The Nitch Podcast

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

Jonathan and Kelli have a birthday announcement.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jonathan and Kelli dispel four myths about responsive web design.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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