The Nitch Podcast

Jonathan and Kelli talk about HTML source order issues, painless API documentation, frictionless blogging with static Markdown files, people vs users, esoteric htaccess bugs, polishing eyeballs, and more.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about everything under the sun this week: ghost clicks in Availio, EOF merge conflicts in git, database events with Boutique.js, confusion about CORS, bitmapped text clipping paths on retina iPad, fun with the file API, and much more.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about REST APIs, automated testing, and knowing the rules before you break them.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about writing API docs before API code, the advantages of progressive enhancement over graceful degradation, and the lost art of writing SQL queries.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about accessing REST APIs over SMS, wrestling with Google Chat bots, confusion about the HTML5 Audio tag, and so much more.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about audio tag support in Firefox, the allure of nosql key-value store Redis, the emotional impact of SMS vs the mobile web, and enjoy a visit from a very special guest - J's blue Kenmore Intuition vacuum cleaner.

Jonathan and Kelli have a rambling chat about broken feet, bad movies, and bocce night in an attempt to talk about anything but Availio. Spoiler alert: we fail miserably.

Jonathan and Kelli apologize to the internet, shave our dogs, and discuss tools, tools, and more tools: wireframing, prototyping, documentation, debugging, and everyone's favorite - time tracking.

Jonathan and Kelli explain why the mobile web is really just a warning shot in the wireless revolution, what content creators can do to prepare for interactive Coke bottles, and the difference between portable and mobile devices. But not before we spend some time navel gazing in honor of our tenth episode.

Jonathan and Kelli suggest a process for developing apps that run everywhere, share anecdotes about the alarming insecurity of telephonic communications, and wonder aloud about what will become of our website when we eventually shed this mortal coil. Grab yer hanky... it's a very special episode of the Nitch Podcast.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about X header deprecation, Margo ported to Ruby, database migrations with Active Record, and all things AWS.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about X header deprecation, Margo ported to Ruby, database migrations with Active Record, and all things AWS.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about ActiveRecord and SQL views, complexity in the database vs the middleware, HATEOAS vs OPTIONS requests, and much MUCH more. Coffee printers, predator pee, and the future of bricks and mortar retailers, for example.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about mobile web debugging tools, the moral conflict of using tables for layout, and development principles vs client demands. Also this week, The Nitch Podcast Drinking Game is born. WARNING: The audio is absolutely atrocious this week, so proceed at your own risk. Sorry!

Jonathan and Kelli begin with many-to-many self joins with ActiveRecord, "sticky-finger" swipe in the People.com mobile site, and a philosophy of comments for self-documenting code. And then we go totally off the reservation with broadcasting human senses, cars for the blind, and a truly terrifying robot dog. Fun!

Jonathan and Kelli talk about the genius of "view source" in web browsers, idealism vs reality in responsive web design, and freedom vs control in the coming wireless society.

Jonathan and Kelli rag on cross-origin resource sharing, defend php as a REST framework language, and open sources oranges. Then we head into the weeds with sms for dogs, digital pills, and trusting your eyesight to a computer.

Jonathan and Kelli apologize to the authors of the CORS spec, explain why the Web vs Native debate is a red herring, and wonder aloud what will happen to all the soon to be unemployed cabbies in Boston.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about programming for a world where everyone has multiple connected devices, the tension between graphic design vs responsive design, and the challenges of managing open-source projects. But not before we spend 15 or so minutes waffling about juice fasts, coding as a family, and mousing with your face. You've been warned.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about everything from the future of online publishing to Cochlear implant hijacking. Sorry, no intro and outro music this week. If you miss it, please complain loudly on Twitter to @nitchapps.

Jonathan and Kelli warm up with responsive web design, javascript media queries, and smart carpet before diving into Apple: how to learn Objective-C in a long weekend, the awesomeness of Xcode, and why iOS will never be a dominant software platform.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about slogging through kernel logs on AWS, Kelli's mobile first responsive redesign, self-documentation vs static docs for RESTful APIs, the future of web browsers on iOS, why Jonathan is not an hypocrite on the Facebook native app thing, and the heartwarming story of a ragtag bunch of watermelon seeds who beat the odds and go on to win the big game. Wat?

