review on iTunes leave a comment in my Discord server: Comment on my LinkedIn Post Fancy hearing me talk about everything else except tech? Come to the Influencers Cafe show.
Dr Anjeanette Roberts 🇺🇸 Viral Laboratory Techniques 🔬Was CoronaVirus Man-made?
January 01, 2021 10:34 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBOriginally posted in my other podcast, due to its highly technical and scientific nature I reposted it here. Also, it helps us to understand more about Covid and the science behind it during these times. Molecular biologist Anjeanette “AJ” Roberts completed her BS in chemistry (graduating with honors) at the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences at the University of Tulsa in 1988 and her PhD in molecular and cell biology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. From 1997 to 2001, ...
Howard Drossin 🇺🇸 Movie Composer 🎬🎼 Former Music Director at Sega Technical Institute
December 16, 2020 10:27 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBOriginally uploaded to my other podcast Influencers Cafe but I decided that its home belongs in Learn With Us do to its highly musical technical nature. Music composition is a huge passion of mine and you will hear more and more of it in my podcast background music. I first learned of Howard when I was listening to lots of retro music for the Sega Genesis, including Sonic and knuckles and Sonic Spinball. He has worked in over 25 movies and is a super talented composer. During the Cafe, I ...
< 800 LOC for Svelte realtime chat messaging added to MentorCV.com
November 13, 2020 13:45 - 7 minutes - 6.96 MBI've been in my dev cave the last 6 weeks churning out realtime chat. My contact details Nikos' discord server MentorCV Discord server My twitter Github LinkedIn My Profile on MentorCv
🍿 Banned from LinkedIn? Ok, I'll build my own platform instead - Joel Wolh -CoFounder of BizFluence
October 21, 2020 23:10 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBI had a chat with Joel, the Co-Founder of Bizfluence and host of The Joel Show.
I finally learned to think in NoSQL with Firebase RealtimeDB - Nikos
October 20, 2020 19:44 - 6 minutes - 5.74 MBLet's talk about NoSQL, Firebase and my journey from Relational Databases. My contact details Nikos' discord server My twitter Github LinkedIn MentorCv
Vite & Svite as build tools, thoughts after using for 3 months - Nikos
October 09, 2020 18:08 - 5 minutes - 4.88 MBLet's talk about Vite and the svelte implementation Svite My contact details Nikos' discord server My twitter Github LinkedIn MentorCv
Going through hard times as a developer – Nikos
October 08, 2020 21:17 - 8 minutes - 7.39 MBSoftware development can have a lot of pain that, here's why! Here are my contact details Nikos' discord server My twitter Github LinkedIn MentorCv
💰 ⬇️ 🕳 The black holes of money pit codebases - Nikos
October 06, 2020 21:34 - 3 minutes - 3.5 MBThis will probably trigger some people and others will nod their head in agreement: Here are my contact details Nikos' discord server My twitter Github LinkedIn MentorCv
After using Firebase emulators by Google for six months - Nikos
October 05, 2020 15:24 - 3 minutes - 3.06 MBLet's talk about the #firebase and emulating fireplace locally, in under 5 minutes. Firebase tools are here: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-tools
Initial thoughts on Cypress test runner - Nikos
October 05, 2020 14:09 - 5 minutes - 5.28 MBMore info on cypress My test recorder: https://github.com/quantuminformation/test-recorder
Why you should use JavaScript optional chaining right now - Nikos
October 05, 2020 08:10 - 2 minutes - 2.52 MBMore info
Why and how seniors should mentor Junior devs - Nikos
October 03, 2020 20:34 - 5 minutes - 5.28 MBHere is my discord server: https://discord.gg/Qwza5aG My twitter
Thoughts on Svelte after 2 apps in production - Nikos
October 03, 2020 17:47 - 5 minutes - 4.75 MBMentor CV - https://mentorcv.com - made with Svelte. My profile on there: https://mentorcv.com/nikos Here is my discord server: https://discord.gg/Qwza5aG The Svelte podcast by Kev I mentioned: https://www.svelteradio.com/ Finally my twitter
📹 💻 Filtering NSFW content with TensorFlow.js - Gant Laborde
September 13, 2020 07:36 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBVideo 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 “open sourcerer”, 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.
📹 👥 Advice for junior devs during challenging times - Shaun Connor - Director of Amicus Recruitment
August 14, 2020 13:24 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBThis episode is a panel with Shaun Connor, Director of Amicus Recruitment, and some junior developers and another senior developer. Some of the participants: Severine Legon LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/severine-legon-5b3580167/ Github: https://github.com/severine98
📹 Learn Engineering ⚙️ David Lofthouse 🏴 Locksmith 🗝️
July 29, 2020 10:23 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBFirst Learn with Us episode branded as Learn Engineering David is a Reliable, Affordable, DBS Checked, Insured, 24hr, Independent Residential and Commercial Locksmith based in Leeds, West Yorkshire -📞07342174094
📹 Learn Markets 📈 Marcin Jasinski
July 25, 2020 23:38 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBThis Episode is NOT financial advice. First Learn with Us episode branded as Learn Markets we talk to Marcin Jasinski Marcin is a Harvard Business School educated executive based in Luxembourg, with Fortune 500 leadership, marketing, strategy, sales, operations and CRM experience, passionate about helping clients in CEO Advisory as well as Business, Management, Marketing and Strategy Consulting. Industry expertise: Financial Services, Wealth Management, Technology, Fintech, Art. ...
