CodePen Radio

Show Description Marie and Rachel are back to update us on Codevember - what's inspiring them, how CodePen is picking the best of Codevember, how to keep up even if you can't complete the whole challenge, and why community challenges are a great way to learn something new. Show Links Codevember Codevember on Twitter Codevember […]

We talk to the Codevember creators, Arthur and Valentin, about their backgrounds, where Codevember started from, what they're using to manage Codevember, and what's different about Codevember for 2017.

It's Codevember! All this month on CodePen Radio, our focus is on the annual Pen-a-day challenge. Marie is on to tell you all about Codevember — what it is, how to participate.

When a startup comes to year end, what are the tasks that bookkeepers need to do for a startup's finances? How do we take into account our remote employees? How does forecasting work?

We're talking about how we "eat our own dogfood" at CodePen with a couple of examples - Jake's exploration of the travelling salesman problem in Pens, and Rachel's "Post About Your Pen" challenge.

Charlotte Dann is our guest for this episode! She joins Marie and Rachel to talk about her new project that got its start on CodePen: Hexatope - designing jewelry with hexagonal generative art.

Marie recently had the opportunity to do a content inventory on our documentation and document it. How meta! She's joined by Chris to talk about why it's important to do this from time to time and the benefit of having focused time to go deep into your content.

Tim H., Alex, and Marie are on to talk about preprocessors on CodePen — how they work, how we maintain them, what we do when a preprocessor becomes obsolete, and some thoughts on the future of preprocessors on CodePen.

We just brought back PayPal as a payment option, and we used Braintree to do it! Marie and Alex are on to talk about the how and why of adding a new payment provider to CodePen.

Chris and Tim Sabat talk about struggles you can have with a growing database - keeping lookup times down, paging issues, and dealing with metadata.