Jonathan and Kelli talk about sandwich achievements, gratuitous animations, wireless green peas, and a future without graphical user interfaces.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about what went on in the Dallas biodome, highlights of the iPhone announcement (from 2007), Jonathan redesigns his site live out of sheer embarrassment, and then we get tooly on yoaz: text editors, CSS pre-processors, lightweight blogging engines, and... whatever CodeKit is.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about audio augmented reality, mobile sticker shock, bitching on (and about) Twitter, and the upside of getting hacked.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about one million things, including: what the DocBook XML grammar has in common with Beats by Dr. Dre. Yep... seriously.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about red flags, cranky moodlies, viral tweets... aaaand PhoneGap, and REST APIs, and interactive SMS bots, and all the usual stuff.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about tools, tools, and more tools: EC2, Markdown, MySQL Workbench, Sequel Pro, Sencha Architect, Zend Studio, Geek tool, and more.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about debugging mod_rewrite, securing PHP installations, making Apache directory listings mobile-friendly, and who owns the data in a social application.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about debugging appcache in standalone webapps on iOS, Multi-AZ deployment with Amazon RDS, and the inevitable invasion of 7 inch tablets this holiday season.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about using DataMapper with CodeIgniter, the pros and cons of CSS grids in Bootstrap, icon font resources for responsive web design, and tips for using CORS with REST APIs.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about Kelli's first impressions of cross-platform mobile framework PhoneGap.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about Web SQL Database, storing images as base64, and error handling considerations for REST APIs.

Jonathan and Kelli discuss media queries on Retina Macs, overflow scrolling on touchscreen devices, and lessons learned from a spaghetti code weekend with PHP.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about cross-browser location hash inconsistencies, thoughts on CoffeeScript, and the genius of NPR's "Create Once, Publish Everywhere" platform.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about Safari rendering bugs, more location hash gotchas, and a rundown of dev tools including knockout.js, markup.js, Yeoman, and Reflector.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about trouble with really big buttons, SMS apps for Kenyan farmers, and how to send API requests to a lamp.

Jonathan and Kelli prognosticate endlessly about the future of computing, the effects of wireless connectivity on society, and what we can do now to prepare.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about the pros and cons of Bootstrap, learning to live with Objective-C, and new developments in lamp programming (and we don't mean Linux).

Jonathan and Kelli talk about enhancing site performance with Varnish, simplifying web development workflow with Sprockets, and legally binding responsive web design.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about gotchas with CORS headers in Rails apps, the definition of "Mobile First", and a process for Responsive Web Design.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about getting clever with Amazon's Elastic Block Store, redefining wireframes in the context of responsive web design, and our growing obsession with Jackbooks.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about our defaults when starting a new project - tools, technology, language, structure, and more.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about onclick conflicts between jQuery and Google Analytics, our development setup for Responsive Web Design, and why SASS is stupid. Kidding! Sheesh... lighten up :)

Jonathan and Kelli prove that APIs are totally awesome, get into trouble with mobile first responsive design, and experiement with the next revolutionary mobile technology.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about Lawnchair performance tips, simplfying your CSS with CSS Simple, and preparing for the zombie apocalypse of devices, part 2.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about WebHook gotchas, reconsidering SMS, and touch sensitive backsides.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about maintaining context in small screen apps, reconsidering jQuery for mobile projects, and preparing your content for the zombie apocalypse of smartwatches.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about drag and drop on touchscreen devices and opting out of responsive web design.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about Amazon Web Services - EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, and our new personal favorite, Simple Notification Service.

Jonathan and Kelli welcome special guest Ethan Marcotte to discuss some of the non-technical challenges of Responsive Web Design: unresponsive ad units, browsing the web on game consoles, getting client sign-off without Photoshop comps, and much more.

Jonathan and Kelli sit back and say "I told you so" for 30 minutes as they talk about Glassware, the Mirror API, and improved methods for the distribution of cat photos with Google Glass.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about jQuery vs. Zepto... and other pointless debates.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about experimentation with the Lua programming language and the possible implications on cross-platform application development.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about how to quote a project for a client who needs an app that can run everywhere.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about building - and more importantly, testing - REST APIs with Rails and RSpec.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about the upcoming screencast episode, performance problems with KnockoutJS, and the massive implications of Google's recent announcements at the IO conference.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about the WeMo Switch, blink(1) USB, hue light bulbs, and the APIs that tie them all together.

Kelli builds a rest api with ruby on rails, Jonathan asks stupid questions while she does it, and we post video of the whole shebang for you to enjoy in your copious free time.

