The Nikos Show
𝙏𝙝𝙚 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
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 254
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
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 …
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 JavaS…
Why Bloomberg Choose Svelte and Sapper for many Graphics Projects - Julian Burgess
I discuss with Julien about why Svelte is fit for interactive graphics at Bloomberg.
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’s Netflix series Trollhunters, Hotel Tran…
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…
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 …
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.
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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:
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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…
MonoLisa, a font purely for coders - Marcus Sterz
Hey all, you gotta try this released font created by Marcus, one of the worlds top font designers. Its 6% wider than your typical Mono-spaced font but the legibility mare than makes up for it.
You can…
Catching up with Ken Howard, Original Co-host of this podcast
It is always a blast to talk to Ken. He is doing do well and we have a catchup! Usual banter included.
Svelte Material UI - Hunter Perrin (the author)
I talk to Hunter Perrin who is the author of Svelte Material UI, a Component framework for Svelte based on Googles MATERIAL DESIGN. I want to use it in my future projects as I am moving into svelte …
TensorFlow with Google's Shanqing Cai
Shanqing Cai is currently a software engineer at Google's TensorFlow Team. He is one of the authors of TensorFlow and TensorFlow.js. Shanqing is originally from China and earned his Ph.D. in the neur…
Building Tech Conferences Masterclass with Juho Vepsäläinen and Dylan Schiemann
I spent the afternoon with Dylan Schiemann and Juho Vepsäläinen on what makes a great Tech Conference.
I was surprised by how important community and the soft sides of the tech business were in creati…
#38 ReasonML with Patrick Stapfer
Patrick's main focus is on R&D of current technologies in the frontend & backend sphere, more specifically in the ReactJS & OCaml & Node.js ecosystem. He is also board member of the Reason Associatio…
Functions Framework with Grant Timmerman - Google Developer Platform Engineer
This episode with Grant really helped me get to grip with the Functions Framework (FF), a main part of the technology behind Google Cloud platform's Cloud Functions. Grant is an extremely talented d…
#36 Ember with Yehuda Katz - Co-creator of Ember
He is the Co-author of several books including jQuery in Action and Rails 3 in Action (2011). He also has a passion for teaching others programming in a way that is respectful and makes people feel g…
#35 CSS with Giuseppe Gurgone - Author of styled-jsx
Giuseppe (CSS ninja and developer) from Italy has created the following impressive libraries:
https://github.com/zeit/styled-jsx
https://dss-lang.com
His Github