The Nitch Podcast
by Nitch
A weekly podcast about building apps that run everywhere using open web standards like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, REST, and JSON. Hosted by Jonathan Stark and Kelli Shaver.
Episodes
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Episode 154: Fade to Black
Jonathan and Kelli announce the new show: Terrifying Robot Dog!
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Episode 153: Birthday Announcement
Jonathan and Kelli have a birthday announcement.
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Episode 152: Chicken Caesars Palace
Jonathan and Kelli talk about how to go beyond native mobile apps and use the whole phone.
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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.
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Episode 150: Lazy Pinky
Jonathan and Kelli talk about disappearing quotation marks, app cache gotchas, disillusionment with Docker, and ramping up with Ember.
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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.
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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.
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Episode 147: Hugh Jass
Jonathan and Kelli talk about our sticky backend. Specifically: organizing, monitoring, upgrading, and backuping (?) our resources on Amazon Web Services.
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Episode 146: It’s a Sadness
Jonathan and Kelli dispel four myths about responsive web design.
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Episode 145: Backspace Fizzability
Jonathan and Kelli talk about the difference between web sites and web apps.
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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.
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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.
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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 actually going to use.
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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.
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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.
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Episode 139: Space Cadet Says Bye
Jonathan and Kelli talk about embracing a mobile first philosophy from a design standpoint, not a build standpoint.
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Episode 138: Bad Light Sabers
Jonathan and Kelli talk about automated front-end testing with Rspec, Capybara, Poltergeist, and PhantomJS.
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Episode 137: Pizza Button
Jonathan and Kelli talk about smartwatches, shoe phones, and pizza buttons.
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Episode 136: Black Lung Friday
Jonathan and Kelli countdown our top ten giftable gadgets in the year's Nitch Gift Guide.
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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!
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Episode 134: Doubledog Barkathon
Jonathan and Kelli explain how great UX can sell horrible pizza.
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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.
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Episode 132: Wheelie All The Way Home
Jonathan and Kelli have a grand old time talking about broken axles, smoking eyeballs, and socking Mickey.
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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.
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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.
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Episode 129: Rednecklandia
Jonathan and Kelli talk about aggressive enhancement, the Physical Web, and the death of the browser.
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Episode 128: Schrodingif’s Cat
Jonathan and Kelli talk about callbacks in ActiveRecord, keys in IndexedDB, and shocking developments wearable tech.
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Episode 127: Character Soup
Jonathan and Kelli talk about bugs: Bash exploits, MYO armbands, HTTP headers, and a whole lot more.
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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.
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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.
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Episode 124: Sniffing Through Charles
Jonathan and Kelli talk about git workflow, AWS bugs, and Apple's upcoming product announcement.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Episode 115: Lick Here
Jonathan and Kelli list the top ten reasons why you should wrap your web app in PhoneGap.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Episode 107: Mmmm… Giant Cookie
Jonathan and Kelli talk about artifact conf recap, building static sites with assemble.io, and gotchas with msp.
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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.
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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.
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A weekly podcast about building apps that run everywhere using open web standards like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, REST, and JSON. Hosted by Jonathan Stark and Kelli Shaver.
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