The Nikos Show
259 episodes - English - Latest episode: 23 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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Episodes
#9 - Talking About Serverless
September 10, 2017 17:55 - 35 minutes - 22.2 MBIn this episode Ken and Nikos talk about Serverless, a command line tool for creating and deploying AWS lambda, Azure, and Google Cloud functions. serverless.com Serverless is your toolkit for deploying and operating serverless architectures. Focus on your application, not your infrastructure. AWS Lambda Azure Functions Google Cloud Functions Bash on Windows Developers can run Bash Shell and user-mode Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows 10 Oregon State Parks and Recreation Ken went cam...
#8 - Making Chrome Extensions
July 24, 2017 08:58 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBNikos and Ken discuss the process of making a Chrome extension and common extensions. They also briefly cover Ember-cli Typescript and giving talks at programming meetups. Chrome extensions we use: Test Recorder Rescue Time Youtube Playback Speed Control Vimium Visual Event Evernote Buffer Lastpass Grammarly The Great Suspender OneTab Ember Inspector
#7 - Integration Tests
July 11, 2017 22:48 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBNikos and Ken discuss integration tests and a project for recording interactions. They also discuss ergonomics and workplace posture. Test Recorder Smart Table
#6 - Becoming A Front End Developer
July 03, 2017 20:16 - 33 minutes - 22.6 MBIn this episode we discussed getting started as a front end web developer. Blog Post: Getting Started As As Front-End Developer CSS Tricks A List Apart A Book Apart Jeffrey Zeldman Shop Talk Show Online education: Pluralsight Code School Treehouse Egghead Frontend Masters
#5 - Module Imports + Other Languages
June 28, 2017 20:29 - 35 minutes - 23.5 MBIn this episode Ken and Nikos talked about module imports in TypeScript for use in the Chrome web browser. We touched on dynamic module imports, non-JavaScript languages that compile to JavaScript, online training vs. in-person training, and much more. Dynamic Modules Elm Language United States Travel Ban Brexit Follow us on Twitter @learnwithuspod
#4 - Contributing to Open Source
June 19, 2017 16:00 - 40 minutes - 26.6 MBThis week Ken and Nikos talked about: Open source license agreements for GitHub Nikos's Projects: Solar Popup Vanilla TypeScript Ken's Projects: Visual Studio Code Gist Extension FitVids.JS HackHands (by PluralSight) 5 X 60 mental arithmetic ES6 module loading in Chrome Go (game) Checkers Vanilla JS First Pull Request Up For Grabs
#3 - Teaching Ember + Mobile Applications
June 11, 2017 12:44 - 40 minutes - 27.2 MBThis week Ken and Nikos talked about: Teaching Ember Mob Programming Progressive Web Apps Krav Maga (self-defense) training .NET Fringe Julian Assange TypeScript Tips You might not need to transpile your JavaScript HTTP/2 Bobby Johnson - Presentation about Everyday Developers Follow us on Twitter at @learnwithuspod
#2 - Modern JavaScript + World Issues
June 07, 2017 03:02 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBThis weeks episode was a bit darker than we would have liked. We pushed on. Our discussion was mostly centered around teaching the latest features in JavaScript and challenging ourselves to disprove Stack Overflow answers. We made a point to acknowledge we don't know what we are doing when it comes to native mobile application development with React Native and NativeScript.
#1 - An Introduction + Teaching JavaScript
May 24, 2017 21:13 - 29 minutes - 21.1 MBKen and Nikos talk about teaching JavaScript fundamentals and what they wish to accomplish in the next week. Nikos is teaching a group of 8 developers. Ken and Nikos review the challenges of learning frameworks and what you should know prior to learning Ember JS. Ken pre-launched TypeScript A Day, a daily newsletter with tips and tricks for TypeScript developers. The subscriber count is lower than he expected. He's hopeful to get more subscribers before launch.