The Nikos Show
πππ πππ π€π¨ πππ€π¬ 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.
πΉ 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
#14 - Public Speaking and Various Things
Nikos shares details about his presentation at the Data Visualisation Summit in London. We cover a bunch of different topics ranging from Data Visualisation (Visualization), Front End Frameworks, Musβ¦
#13 - Getting started with Data Science and Secrets of World Class Developer teams
We discuss how to get into Data Science and Leading Software teams both from a JavaScript developer perspective.
We discuss R https://www.r-project.org/
R for Webstorm https://plugins.jetbrains.com/pβ¦
#12 - Interview With Ryan Brown of serverlesscode.com
Ryan Brown joins us to talk about AWS Lambda and Serverless applications.
#11 - Vanilla JavaScript/TypeScript vs JavaScript frameworks
Every JavaScript developer is faced with the symptoms of framework fatigue. In this Episode, we discuss various frameworks and their approaches and compare against just using VanillaJS.
We discuss anβ¦
#10 - Incremental vs Big-Bang
Nikos and Ken discuss making massive changes in software and argue that it's better to do changes incrementally rather that doing it in one big bang.
NOTICE:
The audio quality in this episode is terβ¦
#9 - Talking About Serverless
In this episode Ken and Nikos talk about Serverless, a command line tool for creating and deploying AWS lambda, Azure, and Google Cloud functions.
Serverless is your toolkit for deploβ¦
#8 - Making Chrome Extensions
Nikos 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:
#7 - Integration Tests
Nikos and Ken discuss integration tests and a project for recording interactions. They also discuss ergonomics and workplace posture.
#6 - Becoming A Front End Developer
In 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
Onlβ¦
#5 - Module Imports + Other Languages
In 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, oβ¦
#4 - Contributing to Open Source
This week Ken and Nikos talked about:
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Open source license agreements for GitHub
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Nikos's Projects:
Solar Popup
Vanilla TypeScript -
Ken's Projects:
Visual Studio Code Gist Extension - β¦
#3 - Teaching Ember + Mobile Applications
This week Ken and Nikos talked about:
#2 - Modern JavaScript + World Issues
This 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 β¦
#1 - An Introduction + Teaching JavaScript
Ken 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 learningβ¦