The Nikos Show

Alpine is a rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup. I talked to the founder about its use cases and motivation. Caleb is an open-source PHP/JavaScript developer from Buffalo, NY. His main projects are Laravel Livewire and AlpineJS. His mission is to make developers happier and more productive with the tools he makes. He tries really hard to make things as simple...

A more bleak than usual episode, but we will afford us this liberty given this pandemic. I talk with Johan Ronsse , who is a UI/UX Designer & Front-end Developer at Mono , about his efforts in building the community for Svelte Routify . We discuss the following example: https://example.routify.dev/example  

Gerry is an industry veteran with a wealth of experience and owns the the website IT Contractor which has been up since 1999. The website is one of the U.K.'s best resources for information regarding the IT contracting profession. Some of the articles we talked about: http://www.itcontractor.com/ir35-18-ways-to-stay-outside-it/

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 when it comes to unit testing. I talk to Simon who is the chief operating officer and a  developer of the software.

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 JavaScript, Node.js, Svelte, React, Vue, Angular, and more. Mark has created and taught many courses on topics including React, Vue, AngularJS, Node.js, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Ruby, Java, and XML....

I discuss with Julien about why Svelte is fit for interactive graphics at Bloomberg.

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 Transylvania 2 , The Book of Life , Crazy-Ex Girlfriend , and Emmy nominated Elf: Buddy’s Music Christmas (NBC). Devin has collaborated with multi-Oscar winning composer, Gustavo Santaolalla ; composer...

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 Web Design (https://hellowebbooks.com/learn-design) or build your first web app with Python/Django with Hello Web App (https://hellowebbooks.com/learn-django). She also speaks and keynotes conference...

Developments: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/functions-framework-go https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/functions-framework-php

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 in London with my eye gazes tracked. Apologies for my bad audio sometimes due to some interference.

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.   We discus the advantages of recruiters meeting actually candidates face face, the pros and cons of technical tests and appealing to candidates. The candidate is the commodity.   We also advice Uni...

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: https://github.com/QuantumInformation/solar-popup https://github.com/quantuminformation/vanilla-typescript   My Svelte stuff on youtube: 📘Svelte and Google Cloud masterclass playlist: https://www....

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 person, without recording. Be prepared for very low listener counts the first 40 episodes   📹 My Gear Mic: Rode NT and my Macbook setup video

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 follow more about his work here: https://twitter.com/facetype and http://facetype.org/

It is always a blast to talk to Ken. He is doing do well and we have a catchup! Usual banter included.

A totally fascinating episode on Gun with a very smart man: Mark . He is political activist, autodidactic philosopher, neon visionary, wanderlust logician, artistic renegade. In this episode we also covered Operational Transformation WebRTC Paxos Google Wave UDP Also a cool LinkedIn clone in like 2 min on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiELAFqNSLQ For a less techy discussion head over to...

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 and had a previous great experience with Vuetify .  Hunter also works at LinkedIn and is a SvelteJS enthusiast.

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 neural bases of speech production from MIT. Shanqing is also the lead author of the upcoming book "Deep Learning with JavaScript: Neural Networks in TensorFlow.js" He has intimate knowledge of Tensorflow....

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 creating memorable experiences for your clients (aka conference delegates). I was with them at the HalfStack conference in Vienna and look forward to seeing it in London later this year. Also, check out Rea...

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 Association Patrick can be found on GitHub Twitter Want to learn more? Read this: https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/what-and-why reason-association.org  

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 developer rising through the ranks of Google. I use the FF extensively in my own projects and have been making videos documenting my progress.    

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 good about themselves. We talk on Ember (inc Octane). We also compare Ember to React and Svelte. Other things mentioned in the show: https://dhh.dk/posts/6-why-theres-no-rails-inc We also go a lot into...

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

In this episode, we cover the following Brexit related issues: How it will affect you as an engineer both in the UK and the EU. Brexits likely effect on turnover, retention and salaries of both permanent and contract developers. Possible negative outcomes for companies and what they need to do to combat the situation. Brexits effect on recruiters inbound CV's before and the October 31st deadline e...

Basarat is the top answerer on stack overflow for TypeScript and has been helping users like me for years. He is also the author of deep dive on typescript . He can also be reached on Twitter . In the show we also covered the Never type and this semi-famous issue I created. Basarat's github: https://github.com/basarat My TS libraries I talk about on the show too: https://www.npmjs.com/package/vani...