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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.

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 Website Shannon Soper - Shannon has been writing helpful documentation for GatsbyJS. Level Up Tuts - Headless Wordpress with GatsbyJS - Scott Tonlinski Walks you through setting up WordPress to be headless and configuring GatsbyJS to work with your existing data. You can follow Learn With Us on Twitter @learnwithuspod. Give us 5 stars in your application so others can find us.

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 the idea for nestholma.com

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 / frameworks Angular Ember React Backbone jQuery We did not mention "How to get started" with these. We recommend you take some time and follow some tutorials but quickly jump into writing an application. This is the best way to learn... by failing. If you've heard the term "fail fast" and aren't sure what it means, this is it: Failure is an opportunity to learn from your mistakes and to not make the same mistakes again. Some online resources for learning JavaScript or any other programming language: Treehouse Egghead PluralSight Code School Code Academy Nikos mentioned a GitHub repository he has c

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 from regular programming work to data science? What made you decide to specialise in Data science? What are your favourite parts of Data science? At what age is it too late to become a Data Scientist?

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 of show notes please send us a message on twitter (@learnwithuspod).

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 pronunciation of Finnish names.