Jonathan and Kelli continue their screencast on how to build a REST API with Ruby on Rails. Please visit http://nitch.cc and look for Episode 61 if you'd like to view the video.

Jonathan and Kelli continue with part 3 of their screencast on how to build a REST API with Ruby on Rails. Please visit http://nitch.cc and look for Episode 62 if you'd like to view the video.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about responsive design, progressive enhancement, and development tools in the context of a big huge site redesign.

Jonathan and Kelli get very superstitious about Rails 4, JSON endpoints, responsive web design, and more.

Jonathan and Kelli continue with the fourth and final installment of their screencast on how to build a REST API with Ruby on Rails.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about function hoisting in Firefox, a fun new side project, and collapsing space with smartphone cameras.

Kelli helps Jonathan finally - FINALLY! - make the switch from PHP to Rails.

Jonathan and Kelli walk through a process for modern web development using responsive design, CSS3, and copious amounts of progressive enhancement.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about real live project work on apps that run cross browser, cross platform, and beyond.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about timezone bugs on Amazon S3, problems with ruby on new EC2's chipset architecture, and news about RailsForum, Pandacodium, Spoken, Inside the Brackets, and a lot more.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about what happened during Kelli's 48 hour weekend hackathon, including first impressions of RedHat's OpenShift cloud platform, pub/sub in Ruby with Faye, and oh, so much more.

Jonathan and Kelli reach into the topic grab bag and pull out programmable lightbulbs, embracing constraints, prototyping in PHP, benchmarking CSS, and more.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about SmartWatches: The Wimm One, MetaWatch, Pebble, and more.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about how the iPhone 5c announcement illustrates that future-friendly thinking is more important than ever.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about Google’s two-factor authentication, smartwatch use cases, and a possible strategy behind Apple’s decision to release two new iPhones at the same time.

Jonathan and Kelli discuss perception vs reality in the context of application performance. In particular, the importance of instantaneous feedback, a simple way to remove the pesky 300ms delay in webapps on touch devices, and the real reason why jank is a bad thing.

Jonathan and Kelli chat about the benefits of accessibility, availability, and progressive enhancement in cross-platform web projects.

Jonathan and Kelli give a brief intro to Git, how you can use it to replace FTP in your workflow, and why you probably should.

Jonathan and Kelli discuss a bunch of projects that they recently launched.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about Ruby and Rails: learning resources, application considerations, and Kelli’s big win!

Jonathan and Kelli rant about dealing with HTML tables in responsive web design.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about Pattern Lab, a tool for building atomic design systems created by Brad Frost and Dave Olsen.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about Feathers, a minimalist CSS reset and boilerplate gem created by our very own Kelli Shaver.

Jonathan and Kelli discuss the highlights of “APIs: A Strategy Guide” by Daniel Jacobson.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about notification overload: what it is, how to deal with it, and where we might be headed.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about cross-platform consistency: should your app conform to platform conventions or maintain a consistent look and feel everywhere?

Jonathan and Kelli talk about the Twitter redesign, improvements to mobile browsers, math bugs in JavaScript, and more.

J-Bot and K-Bot revisit highlights from the previous year and beyond.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about the pros, cons, and programming implications of the top ten gadgets we received in 2013.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about “hacking” our Hue wireless lights.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about the tools we use to get our jobs done on a daily basis. Command line utilities, browser plugins, text editors, project management, and more.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about a few of our favorite APIs: Stripe, Dropbox, Github, Twilio, and not Facebook.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about Kelli's new Raspberry Pi: what to do with it, how to program it, and what she loves about it.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about a slew of geeky books we've read lately: security, astronauts, innovation, cyberwar, and more. Think of it as recommended reading for nerds.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about the relative merits of CSS grid systems and JavaScript libraries.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about the shocking demand for smart headphones and what designers and developers can do to start building experiences for the coming zombie apocalypse of screenless devices.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about recent announcements from Facebook, Nokia, Mozilla, and Samsung - and how they affect app developers.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about first impressions of Google Glass, DIY SaaS integration with Zapier, and zoning out to the sounds of Github.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about preaching to the choir(.io), web apps for watches, and a second look at smart glasses.

Jonathan and Kelli talk about Android Wear and the possible effects on everything from the Pebble Smartwatch to the sanity of Web designers.