The Nitch Podcast

The Nitch Podcast episodes:

• 04.10.2015

  Episode 154: Fade to Black

  Jonathan and Kelli announce the new show: Terrifying Robot Dog!

  
• 03.27.2015

  Episode 153: Birthday Announcement

  Jonathan and Kelli have a birthday announcement.

  
• 03.20.2015

  Episode 152: Chicken Caesars Palace

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about how to go beyond native mobile apps and use the whole phone.

  
• 03.13.2015

  Episode 151: Negative One Beers

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about how big of an impact mobile computing could have on civilization in the next five years.

  
• 03.06.2015

  Episode 150: Lazy Pinky

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about disappearing quotation marks, app cache gotchas, disillusionment with Docker, and ramping up with Ember.

  
• 02.27.2015

  Episode 149: Dot Matrix Toast

  Jonathan and Kelli discuss recent announcements from Pebble, IFTTT, and Twilio and how they portend the demise of the prevailing app store hegemony.

  
• 02.20.2015

  Episode 148: Bacon Detectors

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about expiring S3 URLs with Paperclip, first impressions of Ember, and we finally understand what's so great about Docker.

  
• 02.13.2015

  Episode 147: Hugh Jass

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about our sticky backend. Specifically: organizing, monitoring, upgrading, and backuping (?) our resources on Amazon Web Services.

  
• 02.06.2015

  Episode 146: It’s a Sadness

  Jonathan and Kelli dispel four myths about responsive web design.

  
• 01.30.2015

  Episode 145: Backspace Fizzability

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about the difference between web sites and web apps.

  
• 01.23.2015

  Episode 144: Forehead Slime

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about another crazy new computing platform that could blow everything you know about the browser - but not the Web - out of the water.

  
• 01.16.2015

  Episode 143: Tons of Punt

  Jonathan and Kelli imagine what computing will look like in the year 2030 based on the behavior of a four year old.

  
• 01.09.2015

  Episode 142: Fancy Tickler

  Jonathan and Kelli share 8 things we're doing in the new year streamline our work and home lives: everything from creating virtual machines, to deleting twitter from our phones, to finally giving up all those silly domain names we're never...

  
• 01.02.2015

  Episode 141: The Scrambled Eggs Of The Issue

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about ten simple things you can do to retrofit your desktop website for mobile.

  
• 12.26.2014

  Episode 140: Twenty Nine Again

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about the amazing Twilio API, scheduling tweets with a Zapier GCal hack, and ordering pizza over SMS.

  
• 12.19.2014

  Episode 139: Space Cadet Says Bye

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about embracing a mobile first philosophy from a design standpoint, not a build standpoint.

  
• 12.12.2014

  Episode 138: Bad Light Sabers

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about automated front-end testing with Rspec, Capybara, Poltergeist, and PhantomJS.

  
• 12.05.2014

  Episode 137: Pizza Button

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about smartwatches, shoe phones, and pizza buttons.

  
• 11.28.2014

  Episode 136: Black Lung Friday

  Jonathan and Kelli countdown our top ten giftable gadgets in the year's Nitch Gift Guide.

  
• 11.21.2014

  Episode 135: Deep Linking In Texas

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about a PhoneGap bug on Lollipop, building Hue Pi with Meteor, and we finally announce that Castbacker.com is live!

  
• 11.14.2014

  Episode 134: Doubledog Barkathon

  Jonathan and Kelli explain how great UX can sell horrible pizza.

  
• 11.07.2014

  Episode 133: Who Put All These Little Socks On My Teeth?

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about cross-device user experiences at Disney, no-click purchases with Amazon Echo, image analysis with Ice Cream, image optimization with SquishTo, and Kelli’s favorite surgeon.

  
• 10.31.2014

  Episode 132: Wheelie All The Way Home

  Jonathan and Kelli have a grand old time talking about broken axles, smoking eyeballs, and socking Mickey.

  
• 10.24.2014

  Episode 131: Leadfinger

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about gotchas with POODLEBLEED, admit to foreach stupidity in PHP, and recap the fun we had building Castbacker for Rails Rumble.

  
• 10.17.2014

  Episode 130: Nerd Night

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about the Moto Hint earpiece, scope bugs in coffeescript, Firefox vs Chrome dev tools, a new web based IDE called Nitrous, and why Canadian ketchup is so delicious.

  
• 10.10.2014

  Episode 129: Rednecklandia

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about aggressive enhancement, the Physical Web, and the death of the browser.