📹 Daniel Norman - Prisma
July 14, 2020 19:51 - 1 hour - 70.3 MB📹 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.
Alex Zdanov 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 Lead Application Developer at BeiMex (🥩 trading)
July 10, 2020 06:01 - 1 hour - 96.7 MBAlex 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...
Podcast Update - Nikos
July 06, 2020 22:23 - 2 minutes - 2.7 MBHere is the discord server: https://discord.gg/Qwza5aG
📹 Rob Cameron 🇺🇸 Redwood.js Part 2 -Login, User customisation & Netlify
July 03, 2020 18:49 - 1 hour - 82 MB📹 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...
📹 Rob Cameron 🇺🇸 Redwood.js Part 1 - Core Team
July 01, 2020 00:22 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MB📹 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 ...
Designing Ambient Soundscapes 🎵🌆🌅🌌🌃 Tim Roven 🇺🇸 Tabletop Audio 🎲
June 24, 2020 15:52 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBTim 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 ...
Dylan Schiemann 🇺🇸🇦🇹 HalfStack Conference Goes Online, Lessons Learned
June 18, 2020 22:03 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBAnother episode spent with Dylan Schiemann after running his first online conference https://halfstackconf.com/online/ Got feedback for the show? Tweet 🐦 #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 ☕ https://cafe.nikoskatsikanis.com Want to help support the show? I am open for new sponsorships, feel free to reach out.
Adrian Stephens 🏴 🇺🇸 Coding master & Former technical director at SEGA Technical Institute
May 21, 2020 08:06 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBAdrian 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 🐦 #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 sett...
Erez Zukerman 🇨🇦 ⌨️ Spaced Repetition as a way to level-up your coding
May 08, 2020 06:45 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBErez created some keyboards that my friends rave about and he founded mem.dev ----------------------------------------------- Got feedback for the show? Tweet 🐦 #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 ☕ https://cafe.nikoskatsikanis.com Want to help support the show? I'd be super tha...
Dylan Schiemann 🇺🇸🇦🇹 HalfStack Dev Conferences 🏢 Dojo.js 🐉
April 25, 2020 08:05 - 1 hour - 60 MBAnother 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 🐦 #learnwithuspod and @nikoskatsikanis and I will get back to you. ----------------------------------------------- Fancy listening to me talk to other fascinating guests in a non tech set...
A recruiter who become a frontend developer 💻 Chris Moomba 🇬🇧
April 13, 2020 13:49 - 46 minutes - 42.1 MBChris is developer I helped to transition from tech recruitment to professional frontend development. Fancy hearing me talk to other guests about non tech related topics? Why not take a stroll over to my other podcast: Influencers Cafe ☕.
Firebase 🔥and Games Development - Patrick Martin 🇺🇸- Google Developer Advocate
April 06, 2020 18:15 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBPatrick is a Dad, programmer, gamer, roboticist. Helping developers make games with Firebase. You can see him in action here
Spectrum Chat and Bootstrapping Startups - Max Stoiber 🇦🇹
April 02, 2020 10:11 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBMax was the founder of https://spectrum.chat/ Now He works at Gatsby. We also talk about the acquisition process he had with Github and about the importance of immediate feedback on start-up ideas. One of his latest startups: https://changefeed.app/
Mitigating Conference Armageddon ☄️💥🔥 - Juho Vepsäläinen 🇫🇮 and Dan Ram 🌎
March 30, 2020 08:45 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBThe first conference podcast I have recorded. I talk with industry veterans in the event space about how conferences are moving virtual. Juho Vepsäläinen runs React Finland and Daniel (known more popularly as DanRam) is an igniter. A 5x TEDx speaker, 3x entrepreneur, prolific speaker, and startup coach.
Alpine.js - Caleb Porzio 🇮🇹🇩🇪🇺🇸- Author
March 25, 2020 14:20 - 39 minutes - 36 MBAlpine 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 ...
Svelte Routify & thoughts on Coronavirus 🦠- with Johan Ronsse 🇧🇪
March 16, 2020 18:17 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBA more bleak than usual episode, but we will afford us this liberty given this pandemic. I talk with Johan Ronsse, who is a UI/UX Designer & Front-end Developer at Mono, about his efforts in building the community for Svelte Routify. We discuss the following example: https://example.routify.dev/example
ITContractor.com - Gerry McLaughlin 🏴 - Owner
March 12, 2020 09:41 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBGerry is an industry veteran with a wealth of experience and owns the the website IT Contractor which has been up since 1999. The website is one of the U.K.'s best resources for information regarding the IT contracting profession. Some of the articles we talked about: http://www.itcontractor.com/ir35-18-ways-to-stay-outside-it/
Wallaby.js - Simon McEnlly - Chief Operating Officer
March 04, 2020 09:52 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBWallaby.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.
Author of Svelte and Sapper in Action - Mark Volkmann
February 10, 2020 21:18 - 1 hour - 65.1 MBMark 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 presente...