Nikos Katsikanis

The Nikos Show

๐™๐™๐™š ๐™‰๐™ž๐™ ๐™ค๐™จ ๐™Ž๐™๐™ค๐™ฌ 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. ๐Ÿ“น Selected shows are uploaded to YouTube and can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/c/QuantumInformation

Author

Nikos Katsikanis

Category

Technology

Podcast website

learnwithus.simplecast.fm

Latest episode

Mar 10, 2026

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Episodes

Vite & Svite as build tools, thoughts after using for 3 months - Nikos 09.10.2020

Let's talk about Vite and the svelte implementation Svite ย  My contact details Nikos' discord server My twitterย  Github LinkedIn MentorCv ย 

Going through hard times as a developer โ€“ Nikos 08.10.2020

Software development can have a lot of pain that, here's why! Here are my contact detailsย  Nikos' discord server My twitterย  Github LinkedIn MentorCv ย 

๐Ÿ’ฐ โฌ‡๏ธ ๐Ÿ•ณ The black holes of money pit codebases - Nikos 06.10.2020

This will probably trigger some people and others will nod their head in agreement: Here are my contact detailsย  Nikos' discord server My twitterย  Github ย  LinkedIn MentorCv ย 

After using Firebase emulators by Google for six months - Nikos 05.10.2020

Let'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 05.10.2020

More info on cypress My test recorder: https://github.com/quantuminformation/test-recorder

Why you should use JavaScript optional chaining right now - Nikos 05.10.2020

More info ย 

Why and how seniors should mentor Junior devs - Nikos 03.10.2020

Here is my discord server: https://discord.gg/Qwza5aG My twitterย 

Thoughts on Svelte after 2 apps in production - Nikos 03.10.2020

Mentor 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 twitterย 

๐Ÿ“น ๐Ÿ’ป Filtering NSFW content with TensorFlow.js - Gant Laborde 13.09.2020

Video 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 โ€œopen sourcererโ€, 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 on...

๐Ÿ“น ๐Ÿ‘ฅ Advice for junior devs during challenging times - Shaun Connor - Director of Amicus Recruitment 14.08.2020

This episode is a ย panel with Shaun Connor , Director of Amicus Recruitment , ย and some junior developers and another senior developer. Some of the participants: Severine Legon LinkedIn:ย  https://www.linkedin.com/in/severine-legon-5b3580167/ Github:ย  https://github.com/severine98

๐Ÿ“น Learn Engineering โš™๏ธ David Lofthouse ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Locksmith ๐Ÿ—๏ธ 29.07.2020

First 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 -๐Ÿ“ž07342174094

๐Ÿ“น Daniel Norman - Prisma 14.07.2020

๐Ÿ“น 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 s...

Alex Zdanov ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณย Lead Application Developer at BeiMex (๐Ÿฅฉ trading) 10.07.2020

Alex 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, A...

Podcast Update - Nikos 06.07.2020

Here is the discord server: https://discord.gg/Qwza5aG ย  ย 

๐Ÿ“น Rob Cameron ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Redwood.js Part 2 -Login, User customisation & Netlify 03.07.2020

๐Ÿ“น Watch on YouTube here .ย  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...

๐Ÿ“น Rob Cameron ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Redwood.js Part 1 - Core Team 01.07.2020

๐Ÿ“น 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 h...

Designing Ambient Soundscapes ๐ŸŽต๐ŸŒ†๐ŸŒ…๐ŸŒŒ๐ŸŒƒ Tim Roven ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Tabletop Audio ๐ŸŽฒ 24.06.2020

Tim 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. Thro...

Dylan Schiemann ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น HalfStack Conference Goes Online, Lessons Learned 18.06.2020

Another episode spent with Dylan Schiemann after running his first online conference https://halfstackconf.com/online/ Got feedback for the show? Tweet ๐Ÿฆ #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 โ˜• https://cafe.nikoskatsikanis.com Want to help support the show? I am o...

Adrian Stephens ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Coding master & Former technical director at SEGA Technical Institute 21.05.2020

Adrian 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 ๐Ÿฆ #learnwithuspod and @nikoskatsikanis and I will get back to you. Also reviews on iTunes are invaluable if you can find t...

Erez Zukerman ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ โŒจ๏ธ Spaced Repetition as a way to level-up your coding 08.05.2020

Erez created some keyboards that my friends rave about and he founded mem.dev ----------------------------------------------- Got feedback for the show? Tweet ๐Ÿฆ #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 t...

Dylan Schiemann ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น HalfStack Dev Conferences ๐Ÿข Dojo.js ๐Ÿ‰ 25.04.2020

Another 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 ๐Ÿฆ #learnwithuspod and @nikoskatsikanis and I will get back to you. ----------------------------...

A recruiter who become a frontend developer ๐Ÿ’ป Chris Moomba ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง 13.04.2020

Chris 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 โ˜• .

Firebase ๐Ÿ”ฅand Games Development - Patrick Martin ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ- Google Developer Advocate 06.04.2020

Patrick is a Dad, programmer, gamer, roboticist. Helping developers make games with Firebase. You can see him in action hereย 

Spectrum Chat and Bootstrapping Startups - Max Stoiber ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น 02.04.2020

Max 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 โ˜„๏ธ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ - Juho Vepsรคlรคinen ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ and Dan Ram ๐ŸŒŽ 30.03.2020

The first conference podcast I have recorded. I talk with industry veterans in the event space about how conferences are moving virtual.ย  Juho Vepsรคlรคinen ย runs React Finland and Daniel (known more popularly as DanRam) is an igniter. A 5x TEDx speaker, 3x entrepreneur, prolific speaker, and startup coach.

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