Nerding Out With Viktor

Nerding Out With Viktor is a podcast about tech, startups, and everything in between. Hosted by Viktor, a lifelong nerd and seasoned entrepreneur, the show features real conversations with builders, hackers, and technologists.Viktor got his start in Silicon Valley with YippieMove, an early email migration tool, and later created Blotter, a top-ranked productivity app for macOS. He now runs Screenly — the first developer-friendly digital signage platform — and built its open-source sibling, Anthias. He's also been leading remote teams for over a decade, long before it became the norm.Each episode explores topics like AI, software, cybersecurity, hardware, and the messy reality of building and scaling products. With a no-fluff, straight-talking approach, Nerding Out With Viktor is perfect for anyone who enjoys smart, technical conversations without the hype.Subscribe to join the ride.

Nerding Out With Viktor is a technology podcast hosted by Viktor Petersson, with 52 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Viktor Petersson hosts Nerding Out With Viktor, a technology show with 52 episodes published.

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  Episode #4

  Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Trust Crisis Coming for Every System with David Pollak

  May 27, 20261h 24mS3

  <p>In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson sits down with David Pollak, founder of Spice Labs and creator of the Lift web framework, to unpack post-quantum cryptography and why the migration window is shorter than most teams realize. Google now estimates elliptic curve encryption could be breakable by quantum computers in 2029, putting the trust layer behind every bank transaction, signed document, software update, and Bitcoin wallet on a fixed timeline.</p> <p>David draws on a career that spans writing software for FEMA at 14, beating Lotus in the NeXT spreadsheet market, diagnosing Twitter's original Fail...

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  Episode #3

  Rethinking Container Security: Why Isolation Was Never Built In (with Alex Zenla)

  Apr 29, 20261h 19mS3

  <p>In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson sits down with Alex Zenla, Founder and CTO of Edera, to unpack why container security has been built on a flawed assumption from the start.</p> <p>The conversation traces Alex's journey from working in deeply insecure IoT and industrial systems to building Edera, a company focused on rethinking isolation at the runtime level. Along the way, they explore how containers became the default abstraction, despite relying on shared kernel state and weak isolation guarantees. The discussion covers the technical trade-offs behind namespaces, virtualization, and hypervisor-based approaches, as...

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  SBOMs & CRA Compliance with Olle Johansson and Anthony Harrison

  Mar 24, 20261h 21mS3

  <p>In this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor, host Viktor Petersson sits down with Olle Johansson and Anthony Harrison to explore the intersection of Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) and the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Together, they unpack what CRA compliance looks like in practice and why SBOMs are becoming a critical piece of the regulatory puzzle.</p> <p>Olle and Anthony share their hands-on experience navigating SBOM tooling, formats like CycloneDX and SPDX, and the operational challenges teams face when integrating these workflows into real-world development pipelines. The conversation covers how organizations can move beyond checkbox compliance...

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  Biohacking Resilience: Engineering the Human System with Marcelo Garcia

  Feb 11, 20261h 12mS3

  <p>In this episode of "Nerding Out with Viktor," host Viktor Petersson sits down with Marcelo Garcia, a telecom infrastructure veteran turned extreme biohacker, to explore what biohacking looks like when approached through systems thinking and data.</p> <p>Marcelo recently completed a 50-day water-only fast while hiking nearly 1,000 kilometers, tracking everything from DEXA scans and VO2 max to HRV and metabolic panels. The conversation moves from the mechanics of prolonged fasting and fat oxidation to muscle preservation under sustained load, immune adaptation, and the role of movement as a metabolic signal.</p> <p>Viktor and Marcelo also discuss biological...

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  Episode #21

  CRA Explained: What the Cyber Resilience Act Means for Device Manufacturers

  Dec 16, 20251h 6mS2

  <p>In this episode of "Nerding Out with Viktor," host Viktor Petersson sits down with Sarah Fluchs, CTO and OT cybersecurity expert, to unpack the EU's Cyber Resilience Act and what it means for anyone building connected devices.</p> <p>Sarah shares her journey from engineering into the world of OT security, and explains her involvement in the CRA expert group that's shaping how the regulation gets implemented. Together, they explore what CRA compliance looks like in practice—from the requirement to provide five years of vulnerability support, to the constraints around over-the-air updates, and the rising importance of Software Bi...

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