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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 coveredOperational TransformationWebRTCPaxosGoogle WaveUDPAlso a cool LinkedIn clone in like 2 min on Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiELAFqNSLQFor a less techy discussion head over to my other podcast to hear him talk economics: https://cafe.simplecast.com/episodes/mark-nadal 

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.js and Tensorflow and shares some of it with us in this fascinating interview.

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 React Finland organised by Juho.   

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 AssociationPatrick can be found onGitHubTwitterWant to learn more? Read this:https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/what-and-whyreason-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-incWe also go a lot into the WHY of doing open source.Also, the fish and chips place I mentioned in Scotland (I called Yehuda while on holiday on the Fife coast.)

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 extension announcement. Reece Warren on LinkedIn His E-Sports company

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/vanilla-typescript https://github.com/QuantumInformation/test-recorder

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 grew his library to 13k+ stars on Github. If you want his help in getting up to speed you can book some time with him here: https://vuetifyjs.com/getting-started/consulting And, if you want to support Vuetify you can do so through Patreon.

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|jpg|svg|ttf)$ url: /.* static_files: dist/index.html upload: dist/index.html

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.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/ https://facebook.github.io/relay/ Nik will be running an event on GraphQL in London later this year. Please follow my events page to stay up to date. Also, see React Vienna

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 group Nice blog The big book: http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ The TFJS examples: https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs-examples My Events Twitter hashtag You have been listening to my show for some time now. If you have enjoyed this show and have any feedback please don't forget to leave me a review on itunes, it really helps the show and is appreciated!

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 my plans for the future of this podcast and upcoming events We also cover staying fit as a dev: https://devlifts.io/ Apologies as my mic cut out a bit briefly in the middle.

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, and what developers like and dislike. We cover many of the big issues and features of this industry such as: Spam and several recruiters for the same job offering contacting the same developer Broken Interview process and jumping through hoops Commission models Green recruiters with no knowledge of the tech Interview leads (fakes jobs and gathering references) Reece Warren on LinkedIn His E-Sports company You can follow Learn With Us on Twitter @learnwithuspod. Give us 5 stars in your application so others can find us.