  
• 10.03.2014

  Episode 128: Schrodingif’s Cat

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about callbacks in ActiveRecord, keys in IndexedDB, and shocking developments wearable tech.

  
• 09.26.2014

  Episode 127: Character Soup

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about bugs: Bash exploits, MYO armbands, HTTP headers, and a whole lot more.

  
• 09.19.2014

  Episode 126: The Brain Baster

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about the Moto Hint earpiece and the new hands-free, eyes-free computing posture that it makes possible.

  
• 09.12.2014

  Episode 125: Super Groove

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about the fallout from Apple's iPhone 6 and Apple Watch announcements: iOS is officially fragmented, NFC goes mainstream, and the smartwatch category gets the Apple stamp of approval.

  
• 09.05.2014

  Episode 124: Sniffing Through Charles

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about git workflow, AWS bugs, and Apple's upcoming product announcement.

  
• 08.29.2014

  Episode 123: The Smell of Desperation

  Jonathan and Kelli we follow up on some Pebble smartwatch news, rant about bad error messages and documentation, and announce Nitch Bits: a series of short videos aimed at making your life as a web developer a little bit easier.

  
• 08.22.2014

  Episode 122: Ear And Whatnot

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about building watch apps with Pebble.js, auto-playing mp3s with the audio API, and compiling HTML apps with PhoneGap.

  
• 08.15.2014

  Episode 121: The Butler Model

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about some crazy new I/O options and how they could fundamentally change the way we design and build interfaces.

  
• 08.08.2014

  Episode 120: Because Reasons

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about the new and improved Feathers front-end prototyping gem, whitespace bugs in JSON, and taking the Skateboard approach to product development.

  
• 08.01.2014

  Episode 119: Whenever And Then Some

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about Rails, Rails, and more Rails. Paperclip updates, Devise bugs, and three nifty gems for your fun and enjoyment.

  
• 07.25.2014

  Episode 118: Ignorance, KY

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about bugs, bugs, and more bugs: iframe appcache hack, public assets gone missing with capistrano, retroactive paperclipping, stupid git tricks.

  
• 07.18.2014

  Episode 117: Segueing With Wild Abandon

  Jonathan and Kelli explore the subtle details that separate the good from the bad in user experience design for smartwatches.

  
• 07.11.2014

  Episode 116: The Names of Meat

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about running Firefox OS apps on Android, logging calories in Lynx, and how Kelli was oh so right and I was oh so wrong about building APIs first.

  
• 07.04.2014

  Episode 115: Lick Here

  Jonathan and Kelli list the top ten reasons why you should wrap your web app in PhoneGap.

  
• 06.27.2014

  Episode 114: Slightly Jaundiced At Best

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about smartwatches, connected homes, zen clocks and app cache bugs. How's that for a grab bag?

  
• 06.20.2014

  Episode 113: Vigilante Skunk

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about NFC rings, the Narrative Clip, and Amazon's new Fire Phone - but not before a big waffle about pretzel drones, vigilante skunks, nerd camp and much much more.

  
• 06.13.2014

  Episode 112: Fifty Three Keys Later

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about three connected gadgets - the Hiku barcode scanner, the Narrative Clip, and the Pebble smartwatch - which ones are developer friendly and which ones aren't.

  
• 06.06.2014

  Episode 111: Crawling Out Of The Backend

  Jonathan and Kelli try - and probably fail miserably - to answer a Dear Listener’s question about the pros and cons of various frontend JavaScripts frameworks.

  
• 05.30.2014

  Episode 110: Eyebrow Buttons

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about updates to FastActive, gotchas with mod proxy, configuring virtual machines with Vagrant, and oh. So much more...

  
• 05.23.2014

  Episode 109: Dog Job

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about programming a stateless SMS app with Twilio, managing web app releases with Capistrano, and dreading our children’s entry into teenhood.

  
• 05.16.2014

  Episode 108: Me And My Antler

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about extending the functionality of your Rails application with engines - but not before we waffle around with housekeeping for about a half an hour.

  
• 05.09.2014

  Episode 107: Mmmm… Giant Cookie

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about artifact conf recap, building static sites with assemble.io, and gotchas with msp.

  
• 05.02.2014

  Episode 106: Headless Parakeet

  Jonathan and Kelli brainstorm the underlying principles of designing in the browser in hopes of spawning a thousand baby Pattern Labs.

  
• 04.25.2014

  Episode 105: A Slapfight Among Gentlemen

  Jonathan and Kelli talk about exploding apps, deconstructing smartphones, and why social networking on a watch is a good idea.