The Nikos Show

The tech Discord communities I've been building that I mentioned in the podcast: Tensorflow: https://discord.gg/KNm5Epj Google Cloud: https://discord.gg/9yGuxRV Visual Studio: https://discord.gg/ca72qgM

Vuetify the Material framework for Vue, with John Leider, the Creator. I personally use Vuetify for my website, https://quantumjs.com because I don't have to time to think about CSS. This is the easiest UI framework I have ever used in order to make a mobile-first website. John has an impressive history in regards to coding, originally coming from the military, he became a self-taught coder and gr...

Tonight we talk about EmberJS with Jessica Jordan - Ember Times author. We also talk a lot about women in the Tech Industry. You can connect with her here: http://www.jessicajordan.de and read some of her articles here: https://the-emberjs-times.ongoodbits.com/

I give my initial impressions of Google Cloud Platform and its appeal to the small developer team. Get started here with GCP I based a lot of what I talk on in the episode on this post I used these handlers the urls, which differs from the medium tutorial above (sorry no way to past code in here) url: /(.*.(js|css|png|jpg|svg|ttf|ico|manifest))$ static_files: dist/\1 upload: dist/.*.(js|css|png|jp...

In this episode we have Nik Graph who is based in Vienna , gives us the lowdown on GraphQL . https://twitter.com/nikgraf GraphQL is a query language for your API, and a server-side runtime for executing queries by using a type system you define for your data. His Twitter: https://twitter.com/nikgraf More GraphQL resources to get started https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/ https://www.apollog...

Do I need to go to University to become a programmer? Its the big question every budding programmer probably has. We look at the following factors The cost of the course The specialisation of your course Is the course oversubscribed? Can I learn the material by myself? Will there be jobs when the course is finished? Any questions or opinions, please tag me on twitter https://twitter.com/quantumjs

How web developers can approach learning TensorFlow.js and how long you can expect it to take. I've been making the transition over to TensorFlow.js over the last several months. Here are some of the best video resources you can use: https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning https://www.youtube.com/quantuminformation TensorFlow Discord server and Google...

Why Nikos choose Vue for my Website (http://www.quantumjs.com/) versus React, Ember and the rest. It's a big question that webmasters have to ask themselves. I choose Vue for several reasons: Vue Cli Vuetify Integrated e2e testing Simplicity Code for my site: https://github.com/quantumjs/quantumjs.github.io

In this episode, Ken shares how he has decided to step away from some tech things to focus on the most important things in Life. Nikos and all our listeners want to say thanks for all the entertainment, wisdom and insights he has provided us over the past year. I'm sure he will only continue to grow in his success over there. We will miss him but you can follow him on twitter I will also discuss m...

In this episode, Nikos talks with Reece Warren, the prolific London JavaScript recruiter about how the JavaScript industry works in London. Reece is one of my favourite recruiters and we get together for catchups from time to time. Reece also runs a growing esports company. In this episode, we cover what makes the difference between good and bad recruiters and many of the problems in the industry,...

In this episode Ken talks with Jason Lengstorf, a contributor to GatsbyJS - A Blazing-fast static site generator for React. Jason recently spoke at The Lead Developer conference in NYC. As of this episode the video for his talk is not available. Check out The Lead Developer conference website to learn more. The Lead Developer Website GatsbyJS Website - Tutorials - Documentation Jason Lengstorf Web...

In this episode Nikos and Ken discuss what they've been up to. This is the only episode in April, 2018. Enjoy! Material for Vue TensorFlow.js discord Nikos Presents about TFJS at Ember London "Typing is annoying, but very very useful" - Ben Lesh James Churchill - Teacher at Treehouse, Co-Organizer Portland TypeScript Meetup Learn Web Design, Coding & Much More - Treehouse

Nikos talks with Topi Järvinen who is the Managing Partner and co-founder of https://nestholma.com which engages corporations and startups to collaborate. They run on-site programs and events for new products and learnings. We cover topics such as As an investor, how do you decide what startups to invest in What advice would you give entrepreneurs building startups to get investment What gave you...

Nikos and Ken chat about JavaScript and how they picked it as their language of choice. Amy Carney asks: "As I try to get through the fog of JavaScript, I'm left wondering... how did you decide that was your language? What were (or are) the best resources that have kept you learning and mastering the foundation and beyond?" In this episode we mentioned these JavaScript libraries / framew...

In this episode, my friend Stylianos and I go on a whistle-stop tour of data science from a real authority in the field. Dr Stylianos Kampakis joins us to talk about how he got into machine learning and data science. His LinkedIn and website His course on Predictive modelling of football injuries We also cover ideas about starting learning machine learning at kaggle and: How does one transition fr...

In this episode Nikos shares his knowledge of bitcoin and other crypto currencies and how to get started. Security Now Podcast Litecoin Enjin Coin IOTA Binance (Nikos's Referral Link)

Ken talks with Nikos about his new business endeavors. There's some discussion around bitcoin, react, and taking breaks from social media when arguments arise. Nikos is looking for new clients. If you are a startup in London be sure to reach out to him on LinkedIn. Bitcoin React JS Learn React from Wes Bos We probably talked about other things besides this. If you have a complaint about the lack o...

Juho Vepsäläinen joins us to talk about Webpack , developer branding and how to be a technical author. His main website: survivejs.com His Github and Twitter His bluebrint for success We also cover ideas about How to price your consulting business How to write that book you've been dreaming about writing His new maintenance book How to develop your brand as a developer My apologies for my poor pro...

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, Music, Podcasting, and building teams of developers. What is Machine Learning? Data Visualization Summit - London deck.gl is a WebGL-powered framework for visual exploratory data analysis of large dataset...

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/plugin/6632-r-language-support Good learning video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8PRU46I3NY RStudio https://www.rstudio.com We also discuss Nikos training product "Secrets of World Class Develop...

Ryan Brown joins us to talk about AWS Lambda and Serverless applications. Living with DynamoDB from Amazon Choosing the Right DynamoDB Partition Key Serverless Stack Book: Serverless Patterns Of Modern Application Design Book: Serverless Architectures on AWS Building Python 3 Apps On The Serverless Framework Serverless Quick Start Ryan's Course: Serverless Framework with GraphQL

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 angular, ember, react and various Vanilla TypeScript libs that Nikos has written: https://github.com/quantumjs/warp-router https://github.com/quantumjs/solar-popup https://github.com/quantumjs/vanilla-ty...

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 terrible. Ken was using his headset microphone and he is sorry. You can give 4 stars in iTunes if you wish. Tweet at us: @learnwithuspod . Discussed in this article Incremental vs Big-Bang in software Embe...

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.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-...

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: Test Recorder Rescue Time Youtube Playback Speed Control Vimium Visual Event Evernote Buffer Lastpass Grammarly The Great Suspender OneTab Ember Inspector